Well... :-\
I've been off for a while, but today i'm back ! :lol:
So what's up ?
Let"s take last summer project, the interplanetary tug Hiryu... ;D
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The scale is 1/144. The first pic is taken flash off. Pure scratch, of course... :rolleyes:
To be continued in... the project "deconstructed" ;D
Wow!
:bow:
Those small pics don't do this justice.
Don't just peer at them folks, click on them and grokk this full screen.
I particularly like the refuelling robot.
Sure am glad I clicked on them to get the 'big picture' ! Love it ! Great job on the details and weathering, and nice to see the cockpit and figures to get an idea of the size.
:bow:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :wub:
Excellent. Love the paint scheme and all the details, great work! :bow:
Yup great work
;D Thank you ;D
Now, let's deconstruct the project with some explanations...
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Led test. Vehicles were not included at this step. The orange tractor is a nice british metal short run production (i dont remember the brand :unsure:). The kind of hummer is a japanese small model included with 1/144 gashapon-helos .
The white robot comes... Well... Its a silly toy (infernal mixer) from a movie with spy hamsters bought in a bargain shop.. :lol:
Once reversed and seriously repainted, it makes a convincing supply robot... :rolleyes:
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About the base :
the ship is finished, but the base is now on painting phase, before worn effects. This was done with a cheap spray can for the flat earth, and Prince August base white spray can for the stripes (painted before and masked). Sides were painted in a base grey. A lot of small flaws, but no matter : the ground will be used and dirty later... :lol:
The blue tank was finally not adopted, being too bulky...
Magnificent work!! :bow: :bow:
The deconstruction goes on... ;)
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The ship is more or less finished, without antennas and matt varnish. Holes are made in the base for the incoming leds. You can recognize the upper hull of a M1 tank foundin a garage sale :lol:...
It was a micro-machine box in a previous life :o. The small building and the white tank come from another old micro-machine junk...
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Decaling... Decaling and decaling from my stock of spares, or how to saturate blank space with fake details... :lol:
Very cool , methinks someone is missing a Dustbuster ;D
Quote from: Austanker on April 01, 2016, 01:06:52 AM
Very cool , methinks someone is missing a Dustbuster ;D
Eh... Eh... ;) You are not very far... ;D But Sshhhttt...
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Creating the wearing effects....
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After removing masks : a lot of flaws ! In fact, i used some cheap Chinese kabuki tape, and i pay now the price... :angry:
These flaws will be erased with a fine blade (the paint is very thick), repainted, or masked with some decals/effects... :rolleyes:
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The red paint (spray can for taggers/artists)
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The pale yellow paint (same type of spray can)... Not very convincing actually... :unsure: :lol:
It's time to finish the deconstruction process... ;) So... The unpainted model, now :
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As you can see, the original base is bright green and black. I added some plastic card, various parts from : a btr-60 (ace model 1/72), a flower corvette (1/72 matchbox), T-34 (1/35 zvezda),
some old ugly robots by revell... And the nose is from an gotha 242 italeri (still 1/72).
The box on the top of the cabin (as the earlier red checkered robot) is an accessory from an hamster-spy-detective-movie playset. :smiley:
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And to conclude this project, the main shape of course.... :lol: :lol:
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It's just a vintage electric torch from the seventies... Just remove the transparent glass, add some parts...
Hey ! What did you expect ! :lol: :rolleyes: :lol:
You can leave the Earth behind with everything !!!... ;D
Great imagination to visualise this let alone build it :bow:
This is teriffic. I tentatively guessed it was an old torch, but I wasn't sure. :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: :bow: :thumbsup:
Well, i must admit i cheated a little and avoid to show the rear of the ship... :-X
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Would have been too easy to find it was an electric torch... :rolleyes: But now, it's done.
Thanks for your support my friends, :cheers:
This board is truly fantastic, with so many exciting creations (especially in Sci-fi !), which deserve too my enthusiastic congratulations... :bow:
My current project should be online next. But it 's not totally finished.
However, the main components are complete, and i must say... It's a bit impressive (Urkk... I boast ! :lol:).
Be prepared to see some steampunk stuff... ;)