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Fine Molds 1/48 Snowspeeder

Started by nev, March 13, 2020, 11:04:33 AM

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nev

Hello gentlemen.  Tis I, Nev, with scalpel and paintbrush back in hand after a 5 year hiatus.  Here is my just completed Snowspeeder, and it's fair to say I'm very, very happy with this.  As happy as I am with anything I've done.  The Fine Molds kit is a little cracker (and I mean little).  Painted with Artic White from the excellent Hataka "Orange Line" Lacquers and weathered with Flory Wash "grime", Tensocrom "smoke" and a little bit of oils.


















You know how I said it was small?  Here it is on top of a YF-23 in the same scale....
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May

Doug K

Great work!

Love the YF-23 carrier aircraft... 🤪

NARSES2

Welcome back Nev  :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Neat work mate

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Weaver

Welcome back Nev - nice to see you!  :thumbsup:

That looks excellent: straight out of the movie.  :thumbsup:

The smallness of sci-fi craft has been noted before. One of these decades I'll get around to my 'realistic' Angel Interceptor....
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

ChernayaAkula

Good to have you back, Nev! :party:  :party:  :party: Nice 'speeder!   :thumbsup:

Hmmmm, chop off the YF-23's cockpit and attach the Snowspeeder as the new cockpit?  :wacko:
Cheers,
Moritz


Must, then, my projects bend to the iron yoke of a mechanical system? Is my soaring spirit to be chained down to the snail's pace of matter?

Rheged

How nice to hear from you once more.............and a cracking good first item on your return!!
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet


Dizzyfugu


Mossie

Lovely build Nev, good to see you back.  :thumbsup:

Sticking around?
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Captain Canada

Nevster ! Great to 'see' you back ! Cheers my friend.

The little snow speeder looks awesome ! Great job on that one. Probably my favourite craft from the series. I have a bunch of part-built Bandai ones, that will be in a production line diorama on the planet Hoth.

PS- Go wings  ;D
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

nev

Quote from: Captain Canada

PS- Go wings  ;D



Oh how the mighty have fallen.... :(
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May