ME262: psychedelic camouflage in an urban fantasy setting

[Pressure]

Here's a recent #laundryverse diorama. By which I mean, this whiffy diorama is based on characters from science fiction author Charlie Stross' Laundry Files and New Management book series, informally known as the Laundryverse.





The series premise is that there is an occult variant of British intelligence service MI5, known as "The Laundry",  which deals with threats by horrors from other dimensions, which have been multiplied by unintended computational demonology brought about by the IT revolution.

Here, I've portrayed two much loved characters from the series, known as Pinky and The Brain, housemates of the series' main character (and very unreliable narrator) Bob Howard in The Atrocity Archives. They are a gay couple who work in the Laundry's research department.

In this diorama, our queer heroes are despatched to deal with an incursion by what is presumed to be a Lovercraftian horror, but which turns out to be a pansexual, hypergendered deity whom the Nazi Abwehr's paranormal intelligence force sought to to exploit in world war 2.





Naturally the deity objected to being bothered by nazis, and dealt with them with a flick of its wrist, while comprehensively redecorating the ME262 involved.

In this scene, Pinky is riding the couple's own Kettenkrad, inherited from Bob, while Brains is taking the ME262 up to the divine being for one more psychedelic love-in in the sky. Good times! The Me262 has been kept in a force field within a temple, which features sentient semi-mobile paintings on its walls.



Gaining entry to a hidden set of ghost roads riding the kettenkrad, they find a set of WW2 ME262s in a stasis field in distinctly non regulation camouflage, its paintwork warped and overlaid with mind bending patterns of gold and titanium. It transpires that while powerful, this entity is far from being a monster.





The model is the regular Tamiya 1/48 set of the ME262 and Kettenkrad, which is so pretty I might have to do another one at some point...

[perttime]

That is crazy, and weird!
Cracy and weird are some of the ways to excel here     

[zenrat]

Groovy.

 

[Steel Penguin]

good stuff. 
and not too Sanity blasting as well  whew

[Pressure]

Thanks all. More weirdness ahoy!

I'd never done masking with airbrushing before this model. Building up the layers of metallic paint was most enjoyable

[kerick]

Well done!

[Wardukw]

Very very nice work indeed 👏 👍

[ericr]

     
   

Groovy.

indeed ! 

[HarryPhishnuts]

That's awesome 

[chrisonord]

Wow... far out man 
Chris.

[Weaver]

Well thats.... a trip.

Seriously, well done: I'm loving these builds. I can't help feeling that the author may have been inspired by, or at least have been sharing "cigarettes" with, Michael Moorcock. His War Amongst The Angels trilogy and the Multiverse graphic novel that goes with them, also feature travel between dimensions, described as fractal scales in his case, via "Moonbeam Roads", and have a similar eclectic mix of fantasy tropes mixed with the hardware leftovers of the twentieth century. I have an idea or two in the back of my head based on these...

You're definitely in the right place here.