Thanks Steven. One of those hours of masking for a couple minutes of spraying.
Anyway, I did do that over spray (first time I’ve attempted it). Came out better than I thought it would.
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Looking good! 
—mike
Many, many years ago I had cause to visit (on several occasions) a facility where every upward-facing surface - and some which didn’t - were liberally coated with a variety of nasty contaminants. I had been well briefed by associates who had been employed there - “Don’t touch the handrails”. On stairways people moved with their hands a couple of inches above the rails ready to grab them in event of a stumble. You could tell who worked in that facility because it quickly became an instinctive behavior followed wherever they were. It was only when I started to need what strength was left in my arms to haul my obese, senile a$$ up stairs I stopped doing it myself…
Cheers,
M
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Thanks Mike
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The clear insert for the bussard collector has been sprayed with some Tamiya clear orange and the inside of the nacelle white. When assembled, this gives the impression of an orange glow.
And how the deflector looks in place on the engineering hull.
Quite happy with how both of those parts have turned out. This really would make for a fairly simple lit model. Only a couple of LED’s would be needed.
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Got the saucer section together. It needed a little persuasion to stay together while it set.
Just the warp nacelle to do and that about wraps it up for the major build jobs.
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The colours look really nice Stephen, they will pop once it’s all together standing out from the hull colour… 
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Thanks John. There’s another part that goes inside the nacelle that needs painting clear red. That will await final assembly.
The instructions do give you a printed paper template to mask out the aztec panels for the saucer, but that way lies madness. It can look good, but the colours have to be very subtle to avoid it looking overdone. Instead I’m going to go with an overall pale grey, with some panels picked out in other greys. You might be able to spot I’ve painted the inside section of nacelles with a light blue-grey already. It might not be completely accurate, but will add some visual interest.
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Looking very good Stephen!
Speaking of colours, that clothespin palette is visually pleasing to the eye! 
… Oh! That reminds me. I need to set my saucer to spin-cycle soon! 
—mike
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Signed up a little late, but better late than never! Not sure what I’ll build, but I have several Star Wars and Macross kits. Decisions, decisions…
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Pretty, just not sure pink and green are in keeping with Starfleet colours.
Seeing the pegs around it, does make it look a lot like Zelda’s spaceship from Terrahawks. Anyone remember that one?
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Very small update on the Haunebu II.
I nailed-down the boarding ramp’s geometry and thus finalized the hydraulic cylinder lengths. Then I added side rod detail to the assemblies.
—mike …
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Hello all!
I’ve got my entry for this Group Build on the bench.
The tank is from the ‘Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2’ video game released in 2000.
In case you are interested in a wider, more in depth look at the tank and the game world it came from than I am doing a build log here on the armor section. It will allow me to keep my off-topic blether about the tank and the game from clogging up this thread!
I will be posting the actual kit construction bits here.
So far I’ve barely done anything. Of interest though is the fact this kit needs no glue or paint. The sprues are pre-coloured. You can see it built up without paint here on the box sides.
And here you can see the colors on the sprues
Personally I think it looks a bit too toy-like compared to the painted version.
I’ll be both painting and gluing mine.
There is also three battery powered LED’s which is cool though the instructions don’t agree what battery they need!
I think they are fairly similar small button batteries so I will try both types.
Not much in the way of major component assembly yet but will update when I get some more done.
Thanks for reading.
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Great builds in this tread. Looking great, guys!
Awesome choice, Karl! Looking forward to see more as you progress.
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CAT’s outa’ the bag!
I took a wild gamble …
and ordered this nifty little HO scale diecast model from 3000TOYS.com
It should serve nicely as a foundation for the ‘KLAW’ Bomb Loader. 
I removed the Excavator’s chassis, drilled a hole in the saucer and was left with a very pleasant one screw (non-destructive) assembly. A good amount of lateral cab pivot and arm articulation remain functional as well. 
I still might cut back the saucer’s right wall and move the cab’s pivot-point farther right. but for now, I’m tickled with how this sub-assembly is coming together!
—mike …
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That is a damn fine addition and already looks awesome the way it comes out of the hatch!
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One of us.
Awesome addition Mike.
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Technically awesome and creepy, too. Excellent!
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Thats brilliant Mike . Love it
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