Sci-Fi and Alternative history campaign X

Well guys,

I finished the anti-g units, the speedster and the service rig:

These were fun builds - required a lot of head scratching! :smile:

@agincajun, while itā€™s hard to see here, I added a big spotlight to the tail of the service rig! I did almost forget!

Cheers
Nick

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Head-scratch-build project!
A new expression in the scale modeling universe.

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Awesome job! What did you use for the panel lining? @Floridabucco

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Tamiya panel liner

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Great build, Nick! Looks awesome and nice photo skills.

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Painted in the base coat colors. I still need to detail paint, shade, highlight, drybrush, and touch up. Progress has been very slow with life getting in the way.

I intend to use Tamiya Black Panel Liner for the body armor. This will be my first time using Tamiya Panel Liner so I hope that it works well.


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I Think I might have forgotten to post the final pictures of my Star Wars Legion Dark Troopers. So without further ado here are my final troopers.

IMG_5098

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Dear Friends,

It was a long time ago I wrote about the first build sessions - and did not upload any progress since. As you may recall, the kit has flaws and FORD (failed or rejected details) and I lost the mojo to continue. In the mean time I built three tanks in 1/35 and after finishing the last, caught up the Snowspeeder - by force.

The photos were taken mid June at that stage of the project. I have done some progress since and it will be submitted later this week.

Was not a straightforward process.

I had to scratchbuild a new floor for the cockpit to ensure that the seats will fit in. Finally had to cut off the headrest as the 1/32 seats do not completely fit (seats are not presented in these photos).

Decided to cut out two circular sections of the back exhaust (?) to insert two F-35 (A,C) Lightning II 3D printed exhausts in 1/72 scale from Reskitā€™s (also not presented in these photos).

Cut off the end of the main guns and drilled them out to insert Aberā€™s T-55 metal barrels in 1/48 as the original one in the kit looks way too big for me (also not in these photos).

Complete scratchbuild for the pilots instrument panel and fore section to add Eduardā€™s A-10 dashboard in 1/32 scale (will insert after the cockpit painted).

A complete scratchbuild of the wheelbays using random plastic parts to my liking. As the original main wheels I was donated from a friend of mine are not detailed enough, I bought a cheap Academy Mirage IIIR kit and used the wheels from that.

Well, those sleepless nights delivered a great result, I think. Actually it was a great fun spraying the first base coat. The road was not easy to get there but the final look made it up for all.

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Nice detailing and salvage work to get it back up speed.

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Thank you very much!

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Looking good! Your extra efforts are paying off nicely.

ā€”mike ā€¦:flying_saucer:

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Looks great so far! Only thing is that Snowspeeders do not have wheelsā€¦they have one landing skid to hold the front end upā€¦rest of the body rests on the sloped ā€œwingsā€.

They are repulsar lift vehiclesā€¦do not roll to take off like a planeā€¦they lift up and fly away.

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Surely I know that the original vehicle in a far-far away galaxy has no wheels but my concept is a Low Flying Air Support Vehicle for the Hungarian Defence Forces in the 2030s.
It will be camo painted, having M2 machine gun on the back and F-35 Lightning II exhausts.
One it is fantasy, make it full.
:wink:

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Oh okā€¦lolā€¦making fantasy projects are fun and you can really go to town.
I must have missed the introduction to your build.

Have fun, I look forward to your completed project.

Happy modeling!!

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If Tamas @Agriamodeling wants to be screen correct heā€™ll need to add a great big ugly box to the underside to hide the out of camera lifting arm. I donā€™t know of anybody whoā€™s had the urge to do so. :grin:


Battle of Hoth

Just one more irksome Scifi detail where the very cool exterior canā€™t actually fit any desirable real world bits.

@Agriamodeling , good luck with your build.

Cheers,
Colin

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Sounds like a great plan, Tamas!

As promised a couple of days before, I upload here another set of pics made yesterday. I have finished the raw build of the model on the weekend with the cannons (100 mm T-55 main guns in 1/48 scale) and the scratchbuilt gear bay covers. It took me some attempts to tackle with slot in between the guns and their holding assy on the wing front but finally could.
The bottom side remained grey to ease the planned light.grey paint. The top is now covered with Gunze 1500 grade Finishing Black Surfacer (as I regularly do it on my tanks).
Still have to build the back-facing machine gun but that is OK, will be done after the painting process completed, hopefully this weekend. The weather and familiar commitments may slow me down, though. Anyway, it looks very cool in black, isnā€™t it?

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Looks menacing in black and I like the T55 barrels. They fit in perfectly

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Coming along nicely, Tamas. The guns look like they were made for the kit :+1:t2:

Looking forward to see more :slightly_smiling_face:

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Looks awesome Tamas!

I made the Bandai kit as a WW2 German craft for an earlier SciFi campaign. Was lots of fun.

Looking forward to see yours come together. Glad you got back at it.

Happy Modeling,
Zon