Graeme's Shaun the Sheep Land Rover. Airfix.

[Airborne01]

Outstanding, love it!
Steve

[adt70hk]

COOOOOOOL!!!!!

[Graeme C.]

Thank you all gentlemen, welcome along.
I didn't realise this kit was that sought after, I got this one a few years ago & it wasn't that much! I've never seen 'The Gods Must Be Crazy', but I have been to a few Land Rover events where winching was 'interesting'!
I've done a bit more on the figures, sanded the joins & added limbs on some, pictures to follow.

[Graeme C.]

As promised, a picture of three of the figures, a bit of filling & sanding needed on the limbs.

[Graeme C.]

A bit more progress, the figures are done, just a bit of filling & sanding to do before painting.

A few more bits done on the Land Rover. The instructions don't give a colour for painting, it looks as if you are supposed to leave it in the plastic colour. The question is, do I find a suitable shade of blue to paint it in or just weather & varnish it?

[Guest]

It looks like you could just use it as-is, colour-wise, but I think you would be wise to put a coat of varnish over it before weathering. If you try to apply things like water-based washes directly onto bare plastic, they will bead up and do other funny things all over the place.

[Jim R]

Figures look great Graeme.

[adt70hk]

Coming on nicely!

[stillp]

I think you should paint it. Unpainted plastic always looks, well, unpainted.
Pete

[Andy the Sheep]

Usually the farmer's Lamb Rover (pun intended but not invented) is very dirty and with a worn out look. Probably a coat of paint before weathering will ease your job.
Some pics here below from the family album


and a 1:1 version after Bitzer and the flock car washing corvée (water still dripping on the floor!).


Following with great interest
Yours very truly.
Andy the Sheep:smiling4:

[Tim Marlow]

Personally I think those first two pictures really show the quality of the modelling in those films :thumb2:

[Guest]

The first one is entirely CGI, though, I’d say.

[Graeme C.]

Love the pictures Andrea!
I'm leaning towards painting it, done a bit more.
I've found a tin of paint, Land Rover Marine Blue.

Oh, hang on, that's for my full size one!

[Guest]

If it’s the same colour, why not use it? You may have to thin it a bit more than you would for spraying a real car, but other than that?

[Gary MacKenzie]

The first one is entirely CGI, though, I’d say.

The film is made in the classic stop motion animation style that Shaun the Sheep has always used—so it’s an extremely painstaking and long process to make a full movie, but worth it in the end!

from https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.o...%20all%20sorts.

That's the whole point of Aardman Animation.