Gern's Bugs II

[Gern]

Well I got 8 out of 10 built, just some touch up on a few seams and on the filler and then paint. I think I'll leave the other two in case I want to do another dio.

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Hardly a swarm I know, but they'd be enough to scare the s**t out of me if I was facing them!

[monica]

looking good Dave,cannot wait to see how you paint them,

[Guest]

I wouldn't take them on without a couple of MG42's on hand!

[Gern]

Not quite so frightening now:

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One coat of Halfords white primer and some Vallejo yellow. I did one coat of their Lemon Yellow 952 but it came out a bit too pale - even though it covered the primer completely. I added one part Deep Yellow 915 to two parts Lemon Yellow and threw on a second coat. I like that much better. I'll use a toothpick to apply Vallejo Masking Fluid to mask off the yellow patches I want to keep, then I can spray all the rest black. I'm going to leave it to dry overnight though or I'll be risking pulling off the yellow when I remove the liquid mask.

[Gern]

Even less frightening now. Now we got polka-dot bugs!

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Let's see now. Three spots on each lower leg section, two spots on each of the middle and upper sections, two spots on each arm and two on each upper and lower jaw. That's 36 spots on each Bug. Each spot needs two lots of masking (one each side of the limb/jaw) so that's 72 for each Bug. There's 8 Bugs so that's 576 separate blobs of masking added.

No wonder I got little green spots in front of my eyes!

[monica]

oh lol thats so funny i would never count things like that would drive me nuts,

looking good ,maybe not frightening,but nasty little things,would not wont to get bit buy

some thing thats yellow and green,my arm would drop off,

[Gern]

Here are the parts from my new hoov...... dropship/assault vehicle/troop carrier. I'll be using other stuff as well, but this will supply the basic body.

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I've got the main structure pictured in my head (of all the stupid places I could have kept it, I just had to pick the one where it's most likely to get lost!). I'll post as many pics as I can so you can all see what I'm doing and hopefully do two things:

1) Tell me how I can fix things if I run into problems

2) Make design suggestions which I can shamelessly steal and claim for my own.

[monica]

this is going to be very interesting indeed Dave,

cannot wait to see how you true that into a space ship,

[bazers]

Looking good dave liked the film looking foreward to seeing this finished (and the hoover i mean drop ship).

[Gern]

It's not a space ship Moni. It's a carrier for deploying troops on the ground and providing heavy armoured cover for them.

I've got the command bridge started and created platforms for front and rear gun turrets - pics up tomorrow.

[Guest]

Dave, I wait in suspenders ... damn! uh hum * deep voice * in suspense to see how you make a Hoover into a dropship!

[Gern]

OK folks, some pics.

I started off with the bit on the handle where you wrap the cable:

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This becomes the command bridge with the addition of some Plasticard:

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The main handle where this cable support was mounted gets cut down and a couple of recesses are cut for fore and aft turrets:

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Some more Plasticard to seal off the cut parts of the handle, and we have the command tower:

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I have some rockets c/w launch rails and a laser cannon to mount on the roof of the bridge. I'm thinking of using some small plastic caps for the turrets but I'm trying to come up with something a bit more exiting than simple tubes to represent cannon/lasers.

I'll be pimping the major structures as I go with boxes, hatches and 'fiddly bits' once I've cleaned up what I've done so far.

[monica]

i can see what you are doing ,what a very clever way around things,nice start

will have to keep an eye on this,it has my attention

[Gern]

You know this sort of stuff would be absolutely perfect for the armament and 'fiddly bits' on my build ....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351217909184?_trksid=p2060778.m1431.l2649&ssPageNa me=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

.... it's just a pity I didn't manage to pick the right six numbers yesterday!

[Gern]

Got the Laser cannon done - I'll add power cables when it's fixed into place.

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Here's the front turret. I'm going to try cutting a recess on the bottom part so it forms a sort of half-circle on the front of the command tower.

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