Sci-fi kitbash

[minitnkr]

Will there be guns or just engines? Great imagineering.

[Andy T]

Thanks all. It's taxing my brain but a whole heap of fun!

Will there be guns or just engines? Great imagineering.

I'm planning weaponry of some kind...

I've spent a bit of time filling & sanding today. The green stuff world UV filler is great in one respect - it hardens in seconds and doesn't sink, allowing large areas or complex shapes to be built up quickly - but by golly is it hard as nails to sand!

This means care is needed with application as the surrounding plastic sands away much quicker, which can leave a lump of filler with a low spot around it. I think I'll be using it for large/deep areas and finishing off with my usual automotive acrylic putty.

Any way, to check my progress I squirted it with Halfords finest. It's still a very long way from primer in reality but I wanted to see how my filling had gone and get an idea of how the overall shape was looking. Most of the primer will be sanded off before I progress:





The shape isn't perfectly smooth but there should be lots of detail and greebles to disguise that.

I spent the rest of the day searching for tubes of various sizes to start on the engines. I'd give my right arm for a selection of drinking straws :tears-of-joy:

[minitnkr]

Beautiful bodywork.

[Steve-the-Duck]

Y'know, it would almost be a shame to greeblie up that front bodywork
Almost

Looking forward to the paint job now!

[Jim R]

That front looks to me as if you've done and excellent job.

[Andy T]

Thanks gents. Sorry for the slow reply, I didn't realise it had been so long!

I've been muddling along with this but haven't taken many pictures. However, I did snap the crew before closing up the cockpit:



I think I'm at the finish of the build now. I could keep adding more and more bits & bobs but I don't want it to get too cluttered.

Much of it isn't as cleanly built as I'd like, I still struggle to use CA neatly and scribing panel lines over a mixed surface proved tricky for me, but I'm sure I can fudge it with paint:

[Neil Merryweather]

WOW!
That's a result!
Great Gizmology, as Wabble calls it!

[Jim R]

I like the look of that Andy.

..... and scribing panel lines over a mixed surface proved tricky for me,

Definitely something I find difficult.

[yak face]

That looks fantastic andy , cant wait to see the magic happen with the paint job , cheers tony

[minitnkr]

".....too close for missiles, going to guns..." Let there always be guns. Excellent mix.

[scottie3158]

Andy,
I love it that is really cool.

[Andy T]

Thanks all.

I spent ages trying to design the engines but in the end I just picked up an 8mm rawlplug and started chopping and gluing :tears-of-joy:so tthe result is more luck than judgement!

I'm still debating about the colour scheme but it's had a coat of black in all the nooks & crannies as a starter.

[Gern]

Looks real good. I like the way you haven't overloaded it with weapons as so many Sci Fi creations are. I've always wondered where the h**l they keep all the ammo?

[Tim Marlow]

Loving this. Something very organic about the shape, almost lizard like :thumb2:

[Steve-the-Duck]

Definitely a space superiority (medium range)attack ship there

Still, I was hoping for a sand racer...