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Italic or standard font? for as many photos I can find of Stingray with an italic No 3, there seem to be just as many showing her with a non-italic number, so I opted for the non-italic option

close up, those are welding wire. 😉

Nice PE! 1/144 steering rockets are tiny! 20 landing, 12 lift off should presumably be 22? Regards, Adrian

Its finished now so here is the RFI thread:

Yeah those were very very fiddly and slow. On top of which you knew when you finished one cone there were another three to go on this RCS thruster block and another three other blocks to make. I nearly cried when the cone fell off the fourth of four cones on the first block I built due to metal fatique. Fortunately they include several spares for this part which is nice of the designers. FB

That looks fantastic! Takes me back to the 80s...

Good on yer for trying something different! I'm still conditioned by the plastic model that my brother built in 1969 (I think it was the Revell one because it had the command module and the last booster stage*) to think of that as the definitive version. Although a fair proportion of the builds I've seen since have been covered in gold foil (from fag packets?) (although Bourneville Plain wrapper would have worked), so you can't actually see the structure.** And I can't even imagine taking a tiny flat piece of metal and forming it into a collection of four tinier cones! Regards, Adrian * now that I think about it ISTR that there was an upright from the lunar crater base so you could model the CM in low moon orbit, like about 30 feet above the surface! (edit)** it turns out that the 2019 re-release of this kit (thank you scalemates) includes a chunk of gold paper, with neither plain chocolate or cigarettes to go with it!

Dry fitted and some seam work still to do but she's had a coat of primer. John

Yep, like that wiring. Very neat and as per Kreiger lore.

Thanks, need to look at that some more

Putting this together... Mistakes were made. Lessons learned. And on the forth attempt I actually manged to properly mask the canopy!

A very fine Cyberman he is too. I can almost hear David Banks voice... James

A neat little scene - good posing of the AT-ST too, looks very inquisitive!

my wiring on external engines for your reference. 🙂

At least it isn't legless!!! All parts clicked on to allow easier painting

Calling this done, have added some Flory dark dirt and watercolour to the blaster and stuck some wiring loom cloth tape to the supplied strap to make it look more realistic and some washi tape to the strap ends and drilled the gun and used some cut pins as rivets to attach and painted the heads .

Oh dear, that means if there was a Stingray 15 it had a pen with the same number...

You must have sorted it as I can see the pics, those are absolutely superb, Brian! James

Seems Imgur has changed some stuff and now I can't seem to post pics... I'll figure it out! 😆

Couple of pics of the little guys I sent out. Not particularly happy with the end result but I do like the revised tripod! or rather quadpod!

PS - If it all goes wrong with the main hull masking, I'll convert the model to one of those grey ones which look pretty cool too !

Thanks Pete - from all that I know of the show (very little to be honest) the series was focused solely on the antics and adventures of WASP's (World Aquanaut Security Patrol) submarine No 3 - Stingray. The WASP fleet consisted of at least 26 vessels according to the WASP Technical Operations Manual ! However, it's not yet happened - we've got to wait until 2069 for these little fish: and a further more years from then to 2070 for these !!

Very neat masking and painting. Here's a thought. Stingray bore the number 3. So there must have been at least two others of this class? I don't recall any mention of them in the TV series, or in the TV21 weekly comic which I used to buy religiously.

already included in kit, could set in transport / launch mode. 😉 although general QC of goodsmile is below standard, but it will publish some less popular kit like this one.

I was wondering abbout this effect, as I was considering to use it on the Mach 2 Vostok kit. As I cannot get my hands on that model, it is a bit of a mute point for me right now. But I am pretty sure, any sparkle added at this scale would be over the top and just not looking "right". I think plain flat white would do it. I use flat white primer for the "normal" white paint on my launch systems. Sometimes, I haven't really figured out what causes that effect, the primer develops a little bit of a 3D structure that reminded me of an ice cover. Maybe some try and error on some surplus plastic pieces?