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Lee Chambers

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  • Birthday 15/05/1962

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  1. Excellent result! I have had this kit in my stash for around 10yrs,my sprue plastic is also silver wings with grey fuselage. Decals are in the same condition as yours look, which always stopped me building it, hopefully I can now replace them with a new set. I always have been impressed with the quality of surface detail that has been reproduced for a kit of this era.
  2. Thanks, look out for another Mandalorian themed diorama coming very soon.👍
  3. Thanks guy's, It was nice to build something unique and was great fun to mash different kits together.
  4. Hi all, after a very enjoyable Greeble / Kitbash build I am calling this done. Who needs a plain old Razor Crest when you can have this ship! Despite his remarks in the video, I think Mando might grow to like this ship and his new speeder bike. Let me know what you think, "This is the way?" Finally, if you want to see the work in progress of this build, click below.
  5. Hi all, well I finally have found time to post the penultimate update on this kit bash build. These 3D printed figures were found on eBay and took a few weeks to arrive due to printing and post issues. Yes, they do look like jelly babies until the primer is applied. I thought the droids helmet antenna looked out of scale, so I replaced them with some wire. I got all of them painted up this week and positioned into the diorama base, so I hope you enjoy the teaser pictures, as the final reveal will be very soon.
  6. If Mando can figure a way of part dismantling it, I am sure it could fit. 🤔
  7. Hi all, whilst waiting for some 3D printed parts to arrive for the base scene, I thought I would scratch build a new speeder bike for Mando. I just stuck together a pile of odd parts and came up with a well armed speeder bike. Do you think Mando would approve? Happy modelling.
  8. Hi all, here is the final paint scheme for Mando's new ship. I custom mixed some gun metal paint from a VW Beetle colour code from the 70's, this was followed by masking and hand painting the orange stripes, with some acrylic paint which was then scratched and distressed to give a worn-down effect. Then I added a mist coat of AK smoke over the whole ship, this was followed by picking out various panels, the front and rear engine cowls and buffing them over with graphite powder to give a polished black stainless-steel effect. I will be adding the ship to a base so I can add some workshop accessories and a power supply will be hidden in one of these units. Happy modelling.
  9. Cheers Pete, I still have a final paint scheme to splash on and a base to build to bring it all to life.
  10. Thanks, it's getting close to the application of the final paint scheme, and a few more greeble parts to finish off the look.
  11. Hi all, I have been making good progress on Mando's new ship. I decided to try and make a figure of Mando out of the kit figure parts from the Colonial Raptor kit. The helmet was hand carved into shape using a couple of sharp number 10A scalpel blades, and the figure body had some putty added to the chest area and legs to create the armour. Molotow chrome paint was used to paint the helmet and body armour. The cockpit was scratch built using the parts from the A10 and some aftermarket resin parts. Lighting was then added. Once this was completed the ship was rebuilt and various greeble parts added. I detailed up the rear loading area and fitted some lighting in the ceiling. Still have some tidying up to do and decide on the final colour scheme, but I am happy how it's looking so far. Happy modelling everyone.
  12. I will be posting more progress later this week, thanks for the great comments guys.
  13. Hi everyone, this update shows how I added the lighting to the engines. I used 5mm defused orange LED's. They are rated at 9-12v, with wired in resistors. They came with clip in holders, so that was handy to help mount them; I used plastic bottle caps to hold the LED's. To help reflect the light, I painted the inside of the caps with Molotow Chrome paint. The rear engines have a pair of super glue bottle cone shaped caps that had a LED glued into the centre of the cone and another LED fitted behind in the bottle cap and they were epoxied into place. I was able to run the wiring through the flared wing engine mounts and into the upper fuselage. Next will be to build the cockpit details and add some subtle lighting. "This is the way".
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