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The going is reeeaaaaaalllyyyy slow. Partly, there is too much other things going on, and partly I was procrastinating. It's the decals ... not only are they tiny and instructions are also so small for my old eyes (although alltogether, some of the best I have seen with decals). And I have to say the decal quality of the kit is not the greatest. The print is only ok, and those little decals just won't stick to the surface of the kit. Maybe because they are older? However, the top is painted, decaled and washed (with the exception of around the gun mount. I have to mix up a new batch of wash first). Now I still need to do the sides (decals and wash). And then the overall weathering - should be done by, let's say, Christmas? Cheers

Yep, pure Gonk. Good spot and greeblies.

Primed and base coated, it intended to look ruff, I will paint in some details and then the weathering....

walking bin. 😆

this time i choose red skin tone Mk.I finished, begin Mk.II 😁

nice access panel. open another on back 😁

Added a few more greebles and I think that will do, just his feet to sort out.

So this morning I was changing printed ink and the plastic boxes the cartridges come immediately made me think droid! And after taking him the bench to see what greebles i had he is definitely looking more Bonk like. A cute face I think.

Build started... Opened a panel just for the heck of it....

Hello, I'm new in this Forum and I decided to sign in because of this very beautiful X-Wing. It, s the best alternative painting on an X-Wing I have ever seen. I'm totally in love with it. I find it by searching a red paint scheme for my Rebel fighters. It's a big inspiration. And I hope it, s OK for you that I used this inspiration for my 1:48 X-Wing. Greetings Holger

Thank you for the likes and comments, Gents. I enjoyed this build, And the next one is in progress, WIP for it coming up soon. I'm going a bit Ian McQue this time....

I was afraid that Helmut wouldn't pop out at one moment , I'm relieved now ! I really do like your imagination AND scratch skills👍

nice drone 😆

Stockente. German for Mallard. This is a scratchbuilt mine detector drone for the Maschinen Kreiger universe. Not an official model from Sensei Kow Yokoyama. A couple of years ago the Gas Engineer did the annual service on our hot water boiler in the utility room. We didn't have a Carbon Monoxide detector in there so he stuck one on the wall. Fast forward a couple of years and it started beeping. Low battery? It turns out you can't change the battery, it's hard wired in. Taking it apart did it no good, so the insides got binned. But I kept the case. It could turn into a small scale Spaceship. But that was not to be. In the past @bootneck had sent me a box of unwanted kits. One of which was a drone. The Reaper I think. Hmmm, What to do... Now, does that look like some sort of Duck to you? The floats are ex Airfix Ju52 BTW. Paints by Tamiya. Part of the kreiger universe is set in Australia. North of there are lots of Islands where the water may be mined. I remembered the WW2 Wellington and Ju52 Mine detector Aircraft. Why not use a Drone in the future? I had some 1/48th A-10 Thunderbolt kit parts. Here's the underside of a wing grafted onto a cut down Reaper wing. This happened on both sides and the joint was filled in. The big grey lump is the detector case. So with the A-10 engines stuck on top you get this. With a broad chord wing for good lift. And eventually it ended up as seen here and below. Decals are ex spares box from various sources. I kept the green camouflage fairly subtle. Droptanks fitted. Those engines don't run on fresh air! Lots of yucky algae all over the floats. Super futuristic flexible carbon fibre type supports (bent sprue) between floats and the mine sweeper fairing. A similar shot but with a good view of the engines. The intakes are the caps from kids yoghurt pouches. They were purple. I thought that if the paint was eroded then they could be actual purple printed items. And at the rear I think the tailplanes are ex Gannet. Underneath. The big disc is a mine detector ring. (Probably. This is 800 years in the future) It was a Motorbke brake disc. The other four round things are hover fans. Leftovers salvaged from a real Kreiger kit. They'd use ducted air from the engines. I spliced wheels into the floats for moving this thing around on land. They even rotate. The nozzles are wonky because they swivel to help turn this beastie in flight and on water. And speaking of turning. Helmut uses this Donkey to shift it around on land. Most of it was Lego. And here it is parked up on the Flightline with Helmut checking it over before he cleans off all that slime. I didn't do a WIP this time as i wasn't sure if it would work. You'd only have seen scrap plastic and filler anyway. Many thanks for looking. Your likes and comments are always welcome. Cheers, Pete

rough surface is much clear with paint 😉

thanks - I had seen that set and could use it for inspiration... My other thought would be to have it in maintenance so that there was a "screen" that went over the interior to stop debris falling in - sort of like the covers over jet engine intakes - that way I need to put in a plastic cover with a handle... having said that, I wanted to open a panel up but the only big one is under the canister (whatever it is - black on your build) on the side) so don't think I will do that either

GAVIN BURNS-Thanks for the compliment! Glad you liked the build. It is a great model kit. Phillip1 @GAVIN BURNS

mk1,2 boxset included two heads. cast-iron

you plan to build open hatch mode, shall wait wave publishes interior addon components. PS: not following resin one, but wave gets the license, going to convert this into injection kit ver this year.😉 https://www.1999.co.jp/10461418

Nice build... Planning to do mine brown/blue like a WWI British armoured car.... Do you have any photos of the "cockpit" area?

this is a nice space type SAFS. i built a similar suit last year.

If you live to the west Keith....yes. Don't worry though, the influence doesn't quite reach as far as Leicestershire.....yet, although I could be wrong, best check your water supply.

This build has been pushed up to see if I can enter the paint on plastic Ma.K 2025 competition. Starting off with the Wave Prowler but may look to open a few access panels with a long term aim to build a bit of a vignette of it being serviced.... Would mean some scratch building - biggest of which would be to allow me to have an empty cockpit Box and sprues

Absolutely fantastic Johnny! I love this ... a flying saucer driven by a T-Rex looking thing kidnapping Mr not a cow pointy finger dude .... What have you heard? Should I be worried? Keith ☺️

Love it Johnny!!