The Spadgent

Wowza!!! Now that came together all at once. Looks fantastic 🫡 Johnny

This is where the magic happens. 👏👏👏

Oh I don’t know. Looks pretty spectacular from here. Cold for sure but beautiful. lovely decal work. Even though 😳👀 you know. 🤣

That’s a heluva BIG and small model you have there. The detailing is exquisite and you’re doing a stunning job so far. Nice to have you back modelling again dear boy. I’ll tag along for the ride, it’s going to be fun!!!! Johnny.

Ooooh paint! But -6 😱🥶🥶

Oh my gawd!!! 🤣 Badum tish!

Sorry to hear of your friend Bill. 😔 I loved Beaties above new street station. Many hours spent as a kid lusting after model kits and RC cars in there. 😀 Johnny

I do my best thinking while walking the dogs and while I was out I took some more pics of the iron work and old lamps as reference. I’m not going as old and gnarly as these but it’s good stuff. I might go black paint after all as I can get some good variation🤔 we’ll see. Some nice iron work grills and covers for the drain. Enough fun in the graveyard! 🧟‍♂️ let’s get back to the model. I managed to find some great colours for our alien friend. And it’s gone on nicely on these frog legs. And gloves too! The thumbs and trigger finger also got a green blast and glued in place. Last bit for this evening is to chipping fluid coat the bits action will get a little ware. The other metal bits got a blast but I’m not sure how much chipping will actually go on. I also did the tanks. I figured chipping the red paint to this great would look pretty cool. I’m letting all that dry and get some more done tomorrow. Thanks for popping in. See you soon. Happy modelling chums. Johnny

I’ll knock something up in photoshop and print it out. Should look ok 🤞 Thanks Adrian. We have COLOUR! ( How did you do that? ) not much but it’s a start! 💚

Thanks James. Yes I had thought about this already. On my dog walks I see quite a lot of old worn metal lamp posts with rust patches and even the black painted ones in the graveyard I shared the pictures of earlier are worn an chipped but I know what you mean about the darker iron of the metal. It is quite a dull colour but I didn’t want to go too dark and had plans to add a little rust as I want the street to look a little run down with litter and news paper pages “MARS ATTACKS!” Headlines on scattered front pages. I know some of these are super run down and I’m not going this far but something akin to these. Mostly the second one as I was planning a darker paint job. But you get my drift. As for the drain, I’m right there with you. As mentioned I’ve just painted this totally black and will dry brush with iron. I might add some dirt but no real chipping on those parts. Thanks for the help, it’s great to get constructive feedback before you have done the deed. 👌 Johnny

Wonderful output sir. I very much enjoyed your lancer build which is why I’m now building a Martian invader. 🤔 Make of that what you will. Regardless excellent work all round. Bravo. 💪👏👏👏👏👏👏 Johnny

Indeed. Happy new year old boy. Loving this already. The internals are splendid and the new radiator is lovely. Great wood effect on the prop too. 👌 Johnny

Looking very neat Bill. That button is genius. 💪🫡 Johnny.

Looking really nice already. Is that a wheel arch with all the pin marks? I’d be tempted to cover that with some super thin plasticard. I hate Sandi g stuff like that. Good luck chap. Johnny

1/8th scale!!!! Wowza. 🧛‍♂️