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Kallisti last won the day on September 9 2023

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  1. This is a funny little kit from Moebius and you can see how 'little' from the picture with the Tamiya paint jar. Sadly its not the 1:18 scale kit with Alicia Silverstone's Catwoman riding it in a very provocative fashion! Well you'll just have to accept the model itself The box is compact, mainly because there isn't much to go inside it... The main problem with this model is its almost ALL BLACk! (cue the artist from the Fast Show...) So I had to be creative with some metallic colours and weathering to bring out the complex design of the bike. and to get an idea of the actual size of the model... A fun little kit to build, not easy as the instructions often don't give entirely precise placement instructions!
  2. Haha, I've already got a Bandai Interceptor so that two down, just need to be creative with my forced perspective
  3. End of 2023 I bought a kit from the 3D printing maestro in Canada, Alain Rivard, the same bloke who printed me the 1:48 Babylon 5 Starfury from a couple years back However this is a beautifully printed 3D kit. I did have to replace the cockpit rear wall as even thought it has some beautifully designed and printed detail, it was very very far from screen accurate. The decals were printed from an image I found on the SHADO FB page that turns out was created by John Watson for his Bandai build. I scaled it up, removed some of the unnecessary red bands as I'd painted them already and was able to printed them successfully on the 3rd attempt Here are the pics Bloody silly design to put a thick metal frame in front of the pilots view! This is how the kit arrived so this is sort of a 'sprue shot' This is what the cockpit looked like before I modified it by cutting off the rear wall and scratch building a replacement which ended up looking like this Most of which you can't see inside the cockpit This was the image used to print the decals
  4. Its finished!!! The satin varnish went on this morning and when the masking all came off earlier this evening I decided it did not need any extra weathering. The panel lines are deep enough that they don't need any further highlighting and the white paint has enough natural variations due to handling and various tonal differences that have come out after the varnish that I don't think it needs any more weathering!
  5. I'm actually using my old Bandai model as a template for some of this build PM replied So the task today was to mask the silver parts and canopy ready for varnish, and here it is all wrapped up... Varnish tomorrow, its too damn cold to go down to the shed this evening!!!
  6. Finally, after wasting 3 sheets of decal film on bad prints and bad ink sealing, on the 4th attempt I got some usable decals. This time I used a gloss spray varnish I've had in the shed for years which did the trick of sealing the decals with no ink runs! Previous attempts with liquid decal film and Klear were failures. The only problem with these is the gloss varnish makes them a tiny bit thicker. However, now that they've been applied and Micro Sol'd its not too bad. Today I brush painted a Klear coat over all the decals and most of the white area. Only the main silver areas remain un-Klear'd/ The next step once the Klear has fully dried will be to yet again mask all the silver bits and the canopy to be able to spray satin vanish over the rest. Thats likely a job for tomorrow. The decals have really brought it to life! Once the satin varnish is on, I'll apply some light weathering I think to just dirty it up a little. but not too much.
  7. In that case I'm glad I didn't waste my time
  8. In between my major build over the Christmas holiday I decided to build something else and having had this in the stash for most of the year I decided it was time to do something non-sciFi for a change, so The Airfix (ex Academy) M3 Stuart 'Honey' was the result: The kit comes with an interior but I didn't fancy getting that complicated with it so built just the externals out of the box. It was a fun little build and I used the rubber tracks rather than mess about with the individual tracks, this was supposed to be a bit of fun, not heavy duty modelling, I've got enough of that going on in the main build that still isn't finished! (see link in sig). Its all painted in Tamiya acrylics. I used a set of Mig Ammo paints I'd got some time back for the Caunter scheme to mix up a batch of paint for the sand and silver grey that matched the Mig Ammo paints. The weathering is basic, I didn't go to town over it.
  9. Yes, sadly I won't be able to reproduce the decals in white for obvious reasons. In the latest progress, the cockpit canopy has been attached. The 0.25mm clear acrylic sheet arrived eventually and was a doddle to heat shape to fit the canopy and some very careful application of Rocket Odourless CY along the edges sealed it into place nicely Now its just the decals left. Sadly my first attempt was a failure as I didn't seal the decals well enough and the ink ran as soon as they touched the water so I'm now waiting for a another package of clear decal film to arrive as I only had the one sheet left which I've ruined. Hopefully that will turn up in the next day or so and I can hopefully complete this model this week!
  10. Are there any significant structural changes to it or is it 'just' markings? I've just started building mine today
  11. Nice selection, like the SEAC Thunderbolt and the camo'd Snowspeeder is great. Good to meet you this year, all the best for 2024!
  12. Great selection there, very productive. Loved the Ark Royal from the GB, nicely done.
  13. After the aluminium got painted I suddenly realised I hadn't painted the gloss white before masking for the silver! So once that had cured I had to strip all the masking off and then remask to cover it all up so that the white could be painted! I decided to use Halfords Appliance white paint as it covers such a large area well and has enough pigment to give a nice deep white colour. This was done yesterday and then in the evening all the masking came off again in order to then remask for the red stripes. I went through so much masking tape yesterday that I ran out of my 18mm wide stuff and discovered I had no spares!!!! In between waiting for the main painting to dry, the various smaller pieces also got painted - the slotted 'intakes', the missile dock at the front and the thruster intakes and exhausts. The initial coat was with the Halfords Aluminium and the middile dock remained just aluminium. The 'intakes' had a dark wash added to the recessed areas. The thruster intakes had Alclad Stainless Steel sprayed while the exhausts had the darker Alclad Magnesium sprayed. Once everything was dry, it was the time for final assembly of all the pieces and the removal of the lasks covering the engine detail and cockpit. Of course I forgot to take photos of all these various steps so it was only today after all the pieces have been assembled that I took any pics! of course the last step for now is adding the missile... The next step is to print out the decals - gulp! Again I've discovered I only have one sheet of clear decal film in stock so had to order some more which of course won't arrive until next year This is the image I'll be using, I've removed all the redundant red stripes to save ink! I'm also waiting for some new .25mm clear sheet that I thought I'd ordered but turned out I'd ordered white, so the cockpit canopy will have to wait until that arrives... So finally let me wish everyone a Happy and Healthy New Year! See you on the other side when this will get completed finally!
  14. Thanks everyone for the nice comments @AdrianMF oh just wait, I'm sure there will be a similar GB along soon On the last day of the year I can post my progress on the latest build, the 3D print of the 1:24 scale SHADO Interceptor from UFO
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