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  1. At the last, pre Covid Southwell model meet I met a very nice man who'd built some large Space 1999 Eagles. We got talking, as you do, turns out he had some unwanted, part started kreiger stuff. A price was agreed and later a box arrived. Two boxes inside it. In the boxes were sprues, some parts off sprues plus some spare kreiger bits and bobs. Scale is 1/20th. Two Armoured Fighting Suits (AFS) Heinrich and Gustav. There are many types of AFS. Some even operate in Space or on the Moon. Maschinen Kreiger started as a comic book years ago based on designs made up from bits of model kits and depicts a war 800 odd years in the future. Search Kow Yokohama for more. I've had a sort through the boxes from time to time & finally gotten around to giving them some lurve. Boxes. Boring, but full of Kreiger goodness and fun. Is this an arm I see before me? BTW, the names refer to the machines. Not the operators. Exhibit A to Z. Gustav in the foreground. Just to show you what's in these things. Legs, arms and half a bloke. The two bigger parts are the main body, Pre kreiger use they were the fuselage of a Hughes 500 Helicopter. The yellow is highlighter pen applied straight to the plastic. It dried okay and will do for a primered interior. Here we have the Gustav. The body assembled by me and repaired as it wasn't in the best of health. Thin bits had cracked. The giant shoulder pads on the bloke are part of the machine, holding him in place. Your arms would fit under these and into the machine arms with controls in there. Your legs into the machines legs. Fit is generally click and play, so TET is the go to adhesive. Hey! The Guys are in town. Heinrich on the left has a very '70's moustache. Fine pair of goggles, Gustav. Gustav jocky also sports a chest Camera/Mic' made from a 1/76th tank flash suppressor. Greeblies rule, Dudes. The Heinrich cockpit, Snug eh? The upper half was repaired using black plastic card. The plastic was very thin indeed. The white card on the front is there to hide the joint and the horizontal bit is to add depth, I added bits of coloured wire in the cockpit to brighten it up. But you won't see a lot when it's finished. Some joints have shields. These are hip shields. On the right, top, as supplied. Non flexible attachment points. Cut them off and replace with guitar wires. Hey presto, springs! Bottom right, for want of a better word, crutch shield. On the left is what passes for an engine on these things. Think hydraulics and a Vespa engine. Yeah... On the right, what was the Hughes windscreen is now the cockpit access. I've added the white card to look like a field mod. It's for extra protection. The 'grille' was (I think) ship railing. I also used Meng nuts & bolts. The loop for lifting it open. And then paint happened. Tamiya acrylics. I mixed up shades of rust (A common thing with kreiger) and slapped it onto places where wear would occur. Then some shades of desert camouflage were thinned and applied. Only to be dabbed at with a bit of kitchen towel a minute or so later. before it dried. This gave a great mottled, well worn effect. A spur of the moment idea that worked. The engine parts in the foreground attach to the machines back, BTW. The screen is tinted. You can't see a lot through it. I polished it with a type of T Cut. And that's yer lot for the moment. Thank you for looking, Comments are, as always, very welcome. Cheers, Pete
  2. And, after finishing the Kreiger Vampyre, I have returned! My Vampyre build, in case anyone missed it, was based on a gluebomb Hornisse 'Battlefield taxi' which was incredibly kindly donated by @SafetyDad. So all praise to him again! The Armoured fighting suits are a form of powered exo armour to protect the troops in this war, 800 years in the future. There are (I think) at least three variations of this basic design, and I'm fairly sure that this is the Heinrich version. At Southwell 2018, I met a very nice man who sold me a complete AFS and a Heinrich box of bits and paperwork. Luckily the instructions were still in there. Which was nice. Imagine the front of a 1/48th Hughes 500 on legs, yep, you're there. First job was to take the figure to pieces. Not too difficult. It had suffered from heavy mortaring by tube glue. A twist of a scalpel blade in the joints and most of it popped apart. Yes, that is a huge Panzerfaust top right. The elbows bent the wrong way, so this stage was essential. Also, those ankle shields should be on the outside. So it looks like the legs will have to be dismantled too. Someone wasn't concentrating. The windows had a build up of tube glue around them and some on them. The scarring on the screen is obvious. I gave them a rub down with Micromesh and then cheapo T cut abrasive put a shine on them. I had some clear packaging material and had a go at making a new window just by rubbing the edge as I held it onto a side window. It almost worked, but I refer the (smoked effect) originals. They are very close in size to the holes, so there's not a lot of area for the glue. Microstrip might work here. A close up of the legs. Those shields have got be moved! They're pretty useless on the inside. The main body parts. The scarring from the glue is obvious. But what's life without a challenge? I need to dismantle the legs and see if anything is missing now that I've found the instructions. That's your lot for this episode. And you are very welcome to give me your thoughts on this one. I'm running out of room for the big stuff in the manshed, so these smaller models may become more common! Thanks, Pete
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