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  1. Hi Fellow Modellers I had some free time in the man cave recently and I decided to try another 'scrapheap challenge' scratch build. The challenge is to make something using only the bits in the spares box and whatever I could find lying around the house. Luckily the spares box was overflowing with stuff that I put in there ages ago, thinking that it might be useful one day... For instance: Here we have a plastic water container from an old coffee maker, with two pipe connectors from a plumbing project. You can see where this is going.... Next we have a black thing which came off a water bottle. I believe that you're supposed to put your keys in it while you go jogging. Well, I haven't jogged anywhere since the 80s so that's how it ended up as spares. And here we have the beginning of something which might turn into a spaceship.... Now this thing caught me by surprise. I have no idea how I came to have a security tag that originally would have fitted onto a wine bottle. I know I'm getting on a bit but I can confirm that I don't have a criminal record and I haven't been banned from any local shops.... These pictures show how it slowly came together. I didn't post a WIP at the time as I didn't know if this would work - if not, and I had to bin the thing, then at least I could say I didn't waste any money on it. The greeblies are a mixture of junk and kit bits. We have plastic caps from safety razors, the top of a Revell steam locomotive, plastic sheet and bits of tank kits (every scratch build needs tank bits). I even added a couple of little wheels salvaged from our old dishwasher. Finally (for this WIP anyway) I slapped some car primer on it, then a coat of matt white from a rattle can. I added some decals from my stash that I made for earlier projects. I got it all dirty using watered-down black and grey acrylic paint. On top of all that, after it dried out, I added a coat of gloss rattle can varnish. I have more pics which I will post in RFI just as soon as I get around to sorting them out, including the usual money shots showing this bad boy in action. cheers all Monty
  2. Greetings fellow modellers Time for another ship build, this time it's a freighter, very roughly in the style (and markings) of the MCRN ships from the Expanse. This build began a while ago, it went onto the Shelf of Shame, came off again thanks to a sudden burst of mojo, and right now it's mostly done. I took a lot of pics but never got around to doing a WIP as I didn't know if anything would come of it, so perhaps now the simplest thing is to put all the pics into perhaps three posts to spread the load a little and to make it easier to digest. It began with two basic components: 1. An old and very large camera zoom lens inherited from Dad, so vintage 1970s with blurred optics and a mount that fitted nothing currently available on this planet thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union (Dad went through a stage of buying camera gear from East Germany because it was cheap). 2. A baked bean tin because I thought it had an interesting shape. I had no idea what to do with the lens but then I thought perhaps it could be incorporated into a build of some sort. I had a vague idea that it might work as a spaceship hull, so I dismantled it, binned the glass and superglued some of the components together to create a 'hull'. The bean tin (without beans) was glued onto the front. I also raided my spares box and found a hosepipe nozzle to go on the back as an engine exhaust, and a plastic plumbing joint to go on the front.That gave me this: At this point i lost interest and the project got shelved. Not difficult to see why, Recently I wondered if I could salvage something from the whole sorry mess and after a lot of thought and googling "expanse ships" I came up with this sketch of a freighter, covered in cargo containers: And here is the very first attempt at creating the freighter. You can see that the length is just over 30cm: The grey thing on the front went in the bin and I replaced it with the lens hood and various other bits of plastic to create a sort of docking hatch. The boxes are the shipping containers and are made of 5mm plastic sheet. I don't know what sort of plastic this is. It's certainly not styrene. Superglue seems to work on it, so that's fine. Anyway, it's fairly sturdy and yet still soft enough to cut with a craft knife. I got it off Amazon and I believe that it's the stuff that architects use to create model buildings. Whatever, it's useful stuff and fairly cheap. The three bits of styrene that look like wings are going around the engine as baffles, to direct the exhaust away from the hull. Or something like that anyway. I thought that the rear needed something to make it a bit more interesting. Well, another update soon, I'm still sorting out the pics, in the meantime happy modelling all! cheers Monty
  3. This was my first large scratch build and it shows, but at least I learnt a lot from it. The body is made from square section drainpipe, the engine nozzles are square-to-round adapters. It has a wooden 'spine' onto which everything was glued and screwed. The details are greeblies from the spares bucket. Here is the before shot: Here she is on the bench: And here she is in action:
  4. I'm kinda new to modelling. I've been doing this few years and recently had a long break because of extramural college. I have only build 4 models so far so I'm always happy to learn new things. My main interest is giant mecha but anything Sci-Fi related is good. Hope to find some fellow SF modellers here. Some of you may know me from FichtenFoo od MaschinenKrieger forums. Here are my works so far: My Falke is 90% done, abandoned 3 (4?) years ago, hopefully will finish it soon.
  5. The massive 22" Long Space: 1999 Eagle Transporter from MPC is now in stock and available to order! This impressive model kit is the latest addition to MPC's range of Space: 1999 models, complementing their popular Eagle 1 Transporter, Eagle Transporter with Laboratory Module and Moonbase Alpha models.
  6. There are three new plastic model figure sets from Master Box coming up this month. The long awaited 1/35 The 101st Light Company Tank Riders figure set is finally being released, along with Master Box's first science fiction figure sets; 1/24 World of Fantasy - Graggeron & Halseya and 1/24 World of Fantasy - Kit No. 2. For full details, please see our newsletter.
  7. We've got six new Revell Star Wars spaceship starter kits for you! With half a dozen of the most iconic ships and fighter craft to be found in the highly popular and legendary movie series, such as the Millennium Falcon, X-Wing, TIE Fighter and Snowspeeder! For full details, please see our newsletter.
  8. Hi guys, this was a bit of an experiment ive been wanting to do for some time. Below is a screen grab from the Battlestar Galactica Mini Series, it shows a Battlestar similar to the Galactica hit and adrift, and it gave me an idea. I thought to myself, hmmmmm ...so, rather than posting all the photos, here is the end product, and a link to the folder with all the WIP photos for your viewing pleasure. http://s181.photobucket.com/user/chris1984_99_99/library/Battlestar%20Titanic?sort=3&page=4 I still need to get a base made for it, but I think im finished with the kit itself. Its my first time doing an explosion this way, so any words of advice or how to improve would greatly be appreciated! Thanks! Enjoy!
  9. Well thats another finished, I think! Maybe just 1 or 2 more things to add to it at a later date, but thats it 99% complete! Had a bit of an issue with the varnish effecting the decals, as in it started to melt them for some reason, didnt have that problem with the previous kit, but I managed to salvage it just!
  10. I built a MkII Viper a few months ago and a friend ended up buying it, so I couldnt do without one myself as I think they are among the best looking fighters in Science Fiction, so ive ended up building another. I recently completed the MkVII version in under a day to set myself a challange to see if I could do it, this time however, that was not possible, there is simply too much work involved in the MkII. So instead its taken a leisurely 2 days to complete minus weathering which I shall do later today! More pics to follow!
  11. Hi y'all. First time post by myself of a finished model! Forgive me in advance if the colors arn't to exact. I followed the boxes instructions of light grey but the box art seems quite a bit lighter. I'm not a big fan of Sci-fi or Sci-fi models but my friend's birthday is coming up and he loves Star Trek. It only seemed right to build him his favorite class ship right? I didn't care to much for the kit. The fit wasn't to hot and the decals were way to thick. Micro Sol helped a bit. After looking online the D model (my favorite) might be a bit better fit wise. Anyone know? Anyways here are the pics. With the stand- Thanks for looking! -Nick
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