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My rebuilt model of the Pegasus models Martian War Machine from the original (and best) 1953 film of War of the Worlds that I recently completed & Based loosley on the crashed aircraft scene from the film. Complete with DIY lighting which includes pulsing ray gun, steady green front, wingtip torpedo rays and magnetic flux leg emiters and flickering white LEDs where the invisible magnetic legs made contact on the ground. I'm not an electronics whiz so its based on a circuit I found on youtube and modified to use less components and split power to the three set of LEDs so I can use just one switch to power the whole thing. Aircraft is an OOB Airfix 1/72 Bird Dog which I think works well against the 1/48 scale Mars Machine. Base started life as a Ferrero Rocher choccy box.
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I saw Don's post about rocketry and the A-9 ICBM, and that tickled my fancy to get a V2. I've stood next to the beaten up one in Cosford a few times, and always fancied a kit to put in the cabinet, so I picked up the snap-together Pegasus kit in my favourite scale 1:48. It's a very simple kit for obvious reasons, and fit is excellent, I have to say All it took was trimming off the sprue gates, and scraping the central ring that joins the top to the bottom to get a better fit. Tamiya Extra Thin along all the joints, and an elastic band round the middle to tease a slightly popping seam into submission. The base/launchpad took a little more work because of some tooling marks and ejector pins on the visible parts, as well as a slight difference in height between the little legs that hold the launch ring off the ground. A little sanding hither and thither soon sorted that out, whilst testing the height with calipers in between times. Here's where we stood when I broke for tea. Probably 30 minutes' work? It's surprisingly tall, and only an inch or two from the top of my photo-booth. Next job is to sort out the seams and re-scribe the panel lines that run down those seamlines, and then tidy up the fairings at the base of the fins. They were pretty rough on the real thing, but these ones need a little TLC. Then it'll be on to the painting unless anyone's aware of any inaccuracies with the kit that I can still fix at this stage?