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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. Suddenly this afternoon it all came together, so I've taken lots of pictures in the hope that someone out there will like it, and may even be inspired to have a go themselves. The basic fuselage is strips of wood glued rather like a balsa aircraft and covered in plastic card. The nose section was a 1/32nd Puma, first built decades ago. There are original Sternail models out there. probably less than a dozen all scratchbuilt, I did one years ago. This, the Ausf D. would be a development of the original. Scale is 1/35th. It measures out at nearly 70cm. call it 2 feet 3 inches in old money. Nose armament, Laser/plasma? You decide. The wasp decal is from a Messerscmitt Bf110 The yellow/green decal is supposed to be a bit like the WW2 defence of the Reich markings. I used two decals overlaid. To the left of that is the airlock door for the WSO (Weapons systems operator) or GIB (Guy in Back). Lots of other access panels can be seen. The RH comms pod. RH thruster turret. See those silver balls on the blade pitch change arms. What's the name of that game where grown men run around woodland firing these pellets at each other? I'm not entirely happy with the solar panels. Black paint over silver, But they'll have to do until I think of another way to do it. They do look pretty battered and worn though, in typical kreiger fashion. That thruster in the middle is an Aircraft rivet type called a Rivnut, or rather, it was. As seen on Wessex radius arm mounting plates. There's another one under here. And I cut the middles out of 1/25th steering wheels and glued them to the Sherman drive sprockets on the scanner, above right. The left side featuring the pilots airlock door. The docking probe is visible on the right. Meteor sheild (Puma door) and Comms pod (Mascara compact lid & card) LH main horizontal steering thruster turret (King Tiger) LH gun close up. Various Panzer bits. The convoluted jobbie is a Biro spring wrapped in PTFE tape. EDIT - I forgot to show the engines, so here you are.... So, there we go. It's been a fun build and due to being stuck at home it's finished months earlier than expected. I hope you've seen something you like and I welcome your comments and questions. Thanks for looking, Pete
  3. Now what? well, I was clearing out the garage a few weeks ago and found an old butane gas lighter. I looked at the shape and instantly thought, Hover bike. So here we go.... I have a couple of large scale motorbikes in the scrap boxes, so I should be okay for bike bits. (A Harley and a Yamaha, for those who NEED to know). Yeah, sorry about the colour. It did mean we could always find it though. The Christmas tree bauble is the anti grav unit, as used on the Ma.k Falke. The 1/20th scale Falke used table tennis balls but this is near enough the right size. In the foreground, bike bits, stripped of chrome with bleach. The figure is from a Tamiya pit crew set. I widened the gap between the legs (listens for @CedB galloping closer...) so he can straddle this beastie. I had to perform surgery on the left leg to match the right. The pit crew set lets you swap limbs between the figures to a certain extent. And from a slightly different angle. These pictures were taken yesterday. Footpegs were later fitted and the spares boxes searched for suitable greeblies. I've been pressing on today with arms and handlebars. I may get to post more pictures later. Thanks for looking, and of course your comments are welcome. Pete
  4. Hello This is my first modelling post here "Snowman" is my latest completed model. This is a powered armour (S.A.F.S.) from Sci-Fi fiction "Maschinen Krieger" created by Japanese artist Mr.Kow Yokoyama. Snowman is one of the famous S.A.F.S. schemes in the story. The model was painted by Vallejo and MIG Ammo acrylic color, plus some MIG enamel wash and weathering products. The pilot I was trying to paint a African skin tone... not sure can you guys find it out? The last image I put my other figure aside to show the contrast of the skin color.
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