1:24 Studio Scale Angel Interceptor

[Kallisti]

Started over the Easter weekend, finished 1st July, with a break in the middle for a hernia operation - not bad going considering

 

This is the resin kit by Simian Stuff, available from Kits for Cash

 

 

It was a bit of a beast as this was one of the earlier kits, the newer ones have a different parts breakdown. It was painted with Halfords primers and Appliance White, but given a Daler & Rowney matt varnish at the end. The decals which come with the kit were printed by JBOT and are lovely. I added a load more from the spares box for the "No Step" stencils and so on.  The build thread is here, in which you can see me 'wrestle' with the resin, hole, gaps and voids!

 

 

It measures:

 

Length: 2' 6" (80cm)

Width: 17"  (43cm)

Height: 7" (18cm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is not a decal - it was masked and painted!

 

 

 

 

Some details not easily visible now: Instrument panel

 

 

Now my main problems are two fold:

 

1) Find a box big enough to transport this to model shows and protect it in transit

2) Find a place to display it in my house!

 

At the moment it has pride of place on my coffee table!

 

 

[Pete in Lincs]

Huge WOW! from me. 

Now you need to buy a new house with a huge bay window for use as a display area.

Oh, and a specially adapted Transit van for transporting the interceptor.

Expensive business this, isn't it?

Pete

[picard]

1 hour ago, Pete in Lincs said:

Huge WOW! from me. 

 

Along with a very humble blimey, and blinking flip from the Malvern Hill's as well sir,

 

A fantastic build thread with a wonderful result after all your efforts and master class WIP. Fabulous. She looks stunning in this scale, Brilliant stuff. S.I.G  

 

Cheers 😎

[Thom216]

Fantastic!

[HL-10]

That is very nice!

Great work.

It is a monster of a model though

 

[Max Headroom]

How the heck did I miss the build thread?

 

Magnificent, is the only adjective I can think to describe the result.

 

Trevor

[Silenoz]

Looking very good... well done

[whitestar12chris]

Saw this in person at smallspace on sunday, she's a beauty. Cracking job Kallisti, very well done.

 

All the best Chris

[RACETRACK]

cor, blimey! what a beauty.

[Brundledonk]

Now that is a stunning bit of work !

 

Pete

[stevej60]

Awesome work Kallisti,SIG!

[Tarkas]

On 7/10/2019 at 10:03 AM, whitestar12chris said:

Saw this in person at smallspace on sunday, she's a beauty. Cracking job Kallisti, very well done.

Have to agree. It does look great. I only have one question: which Angel is in the cockpit? 😎 My best guess is Rhapsody -- am I right? ❓

[Kallisti]

Correct, Rhapsody the redhead

[Mattlow]

Very nice

 

I had no sense of how big this was while you were building it. Makes the achievement that much greater..

 

Matt

[Carts]

Crikey,a real thing of beauty.

[Kallisti]

Thanks  Its now going out on tour - was last on show at Boscome Down and next at IPMS Farnborough show in mid-September.

[Alpha Juliet]

It's SIG from me too!!  Well done, lovely model!

[Kallisti]

It now has its own cutom built travel box:

 

 

The cardboard box was constructed from a 30" x 20" x 20" heavy duty box, but I still had to add 2" onto the length as the tail sites back a bit from the fuselage and I'd only measure the fuselage as 30" long! So the box is 32" long, 20 inches wide and 10" deep.

 

At the bottom is a custom cut piece of foam with slots cut in to take the 1:24 interceptor plus slots for the small Airfix Interceptor and my models of the SPV and Spectrum Saloon car. There is also LOADS of room to allow me to pack other models into the empty space with suitable bubble wrap protections.