S.H.E.D Models Gerry Anderson's UFO

[Lee Chambers]

Hi everyone, I have a couple of these kits in my stash, they are hard to find these days, and eBay has some very silly prices for them. Very simple and only a few parts, so it went together pretty fast. There is no mention of the scale for this kit, but I think it's around 1/72.

 

However, the vac formed centre column was really too weak to support the weight of the 16 white metal arms, so I covered the kit part with a cut down water bottle neck. Once the black and white stripes had been painted, I painted the green area in Tamiya X2 white, then Hobby Color Aqueous metallic green H89. This looked a close match to the on-screen studio model.

 

I painted the rest of the model in Molotow liquid chrome, sprayed neat from my airbrush. I might add some slight weathering once the model is added to the diorama base, but I wanted to stay close to the original look of the studio model.

 

Next will be to build the SHADO Mobile.