Uncle Monty Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 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 16 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ConorC Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Looks great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Nicely done, Monty. A good use of those spares box bits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdavidson Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 brilliant result from a box of bits 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yg Models Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 nice white tone space ship 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Monty Posted August 15 Author Share Posted August 15 Click here for the RFI... Thanks everyone for the great comments! I have to admit I did spend some money - I had to buy a second can of primer, doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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