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All the rest part 2?


Agent G

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I am seeing so much excellent work in this thread.  Keep it up, everybody!

I have been plugging along on my builds, and documenting with photos, but I haven't been good about posting the photos here.  Sorry about that, let's see if I can make up for it.

Here are more photo's on the First Order Special Forces Tie Fighter:

Here is a completed solar panel / radiator:

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Red fuselage parts, with pre-shading that didn't really show up very well in the end:

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An then I forgot a about taking photos for a bit.  Here is the finished fighter attached to the kit-supplied display base, to show just how much detail gets covered up by the attachment:

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So I made my own with a brass rod inserted into one of the thruster nozzles of the fighter:

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I tried to give a shadow effect to the kit's sand dune base buy spraying white primer on one side of the dunes over a brown primer base...

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...but it didn't show up at all after painting with sand yellow.

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I then mounted the fighter and the sand dunes to a wooden plaque that I stained with Tamiya clear smoke acrylic paint.  Here are the photos of the finished item.

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Edit:  Some of my WIP photos show up with skewed proportions.  Does it look like that for anyone else?

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The Space Pod Crab 03 kit contains ABS plastic parts to build 2 models, one partially made of clear plastic as a gimmick. I decided to build the two models one-at-a-time, to make it easier to deal with parts.

I started by clipping the parts from the sprues, fixing sprue scars, putting together sub-assemblies and fixing seams:

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I then began painting with AMMO of Mig Jimenez and Tamiya paints:

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  • 6 months later...

OK. I finished this about a month ago. Photographing, and then getting them to the computer is kinda a pain. This kit was from 1983, and as I suspected the decals were shot, even after two coats of clear, and a coat of Future they turned to crumbs. I tried to replicate the missing hose, but after two failures, I just modeled it as battle damage. 
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