All the rest part 2?

[Danny Lectro]

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:

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

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:

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

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...

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

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.

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

Edited November 14, 2016 by Danny Lectro

[Danny Lectro]

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:

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

[Danny Lectro]

Revell Pinewood Derby dry transfer numbers, red-brown panel line wash, 2 or three shades of rust, and engine oil enamel:

[Danny Lectro]

Finished model!

Main pod, with small manipulators extended and pickup bed attached:

Small manipulators stowed, large manipulators attached and stowed:

Large manipulators extended:

Aaaaaand, I just got kicked off my photo host.  I'll try to add more finished photos tomorrow.

[Zarana-X]

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.