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Really got stuck into this over the weekend, and today I finished it ready for the IPMS competition in April!
Mud was made from a mixture of pigments, PVA glue and paint thinners..stank to high heaven but did the job.
Also features pinstriping decals from a car kit.
You don’t usually associate the gray aliens with big cities, but I had this fire hydrant charm I’d been trying to use for decades and figured it would clearly establish that these guys were on Earth. These are two of six different poses made by Imperial and sold in a set called “Star Patrol”. Imperial also manufactured slightly larger (2.31”) versions of the same six poses in an “Alien Invaders” set.
The figures just got the usual parting line sanding before painting. I especially liked that Imperial made the heads different shapes, so I purposely varied the gray skin tones. The sidewalk is a piece of sheet styrene that was vacuum formed over some fine sandpaper.
Completed in 1999.
I just finished this model today. Revell's 1956 vintage, Sherman tank is in my opinion, the granddaddy of all 1/35 scale armor kits. Although it represents a hodgepodge of Sherman variants, "Scaled from official U.S. Army prints" the kit is remarkably well detailed for a mid 1950s model. I did some slight modifications. I drilled out the main gun, drilled out the optical sight and 30 caliber machine gun port on the mantlet, replaced the bow machine gun, and removed the injector pin buttons on the bogies. I used a stencil, and painted the stars. My painting and weathering techniques were simple: spray can for the olive drab (airbrushing is a pain in the @ss for me, and I only do it when absolutely necessary ) , some pin washes, dry brushing with a lighter OD, and pastel powders. I have an original 1956 unbuilt kit in my collection, that I have included in my images.
Custom-painted/build. 6 weeks to build this kit. shot with NIkon D80 with umbrella diffused SB600 at full intensity on the left and another one right, diffused with white translucent plastic and intensity reduced to 1/4
Tiger 1 Ausf.E build nearly finished. Airbrushed on the camo today as well as painting the tracks and applying decals. Still have details to paint and weathering. Tiger is from 101st LSSAH Heavy panzer division, France 1944.
I started sending out various holiday e-cards when I got my first computer back in 2001 and multi-page Scrapbooks followed shortly thereafter. I’ve been doing these Images of Halloween collections since 2003. This is a page from 2007.
I did this series of pages for four years. I photographed a bunch of my old models and composed the pics as trading cards. The dates are the years I built the models. The Pumpkin Scarecrow (1987) is an old candy container dated back to the early 1950s. The Red Death (1997) is a custom using figure parts from Aurora’s Undertaker Dragster and Mod Squad Woodie car kits. Aurora’s Monster Scenes Frankenstein got heavily modified to depict the Monster as it appeared at the end of “Son of Frankenstein”. Unbottled Spirit (1996) is the Addar Spirit in a Bottle kit without the bottle! Dr. Deadly and Vampirella are both modified versions of the Aurora kits. The Hooded Menace (1999) is a simple, one-piece polyethylene figure by Multiple. I did all three of the Monster Scenes figures in 1971 and created new, larger bases for them in 1989.
My fifth aircraft kit and my third De Havilland Canada (DHC)-6 Twin Otter, 1/72 scale kit by Revell (Matchbox mould). Third time around and I feel that I’ve finally got it, even managed to get the nose weight right this time! The kit did fight me at the end, the main gear both choosing to come unstuck, and, as with the others the kit had required some light sanding/filing. Clearly that hasn’t put me off at all, and I’ve found this and the Airfix Islander to be brilliant introductions to kit aircraft.
Again I have portrayed G-BVVK, the first time was as she flies now - “Spirit of Eilidh” in Loganair tartan livery. This time it’s British Airways and their smart “Chatham Dockyard” livery with “operated by Loganair” on the nose.
VK was new to Wideroe in 1980 as LN-BEZ, spending 14 years in Norway before transferring to Scotland. Arriving first to Southend, VK was painted in British Airways “Landor” livery with BA Express branding. She would go on to wear Chatham, as here, then Flybe white & sky blue and finally (to date), Loganair tartan. As I type this, I’m watching FlightRadar24 as the real VK makes final approach to Tiree. 6 liveries later, 45 years on from her first flight at DHC in Ontario and “Spirit of Eilidh” as she is now known, still graces Scotland’s sky.
Also pictured is G-BOMG, a Britten Norman Islander made using the Airfix kit. Also painted into British Airways’ Chatham livery, and again bearing Loganair decals on the nose, Mike Golf also wears the crest of the Scottish Ambulance Service. This is because from 1967 to 2006, Loganair held the Air Ambulance contract. Tragically the real Mike Golf crashed into the sea in 2005, on approach to Campbeltown Airport at night on an Ambulance tasking. Both Pilot and Flight Paramedic were killed. Gama Aviation would take over the Air Ambulance contract the following year, using Beechcraft King Air for fixed wing provision.
I always post my new pictures here first, however you can now find me on Facebook. My page is www.facebook.com/share/12HatwrDkgB/?mibextid=wwXIfr “Scottish Scale Model Transport”.
My group is www.facebook.com/share/g/16ArHb6CVh/?mibextid=wwXIfr “Scottish Transport Models & Dioramas”.
Both transfer sets are from Two Six - www.26decals.com
My fifth aircraft kit and my third De Havilland Canada (DHC)-6 Twin Otter, 1/72 scale kit by Revell (Matchbox mould). Third time around and I feel that I’ve finally got it, even managed to get the nose weight right this time! The kit did fight me at the end, the main gear both choosing to come unstuck, and, as with the others the kit had required some light sanding/filing. Clearly that hasn’t put me off at all, and I’ve found this and the Airfix Islander to be brilliant introductions to kit aircraft.
Again I have portrayed G-BVVK, the first time was as she flies now - “Spirit of Eilidh” in Loganair tartan livery. This time it’s British Airways and their smart “Chatham Dockyard” livery with “operated by Loganair” on the nose.
VK was new to Wideroe in 1980 as LN-BEZ, spending 14 years in Norway before transferring to Scotland. Arriving first to Southend, VK was painted in British Airways “Landor” livery with BA Express branding. She would go on to wear Chatham, as here, then Flybe white & sky blue and finally (to date), Loganair tartan. As I type this, I’m watching FlightRadar24 as the real VK makes final approach to Tiree. 6 liveries later, 45 years on from her first flight at DHC in Ontario and “Spirit of Eilidh” as she is now known, still graces Scotland’s sky.
I always post my new pictures here first, however you can now find me on Facebook. My page is www.facebook.com/share/12HatwrDkgB/?mibextid=wwXIfr “Scottish Scale Model Transport”.
My group is www.facebook.com/share/g/16ArHb6CVh/?mibextid=wwXIfr “Scottish Transport Models & Dioramas”.
Designed as a command-type mobile suit by the Earth Alliance, the Aegis was one of the original five mobile suits created as part of the Atlantic Federation's G Project. The Aegis eventually was rolled out on January 20, CE 71, together with the other suits produced as part of the project. Stored in the colony Heliopolis, it became the target of ZAFT and, together with all but one of the prototype mobile suits, was stolen by them on January 25. Its pilot is Athrun Zala, who then used the suit for several months.
The Aegis is transported to Earth shortly after the Battle of Orbit on February 13 to pursue the Archangel. It is held at the Carpentaria Base in Australia until the Archangel passed through the Indian Ocean, where it was sent to rendezvous with the Vosgulov-class submarine Cousteau. The Aegis, GAT-X102 Duel, GAT-X103 Buster and GAT-X207 Blitz successfully intercepted the Archangel in midocean and forced the heavily damaged assault ship to lay over at Orb for repairs.
Finally, its destruction occured in late May while fighting Kira Yamato in the GAT-X105 Strike and Tolle Koenig in his FX-550 Skygrasper. Athrun self-destructed the Aegis while grappling the Strike, destroying both units. He ejected before self-destruction and was found injured on the shore by Cagalli Yula Athha. Later in that year, he returned to combat piloting the new, Aegis-derived ZGMF-X09A Justice. From June to the end of the war he piloted the Justice as part of the Clyne Faction, alongside Kira Yamato in the ZGMF-X10A Freedom.
The fragments of the destroyed mobile suit eventually found their final, peaceful use as a playground for young children, on the same island where Athrun and Kira fought. Its shield was later found and sold at the black market auction for junk where Lowe Guele picked up the TMF/TR-2 BuCUE Tactical Reconnaissance Type which head he used temporarily for his MBF-P02 Astray Red Frame. A variation on its transforming system is used by ZAFT, on a much larger scale, in the ZGMF-X11A Regenerate.
After the war, the Earth Alliance produced another Aegis which was then upgraded by Actaeon Industries into the GAT-X303AA Rosso Aegis.
Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Aegis is a commander-type mobile suit with very advanced sensors and heavy attack power. It can transform into a mobile armor configuration armed with a "Scylla" 580mm energy cannon (which is later mounted on the GAT-X131 Calamity Gundam). This cannon is powerful enough to destroy even a spaceship. Additionally, the suit also features a hand-held 60mm beam rifle. For close-range combat, Aegis is equipped with 4 beam sabers. As these weapons are mounted on the forearms and feet rather than hand-carried, all four can be wielded simultaneously, in either mobile suit or mobile armor configuration. Like most other mobile suits, the Aegis is equipped with two "Igelstellung" 75mm multi-barrel CIWS in its head. Lastly for defense the suit mounts a single shield on its left arm and is equipped with the Phase Shift armor system.