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My buddy, Hid'e (tada.hidenori), gave me this crab tank for xmas. With the recent ice storm, I got a chance to play with the crab tank, and my camera.
Some plastic stone walls were singed in the making of this photo. Also, the Crab Tank got its antenna burned off.
Here is another view of my modified 1/35 scale Tamiya early IDF Centurion set up to appear as if it was in the Sinai desert.
The first of my Alien Visitors was made from two Japanese plastic kits. The head, torso, hands and feet came from one of four “Monster Cyborg” kits made by Imai around 1984. The arms and legs in this kit were just thin rods intended to flail about as the figure was jiggled. I found more substantial limbs in an older (1976?) Marui kit of a robot named Jagaranda. I went to the trouble of combining these two kits because I really wanted to use the Imai head, which seemed to be based on the goblin-like creatures reportedly seen in Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1955. This was a nice change of pace from all the usual “grays”!
The gun came from a Tomy Zoid. I littered the base with some tools to give a rustic, farm-like look, thinking that the extraterrestrial might be looking for a cow.
Completed in 1993.
VF-1J Valkyrie piloted by Max Jenius. "What an ace pilot!" 1/72 scale plastic kit from Hasegawa. From the Japanese animation "Super-dimensional Fortress Macross".
Alien Visitor number two is a more common “gray” type, and I set him down in New Mexico. The figure was sculpted by Mike Cusanelli who sold it as a resin piece under his early Ridwolf label as “Mars Man”. This was a straight painting job stuck to a base along with a big Aurora rock and a piece of lichen.
Completed in 1996.
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