I took one of the primer grey photos into photoshop and messed about until I had something pleasing for a paint scheme. I then looked at the model carefully and thinking about the masking involved went back into photoshop and slightly simpl…
Grey primer - done. The engine bells are wrapped in cling film to mask them off.A commenter on facebook thought the "spare tire" nurnie is too obviously what it is. It was a part I had that perfectly fit the hole I had to fill. I hoped that…
I believe I have completed the surface detailing phase of the project. The plain white panels are mostly cut from 0.5mm styrene sheet.The rest is a lot of flat panel kit parts and a few bits of evergreen textured sheet..Next step grey prime…
I added a strip around the back edge to give the rear bulkhead a bit of an inset.The rear bulkhead was then fully detailed out, quite a fiddly process as I had already glued the engine bells in place.I then moved on to detailing the lower h…
I added a strip around the back edge to give the rear bulkhead a bit of an inset. I am hoping to get this model finished for WASMEx 2026 which is on the 8th and 9th of August and fast approaching. I have a week off work prior to the show in…
I made four landing pads from some 1/35 scale Maus tracks and suspension parts. They were drilled to take a short piece of brass rod which was then inserted and glued to the bottom of the hull. I also detailed out the bottom cavity in the l…
I came across this image of a kitbashed spaceship on Facebook made from the two halves of a submarine Plastic model kit. The modeller was Tony Murray https://www.facebook.com/groups/2043682082594379/posts/3266027093693199I thought this was
The HPI Savage XL chassis recieved a few slight modifications. Mainly the custom electric motor mount combined with a small platform for the ESC (electronic Speed Control). A custom aluminium plate was added where the original nitro motor m…
Once the 3D printed main hull was completed it was time to go old school and fill in the undersides with kit-bashed detail. In the picture below is a few parts from a Wall-E truck toy, a Bruder dozer toy and a bunch of bits of old transform…
I have always wanted to make a shallow dome roofed watchtower of some sort and over the years scribbled many thumbnails of the sort of thing I had in mind. Until now I had never found a suitable large shallow dome... then one suddenly appea…
After layers of spray putty, primer, spot putty and sanding I finally got a reasonably smooth 3D printed body with almost no layer lines visible. Then it was time to fit out the cockpit. The front suspension shock absorbers intruded a bit i…
An AI image popped up in my Pinterest feed that stood out as a possible RC vehicle project. It already has the stance of a typical 4WD basher style rc vehicle and in particular it brought to mind an HPI Savage due to its high centre of grav…