All the latest stuff I've been getting up to.
Mixed-media Patoroch Dreadnought
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Since my Land Raider has a lot of staring-at-the-walls-waiting-for-the-paint-to-dry going on, I decided to start working on another of Eli Patoroch's models: the Dreadnought. This ...
Tracks, guns, trim, etc
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I realized that there was some unpainted paper in the recesses around the tracks, so I masked off the tracks and ran the airbrush over ...
Basecoat
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I've finalized the planned paint scheme, so now I just have to get down and do it. First step, using my airbrush I preshade with ...
Prime time!
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Sprayed everything with gray primer. Have to be patient though, this stuff goes on thick very quickly. I have a couple of spots I've had ...
Wood hardener
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I decided to add a decent covering of wood hardener to the model. This stuff applies like thin super glue, and soaks the paper/card, when ...
Final model, almost
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Here are some higher res photos of the (almost) final model, before final prep and painting. There are only a couple of things still to ...
Details
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Primed & painted the imperial eagle with polyurethane, then applied some thinned silicone. After this I covered it in plain silicon; this will become the ...
Iconography
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Working on the iconography (don't know what else to call it!). Got an Imperial Eagle design going, this will go on the front of the ...
Smaller details
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Smaller progress lately: added a bunch more rivets, added some more engine detailing, started filling in the minor gaps with some card strips, etc. I'm ...
Rear engine vents
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Spent the evening making the large engine vents on the rear of the vehicle.Lots of tedious cutting and gluing, but the end-result looks nice. Still ...
Current progress
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Ha. Built the starboard sponson swivel gun, then realized afterwards I had built the mirror image gun armor plate. Sigh. Luckily it is not that ...
Main gun finished!
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Added all the detail around the main gun, looks pretty neat, at least to me. In the last photo you can see the starboard swivel ...
Main gun, continued
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The main gun has these disks that fit around the barrels, with all sorts of stuff going on. So I cut the disks out of ...
Main gun barrels
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Making the main gun's barrels. These are just four rolled-up tubes of regular printer paper, glued with purple school glue. Nothing to see here, move ...
Miscellaneous
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I've redone the gun covers on the sponsons, plus figured out how I wanted the assembly to work so that I can (a) rotate the ...