GSCUprising's little projects

[Lathe Biosas]

59 minutes ago, W.A.Rorie said:

I like it but should it be a red light cause of night ops 

 

 

 

Or Nightvision green.

[GSCUprising]

4 hours ago, W.A.Rorie said:

I like it but should it be a red light cause of night ops 

 

 

I don't think I explained myself well. Imagine the Kasrkin have just rappeled out of the bird.

 

On the ground are some smoke bombs with red flares at their heart. Covers their ingress and lights up red at the same time.

Edited December 3 by GSCUprising

[W.A.Rorie]

I love it. 

[GSCUprising]

Tell you what, if I cannot get this Valk's portside wing to set into place, you may well see it fly...straight out the nearest window. Cool model? Yes. Damned frustrating? Also, yes.

[W.A.Rorie]

Been there and done that......

 

Love it when models don't go together like they are supposed to and then it is like building IKEA furniture.

[Lathe Biosas]

4 hours ago, GSCUprising said:

Tell you what, if I cannot get this Valk's portside wing to set into place, you may well see it fly...straight out the nearest window. Cool model? Yes. Damned frustrating? Also, yes.

 

Then it becomes a Blackhawk Down diorama!

 

 

[GSCUprising]

I should have this completed by this afternoon. Sitting here with it and a paintbrush. It quite took me by surprise how much longer it would take when considering the wiring and LEDs. Roof is still loosely fitted and, with a little filing, it will remain that way, as removing the roof gives me full access to the wiring.

 

Still to do: going to make a cowling for the engines and shape their intake and nozzles in the flavour of the F-22 and F-35, to give it a pseudo-stealth appearance. But, let's be honest, it still looks like a flying brick!

 

Finally, not sure if I will do it today, but I am going to freehand some WWII-style shark teeth on the nose.

 

All constructive criticism most welcome.

[kabaakaba]

Nice work. But where is glass?

[GSCUprising]

16 minutes ago, kabaakaba said:

Nice work. But where is glass?

You're referring to the cockpit? That's the last thing that goes on, quite literally. To finish off the models, I spray them with a matte varnish. Unfortunately, when it comes to transparent sections, the  varnish fogs them up, so that's the very last stage of assembling them. 

 

With this one, aside from the cockpit, I still have to do the highlighting, and so on. After that, I add any transfers to it, its designation as LV 223 (named after the moon in the film Prometheus, for example. I'll them weather is so the transfers blend in to the rest of the model, rather than sticking out like a sore thumb.

Edited December 7 by GSCUprising

[GSCUprising]

18 minutes ago, kabaakaba said:

Nice work. But where is glass?

Here's my original Valk, for example.