All the latest stuff I've been getting up to.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Primed & painted the imperial eagle with polyurethane, then applied some thinned silicone. After this I covered it in plain silicon; this will become the ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
