Recent content by Jimw100

Looks amazing! You managed to get the kit looking great

Hey man, I’m ashamed to say: no. Life has been a big old kick in the nuts for the last few years. I’m still waiting to get the motivation to do any model building. I’m pretty sure I have all the parts ready for this one, except glazing for the cockpit. I really appreciate your reminder, I had...

I ordered a full set of USCM armour, plus fatigues, from Spatcave in October 2020. I have had very infrequent communication by email with the business since then, always initiated by me and often without any reply unless I repeatedly email. I’ve been told that it will just take as long as it...

It’s a studio scale banana, faithfully reproduced using as many of the original materials as possible.

Ok, so when I took this down from where it has been languishing on the shelf I realised how much I have left to do to really finish it! You can see where the weathering needs to be finished, the whole fuselage hasn’t really been touched yet after I repainted the whole thing. I also got most of...

I finished building and painting mine, although the weathering is stiiiiill not complete. I’ll try to get some photos up

If that is a long-term fix I’m super excited! I actually went back to the model/toy that I had trouble with and spent a whole day basically using a toothbrush and alcohol to remove all of the paint and started from scratch, but if I could just use Krylon glaze to fit it that would be a thousand...

Just got the engine LEDs wired in, along with the navigation lights that sit on the top and bottom of the engines. I used 2 3mm amber flickering LEDs for each engine - it didn’t need 2 for brightness but if you use one flickering LED then you get an effect where, for short periods, there is no...

First time I’ve tried to do the blue/red heat effect, and I haven’t quite managed to get the right look I don’t think. It kinda just looks like blue and red on metal, instead of that heat-blued effect. If anyone has any tips do let me know. I used Tamiya weathering pastels, as I don’t have an...

Thanks, I really appreciate that! I always look at the photos and think it looks way worse than in real life, because they’re inevitably zoomed in and can see more detail. I’m really trying to not spend tooooo much time trying to make it perfect, because I know in the end 90% of this detail...

This looks amazing. Coincidentally I bought the exact same box to store my Han Solo DL44 - greebled it up and added some aurebesh stencilling etc. I also just thought the box looked very Star Wars when I saw it!

Just nearly finished up the cockpit. I’ve never built a 1/72 model (normally stick to 1/48 and bigger) so this was a bit trickier than normal. I used the shapeways cockpit consoles with .25 and .5mm fibre optics, plus a few of the same in the side walls of the cockpit. The floor, back wall of...

A few more bits added in. I did the starboard wall and the lights on the port side. Test fitted the ceilings as well - despite how thin the LED wires it looks like I’ll need to make notches in the ceiling pieces (which are brass photo etch sheets) to get it to fit.

Some of the cargo bits now done. The helmet, jet pack etc will literally be impossible to see once the top part of the hull is on, so I didn’t put huge effort into painting them. There are cargo nets that go over these bits as well, so even the parts that are visible will be mostly…err…not visible

I got the GS cockpit and actually then ordered the shapeways one, because I want to be able to light it and the pre-formed fibre optic holes on the shapeways one just looked much easier to me.