Carson Dyle
Sr Member
Jim Key and company did a swell job mastering this thing; the parts went together with a minimum of puttying/ re-contouring.
The hardest part was nailing the finish. The two-tone green and grey basecoats are a custom polyurethane mix based on paint chips that accompanied the kit. A satin finish was used to seal the dry-transfer hull markings.
So far as I’ve been able to determine, the original FX miniature was not weathered. In a way I wish it had been because there is no place on a “clean” miniature like this to hide one’s errors. Sometimes the simplest finishes are the trickiest to replicate, but after much trial and error I’m reasonably pleased with the results.
I opted not to include the little white push-pins, which were clearly not meant to be a design element. In the interests of accuracy I did use silver mylar tape for the chrome accents; much to my relief it doesn’t look as cheesy as I feared it might.
The display base is nicely conceived, but it leaves a huge footprint. My plan is to cut a wooden replacement base in the shape of the tri-cornered logo, to be topped with the multi-colored plex sections seen here.
Thanks for looking.
The hardest part was nailing the finish. The two-tone green and grey basecoats are a custom polyurethane mix based on paint chips that accompanied the kit. A satin finish was used to seal the dry-transfer hull markings.
So far as I’ve been able to determine, the original FX miniature was not weathered. In a way I wish it had been because there is no place on a “clean” miniature like this to hide one’s errors. Sometimes the simplest finishes are the trickiest to replicate, but after much trial and error I’m reasonably pleased with the results.
I opted not to include the little white push-pins, which were clearly not meant to be a design element. In the interests of accuracy I did use silver mylar tape for the chrome accents; much to my relief it doesn’t look as cheesy as I feared it might.
The display base is nicely conceived, but it leaves a huge footprint. My plan is to cut a wooden replacement base in the shape of the tri-cornered logo, to be topped with the multi-colored plex sections seen here.
Thanks for looking.
