Hitachi AGC

Hi there,
I finally did some half decent shot of this build... even though I finished it over a year ago...

Enjoy:

Leopard

It's been a bit of a crazy year. A lot of really shitty things happens and also a bunch of pretty good things... I won't bore you with details but one of the shitty things left me without a workbench to make my models at.
Anyway I'm slowly rebuilding a 1:5 scale replica of the man-cave I used to have in the form of an Ikea writing desk in the corner of my living room.... I'll show you pictures later when I've modded all the features that I have in mind on to it...

This is the first model I built on that desk. It's a Ma.K Leopard, no mods, just straight build and paint.
It's pink though... and that is apparently (I learned this through the Kow Yokoyama FB group) what's called Mountbatten Pink... this is a little lighter but it gets kind of close.

Here are the pics:

Revival... (AG Chopper update)

Hi there..ere....ere......r.........r....... (speaking into the void of lost interest).
I haven't updated in over a year. The reason for this is that this year has been immensely tumultuous in almost every other aspect of my life and so scale modeling had ground to a comoplete halt...

Anyway recently I have slowly started buidling again (all small kits, no scratch building yet).
But before I start posting about that I wanted to share all the most recent developments on the my last big build: the AG Chopper. At the moment the build is about 99% done, but also in storage so I won't be able to finish it or take better pic of it than these... but here is the last of what I have in terms of progress (paints, assembly, chipping, decals).

Also it's interesting to note that I was contacted by a student of 3D animation, asking me if he could develop a 3D computer model of this thing (initially based on my concept sketches for it). So I also post a lot of stuff for him as reference. Maybe as his work develops (or is finished) he will allow me show you some of it.
Anywhooo here goes a massive picture dump of the AG Chopper.

Hope you like.

Cheers,
Martijn

AG Chopper paints

The painting has begun. 

First a bit of presiding and a base colour. And then layered reds on top. 

All Tamiya acrylics. 

White markings and numbers are still to come, when I've decided on what exactly. 

That's all for today. 

Cheers,

Martijn 

AG Chopper - big update part 2

Aaaaaand we're back. Welcom for part 2 of the AG Chopper Big Update!

So with the two 'aft' parts fixed together and some of he painting under way there was still quite a bit of work to be done. Especially to the under side... it needed details. Tons of them (or that's what it felt like). Stupidly, however, these are the only three pictures I have of that... (you can see more of it a bit further down)

Another big thing was some ballast/AG steering type tanks I had dreamt up in early concept sketches... need to go under the front of the cockpit and sticking out the side.

Here 's that concept sketch again:

 

 Those tank things were ginving me a headache because I couldn't really think of a good way to attache them but also have them on sort symmetrically and sticking out at the right angle....

In the end I just went for it and stuck them on with Green Stuff... They are on at kind of the right angle, in kind of the right place and kind of symmetrical. In other words: good enough, let's hope know one will notice.... and since it's only you reading this; don't tell anyone. 

 

A quick dry-fit with all the other parts...

And as you can also tell from the concept sketch there's one last obvious feature that has so far been left out (and which I had kind of forgotten about too)... it's the flag.
And because I had kind of forgotten about it I had not though of anywhere to stick it on. So I had to scratch some kind of flag mast holder thing... which I then did. From styrene plate and pipe. And glue. The flag itself is made from brass rod and masking tape... I had considered using actual fabric, but it would never feel to scale and be too heavy. This was a lot easier.

And this is where it stands now. Next up is base paints, top paints, decals and effects... and some way of getting this thing to rest on something... In my infinite stupidity I haven't though of a way to have this thing stand on its own... yet.

Thanks for looking! Hope you enjoyed it.

Cheers,
Martijn