Weltenraum Nahkampf Gefechtseinheit Ausf. B 'Ollie' - part V Lucky 13

Added some decals to the beastie, numbers from a grosserhund kit, the rest from a 1/32 revell volksjager and assorted 1/48 german planes.

The orange bit at the front is meant to break up the rather boring main body. I also changed the graytones of some parts with some filters, but after weathering this might not be visible anymore.

It just needs some more warning decals and it is ready for weathering. 

 

Weltenraum Nahkampf Gefechtseinheit Ausf. B 'Ollie' - part IV PAINT!

I was lucky enough to get a workshop of lacquer painting from the master in NYC, Jsan from http://jsan9.blogspot.com/.

So afterwards I grabbed the thinner and foul smelling laquers and just went at it! 

It's way different from acrylics, and the thinner reacts with the undercoat, creating weird patterns and stuff. I wasn't able to get the smooth finish I went for, but I love the unexpected texture and mottling so can't complain really.

First layers

And a day later some more

It's drying now from addin ID marks, crappy pictures, but else I'll forget entirely.
Went for orange stripes and might add something more.
Numbers or letters a-coming to.

Wienerworner Martian Scout Part II

Washes

Starting to look good, but needed some red
So, more washes

And taking them off again with some cotton buds

Repeat until satisfied

But still thought it lacked some colour, and dust, it needs more dust.

Wienerworner Martian Scout

After a long hiatus, I needed something to shift back into gear, luckily I found this picture:

No idea what it is, but the shape is fun so let's do this!
Of course I'll drop the bird, looks crazy.

Sadly, it was a 4 hour (rather frantic) build, so no real work in progress pictures...
All sorta stuff was thrown in, from jojo's to spoons to bombs and engines.

Most armour pieces were texture with MR surfacer 500, detail pictures after painting.

And some basic paints:

And all the armour slapped on:

I imagine this to be some sort of scout, not sure about the scale yet, 1/72 or 1/48 seems to work best.

Maybe it's a worker vehicle? who knows! 

Slapping on oils now, let's see how it turns out.

Weltenraum Nahkampf Gefechtseinheit Ausf. B 'Ollie' - part III

Glued it and sprayed it black.

Photo's don't really work, tried different backgrounds, this one is the best. Maybe my camera is simply shitty.

Building a base now to keep it in place during painting.

Weltenraum Nahkampf Gefechtseinheit Ausf. B 'Ollie' - part II

I was torturing myself over how to build an engine for the thing, when I found an engineblock from a 1/12 bike. I got the bike for free at a secondhand store because the guy didn't think it would sell.
Now I can prove to my wife that there's good reason to take in extra (built) models :P

I found the thrusters in a bag full of detail stuff for this build, didn't remember I had that bag.

Then I made two extra thrusters and added some more detail stuff and cables to the engine. It'll need more detailing, and especially more cables, thinner ones.

And I made a sensor array thingy from helicopter parts and small scale ship parts, the rigging mostly:

Which I think fits quite nicely

 The gun just got some filling done, I don't think I'll do much more to it than that. (well, sanding of course)

Almost done, fun to get into a sorta building spree.

Weltenraum Nahkampf Gefechtseinheit Ausf. B 'Ollie'

Started years ago, this was shelved because I wasn't happy with it.
It's loosely based on this drawing from Der Zweite Plan (can't find the site anymore :S )

I recently rediscovered it and I am going to finish it as quickly as possible, to have something else done and to try some painting.

I decided to call it  " Weltenraum Nahkampf Gefechtseinheit Ausf. B 'Ollie' "
Which is German for " close-range space fighter version B 'Ollie' "
I like the sound of German for these things, though my German is pretty bad.
Big thanks to Struschie for helping me with the name.

This is how I found it:

It also has a gun, that mates with the big round lump on the right side of the craft

Panel lines are not prefect, but I'm not going to take the effort to change that.
I'm going to quickly add and engine and some thrusters, an antenna array and finish the gun.
Just something quick in the midst of all these long, long projects.

Some WIP photos of the build

It's essentially made from an egg, a table tennis ball and a Me 109.

It was supposed to get an open cockpit with the pilot standing in front of it, but I made a couple of mistakes and it was too much work to get it too work after that.

And some of the gun: