A while ago I purchased the Hand & Head Adamski UFO, they also make a Haunebu, which is the same ship but with Luftwaffe markings and guns and landing gear.
I opted for the classic sci-fi Adamski version. A limited number come with a nice small rolled poster of the box art, which I will toss in a frame, it's a pretty neat picture to have on the office wall.
I was feeling a bit of frustration on my AT-ST build and wanted something to get done quickly for a sense of accomplishment, cue this quick-ish build.
(clicking on any of the pictures will enlarge them)
The kit is well molded, though some of the sprue attachments are a bit thick, overall everything fits very well.
I'll lead right into some of my assembly photo's to date.
I started off following the instructions, console first.
Console and lockers glued to the base.
A splash of paint. That is dollar store craft acrylic thinned with warm water and mixed vigorusly. I was really pleased with how it turned out as it's the first time I've used it. I was figuring I can always take it off if it turns out badly but it is a very smooth finish and I'm going to start using more dollar store acrylic from now on.
Console paint and screen decals added. I was really pleased with the decals, very crisp and no edging at all to them to trim.
The lower blue sections will all have decals inserted into them so I wasn't too concerned with the misc paint getting in there.
Masking the centre tube.
A coat of clear blue. Tamiya acrylic Metallic Blue X-13.
The finished joined halves.
I decided to add some extras to cover the seam so I pre-painted and cut some evergreen 2.5mm u-channel(item #263)
The blue tube stuck on a thick paintbrush makes a great way to handle it without the chance of fingerprints.
You can see some of the dollar store paint in the background, all the paint for a buck, yes please!
Next up, adding the decal and painting the main viewscreen. Again, a very sharp decal!
Though the picture might be a bit blurry, I'm still learning this camera.
A little underside painting. I defaulted to zinc chromate. Who knows what aliens actually use, but these ones use zinc.
All three secions assembled.
Now I just had to give it some flair, it looked too boring. Misc hoses and whatnot added from the misc scrap bin. The reason I love sci-fi models is that you can just make this stuff up :)
It'll need one more coat of paint then pick out the hose details and give it a few light washes to bring out the detail.
Some test fits of the major components.
I also decided to use the kit idea of having it partially removable, however I want a complete section to come off instead of taking multiple pieces off. So this shows rough test fit and marking the lines to cut the saucer cap.
You'll see a little paint peel, that was me using the wrong tape while testing the masking line... looks like that'll need to be done over again.
Marking the top half for painting, I want to paint the top and whole craft silver but the interior left zinc chromate.
That's all for now, I took photo's while building and forgot to do progress posts so that was it for the mega photo dump.
More to come as I get time to chip away at it.