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MPC T-47 Airspeeder

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  • Member since
    December 2010
MPC T-47 Airspeeder
Posted by danburnsart on Monday, December 30, 2019 7:08 PM

Nothing too radical or out of the ordinary here, just a good old snowspeeder.  Opportunity for major weathering.  Assembly went smoothly.  It's a pretty simple and well engineered kit.  I cant really speak to it's accuracy in terms of rivet-counting, but it looks like a snowspeeder.  As most all modelers already know, the pilot figures are the worst of it by far.  And they are really, really bad.  I searched around for some replacement figures but couldn't really find any that suited my needs or budget.  In fairness they are only super awful from the waist (or chest...same thing on these little fellas) down.  It's like the guy patterning the top half got a memo to do them in 1/28 scale and the dude doing the bottom half was told 1/38 scale.  That and they have hollow backsides.  But...you dont really see their bottom half, and when "sitting" in the speeder they dont look half bad.  Well ok maybe they are more than half bad still, like 3/4 bad, but with a little work I think they are workable.  I filled the back of them with putty and scratched environmental control units for their chest, seat belts, etc.  I think they will look OK.  Not sure how to paint their faceshields though.  Not sure if the yellow is doing it for me.  Thanks for looking.

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 3:11 PM

That looks pretty darn good so far. I think the pilot and gunner look good. Since you can't see that much not sure their legs are too important. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    December 2010
Posted by danburnsart on Tuesday, December 31, 2019 4:59 PM
Thanks! Ya I think they will be ok. I have a lot of detailing and weathering on the figures but I think they will be ok. Thanks for looking and commenting!
  • Member since
    December 2010
Posted by danburnsart on Tuesday, January 7, 2020 8:19 PM

So I'm working now on weathering the pilot and gunner.  I'm trying hard to stick to all water-based, non-toxic products.  It's a health issue as my wife has severe asthma and and and all odors are very hard on her respiratory health.

As a result of this these dudes have been done entirely using acrylic paint and diluted artists ink for a black wash.  They are the horrifically shaped kit figures but after shortening their arms and making some other modifications and improvements I don't they turned out too bad.  Still not sure about the yellow faceshields.  Thanks for looking.

 

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