| These are models I mostly no-longer have and date from a long time ago... | ||||
| Cardboard Spaceships | ||||
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| These are all scratchbuilt from cardboard or thick paper with old kit parts stuck on for detailing. | ||||
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| Bashed Kits | ||||
Inspired by the Star Wars™ B-Wing, the cockpit and main wing are from a 1/72 F111 and the vertical wings are from a 1/72 Harrier. | ||||
A 1/72 tank chasis with extra detailing, and a couple of Harrier wings with a tail plane stuck on top.
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This is the back-pack from a robot kit (something called Iron-Gear I think), with a plastic girder and the "ears" from the same robot at the front.
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Bloodhound surface to air missile.Not modified, just photographed in an alternative location. | ||||
| Mecha | ||||
I don't remember where these mecha come from (anybody recognize them?). The "ray-gun" effect was achieved by cutting a slot into the background,
and shining a slide projector though the hole. This was done before the days of Photoshop™. It does have the advantage of casting
light onto the front of the model, which adds to the realism.
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This is the only picture I could find of this scratchbuilt robot. It was made of sheet plastic with odds and ends stuck on for detail.
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| Space Marines | ||||
| Space marines look like Wombles to me, so I tend to modify their noses to reduce the resemblance. | ||||
Same "ray-gun" trick as the robot above.
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The basis for the gun-emplacement was the electron gun from a T.V. tube.
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This is a scratchbuilt 1/32 Space Marine, scuplted onto an Airfix multipose figure.
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| Model Engineering | ||||
| These two models were entered in the Sci-Fi classes of the Model Engineer Exhibition. | ||||
The Tech Dragon won me a gold medal in 1988.
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Road Runner won a bronze medal in 1989.
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| The rest Things I couldn't find any other way of grouping together. | ||||
Games Workshop Skeletons. They always struck me as looking like Ray Harryhausen skeletons.
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This bunker was made using various bits of plastic sheet, milliput etc. It had the wind-up motor from a Zoid to make the scanner go round.
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This is a heavy weapons lizard. I posed it with a lizard on a speeder bike, but I don't have a decent photo of the two together.
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I think this ship came from the Japanese Lensman anime. I tweaked it a bit because I thought that aesthetically it was a bit short.
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Enterprise 'A'. I didn't like this kit much. It's too big for me to cope with, and it didn't fit together very well.
I tried lighting it with fibre-optics, which didn't work well either.
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Death Star Trench. I bult the X-Wing and Andy Coleman built the T.I.E. Fighter from the T.I.E. interceptor with scratch-built "wings".
We used to pose them together on our display tables, so we then thought we could make a part of the trench. It was about 1 meter long,
and detailed with whatever we could find.
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