Scruffy's GAABSA Builds

[Stikpusher]

Good deal scruffy... I look forward to those photos.

[Duke Maddog]

Stunning job! And I did see the blue shine through in some of those pics! Way to go!

[Scruffy]

The TIE is finished!



So that takes care of the new kit part of the GB. I will post better photos a little later,

Now for one of the shelf queens, the Micro Mir 1/350 USS Thresher, the kit went together well enough, but the original paint job I was not happy with, and I had knocked off one of the photo etched bollards, so I put it up. I got some Mr. Paint to try out, and so decided to use this as the test bed for those. I replaced the missing bollard with a piece cut from the hasp of a 1/35 photo etched pad lock.
The hull was mottled with Mr. Paint Egg Plant Grey, NATO Black, and then given a very light overcoat of Jet Black, and the walk way along the top of the hull was sprayed with the Egg Plant Grey. There is a nice YouTube video of her launching and this was how she was painted at that time. The Mr. Paint is excellent to work with, and I am now happy with the paint job.
The decals were a mixed bag, the first one I tried shattered, fortunately the decal sheet has the numbers for all the boats in the class, so I could piece together another set of numbers. I coated the decals with Micro Scale Decal Liquid Decal Film before trying them again, and they held together and settled down really well.



I have to add the photo etched prop and then try to bend it to shape a little and add the cone fairing behind it, and then give it a coat of flat. I have a display base made for it, I just need to find it So I guess a general tidy up of my work bench is in order so I can try to locate that and the brass rods I had cut for the base as well

[Thomas_M]

Things happen! Do another one!

Your Tie is such a beauty! I love all those so subtle colour shades, flowing dark to bright shadows, and so on. Well done, Sir!
What I really am nuts about is to check those SW kits for any plastic kit parts of other kits used to detail the movie props. That´s fun to me.

[Scruffy]

Thank you Thomas! Yeah, I like to look for the other kit parts on the SW kits too! One of the un-used pieces in this kit was a Sherman tank bogie side frame! and one of the panels on the base looks like end of the ammo storage bin from the old Tamyia Marder II. It is a fun little game to play while building them.

[BorgR3mc0]

I like that Tie fighter Scruffy!

[Scruffy]

Thank you, appericiate it!

[Stikpusher]

I like that Tie fighter Scruffy!

[Stuart]

I like that Tie fighter Scruffy!

[Duke Maddog]

Great job on the TIE fighter. I'm taking notes for my TIE Striker. The sub is definitely looking great you'll have this knocked out in no time!