DocRob Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Hi Dustsniffers, First I wanted to participate in the GB with a heavy resin added ME-BF 109 E, but decided to go full resin after a sighting of my stash. Since I bought this little gem I always liked to build it, but leaving my country for another there was no time. Then I discovered the term "Alternative Facts" and really liked it. The idea was born, I will do a setting with this strange bird, some mechanics possibly in a dio-setting with the Berlin Wall in the background as a Hommage to my old city. The kit is a full resin kit made by Industria Mechanika. They have a great range of obscure, strange subjects in their program, If you have positive feelings to Steam Punk and weird Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff just check it out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazypoet Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 I Love SteamPunk - bring it on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted February 7, 2017 Author Share Posted February 7, 2017 I couldn't resist a fast start, so I cleaned the resin of the crew and glued everything together. Small cast blocks and a good layout made it an easy job. The resin was bubble free and the details are fine. Aren't they cute, looking like Smurfs for the adult . Can't wait to paint these guys. Anyway they are well protected against poisonous resin dust and airbrush mist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted February 10, 2017 Administrators Share Posted February 10, 2017 Nice! You can really let your imagination go wild with these.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted February 10, 2017 Administrators Share Posted February 10, 2017 PS. If you want you can copy my signature Group Build banner to your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Yeah thanx Jeroen, I will do that. Nice design by the way. In the moment it is more the hammer I need, literally spoken. The fit of the big resin parts is not always perfect, so I have to do a lot of scratching, grinding and sanding. Pictures will follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 Hola Dusters, My fingers are itching after removing "tons" of resin to fit the large pieces of the hull together. I have the feeling, that I reduced the weight of the kit by half. It's a garage kit and there is a lot of test fitting to do and lot of "adjustments" to make. Since it is my first full resin kit for me, there is a lot to learn, especially that this is far from Tamiya shake and bake kit Don't know why I have always doot, doot, doot, another one bites the dust... in my head. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Makes me want to sneeze just looking at that! Nice surface detail on the pieces though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted February 17, 2017 Author Share Posted February 17, 2017 Hi GusMac, indeed, the surface detail is good and is crying for a nice weathered look. But in the big picture the cleanup and test fit phase starts to annoy me a little. The bigger parts look a little as they are not made to fit and after a lot of usage of nearly all my tools things start to fit a little better. But it is a time of decisions. I think I will translate the not so perfect fit into a reminisence of not so perfect Soviet engineering , other ways I would have to reshape a lot of the parts and I wanted a quick fun build. Actually I started a Hasegawa Raiden as a relaxing side build. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted February 27, 2017 Author Share Posted February 27, 2017 Hola Companeros, Not much progress in the last days. I did just some PE-bending (the rolling tool in the picture is just great), and fitted some of the PE-grills into their frames. Heating up the PE before rolling it is also making it easier to get even shapes. The fit of the resin is suboptimal in parts and there are some statical issues in this kit, so I decided not to set the Red Star 47 on it's wheels and to let it hover (with a little help of a steel rod ) A thing I really like about the kits by Industria Mechanika is that there is adhesive plastic foil on both sides of the photo-etch, so nothing jumps into the eye, while cutting and you can put delicate PE-parts back into the sheet after fitting tests. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted February 28, 2017 Author Share Posted February 28, 2017 Little by little things start to fit after removing tons of resin. The struts for the rudders were enforced with PE-parts. The clear windshield took me an hour to polish, but the result is not very good. The pilot will have a distorted view, because there is some irritation in the clear resin, maybe it looks better after a dip of Future and a yellow tint. I prepared some brass handles as a ladder for the pilot and try to keep the weird Smurfs in order 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 With those masks on I would imagine the view is pretty distorted anyway! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazypoet Posted March 1, 2017 Share Posted March 1, 2017 I personally love the crewman with the briefcase... it seems so incongruous , yet he fits in so beautifully! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted March 1, 2017 Author Share Posted March 1, 2017 Yeah GusMac, it seems like the masks are keeping the fresh air out of their suits, whatever intoxication is happening on the inside . Hi crazypoet, the little guy told me that it should be a tool case, but can we believe him? He looks like walking to his ninetofive-job and has just forgotten to change his suit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 1, 2017 Author Share Posted April 1, 2017 It has been a while since the last update of Red Star 47, but finally some progress is made. I primed the figures and all the extra parts which will be mounted to the main thing after painting. I used Alclad Grey Primer, which I like when mixing materials like resin and PE. The figures where my first attempt in airbrushing those guys. I used colors of the Scalecolor range of Scale 75 (Fantasy & Game) , who I could hug because of the great names for their colors. There is 'Slimer Green' and 'Toxic Waste Green' among others. Felt perfect to give my Russian Toxic Smurfs the right color. In the beginning I had some issues with clotting color on the needle, but after using some drops of Valejo Flow Improver and Tamiya Thinner it worked all well. Strange, the Flow Improver never worked for me before, sometimes it pays to keep things for experimenting rather then throwing them away. After drying the old school brush work will begin and the guys will come to life, whatever that means . Say Hi, Iwan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazypoet Posted April 1, 2017 Share Posted April 1, 2017 Perfect color with which to begin! Love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 Some more progress on the ground crew. The painting is more or less finished. Some cleanups has to be made (especially around the Red Star decals. Tamiya flat base proofed to be a bad choice for blending in, even heavily thinned) and some light weathering when they will be set in the Dio Here are the boys. I hope you like them. Cheers Rob 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazypoet Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Every time I see these guys I smile... Great job on the paint! Ya know, I have to wonder if they still maintain full chemical and biological protection when they need to drop those "relief panels" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted April 12, 2017 Administrators Share Posted April 12, 2017 Lovely work on those green shades!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted April 13, 2017 Author Share Posted April 13, 2017 Thanx Gentlemen, @crazypoet, I'm still not sure if the suits protect the Smurfs from the hazardous environment or if the suits protect the environment from the Smurf's Fallout . It was fun to paint the guys and its no faces this time, which makes it a little easier. Cheers Rob 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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