Film Can Spaceship

The next logical step was to check the result of all that work with... you guessed it... some grey primer.

I sprayed the primer with an outside temperature of 38.6 degrees celsius (101.48f).
It did not take very long to dry.
We are in the midst of a record breaking heatwave at the moment.

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A lot of the top of the Nerf hull is going to be covered by the film cans and bridge section so I deliberately left the detailing fairly crude as you will only see it side on and predominantly in shadow.

I am going to hold off final assembly till after paint as it is going to be a lot simpler masking and painting the separate sections before mounting them permanently.

Thanks for looking.

More soon...
 
My bad Joberg,
Poorly worded internet comment on my part is a risk. I am a big fan of Mung’s space ship creativity.
“Cold reading” of this makes me blush. I need to watch making jokes.
I understood your comment as a joke right away Searun. ;)(y)(y) Guns Akimbo's lack of humor/civility was the trigger for my response to his msg.
 
The Film Can Spaceship project has finally concluded with the paint phase.

The base colour for the model was Tamiya FS-3 Dark Yellow using spray cans. I used two and a half cans.

Variations in panel colours were hand painted using Lifecolour acrylics using three colours applied from a wet palette.

Pin wash was burnt umber oil colour heavily diluted with odourless turps.

Dry brushed with artists acrylic paint from a tube using a flesh colour.

The panel and edge chipping was laboriously hand painted using a fine brush, it took three days just for this step.

Here are the completed pictures.

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To be continued...
 
Great work as usual; love the pics showing the underside of the ship while standing on its landing gears:cool::cool:(y)(y)
 
Love following your builds! This film can spaceship came out great! I love the creativity and problem solving that goes on in your threads! Please post more!

SB
 
Part of me loves it....!!...Great build, detail, paint job, the whole shabang...!!!... :cool: ....but ultimately it just looks like the Millennium Falcon in the front and Lewis Machine Gun mags on top......:unsure::lol:

Still, excellent work and I bet it would look sweet in a space photo montage.

Well done!!
 
Mung,
Superb weathering. Edge and panel chipping over the top. Overall multiple color pattern is a treat for the eyes. Reminds me of some of those a WW1 German biplane camouflage creations. Your photography clearly shows the excellence of your construction and art work of this unique ship.
 
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