A balding Finnish middle-aged man, a father of two, and a chief poopscooper for two black cats. Very importantly I'm an #atheist of the angry type.
Enjoying #coffee, #ScaleModeling, #MiniaturePainting, #BattleTech, #Scifi, #lego, #reading, #gaming, and #SoftwareDevelopment whenever the free time allows for anything. When I get to #bake it's all #GlutenFree thanks to my fantastic genes 😅
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Hello all, it's been far too long since I've been on, I hope you are all finding some joy to distract from all of this... :gestures at everything:
Last year I made some Norse Orcs Blood Bowl minis for Agema Minis and Greg has decided to make the stls available, he asked me to let the fedi folks know. So if you are so inclined there's a campaign now running at https://www.myminifactory.com/frontier/norse-orcs-3d-printable-pre-supported-greenskins-for-fantasy-football-5312
Be well, stay awesome 😘
Some airbrushing done. Black primer, dark grey on the underside, greyish blue over the airframe and light olive over the wings. Had I attempted a cloudy coverage I'd be happy. In reality I need to get that cleaned up, I lack tools myself.
Paint does make it look better and hides some of the crimes. I've still got plenty of chances to ruin it 😅
Ugly patching done, all the little things installed. The long antenna in the bottom poses some challenges until I get the landing gear glued in. For painting convenience I just want that crap painted separately to avoid even more swearing 😅 Those radar antlers were way easier than I expected, which was nice.
I thought I could start priming today but masking the canopy took way too long. Tomorrow, then, for the last day of a four-day weekend.
Swearing continued with the JuMo 004 assembly and fitting. Then I noticed I am missing half a rudder or tail fin. The latter I try to mitigate with a piece of 1mm styrene but it won't look good. That'll still be better than only the left half 😝
Building is finally far enough for me to think of the painting operation itself. I'll do the wheels separately to maybe save my nerves. To get to that I think I need to mask and seal the cockpit canopy in place. Decisions...
I got to the offoce and brewed myself a cappucino. As I have no skills nor understanding, I don't try to do latte art but do some random squiggles.
Maybe it was Iron Maiden's Hallowed be thy name playing in my head since I got up but it looks a bit like a head with flowing hair. Could be an eighties' metal singer for all I know, or my partner on a windy day 😋
Lots of swearing with the fitting of the wings into the airframe. That and the wing-halves joining has always been a loathsome process: they depend so heavily on the previous steps and if one has misunderstood the instructions or slightly misaligned some bits, this is where one finds out. Way too late to fix it nicely anymore. Grumble grumble.
Unsurprisingly something had been off and I am grumbling. Maybe I can salvage it. Annoying, as I was having slow fun 😋
Harvoin tulee yhtä hyvälle tuulelle uutisotsikon nähdesssään kuin nyt. Sitäkin hienompaa oli lukea kuinka Päksä järkyttyi siitä ettei ihmisiä voi parjata ihan miten vaan, vaikka miten piiloutuisi oman kulttinsa satukirjan taakse.
Asiaan liittyvän "keskustelun" ja muun persuilun koetan puolestaan jättää kokonaan lukematta niin ei tule paha mieli 😅
Small changes in a way, but they made a noticeable difference: the airframe halves are now joined with the cannon part installed. I glued and puttied two screws into the closed lower segments (where the autocannon ejector ports are) for weighting, but nose needs more extra mass.
Soon I can seal the earlier made cockpit and start on airbrushable stuff, yay!
Callie / Renegade Minis
Tim 🎮
Henri Verymetaldev