Submarine Kitbash Spaceship part 5

 Grey primer - done. 

The engine bells are wrapped in cling film to mask them off.

A commenter on facebook thought the "spare tire" nurnie is too obviously what it is. It was a part I had that perfectly fit the hole I had to fill. I hoped that the grey primer would be sufficient to disguise it but perhaps not. A little more work will be required here.

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Submarine Kitbash Spaceship part 4

I believe I have completed the surface detailing phase of the project. 

The plain white panels are mostly cut from 0.5mm styrene sheet.

The rest is a lot of flat panel kit parts and a few bits of evergreen textured sheet..

Next step grey primer.

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Submarine Kitbash Spaceship Part 3

I added a strip around the back edge to give the rear bulkhead a bit of an inset.

The rear bulkhead was then fully detailed out, quite a fiddly process as I had already glued the engine bells in place.

I then moved on to detailing the lower hull at the front.

The large grey part with a round shape with black strip is the loading door. It would open and become a ramp. Its upside down in the picture below.

I am hoping to get this model finished for WASMEx 2026 which is on the 8th and 9th of August and fast approaching. I have a week off work prior to the show in order to to finish up. I still have a lot to do and need to get cracking.

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Submarine Kitbash Spaceship part 2

I made four landing pads from some 1/35 scale Maus tracks and suspension parts. They were drilled to take a short piece of brass rod which was then inserted and glued to the bottom of the hull. I also detailed out the bottom cavity in the lower hull.

Some detailing of the front lower hull has been started.

I made some wings and fins from three layers of 2mm styrene sheet. The centre layer has some tabs for inserting into slots drilled and filed into the hull. V-groove panel lines were scribed using an Olfa plastics cutter.

Some small detail was added to the top of the hull.  The black brick like textured part is a bit of an old VHS video tape cassette.

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