Raider’s Coach – part 5

Most of the chromed parts are glued in place and the hood got decals. Not perfect, but after a while it wasn’t possible to move them at all. I also failed with the decals for the front. I was hard to make them wrap around in a nice way, so I gave up.
Not much left to do. I need to touch up some chrome parts and do a clear coat on the hood.

Next update will be for the final reveal.

Raider’s Coach – part 4

Amps and coach sides was glued in place.

The speakers/amps got some chrome details.

I did a test with orange rust to see if I could use it instead, but I thought it was a bit to dark.

Details on the underside was glued in place.

I had to do a simular thing with the backsides of the front seat and keyboard as I did with the interior seats, closing up the empty space with plastic sheets.

There’s a few spots that need some touching up.

The front frame with engines is alsmost done.

I still need to add a few parts to the engine and sort the hood and front.

I did a test fit of the coach and front.

Not much left to do. I gave the hood and front a cote of white, and hopefully I can paint orange on top without anymore mishaps.
I also have a few chrome parts to sort. Perhaps the best way would be to remove the chrome and paint them, but I’m unsure what to use to remove the chrome.
I’ll probably just use chrome colour to touch up the parts where I’ve removed chrome when cleaning up.

Raider’s Coach – part 3

The coach sides was masked and then they and some other parts was painted with mahogany.

Mask removed from amps and keyboard.

The unmasked coach sides.

Some details painted.

Time for some clear coat.

Once that was dry, I put on some decals.

I first tried panting Humbrol gloss orange on a piece of plastic, which went well. So I painted the underside of the hood and back of the front. At first it looked ok but after a while it started to look awful. Perhaps the orange colour or thinner reacted with the acrylic primer.

I just need to redo that. Otherwise I think the orange colour will look alright.

It took some work to assemble both engines together and I had to re-glue some parts.
I also cut plastic and glued to the rear of the seats.

I gave the coach sides and some other parts a new coat of clear colour.

A few details to paint on some parts before I can start assembling, and I also need to sort the hood and the front.

Raiders Coach – part 2

Time for an update on this project.

Time for som primer!

Some parts had to be turned over.

After some additional sanding and filling and sanding again, most parts actually got primer.

The seats and areas on the coach sides got some yellow paint.
Then the yellow was masked off and the parts was painted black. The engines and transmission was painted fire red.

Then rims and some other parts got some Molotov chrome.

At the moment I’m working on the keyboard and amplifiers that sit in the compartment.
Quite a lot of masking and painting to do on them.

Sometimes the kit is a bit confusing as it doesn’t match the real thing. Just details, but still.
The exhaust pipes seems to meet up on the outside of each engine, but not on the kit. I just wonder how hard can it be?
Also they have added decals that doesn’t show on the real car. I’ll try to get it look as good as I can and then add some artistic license.

Raiders Coach – HLI Secret Santa build

I got this kit from my Secret Santa on HLI (Hobbylink International).

Inside the box.

After som cleaning up, I started building the engines.

It’s an old kit and requires some work in the form of scraping and filling ejector pin holes.

I’ll sand and refill if neccessary.

It’s a fun car and I’ve tried to do some research. Many pics are in B/W or from the built kit.
As far as I can determine, the front should be orange even if it looks red on the box.
The engine and parts of the frame is red and the real one had striping done on the frame.

Finished builds 2024

Not a fantastic year, but I got a few finished. I think it could have been a few more if I just had been more persistant. Anyway here they are!

Moebius Tumbler with Bane.

Hasegawa 1/32 Thunderbolt. Built for the 25th silver jubilee at Large Scale Planes.

Games Workshop, Spartan assault tank in Epic scale.

Games Workshop, Thunderhawk gunship in Epic scale.

With that I wish you all a Happy New Year! 🙂

Håkan

What I got from Secret Santa this year!

This year I’ve participated in two Secret Santa exchanges. One on a Swedish forum and one on an international forum. I really do enjoy participating because it’s fun to get something you don’t know what it is, and for the opportunity to make someone surprised with what they get.

From my Swedish Santa I got this kit.

It sure looks like a nice kit!

And from my Santa on the International forum I got this kit.

It sure looks like a fun build! 🙂

Hopefully I’ll get to building them as soon as possible.

Merry Christmas!

Blood Bowl Gnome team – part 2

I gave them all some black primer.

Then I did my usual zenithal primer trick.

I decided to use more or less the same colours. red, blue and green, on everyone. One some I painted the coat blue and hat red, and on the others I did it the other way around.

I painted their socks buff and started with a base skin colour.

I did some testing of the skin colours a friend recommended on one of the figures.

I think it turned out pretty good, so I’ll stick with that.

Still some more painting to do, but hopefully I’ll have a fully painted team soon.

Blood Bowl Gnome team – part 1

I thought a team with gnomes could be fun to have.

I have no idea how they are to play with, but that could be a fun experience.

As all new kits they are pretty easy to build, but you have to be careful with some parts as they seem easy to break.
It took a few hours to build the first set of gnomes.

Using the optitional parts I build the other half of the team.

The only thing left is to prime and paint them. I plan to use typical garden gnome colours like blue, grey, green and red.