This was one of ray22's resin casts I picked up, or should I say had hand delivered by ray himself whilst I took a holiday in New York in August 2012.
Initial impressions were this looked a great resin kit online in his for sale thread, and upon closer inspection in real life I could see very minor work would be needed..... Rays done a great job in casting and prepping this to the buyer.
Now there is nothing wrong with how this kit was made by ray, but e dry keen modeller likes to make things there own and modify or decide to tinker with some parts..... And yes I tinkered some bits even tho I said to myself I wouldn't :doh
So lets begin, this kit is very much still being worked on.
The kit in all its resin glory, as you can see ray provides a pretty much ready to assemble kit
The electronics ill be using, a strobe kit, 4 white LEDs and 2 uv LEDs
As I'm going for a diorama as well some aliens swarm figures for peanuts on eBay
Some great detail on these figures
A purchase on eBay for a floor tile which scaled up to work, made a copy of it and decided to make myself multiples, I estimate near 100 will be required
I brushed the mold with a pigment powder before pouring the white resin, the result is this
Added some alien related damage
Soldering iron, epoxy glue mixed with yellow paint gave me this
Not to happy with the gunmetal pigment, so airbrushed some humbrol metal coat gunmetal and polished it up......perfect
The tiles start to multiply
Deviated to the apc itself now, the spotlight I'm adding an led
A test with the kit grille, took ages to dremel and file that bit
Window frame dremeled and filed and then rivets added with a 0.5mm drill bit
Window needs to come out now
Now as I'm adding spotlights this is where the true quality of the lump of resin I bought really began to show, I dremeled out the relevant holes that was easily an inch thick in places........a real mission to do
Here is how thick it was
Rear lights dremeled, that's hard due to the lack of thickness in the model. Apart from drilling out the light shape I also need to dremel through the rsin so the light source gets through....this was a delicate operation
Took some small scale pipes and added some gun barrels
Also decided to pin most of this model together to ensure it stays bonded
And opened up the gun a bit
Test fit of the pinned bits
Added some grab handles
This is we're I got to change my mind on some parts, remakes the grille with pipe and super glue
Also remade the front point
Added some towing clamps from necklace beads and pipe
Components so far
Now this is where rays prep work could really be seen, as I got smears, some glue spots I had to rub it down and decided to make the apc lines more defined......nothing wrong with rays stock model......I'm just being anal.
You can clearly see how much work ray himself had put into it as a base kit when you start sanding. Most people would simply supply a raw kit but ray obviously hadn't
