SPA Modeler

I was in the mood to build something quick today, so I pulled this little goodie that I had picked up the other day.



I gotta say that these little snap together Bandai kits are fun. The engineering and fit are superb on this kit. All I can say about that is “WOW!”. I built the basic kit in a very short time...













I mixed up a custom off white using Testors Acryl Reefer White and Bulkhead Gray then painted this in my 1977 technique... with a good old fashioned brush



and lastly some Humbrol metallics on the engines and laser cannon



And that’s where it stands after a couple of hours work...

Nothing like a nice fast build to relax. The little Bandai kits look awesome.

Now to decide on markings....

Well the kit comes with the markings for Luke’s mount, Red 5. But that is SO commonly done. I wanted to do something a little different. So scouring the Internet I found that somebody had watched too much Star Wars (the original film will always be Star Wars to me, where Greedo never gets a shot off, but I digress) and had cataloged the markings for several different ships of Red Squadron. Anyways I saved all the profiles that he made and started on marking mine up.
Kudos to the one who can ID which ship I’m doing before I add the wing hash marks that positively ID my choice... anyways, based off of those profiles here is where I am so far. All hand brushed, mostly Humbrol enamels so I can clean up any excess off of the acrylic base...

Don’t shoot me Kahn Solo but I am at a loss to ID those light blue cans. Here is Red Group fresh from the ILM shop:



Red 3 - 40 years later / ILM Archives

Hmmm. I'm stumped too, I'm going to go out on a limb and say Porkins.

Porkins... (the big bloke who gets zapped?)

what a great little build Carlos - and some great brush work!

The “Blue Tails”. A little known group of nudist space pilots.

Looks good, but now you have something else to pack....

Don’t tell anyone....