Atomic Modelling: Guns, tanks, bombs - they're like toys against them!

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Guns, tanks, bombs - they're like toys against them!

MARTIAN WAR MACHINE by Pegasus Models
Built/Painted 9/2018

I love this ship from the 1953 George Pal production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds -- and I didn't screw up a single thing on the model. The copper spray job is nice and even and looks a lot better in reality than it does in these photos. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

I didn't paint the base, though I may do so later.

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Welcome To Atomic Modelling

When it comes to model kits, I'm a relative newbie. I built a lot of spaceship models as a kid, but never really got into figure kits (even though I wanted to), because the idea of painting them was daunting.

I started buying kits again around '99-'00, finally buying repops of all the Aurora monsters that I'd wanted as a kid, as well as the Planet of The Apes and DC super-hero re-issues... and they all went into storage until about mid-2016.

Since then, I've been building kits like a madman - figure kits and spaceships, both - but until the Autumn of 2018, never actually painted/finished any of them.

Now I'm slowly working my way through my stash, completing models one at a time, and posting pictures of them here as I do so.

Note - I build these kits for my own satisfaction (and as form of therapy). I make mistakes, and I'm nowhere near competition-level skill. Some seams are going to show. Some paint jobs are going to be rough. I don't have an especially steady hand and my eyesight isn't the sharpest, but I do my best.

As to subject matter, I'm interested in super-heroes, monsters and sci-fi subjects, mostly pre-dating 1980. Most of my collection are inexpensive repops of classic kits, or recent kits in the classic style.