Atomic Modelling: Venus Or Bust!

Thursday, November 8, 2018

Venus Or Bust!

COSMOSTRATOR by Pegasus Models
Built 2/2018
Painted 9/10/2018
Completed 11/7/2018

Another terrific, easy-build & paint (just silver from a rattle can) classic sci-fi spaceship, from the 1960 Crown-International Picture, First Spaceship on Venus. I admit, I've only watched the movie all the way through once - it's badly-dubbed from German, and all available prints look like crap - but I love the design of the Cosmostrator ship.

The base was hand-sculpted from Super Sculpey (no tools), baked, and painted over a few hours. I gave it a base coat of a greenish-black, then drybrushed lighter layers of green over that, finishing with highlights of "neon" green for an otherworldly look. Finished it off with some green sand from the dollar store.

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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.