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I can't cast from it, as it's rather soft, crumbly resin. Using instant mould would likely warp it, and I'm
Inexperienced in using silicone (also I'm poor at the moment).
Best solution is copying it in plastic, but I need to see it first.

I think green stuff would degrade over time as its s piece that is moved and used. Milliput over metal core might work.

From wreck to model, impressive!

This is a howling project, I unfortunately have no experience with FW models so cannot offer anything but a bit of encouragement. I wish you the best of luck with this and hope it works out for you in the end.

To give you some words of encouragement it's looking a helluva lot better now than it did at the start of the thread!

Good luck with your continuing endeavours!

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It's rare where I'll actually read the entire thread of a project like this. You're doing a smashing job, wish I had the patience to stick with something that started off as bad as this did.

Great work, keep it up!

An enjoyable read. I admire the considerable dedication undertaken in restoration. I doubt I'd have the patience, I'd probably have just bought one new.

Thanks guys. It's really encouraging to hear.
The reason I took this on, despite knowing it might take weeks (months as it turns out) is that it appeared the week that my mother in law was dying. We knew she had little time, and I knew the next few weeks were going to be a mixture of long, horrible waits, and supporting my family between them. I threw into this to distract myself when there was nothing else I could do.
She passed away, and I kept work on it in between funeral plans, long sits and everything else that goes with.

I shelved it when things calmed down because I felt I couldn't go much further at that time. I needed parts, and despite carving some from the crashed set, they weren't what it deserved really. I needed an engine (you can see what my sculpted one looked like in the picture behind Ollie).

A few weeks back I heard about the Council of War tourney, which is a friendly game, and I decided it was time to get her out of the box again. I found a chinese seller with an entire kit, and I threw caution to the wind to just get these parts.

Seeing this done will be very strange, and hopefully a happy moment.

I'm putting the very final putties on today, and should be able to prime her by tomorrow morning. There's a lot of dull interim photos of my putty and sanding which I'll montage for brevity.

Thanks for sticking with me.

Lovely project. I've stripped an entire Eldar Phoenix (and have another one to strip too) so I feel the stripping pain, but at least they did not need rebuilding too. I do love a project though, so this looks like fun to me!

Hey BC

Very impressed with your dedication and work on this project, just wanted to add a few words of encouragement to keep you going.



p.s. still looking forward to seeing your Tanith as well

Butter please send us an after prime picture, you know you want to!

Also, you can do it!~

I will when I've done it. Hopefully this evening.
Unfortunately I am still fighting off fatigue, and what I thought would be a super productive day ended up being twelve pairs of boots and base rims... I don't try to Aquila when I'm exhausted, as I am pretty clumsy. I somehow dipped a wing in the water bowl a couple of days ago and then got myself in the mouth with it.

And thanks for all the encouragement, guys! I'll always accept a tiny hedgehog cheer.


I would like to take a minute to say that if anyone is bidding on the Aquila Lander on eBay right now, it's broken and the seller hasn't mentioned it in the listing.
Considering going for it, but then I spotted that it had magnets fitted and messaged the seller to ask about it. The undercarriage is snapped and the magnets take the weight instead. I am appalled that it's not mentioned in a near £190 listing.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
I somehow dipped a wing in the water bowl a couple of days ago and then got myself in the mouth with it.

Honestly, your modeling mishap stories are the best

Okay, for the third day in a row: It will be primed in the morning.
I've been working, sanding and working the heat vents on the wings, and fingers crossed, this is the last time I'll need to sand. Due to how thin they are, a small slip and I need to do-over.She's had a bird-bath (washy liquid in the basin) to get rid of all the dust, sweat, tears and months of handling, so hopefully tomorrow's the day. I also remembered to fit the gun. Multi-Laser. I was gonna magnetise but frankly it's not really a choice. There's little reason to give any other weapon. At most it's gonna be a Valkyrie-menacer until one turns around sharply and face-punches it.

kb_lock wrote:
Honestly, your modeling mishap stories are the best

Yeah well. I picked it up tis evening, screamed and dropped it because there was a fat moth inside the passenger pod. It flew in my face (the moth) and I did a very undignified hand motion and ran away.

No shame, 99% of moths are gross.
Except the super fuzzy ones that look like bunnies. #NotAllMoths

I assume making it into a piece of terrain is out of the question?

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Okay, for the third day in a row: It will be primed in the morning.
I've been working, sanding and working the heat vents on the wings, and fingers crossed, this is the last time I'll need to sand. Due to how thin they are, a small slip and I need to do-over.She's had a bird-bath (washy liquid in the basin) to get rid of all the dust, sweat, tears and months of handling, so hopefully tomorrow's the day. I also remembered to fit the gun. Multi-Laser. I was gonna magnetise but frankly it's not really a choice. There's little reason to give any other weapon. At most it's gonna be a Valkyrie-menacer until one turns around sharply and face-punches it.

kb_lock wrote:
Honestly, your modeling mishap stories are the best

Yeah well. I picked it up tis evening, screamed and dropped it because there was a fat moth inside the passenger pod. It flew in my face (the moth) and I did a very undignified hand motion and ran away.

No shame, 99% of moths are gross.
Except the super fuzzy ones that look like bunnies. #NotAllMoths

Those are the moths we get! I hate having three cats then, because the poor guy is harassed by two of them. But they are so fuzzy and friendly. If you have teal shoes, they will land all over them and stay. Also, I keep dropping models too haha. I have had to fix my Navigator Thallax so many times now.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Okay, for the third day in a row: It will be primed in the morning.
I've been working, sanding and working the heat vents on the wings, and fingers crossed, this is the last time I'll need to sand. Due to how thin they are, a small slip and I need to do-over.She's had a bird-bath (washy liquid in the basin) to get rid of all the dust, sweat, tears and months of handling, so hopefully tomorrow's the day. I also remembered to fit the gun. Multi-Laser. I was gonna magnetise but frankly it's not really a choice. There's little reason to give any other weapon. At most it's gonna be a Valkyrie-menacer until one turns around sharply and face-punches it.

kb_lock wrote:
Honestly, your modeling mishap stories are the best

Yeah well. I picked it up tis evening, screamed and dropped it because there was a fat moth inside the passenger pod. It flew in my face (the moth) and I did a very undignified hand motion and ran away.

No shame, 99% of moths are gross.
Except the super fuzzy ones that look like bunnies. #NotAllMoths

Hey, I love moths. All they're trying to do is fly around that light and find some place small and compact to sleep in. :p

Holy cow. That is the prettiest moth I've ever seen. I wouldn't mind that in my house.
My favourite will always be Tyria jacobaeae, a daytime moth, though we don't get many in my area. I've always wanted to paint a spaceship in a scheme like this, with a metallic black. I think possibly Eldar would lend themselves to it. Maybe Vorlons.


Its caterpillar is pretty awesome looking too (warning: high res bug picture)

The moths at night are the boring angular grey/brown ones which look unenthusiastic and are usually chowed upon my my felines because they don't fly very high.

 Harley Quinn wrote:
I assume making it into a piece of terrain is out of the question?

It's only a three page topic... Skimming the first and last post is always worth doing.

I mean, before I went off on one about moths.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:

My favourite will always be Tyria jacobaeae, a daytime moth, though we don't get many in my area. I've always wanted to paint a spaceship in a scheme like this, with a metallic black. I think possibly Eldar would lend themselves to it.

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This forum and lack of mobile support is ridiculous. ..


Was going to say that could be a good scheme for anything, specifically nids or even marines.

Successors to blood angels on an inquisition bent (ala grey knights). Ordos Sanguine?

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
Holy cow. That is the prettiest moth I've ever seen. I wouldn't mind that in my house.
My favourite will always be Tyria jacobaeae, a daytime moth, though we don't get many in my area. I've always wanted to paint a spaceship in a scheme like this, with a metallic black. I think possibly Eldar would lend themselves to it. Maybe Vorlons.


Its caterpillar is pretty awesome looking too (warning: high res bug picture)

The moths at night are the boring angular grey/brown ones which look unenthusiastic and are usually chowed upon my my felines because they don't fly very high.

 Harley Quinn wrote:
I assume making it into a piece of terrain is out of the question?

Spoiler:

Maybe. Just maybe.

It's only a three page topic... Skimming the first and last post is always worth doing.

I mean, before I went off on one about moths.

I know you discussed the white and blue scheme but... this is a butterfly shaped plane... *cough. cough. lots of coughing.*

 Stormwall wrote:

I know you discussed the white and blue scheme but... this is a butterfly shaped plane... *cough. cough. lots of coughing.*

This is a brilliant idea, you should do this butters

Looking at how fragile this kit is got me wondering, how do you plan on transporting it? Do the wings come off or is it stuck as one big piece once you have assembled it?

I am not familiar with the kit so I have no idea how it goes together.

I'll make the second one in that scheme. With LEDs.
This is going to theme in with my Mordians because an attempt at some visual coherency is worth going for.

Inspector, it takes one full depth pick and pluck tray from Kaiser Rushforth. I cut it to shape but it's not ideal. I'm looking at contacting them to see if they can perhaps sort me something more permanent once I'm paid this month.
I don't know if they take custom orders, but it's worth a crack.

Many thanks for the info, I hope that however you end up doing it, it stays safe!

Ideally any transportation of this takes the weight off the legs and wing tips by supporting the undercarriage and engines. I'm working on it.

I suppose I should start with the simpler part. I spent several days rebuilding these vents. I've put too much Milliput on, get a good join, shave it back, build more, sand it.



Some were just little knocks, some were missing entirely, like one wing tip. I wasn't aiming for perfect, just sold and safe.

I started priming, and they look pretty good on the whole

Well this is both encouraging and distressing. The priming has gone pretty well. I'm not rushing it.



I don't think that shoulder join looks too bad. It's not symmetrical, but it physically can't be.




But what. What the flying feth is happening here? I certainly never put glue here, and I sanded this area. It's so beautifully wrong.




How I sort that out, I have no idea. Gotta wait for the primer to set. I stopped everything to deal with this.

Bonus: I am not a clever person and repeatedly photographed the ceiling because when I lay my phone down, it assumes that's what I want to do. So here's me mid-concentration.

I see the Lord of Decay refuses to allow the model to be returned to former glory. Fear not the touch of Nurgle for the righteous blade and sand paper of a true son of the Emperor can burn away any corruption.

Nice work all around. I always love seeing models being returned to service.

In a peculiar turn of events, I picked at that line with a scalpel, and 99% of it dropped out in a single piece of rigid material. Old Dettol residue? Araldyte? no idea. I've now scraped, stripped and sanded the area and I'll have another crack tomorrow. Weird

When things heat up they are subject to what we would label heat weathering. (I believe the term has the word Ion in it but, I am unsure.)

In ww2 barrels would rust differently along with exhausts and areas on the sloped armor near the engine/areas that had been struck by rounds due to the heat.

You could paint that as a weld or as heat damage.

 Buttery Commissar wrote:
In a peculiar turn of events, I picked at that line with a scalpel, and 99% of it dropped out in a single piece of rigid material. Old Dettol residue? Araldyte? no idea. I've now scraped, stripped and sanded the area and I'll have another crack tomorrow. Weird

If it came off in one bit, save it for a nugle conversion. Or clense it with fire, one of the two...

Derp, I missed your post.