It seems to be for some sort of futuristic Robot Transport VTOL from some Japanese Anime that I am not familiar with. In general giant robots anime isn’t something I follow much, but the aircraft looked interesting and not overaly expensive, so I bought it. Although the craft has a recess in its underside where the top of a giant robot could be carried, I think that I may try and fill it in and make the model into more of a generic all-round VTOL type transport/gunship.
The kit actually appears to be a Snap-Fit kit in a couple colors, plus a smokey clear for the canopy, but I ended up gluing it together to make sure nothing gets knocked off. It went together really well, and there is a bit of clever engineering in how some of the parts are put together to give them extra rigidity (especially the vertical tails [:)]). Here is where I am so far.
I went for an Earthy colored base coat in part because it was what I had readily available, but also because I think it might help give the finished build a bit more of an other worldly look than just going with the base drab green recommended in the instructions. I’m still not very ggod at spray painting but I may try and do a little masking and spraying with a lighter color to give it a more camoflage final look.
Thanks for the responses. Here is an image of the bottom showing the recess for the robot. I am thinking of maybe plating it over, but haven’t fully decided how yet.
Pat
PS. Sorry for the shadows. I didn’t realize how darl they were til after I posted the image.
I took a short break for the holidays and to visit family, but I am back at work on the model now.
During the break I gave some thought to kodify the model to carry a vehicle, but neither the 1/72 scale M1A2 or the LAV models that I have looked like they’d fit easily without some modifications. So I decided to leave this kit as is, but I also bought another copy that I may modify later. For that other kit I may try a 1/100 scale vehicle or maybe even try 3D printing a vehicle.
Anyway, I will try and post some more images later this weekend.
Very Interesting. It looks like it “could be a next gen for today” or a futuristic war bird. Like the colors they move the craft out of the same o same o school of today’s camo.
The cammo pattern evokes imagery of humanity’s colonization of Mars and the establishment of it’s own Military. Can see it doing nap of the earth flying along the red Martian landscape. [:)]
Thanks Phoenix and Duster. Going with the Martian-kind of theme I went ahead and tried making the dark patches more of a reddish brown, and changed the black stripes toa dark brown.
