Every cloud....

Thanks to my photoshoot mishaps last week, I had a little more time to play with other things.
Sooooo,......I have finished the APC!
Finalised the paint, put on and roughed up the decals from my friend Jim over at J-BOT Decals, and she looks bang on!
I then (feeling rather pleased with myself) managed to get on another shoot, which I got almost all to myself, and took pictures a plenty of the time machine as well as the APC for my portfolio.

I did take a seemingly large amount with a very nice set-up, downside being that I have to resize them all and change them to JPEG.

Here are a couple to wet the appetite, but do check the gallery for more over the next day or so.

APC

Project Zenith

Mental note to self:-

a decent camera will notice dust that you don't! Air blast, vacuum, wash and do it all again (maybe twice)!!

Time for a composite

Unfortunately, due to double booking, our photoshoot was cancelled - not to be too down heartened, I took a few (shabby) pictures on my own and "had a go".

Time out!

Well, after a mammoth week of intense painting (to the point where I need a physiotherapist to straighten me out of this Quasimodo painter's hunch!) Project Zenith is basically there.
Photoshoot on Wednesday, so still a little tinkering time next week, but I am really pleased with the results.
Have a look in the gallery for the full progress shots, and keep watching for the photoshop composite pictures - hopefully sometime in the next week or so.

And without further ado, here she is....

Time and Time again

Plenty more of these puns to milk mercilessly over coming updates! (Sorry)

All the major fabrication is now complete and the beast is primed... let the painting begin!

Components mocked up before paint, just to give a feel of how the model will look

Time marches on

Well, one week into construction and Project Zenith is taking shape. Boy my greeblies and bits box is getting harvested in a biiiiig way!
The paint job on this bad boy will be EPIC!

Check out the gallery for progress shots, but enjoy this one of the cockpit to date.

Time to breathe?

Well, it's all go round these parts!
Two weeks into our latest project - "Time machines", which is great fun - construction starting imminently.
I have chosen the era of "Cold War Futurism" for mine - you know the kind of thing - the 1950's view of how life would be in 2000.

Here is a partial schematic in progress to wet your appetite.

Not only that, but the APC nears completion and work has started on the display base, and I may be doing a commission piece of one of these for a My Chemical Romance fan.

Watch this space!

The point of it all....

The sting is completed, fitted and it looks the part (the sharp and generally dangerous part).
Everyone is really happy with the end result - the end of a decade's tinkering and anticipation!!
The big question has to be asked....
Is this the completion of the wasp? Or just the completion for now... until the next bit?

When we get a nice day, the bike can be polished up and some much better photos can be done, until then have these.

 Before and after pictures - changes the look and feel of the whole bike don't you think?.