CNC Antenna Dishes

I seem to be on a bit of a kit building thing at the moment, here is another kit from CNC Workshop the double pack of Antenna Dishes. Fairly simple looking kit going by the sprues.





The build goes together fairly easilly after a lot of clean up sanding. Like the buggy the cut curves aren't as smooth as they could be and there are lots of notches for no particular reason all over the place that you have to sand and putty up. CNC really needs to crank down their laser power too cause the edges are very burnt. Anyway onto the build.



The base with the gearing is quite nice. You align the gears with the baseplate using toothpicks and predone holes. The arm joints also align using toothpicks, in this case I cut down the toothpicks and glued them in place which let me rotate the joints till I liked the arm pose and glued it in position.





The only way to really glue together the dish is clamp the ring to the arms, cause they don't quite line up.



It does look good once the glue dries.



Then attach to the arm.



And onto the 2nd dish.



You can see I changed out the lasercut cables at the back of the arm with some regular wire and bits of plastic tube but that's the extent of my blinging up on these. I really like them.













After taking most of the pics I decided to fill the gaps on the joints with the rings. Sanded back it's not so messy. I've primed them already too but still deciding how to paint them. Any suggestions?

Borderlands Buggy - CNC Buggy

You may have spotted the buggy in the background of my smartgunners photo and wondered what it is. I recently picked up the CNC Workshop pair of buggies lasercut kit.





The inspiration for the kit was rather obvious to me ;)



It's very unusual for a lasercut MDF kit. Every other kit I've built has been a slot together box of slots and sockets. This one was mostly layers and layers of shapes glued together and then trying to putty up the gaps and sand it it all smooth.  As you can see I put in a LOT of work puttying up gaps and sanding shapes into curves from the blockyness of the kit.



















So was it worth all the effort. On one hand hand my carpet is a mess after all that sanding :( but the final result is rather pleasing. I still need to add a heap of grab handles and the guns.











The question after finishing it is do I even want to build the 2nd buggy? I guess I'll decide after I paint this one and see the finished result.

Watchtower - Painted

Had a very busy day of grinding away at base resin castings, so much resin dust gahhh. Thought I'd try and get all my pirate bases done in one go to get me motivated on getting my pirates done. So after I primed them I got to work on the bases of the jacks sitting on my desk and the tower since they are all timber.

Went with a dark base then 3 goes of drybrushing lighter browns then some quick shading with GW washes to deepen the tones and darken the joins. I think it works as a quick method to do timber.

Watchtower

Got out the dremel today to work on this kit I picked up a couple months ago of a nice classic style watchtower. I want it to fit in with my pirate terrain so I engraved decking flooring and roof and covered it in wood grain. A total pain in the wrist to do but I got it all done then cut up and assembled in a day so yay. Will try and get it painted tommorow. Got my recent warjack primed too so will start on him as well.

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