The main kit arrived today for my entry in the SFM:uk group build “To the Moon”.
Inspired by the many conspiracy theories that are online, and especially the forthcoming film Iron Sky (see video trailer, below), I plan to depict a German flying saucer on the Moon (more details are to be decided).
More information and WIP will be coming soon.
It’s been a while since I posted anything and I have now completed three different builds that have been ongoing for a while!
First up is the 1/20 Maschinen Krieger Krupp Kröte:
Although the Kröte itself is finished, I still have to get around to completing the base and a figure to go with it.
Next off the conveyor belt was the 1/35 Dinomania Group Build entry, Dinodistopia:
Finally, I finished the 1/20 Maschinen Krieger Luna Pawn modification, the Meteor:
More photos can be found on Flickr.
Given my usual glacial building pace, this was an extreme challenge!
The idea, devised by Homo Ferratus, had only three rules:
So, I ploughed through my sprues and bits and gathered a few things that might come in useful …
After a manic 45 minutes cutting holes and randomly gluing on parts, then shooting some white primer on, I had this:
The final 15 minutes were spent waiting for the primer to dry and quickly brushing on a Games Workshop wash (Gryphonne Sepia). Once my time was up, this is what I had:
Not too bad for an hour I thought!
Later on, I went back and adding some more decals and ID stripes and here is the final thing:
I also came up with some background for it:
Wächter Orbital Surveillance DroneDeployed in NEO and Lunar orbit, the Wächter is an AI surveillance drone utlised by the SDR to watch for Mercenary troops and vessels. The Mercs spent a lot of time hunting these drones down, first in modified AFS patrols and later with Fireball and Fireball SG hunting teams.
The Merc success rate in disabling the Wächters was very high, and the assembly and deployment of replacement drones was too much of a drain on SDR resources to enable them to be replaced quickly enough to be an effective deterrant to Merc plans on the Moon and surrounding space.
More images can be found on Flickr. Forum threads discussing this build can be found at SFM:uk and the Maschinen Krueger forums.
