I found a Revell ARC 170 mini kit in a cheapshop and thought that it would make a good basis for a Grymn fighter. I got it home checked it for size and manipulated it a bit and came up with this (WIP) G.A.S. :
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d161/Inso/Grymn/GrymnGAS.jpg)
I then started tinkering a bit more and have now got to this stage:
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d161/Inso/Grymn/GrymnGAS2.jpg)
The nose gun is still drying so it was unable to be photographed.
Comments Welcomed :icon_w00t:.
Anti grav or will you have hovering jets, so it can have that menacing hover look.
looking good Inso. :clap2:
More hover than anti-G. If you look at the wing surfaces, there are grey panels. They are for ducted airflow to provide the hover and steering ability.
Steve, brilliant and bonkers :clap2:
That looks great, superb imagination :clap2:
When it two things came to mine the A10 Warthog and the Apache Gunship :clap2:
aww, it's cute :P nice sharp work on the cockpit!
ACK!!!
I look all over for a decent model of the arc-170, and you converted it!
Nice job and all, but geez, convert something more common next time! :icon_saber:
Quote from: Theomar Pius on December 21, 2007, 04:03:42 AM
ACK!!!
I look all over for a decent model of the arc-170, and you converted it!
Nice job and all, but geez, convert something more common next time! :icon_saber:
...I couldn't help it :icon_ermm:...they were on sale for £2-69 and at that price I couldn't say no :icon_wink:. They were too small to use frontway forward so I turned mine around :icon_twisted:.
I may even drag my missus into the local town to get some more...they aren't rare in Cornwall, you're basically tripping over them down here :icon_w00t:.
Quote from: Inso on December 21, 2007, 06:27:10 AM
I may even drag my missus into the local town to get some more...they aren't rare in Cornwall, you're basically tripping over them down here :icon_w00t:.
Towns aren't rare in Cornwall? I don't think they're that rare anywhere in the UK, are they? ;)
Can't wait to see a fleet of these beauties, Inso :D
Now we know what Theomar wants for Christmas :icon_wink:
The only arc170 kit here in detroit is the revell kit, which is very rare and runs about $60, which is like 25-30 pounds. It's pre-painted as well, but that doesn't mean you can't paint it as well.
You should be able to get the kits you mention for around $15-00 on line (plus postage)...$60-00 is a bit steep!
The little kit I got was also pre-painted and to be honest, has taken a couple of layers of paint to undercoat it (but it is now coated). I really must use oil based undercoat...it speeds the process up a lot.
If I spot any of them going cheap, I'll pick a couple up and if you don't want them, they will end up as something...if not just bits in my bits box.
Anyway...I have undercoated the G.A.S. Dark-Angels Green at the moment. It will end up a mid green and I will be adding some sort of camo pattern to the top. I may go a mid grey underneath...but I haven't got that far yet...decisions, decisions :icon_wink:.
It's getting there slowly:
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d161/Inso/Grymn/GrymnGAS3.jpg)
Still a long way to go though :icon_wink:.
Looking Class!
Top notch work there Inso!!!!
Superb work, Inso :) Looks sufficiently unlike the original to be classed as a great conversion, for what my opinion is worth :D
looking great Inso
No decoration or varnish yet but it is finished:
(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d161/Inso/Grymn/FinGas1.jpg)
Top job. It looks great!
That is a great creation. You did a great job, looks nothing like how it started.
That is superb, Inso :)
Best convestion I've seen all year, so far ;) But it is going to take some beating!