Model and Hobby Shop in Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Space Craft is open as usual until 24th December 2019. The normal trading hours will resume from 3rd January 2020. In between this period, we will be open on 27th, 28th, and 30th December from 10am until 4pm.
We’d like to thank all our customers for their support this year. It’s a privilege to work in this industry and we will continue the best we can to serve the modelling community in Dundee. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
In the search for a quick and simple project, we set our sights on EM-4 Miniatures’ Universal Spacecraft.
2) For our project, we split the spaceships into six groups. Each group was painted with its own colour scheme.
3) Once painted, the models were vanished with a layer of dark wash to enhance the details of the ships.
As the cold weather sets in, we have been getting back into model making. Our latest creation is the fourteen-eyed baby Ohm from the legendary anime Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
1) The kit comes with coloured plastic sprues of one Ohm, Nausicaa, and Teto.
2) Here is the constructed model before painting. The Ohm’s eyes come in clear plastic, you can choose to paint it blue (when its calm) or red (when its angry). You could also add LEDs instead of painting, but we are not going so high-tech here – angry it will be!
3) In the film, Nausicaa came to the rescue of the baby Ohm when it was wounded and captured. We drilled into the Ohm shell and glued on harpoons to recreate this scene.
4) Contrary to the guide we painted the Ohm grey. In the film the rescue happened in the dark, so the Ohm never looked green to us.
5) Here is the completed Ohm with the eyes glued on.
6) Metallic blue paint was mixed with simulated water to model the Ohm’s injuries.
