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Neisen ESB at-st - 3phase - 03-07-2013
OK I have shown this over at the RPF but I have been on this site so much I thought I should post something
When I bought this kit I didn’t know too much about it and just planed to build it as is but the more research I did on the model the more I wanted to make it accurate. The previous owner had already done some changes so I started my quest to track down kit parts etc. This was much harder than I thought it would be plonking thru many kit scans trying to identify parts. Thanks to this site for all the kit part pictures.
Anyway to make a long story short I had collected quite a few parts and when I tried to place the Steyr seat under the head it would not fit and I then decided not to go to extreme on this kit and I would do a scratch build instead. If I can sell this one I will use that money to help pay for the scratch build.
Apart from new kit parts I replaced the front guns with pipe and fabed the foot covers and side gun cover as they were missing. Also I thought the most inaccurate thing on the kit was just under front guns on the body so I cut most of it out and shaped it like a real armature body would be. I only needed to put on the BT-46 part and I think it improved this area a lot. When i did this i also had to extend the resin tyre as the head was too low.
I thought painting this would be easy as to why I stoped on my X-wing and I would love to say i went for the rough ILM look but it was harder than I thought it would be.
Anyway it was good practice for when I do my scratch build and thanks to all that has helped me with this build.
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RE: Neisen ESB at-st - darkimmitator - 03-07-2013
Wow , definately a build to be proud of . Nicely done indeed !!!
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - swpropmaker - 03-07-2013
I love seeing the models built!! Awesome work my man!!
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - Wombat - 03-07-2013
This looks damn good as well. Nice job again on this like the X.
You really do some nice work!
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - JAWS - 03-07-2013
Yeah this is real nice.
Great work.
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - Red III - 03-07-2013
Looks great! I can almost hear that metallic machinery sound.
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - Stefan Hacker - 03-07-2013
Very nice! What color have you used on this one?
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - 3phase - 03-08-2013
(03-07-2013, 10:42 PM)Stefan Hacker Wrote: Very nice! What color have you used on this one?
The base colour was just camouflage grey.
RE: Neisen ESB at-st - JAWS - 10-25-2013
I will now be producing this kit & should have it available again early next year.