Apologies for the microupdate for a single fig but I received some
feedback that the wings made the models look unbalanced (which was
literally the case as I had to blutac a foot down because the model kept
falling over in one of the pics above). I tried cutting off the
exhaust nozzles on an old space marine backpack and test fitting the
wings directly to the side sandwiched between the pack and the nozzle
but it frankly looked horrible and wasn't even worth going upstairs to
get the camera. I then thought about revisiting the old idea that I came
up with for my 54mm Artemis model of jamming it in between the pack and
the torso. The curved wing had an odd number of wings in the kit I
bought so I sacrificed the odd man out by clipping the bottom quarter of
feathers and thinning out the frame they were attached to. Since I
only have the one piece that I was willing at the moment to carve up, I
took two pics with the same wing in both positions and then digitally
combined them in MSPaint (no Photoshop in this budget build!). I
definitely prefer this to the back mounting at least for the curved
wings.
That does look better.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I fully realize that one model moderately converted barely scrapes by the minimum to call itself a hobby project but it's a start for someone as rusty as me who hasn't worked on any models in a while. :)
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