{"id":5461,"date":"2014-07-24T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2014-07-24T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:43:16","slug":"in-progress-the-hopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fichtenfoo.net\/blog\/in-progress-the-hopper\/","title":{"rendered":"In-Progress \u00c2\u00bb The Hopper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honestly, since I started Industria Mechanika, I’ve been too busy to keep this site updated. I try, but work comes first. The best place to get updates is of course my facebook page. I have about a years worth of builds that I’ve posted progress for there and need to take final photos for for here. But enough about what I hope to find time to do… here’s what I’m currently doing! (back to the Large Barge after this!)<\/p>\n

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Calum Watt’s Hopper is a cool scout flyer 3D sculpted by Stefano Bernardi that I produced for Industria Mechanika. I try to paint up as many of my products as I can, but I’m just one guy. I did want to do up one of these though because it’s particularly awesome as well as a quick, easy build. Clean-up of the resin parts took maybe 2-4 hours total. I’m going with a modified stock scheme for this changing the camo and colors to suit my whims. I wanted to make this more of a desert-use looking craft.<\/p>\n

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Also lighting this kit up since I had the instrument panels produced in clear resin to make that easier. The ship is hollow like a clam-shell so plenty of room for batteries!<\/p>\n

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The base metal was painted with Alclad Magnesium and Dark Aluminum over dark grey duplicolor primer. The camo was an old custom Tamiya Khaki mix mottled over Deck Tan. Then I hand-airbrushed on the darker Khaki Drab “stripes. The blue is another custom mix made long ago and the formula long forgotten. I have lots of paint like that. hahah!<\/p>\n

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More to come!<\/p>\n

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