Thanks to seeing a great large scale scratch build on Starship Modeler of the Aliens APC, I got the nudge I needed to actually do something.
So time to give back a bit, so I dug out a long in the stash kit of the 1/35ish Halcyon Aliens APC.
Been done many times before and the kit is ok, just. The known biggest weakness being the mythical wheels.
It is a simplified kit with not a lot of parts, but does the job to my eye, while we wait for a better kit :roll:
So where am I at ?
Basic construction with some replacement of missing bits, it was a second hand kit at some stage.
So other than an interior.. too hard, I decided to gimmick up with lights
Lighting rig under build/test
Mounted in Hull
Miracle !!!! they still work
Now onto the pesky wheels. As suggested by the SSM builder, I did find a quite fine render on thingiverse of a rather large APC 3d print.
All I needed was the wheels. To my great surprise, I found that 3d Builder, standard in Windows 10 gave even a doofus like me the ability to slice the render up bit by bit to get only the wheels, then scale back to the size I needed.
Raw print with the kit wheel for reference. These wheels maybe not super accurate but a Kessel run closer than the kit wheels
After Clean up and bit of detail fix up
These are now awaiting casting by someone much better at it than me. Sadly it may take a few weeks, so i sits forlornly waiting for me to take a picture of the completed hull. See how we go
Thanks