The Meng Atreides Ornithopter from Dune is a snap or press fit kit (with decals) that goes together in about 5 minutes and makes a nice display model as is.
Instead... I decided to glue and paint it and modify it slightly to represent a scene from the movie, where Gurney Halleck pulls Paul into the vehicle. I found a composite image that someone on RPF used to get the size of the vehicle.
I used those values to calculate the scale of the Meng kit - roughly, 1/245. Let's say 1/250. I was tempted to print some 1/250 figures, but I had some Herpa ground crew in 1/200 that were almost in the right positions. By comparing them to the figures in the image above and doing some creative plastic surgery, I think they came out looking close enough to the image:
Since the Orinthopter comes with in-flight and extended landing gear, I went with the extended gear (in the movie, they're just taking off). The extended rear ramp piece doesn't have a mounting hole for the mount, so I drilled one out.
I'll take better pictures tomorrow when there's some sunlight.
