International Scale Modeller

This shall be my entry to the summer sci-fi sig it’s revells razor crest hopefully it goes together no problem

Awesome to see you back on the forum, we missed you!

Great to see you back mate & looking forward to watching you tackle this one

Cheers lads yeah Facebook has in the last few months been a drag to use ads every other posts so I find myself drifting away and back to the og ism

Kingdan wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 2:34 pm Cheers lads yeah Facebook has in the last few months been a drag to use ads every other posts so I find myself drifting away and back to the og ism

Good looking kit and fantastic to see you posting mate
Love the Razor Crest
Adam savage had a video in the later one he was detailing…will go look

Here’s one for inspiration….there are a few videos

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sat Jun 04, 2022 5:22 pm Good looking kit and fantastic to see you posting mate
Love the Razor Crest
Adam savage had a video in the later one he was detailing…will go look

Here’s one for inspiration….there are a few videos

Yeah I’ve been watching adam do the upgrades on his massive razor crest and it was that build that spurred me on to build mine

This is gonna be awesome
I would love one of those big babies, but my Star Wars Nerdism is only so large

I picked up one of these kits as well. It may be one of the nicest cast models I've ever seen. I'll be watching your build with interest.

Right then people update time on this revell razor crest where to start it looked good in the box is probably the most honest thing I could say about it, some of the details are amazing and look really really good then there’s the slight fit issue with the front where the cockpit is admittedly it’s all fixable with a bucket of patience, the interior is a bit bleeeeehhhhhhhhgggggggg and you don’t really see any of it if everything is closed up like I plan on doing, for a brand new tool it has a ridiculous amount of flash that shouldn’t really be there the quality control is definitely up to tamiya standards which I shouldn’t be surprised when it comes to revell but moving on from all the downside’s it does turn into a model that actually looks like the thing it’s supposed too and while there is some details in the cockpit I’ve chosen not to paint it as I plan on having it displayed on the stand in flight and plan on tinting the windows so negates the need for painting the cockpit so I will put maximum effort into the outside paint scheme yes I know most of it is some sort of silver I do plan on doing a few different shades to get some interest going on instead of a big silver thing, I have yet to do a test fitting of the glass to see how bad the fit is but that’s this weekend’s mission, I will say I’m kind of looking forward to painting it to see where I can take it, in summary if you’ve got one of these in your stash save some patience for it if you don’t but want one then try and wait for the amt variant as I’ve heard it’s better than the revell kit, so I suppose I better put some pictures up of the offending kit












There will be more updates as soon as the painting starts but I have another kit in the spray booth first so will be a few days but hopefully it turns out ok
Thanks for looking till the next update

Nice start ! May be the flash Is because they're is a rumor that's it's not totally a new tool... I saw you tube video where I guy was putting sprues of other revell kits that were exactly the same use in the Razor Crest. But don't believe everything on the internet !
It's huge and nicely detailed !

Really nice start! Mine is in the mail, hopefully it will get here eventually...

So update time again and it’s all been primed in Ultimate black with a coat of nail varnish mirror silver over the top I’ve not gone heavy with the silver as I didn’t want it mirror but it’s a great colour over black primer, I do plan on doing some of the different panels in different silvers to break it up a bit and give it some different variations so it doesn’t look to blocky now I’m going to leave it a day or two to cure properly so I can mask on top, still loads to do but makin great progress










Until next time

Love it!

Nail silver, who would have thunk it
Looks really good

Real nice progress!

Beautiful paintwork, just dont let any Jawas see it!

That's come together really nicely mate - and that paint job looks stunning!

Did you thin & spray that or brush it on?

Tomcat64 wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:12 pm That's come together really nicely mate - and that paint job looks stunning!

Did you thin & spray that or brush it on?

I thinned it with mr levelling thinner and used an airbrush it sprays so nice and the colour is great

Kingdan wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:56 pm

Tomcat64 wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 4:12 pm That's come together really nicely mate - and that paint job looks stunning!

Did you thin & spray that or brush it on?

I thinned it with mr levelling thinner and used an airbrush it sprays so nice and the colour is great

That's just inspired!

Shiny and chrome Looking really nice so far

I like the out of the box thinking with the nail polish and it's work well.

One word...



ok, maybe a few more than one.

Some more done to the razor crest over the last few days/week I’ve done some panels in different metal paints to try and break up the full on shiny shiny they are all tamiya lp range and I’m liking it so far, I think I’m go into place the decals on and then take another look to see if I need to add more or just leave it and start the weathering process which will probably be the hardest bit as making a metal finish look good weathered is a bit tricky but time will tell
Now for some pictures







Hopefully after the decals go on it’ll reveal which direction I need to go in so until the next time
Don’t glue your fingers together

Nice subtle contrasts

What brand of nail polish is that. I know you mentioned it on Facebook a while back, but fb absolutely sucks for trying to find something.

Awsome work on that paint job. This is turning out to be a great build

bfrd wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 1:59 am What brand of nail polish is that. I know you mentioned it on Facebook a while back, but fb absolutely sucks for trying to find something.

Yeah fb can be a bit dim witted all the time but it’s the one in the picture off of Amazon I’ll try and find the link if you need it mate

Cheers chaps it’s been an interesting paint job trying to get it to look like it’s an actual craft from space and not a toy hopefully it doesn’t go sideways lol

I did glue my fingers together this weekend; fresh new gorilla glue
How did you know?

Razor crest is really looking great

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 5:09 pm I did glue my fingers together this weekend; fresh new gorilla glue
How did you know?

Razor crest is really looking great

Haha there must be something in the air as I glued my fingers together in a unmodelling related accident lol (renovating the kitchen)

I like the dragon, great finish.

The tonal variations on the razor crest look awesome mate

Where's the dragon from?? Is that one of those jedi-3d print thingies?

The dragon is just something I printed on my resin 3D printer to try and get the hang of printing

Some more has been done to the razor crest but not as much as I would have liked due to trying to make the kitchen in the house twice the size by knocking a wall through to give the wife what she want and as we all know a happy wife means a happy life
But back to the razor crest and with modelling time being limited the last couple of days all that has been done is the decals on and the rear engine nozzles painted in a copper colour it’ll be toned down a bit when I start the weathering,I’ve also tinted the glass as I’m not doing the interior so I decided to go with a gold tint as I think that’s what you would need in space (that and it’s my model lol) but I think doing it in a dark colour would have made it look a bit too toy like and we don’t want that now do we



Till the next instalment happy modelling and don’t glue yourself together

I like the gold too
Man you are tackling a big job there, but it will be worth it to make her happy

Twokidsnosleep wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2022 5:13 pm I like the gold too
Man you are tackling a big job there, but it will be worth it to make her happy

If I don’t do it now I don’t think I’ll have it in me to do that much heavy work like this lol

Bigger kitchens are always better!

Nice progress on the Razorcrest.

Kitchens are big projects and I think you did very well to keep the dust down to such a low level. Either that or you did a very good job of cleaning up.
Gold was a good choice and I'm sure I wouldn't have thought of using that colour.
Are you going to give the engine nozzles the heat treatment ?

digger303 wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:45 pm Kitchens are big projects and I think you did very well to keep the dust down to such a low level. Either that or you did a very good job of cleaning up.
Gold was a good choice and I'm sure I wouldn't have thought of using that colour.
Are you going to give the engine nozzles the heat treatment ?

Oh that is a good idea
Ya the gold is a great start place for some heat weathering

Lovely work on the Razorcrest mate - and I'll be watching with interest (and possibly intent to nick ) how the gold works out on the thrust nozzle

From that photo of the kitchen it looks like you'll be surviving on microwaved beans on toast for a while

Update time and this week with time being a bit limited because of kitchen renovations and how damn hot it’s been all the I’ve managed is the start of the weathering after a liberal coating of aqua gloss it got a lathering of Ultimate earth wash all over the rubbed back to leave a nice filthy look the it had another coat of aqua gloss to seal it in then the engine nozzles had some citadel copper paint (can’t pronounce the name) then some ak true metal brass and blue steel then rubbed that with a cotton bud (cue tip) to blend it all together to try and make it look a bit like it’s actually done some miles or whatever they call it in space the nozzles also had some Ultimate winter wash on the inside to make it look like it’s had a high temperature burn like the space rockets have and I think I’m on the right path with the look I still have some more weathering to do but that’s for the weekend when hopefully it’s cooled down a bit
Picture time
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Until the next update
Don’t glue yourself together

Now that's some good paint work!

aur0ra145 wrote: Mon Jul 18, 2022 10:39 pm Now that's some good paint work!

stunning.

Cheers lads hopefully it doesn’t go sideways on me in the final push

Awesome work mate - that's looking suitably well-used