The Venom Strike Group is finished... no more proxies!
The Tantalus brass is integral to the structure of the kit. It's not a thin brass etch but a hefty piece of the structure that holds the thing firmly in shape! I also like the touch where "This Side Up" is effectively printed on the brass frame.Here the mast footer is attached to the brass for stability and the mast footer mounting also serves as a backstop for the central engine mount.
The second set of plates lays in just above the main deck and guides the upper rear hull into position resulting in matching attitudes for the major blade structures that form the rear wing of the completed model. This whole system allows for an exceptionally ephemeral look that would otherwise be hard to pull of in a model this size.
I'm experimenting with primers on this project. Typically I've used black on everything and worked up from there. This has made some of the red areas require an egregious number of layers to get to the right clarity of color. For this build I'm priming the engine compartment and underside of the hull black as usual but am hitting the rest of the kit with Army Painter Rat Fur which is a reddish brown color. I think this will allow me to red up more rapidly and still be dark enough of a subsurface to make the other colors behave as though they were painted over black.
My main concern is to match the color tones of the rest of the army which, for the vehicles, has been worked up from black throughout.
For this last shot the engine area that will be under the brass deck is being worked up as are the main engines. once these are done I'll mask them and add Rat Fur to the hull section that is currently showing a light black over-spray.
The command deck and rudder assembly, and the side Blade Vanes are also built and sprayed Rat Fur at this point. I haven't used this particular primer before and its taking just a bit longer than usual to dry but the coverage is very even and applied easily.
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