Small Stumble

Just when I thought I was crossing the finishing line, I stumbled when I was marking out where to drill the holes for the secondary guns. Doh!

What with other stuff in life, friends and family deaths, knocking me back, it wasn't until this weekend I had the urge to work on the model.

As you can see, thanks to Keith Falk, I've changed the tread castings out. 

I've reworked the nose, just waiting for it to harden properly before I file it to shape.

It looks a bit tatty, but you can see the extra bulk I added to enlarge the rear half of the casement ready for the secondary battery barrels.

Ho hum, despite all the hassle, I've really enjoyed working on this project. Below is a picture of my models pasted with the shots I have of the Martian Metal original.

The angle-dangle skews the shape of the original Ogre, but it's the best I've got.

Catch you all on the bounce. 

Heavy Gear Hunter Prop

A couple more new pictures of the full sized Hunter prop appeared on Facebook. Low res, but, myself, Susan, and Jason Frazier we managed to clean and upscale the images with Photoshop and upscalers.

The first new picture.

And the second new picture, taken from a different angle, was burnt out and this is the best I could do to punch it up.

Then, as an experiment, I took the old triple montage shot from before, and split it into three separate pictures. 

Tweaking each shot to bring out the details.

Then Jason Frazier sent me one of the pictures that he had improved using AI, seen below, which extended the dynamic range of the shot.

 

And finally, I ran this last one through an upscaler, which made it much better than it looked before. 

So, I hope all the Heavy Gear fans enjoy these.