Vintage Build: Dune Ornithopter (Part 2)

Yes, I know...it been (checks calendar)...2 months since my last upload?!
In the Vintage Builds series, I fire up my time machine to create short videos showing you how I built some of my favourite models years before I started this channel. Today, it’s part two of my Dune Ornithopter build.
Revell produced a series of three models licensed from the 1984 adaptation of Dune, including this one: the Ornithopter. I’m going to show you how over a two-year period between 2017 and 2019 I built the Ornithopter with a fully detailed and lighted interior, and mounted it on a custom diorama base with figures.
Today, I’ll be priming and painting, developing a wicked case of eyestrain trying to convert and paint a couple of 1/48 scale figures…and just about lose my mind trying to cut 10 equal lengths of music wire!
Don't worry...part 3 will be out in about 2 weeks time (or less), and the final part will be released shortly after that one.
Check out my Dune playlist at • Dune
This video was edited with Hitfilm Express, an amazing, easy-to-use, and most of all FREE video editing software package available from www.fxhome.com. No more Windows Movie Maker for me!
CREDITS:
"Dune" (1984), © Universal Studios / DeLaurentis Entertainment Group
“Destination Dune” (1983), © Universal Studios / DeLaurentis Entertainment Group
MUSIC:
“Aspire”, All Good Folks, Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): uppbeat.io/t/a..., License code: FHJVJAX6DPYJKEYO
“Technology 10 Minutes” - Stock music provided by four_track, from Pond5

[@monostripezebras]

that looks pretty cool allready.

[@scaleicons]

Thanks very much! I hope you’ll watch the rest of the videos in the series…a lot of ups and downs with this build, but I’m very proud of the outcome.

[@andersdenkend]

Great video, very interesting to see how you approached this old kit. Black can be indeed very difficult to get right, your looks pretty great. Can't wait for the next video, that was quite a cliffhanger... :p

[@scaleicons]

Thanks very much! Yeah, it was definitely a time for experimentation with all that black. As Bob Ross would say, “happy little accidents”.
BTW, part 3 should be up in a week or 2. Thanks for commenting 🙂

[@3mr4ldknight]

oh wow, those tiny bars are amazing! You did a great job on them, I can't wait for part 3!

[@scaleicons]

Thanks, John. Those bars were a real pain in the butt…they’d become partially magnetized somehow, so trying to line them up in the window frame without them clinging together was a challenge, to put it lightly.

[@sclogse1]

Pro work. Love those "wings". Considering how Revell could have skipped town on this kit, it has some great details. Considering the last four years, I wanted a model company to come out with "The Bus". The one that everyone got tossed under in the Trump administration. With interchangeable figures...those alone would be endlessly updated. Just the cover art alone...

[@scaleicons]

Thanks very much! The level of detail on the kit is surprisingly good…the raised and recessed details on the made it pretty easy to pull off a convincing finish.

[@tommorganstern2334]

I hate painting figures too. You did a good job on these ones tho.

[@scaleicons]

Thanks, they were definitely a pain to finish!

[@jashugan007]

I was wondering, for the left and right side windows, did you just use the stock green tinted ones? I watched all the videos on this build and loved how things turned out. Great build!

[@scaleicons]

Thanks very much! Yep, good eye…I used the kit side windows, and I couldn’t figure out a reasonable way to replace them without using vacuform (a machine I don’t have).