Independence Day - Captured Alien Attacker

This is the Captured Alien Attacker from the 20th Century Fox film, Independence Day. I built this quite a long time ago now so some of the details are a little sketchy.

The model is manufactured by Lindberg. I think it is the only one of there's I have made. The assembly of the main components was very straight forward.

Painting this model was interesting, I used Gun-Metal paint for the first time. After applying the paint and letting it dry you can polish away the top layer to recreate a metal effect. The engine cooler fins are painted with metallic copper and brass coloured paints and I used chrome silver to pick out the panel joints.

There are some great surface details on this model which really add to the overall quality of the whole thing. With only about 14 parts including the base, this has to be one of the simplest models I have ever made. Everything fitted together well and required little or no filling what so ever.
I enjoyed the special effects in the movie far better than the gung-ho, jingoistic plot and this is a great reminder of a simple, but excellent space ship design.

I enjoyed the special effects in the movie far better than the gung-ho, jingoistic plot and this is a great reminder of a simple, but excellent space ship design.