Pz. Späh 1124 Luna Gans

One of my all time favorite Ma.K / SF3D designs! The Luna Gans is a great mash up of the head of the Neuspotter, the legs of the Kröte, and an original midsection mating the two. It is an automated lunar reconnaissance unit and often shown as an adversary to the various space type SAFS in Ma.K materials. This was the first of the larger walker-type Wave kits I had built and was the "centerpiece" of the works I brought to Ma.K Tamagawa Meeting no. 6

The Wave kit contains the original Nitto Kröte leg parts, as well the Nitto Neuspotter head, combined with several new sprues of parts for the rocket engines, middle mechanism, and sensor details. While the camo card and box blurb indicate it is purely a scouting unit, I decided to modify it to an armed walker. The camera was replaced with a small kitbashed grenade launcher (I imagine in the low gravity of the moon, lobbed weapons would be quite effective) and the standard searchlight was replaced with a targeting computer. 

The back of the kit looks incredible - the combination of all the small mechanical bits combined with the massive thruster bells makes for a fantastically detailed and visually interesting model. Being based heavily on the Nitto parts, there were plenty of springs, hoses, and brass rod in the box. The kit was hand painted with Tamiya paints mixed with leveling thinner and the weathering was a mix of pin washes, filters, and dry pigments for regolith buildup. 

The base is a mix of crushed cork board and celluclay for texture topped with a mix of acrylics and dry pigments to create a dusty lunar surface. Foot prints were impressed in the surface when the mixture was partially dry but still pliable. Some washes and stains were added around the areas of mechanical wear, but I didn't want to get things too heavy with the weathering since it is a space type.

I can't say enough positive things about this design - it's so wonderfully imposing and has all the menace a killer drone hunting in a sci-fi universe would need - I hope my small mods did the design justice! I would love to do the ground version as well soon!