Spaghetti Spaceships WIP 2024

Always looking for the cheapest, easiest, fastest ways to make convincing spaceships, last winter I experimented with a new technique, where I start with a piece of cereal packet.  The thin cardboard is cut to provide a symmetrical outline and solid foundation on which to glue various pasta shapes to bulk out the hulls.  Tiny (1-3mm long) regular shapes, also made from cereal packet, provided the final details.

I really liked how the sample ships turned out but I promptly forgot about them as I shifted on to other hobbies.

Cleaning up the hobby room and throwing things away, I came across these cereal packet spaceships and was about to pitch them in the garbage.  I'm supposed to be tidying and decluttering but I couldn't help thinking "why not just give them a couple of coats of spray paint, just to see".

I grabbed green because it was the closest thing to hand down in the basement.  The color turned out looking good and the paint pulls all the disparate components together into convincing (to my overactive imagination) illusions of massive spacecraft.

  Unfortunately I didn't get a "before" pic of the smaller ship, the design of which I prefer of the two.

I did a very aggressive drybrush, intentionally sloppy, just to pick out the edges.  I plan to use ink to make the edge-to-recess contrast even higher, then do some fine brush work to further pick out the edges with bone white.  All of this will then be covered with a thin coat of Russian Uniform Green via airbrush.

Then they'll still probably go in the trash.