Building Meng's Spice Harvester from Denis Villeneuve's Dune. Buy from Amazon here: amzn.to/4a8I7GW As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
_The Spice must flow_ As an avid Dune fan I'm absolutely cheering right now! Wonderful painting job! A little lore on this harvester; the machine is supposed to have a bit more movement in the treads due to it navigating over sand dunes. I suppose if you did a full diorama it would help on a uneven basis but for a desk model it's fine
Nice to see you back sir!!! I still watch your bandai kit builds from time to time. Especially the ywing and the troopers. Bunch of great ideas obtained from those videos. More Bandai please!!! 😅
Glad to see you back after such a long absence. Avery unusual subject you picked to do this time and you did it justice, well done. I hope you'll begin more uploads on a fairly regular basis. Keep up the good work.
Yay, new video! Now I'm eager to see the Arrakis base you thought about. The "weathering with oil paints" hasn't bitten you yet, can't say the same for myself 😄
You did such a fantastic job making what could have been a monolithic grey rectangle into something incredibly rich and textured. Really inspiring paint job!
Wow, that thing IS small! Which is what she said when I dropped my pants. But enough about that. I like the coloring you were able to get with all of your washes. And it’s good to see you’re back. You had us worried.
Beautiful build! If you wanted to keep the articulation for the tracks, it looks like you could sneak a butter knife or something flat and sturdy under those arms that the tracks snap on to give yourself the counter leverage for attaching them.
Paint looks great, the kit is just so small I wish they'd have included the lifters for them, along with to-scale ornithopters, so it'd be a bit more possible to make a diorama of some sort.
Ohh my... You really nailed this. What a fine paint job. You could put it right into the movie.. Only needs a desert diorama to be perfect... Nice. Regards from Denmark.
Интересно, где-то реально достать модель харвестра, версии дюны 2000 он ещё напоминал по дизайну жука-скарабея? I wonder if it's possible to get a harvester model somewhere, the Dune 2000 version still resembled a scarab beetle in design?
First time I watched a video of you and I am really enjoying it! I don't want to put you in a box, but you really feel like the Bob Ross of modelmaking : )
Thanks! Yeah it's a shame licenced kits seem to be trending smaller these days, I guess the margins must be too small when they invest in large complex builds that only find a niche audience. We demand more quality molds now, which must cost a lot to R&D, gone are the days when they could hand sculpt something and bang out thousands of kits full of flash and warping issues. 😆 Of course this is all guessing.
I think the different factions of Dune have different harvester designs. That one in the video was the type used by the Atreides. The Harkonnens used one that was more bug-like in appearance. Trying to remember what the Smugglers' harvester looked like.
Hello. Could you please take a photos from each projection with minimal perspective distortion? Top, bottom; Front, back; Left, right. I'm trying to build a 3D-model. Pretty please. Just without hannds if possible.
Hello, quick beginner question if you don't mind - do you use a booth when airbrushing? I'm just starting out and was gifted an airbrush, but I don't want to mess with a booth unless necessary. Opinions seem to differ, so I figure if you do or don't that would be good enough for me. Thanks! I really appreciate your videos; something I can aspire to.
I haven't ever used a booth, I only spray with acrylics which are not toxic so it's not usually a problem. I am considering getting a booth set up though, as spraying in smallish rooms leaves a lot of spray dust over time all over my models.
i really like these no glue type of models, bought a few bandai star wars ones, which i need to buy more of because im really careless and broke every one of them lol. i wish more companies, like Airfix did them like that.
Can you tell me how much you've diluted the brown wash (oiled earth), and using what? I got a brand new one and for the life of me cannot get a even, transparent coat. It;s just too thick.
I've never needed to thin the washes, they've always been super thin for me. I have had the Oiled Earth for years now, but don't ever remember it being as thick as you describe. The formula might have changed since I bought mine, not sure sorry.
@@modelchiliNo problem. It must be the new changed formula, since I also got 71.122 (now being named US Desert Armor) and it comes down completely different, sandy yellow instead of a grey-brown tan like on your model. Oh well, gotta improvise :D Thanks!
Yeah that's one of the things about Vallejo, they tend to change colours a little bit, it's really hard to keep up sometimes. Maybe I should just stop referencing the colour name D:
The idea was okay but basically if a person looked at it you would never guess it was supposed to be from a desert environment. It naturally resembles a WW2 vehicle. Desert is completely different shading and weathering. Put a Panzer turret on that harvester and it would look at home.
Excellent work, you made a lovely job of the model...... that is probably one of the worst pieces of "mecha concept design ever." Although expected from this DUNE "B" movie, balloons to take the off the harvesters... really?? Although the harvesters suk less than the Dyson designed guild shuttle and that totally believable landing leg sequence...
Nice build! Everything you did is great, my only complaint is in Denis' actual design. The novel actually describes how the harvesters work by "centrifugally removing the Spice from the sand." So instead of a generic box shape (angles and straight lines), the top should have a distinct circular shape. If you study centrifugal chillers (industrial HVAC), those designs should have inspired the Harvester. But that's on the production team, not you. lol Your build is great! :)
What a RIP-OFF! That model should have been at least eight times that size. Otherwise what is even the point of building this model just to squint at it? You did do a good job building it though.
You did a great job so absolutely no offense to you. I feel that spending $18.00 for a little plastic junk for the end product being about the size of a deck of cards is a total ripoff. What they charge for kits now is absolutely criminal. Again you did a great job. Thumbs up!
