Terry Miesle
East Dundee, Illinois
Whether you call it Star Blazers or Space Battleship Yamato, the anime is foundational for many reasons, not the least of which is technology and vehicle design. Terry built two Bandai 1/1000 scale EDF dreadnoughts, one Laboratory Prometheus that operates in the time fault (orange), and the other deployed to the Mars Defense Front and painted red like the planet. For the Mars dreadnought, Terry primed the hull green to add depth to the red sprayed over it. The Prometheus required a quick bit of masking. Weathering was handled with watercolors.