Awtoe Runabout 28

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As with all my other Awtoes the main body parts are from car models. What makes this guy different from the other Awtoes is the over-detailing, a result of the isolation caused by the pandemic.

The nose is an indoor bird feeder (the clear part) like what I previously used as the nose of last year's Anthropomorphic Freighter. The upper body is the top of the aft part of a AMT 1/24 AMT Amtronic (if it is hard to recognize look at this picture). The aft end is the top of some car with the nose of another sports car I can't remember (Pandemic!) upside-down below it. The engines are from the 'Space:1999 The Alien' MPC kit. (What the heck did I do with the rest of it? Upside-down and backwards it would make a great companion piece to the Awtoe Shuttle "Boris"!) (Pandemic-brain!)

Overall, I like how this ship turned-out, but I left-out some important features. The overall design is great! The texture is a little fussy, but that's ...Style. Although you can tell which side is up and which end is the front, which are two very important aspects of a ship design, there are no windows or a windshield, nor are there doors, so you can't answer one of the basic questions of a ship, "How big is it?" Weirdly, although the color looks pretty cool in these pictures, it is really closer to that of the basecoat picture.