Billy Lehner’s Doomsday Machine revisited

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Remember that old Doomsday Machine I made a while back? Yup it is still around blinking away. A moment of inspiration hit me tonight and it was time for the update of the Star Trek Doomsday Machine. Off to the garage I went for the 2005 update of the resin model. One hour later the resin model was updated.

Using the airbrush I used sprayed different color of glow powder mixed in Testors clear lacquer and thinned with lacquer thinner. Some glow powder was also directly sprinkled on. Blue, aqua, green and red in appropriate places were used. The nose of the Doomsday got a good dose of very bright aqua glow paint. The front of the ill-fated USS Constellation got a rubbing of red glow powder around the front sides of the ship. Finally all the powders were sealed with Future Floor Polish.

The glow paint is not like the old paint you remember but the new high tech version. The green glow lasts 12 hours, aqua 10 hours, blue 8 hours and red is 15 minutes. The glow last long enough to see the effect easily. Unfortunately the camera doesn’t capture the more subtle glow effects. It is fun to just look around all sides of the model.

I don’t know if the glow powder has been tried on a model before. Doomsday was a perfect model to try the powder on. When the lights go off the Doomsday diorama takes on a dramatically different personality. What am I going to do to the model in the future?

Billy Lehner