Small update. I've actually finished a few ships - and prior to the end of 2009! - but haven't really been updating like I should. Especially since Wife and I got those danged iPhone's. Cursed things!
Anyhow, here's what I've got:
Taken about three months ago. Bulk of these ships are TNS specific, tho a few are "interchangeable". Nothing much to really talk about here, beyond you can see a few "sight-gag ships" in my RTF. Namely the
Liberator from Blake's 7, the
U.S.S. Independence from "Space: Above & Beyond", Star Wars Rebel Transport (MicroMachine, which won't be in the final RTF), the Merchant Man from ST:III, ,
Thunderbird 2, the
Aria Shuttle (I think?) from
Space:1999, some other
S:1999 shuttle (directly underneath
Galactica), the Derelict from
Alien,
U.S.S. Sulaco from
Aliens, a Starblazers ship (serving as a Tanker) and TOS
U.S.S. Enterprise (mine'll be
U.S.S. Defiant, tho).
Also taken about three months ago. Bulk of these ships are TOS specific. A few sight-gag's in here, as well.
Taken on 23 December. Left to right: Agroship 08 (scratchbash using MiniModelMadness parts for the
Valley Forge kit), , two Foundry Ships (from ARVEY Model Products), below is one of the Star Trek MicroMachines that I thought might make a kewel luxury yacht, below the Ringship Zephyr is the Tantive IV Blockade Runner (AMP) and to the right is the AMP Nebulon-B Frigate. Zephyr has a little over 25% of the black window masks I received as a test fit from Aztec Dummy.
The Agroship is obviously lacking it's AgroPods. Theyr'e in-work, along w/window masks for the
Zephyr's habitat ring. I did the same thing as w/the habitat ring, in that I painted the "floor" some earth tones and greens, included some painted-on streams and am gluing in the railroad foiliage. The engines on the main hull are resin castings taken from a scratchbuild of a 1/2500 scale X-304 (Daedelus) that he made several years back and brought w/him to WonderFest '07. He had made a bunch of castings of the master parts and had a large bag w/those pieces/parts that he laid out on a table in our suite - I grabbed up four total, I think it was. I know it's an odd design, but I thought it looked better and made more sense to my personal design aesthetics than the original
Valley Forge design.
The luxury yacht that's a Trek MicroMachine is one of the ships from DS9, I think is where we first saw it. I primered it, then hit it w/a Tamiya spraybomb that's a metallic blue. Detail painting is by hand w/acrylic Tamiya Flat Red, XF-7 and Tamiya's flat black.
The two AMP Foundry Ships are pretty much self-explanatory. Only modifications I made are to add some engines to the underside of the main hull, as the kit comes w/no engines otherwise. Details are painted - rather crappily! - by hand, but the main base coat is different colors from my Tamiya stash. I forget what the lighter colored hull is, but the darker is Tamiya USAAF Neutral Gray, AS-7. The metallics used are a variety of Testors, straight from the bottle.
The two AMP Star Wars ships are in 1/4222 scale - pretty darned close to The Lords of Kobol Scale (thanks, April!). They're both one-piece kits. The
Nebulon-B is a pretty nice little kit, but I can't get a slight twist out of the main spine, as well as it's started to droop a bit. Details all painted by hand after using Tamiya US Navy Insignia White, AS-20 as a base, then giving them a two-toned wash of flat black followed by a medium grey. I used a pin-vise drill to make two holes on the port side and added the antenna's, one of which is a piece of tubular shaped resin I had thrown in my spares bin and the other is a clothing needle from my bin.
As of right now,
Zephyr has almost 75% of those darned windows covered w/the painting masks. It's drivin' me nuts having to sit there and put them in, as they always want to wiggle out of their little niche. Getting them centered correctly - and then trimming them a bit, as they're all just every-so-slightly too large - is time consuming. I think the end results will be more than worth it, tho!
Also taken on 23 December. Left to right: Agroship 08 (scratchbash using MMM parts for the
Valley Forge kit), two Foundry Ships (from ARVEY Model Products), below the
Zephyr is one of the Star Trek MicroMachines that I thought might make a kewel luxury yacht, next is the AMP
Nebulon-B Frigate and below that is the
Tantive IV Blockade Runner (AMP).
Zephyr has a little over 25% of the black window masks I received as a test fit from Aztec Dummy.
As always, comments and criticisms welcome.
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