In Progress » YT-1380f Corellian Light Freighter » Detail… FINALLY!

Finally I’ve gotten the hull to a point where I can begin to add detail. First up is the heat radiators and the plate-armor. The armor is .020″ styrene sheet. One of the first items I ever purchased when modeling was a pack of frisket film. It turned out to be pretty much useless for modeling, at least for me, until today. I was trying to figure out how I would get all of the wedge-shaped armor plates to be cut correctly and all line up over the curved surface. Turns out that frisket was the key. I laid some frisket down over the ship and using some wire to make the lines and circles then lightly cut the frisket enough to cut it and not the plastic underneath. Then I peeled the frisket off and placed on the styrene as a guide for cutting. Then it was all glued into place after adding the notches and doing some minor clean-up.

For the radiators I used a metal circular watch-part and some plastruct tread-place. I made a mold then cast myself 4 of them.