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…
Yesterday I began laminating the outside of the bondo with styrene sheet. I also forgot to mention WHY I did the balls/bondo thing and didn’t just add the styrene over the ribs. Simply enough I’m clumsy and heavy-handed and would had crushed the shell without the underneath support. Plus it…
Hrmm… Maybe my pilot’s name will be Lando’s not-well-known bastard brother Bondo Calrissian in honor of the amount of Bondo I’ve applied today. Maybe not… bad joke. Anyway, this thing is coming along fairly quickly as far as the hull goes. The hard part will be later with the details…
With these new commissions, I’m definitely on a Star Wars kick. Since stuff is drying and I have the motivation, I started on a new scratchbuild project. This ship is my own design for a 1/72 scale Corellian Light Freighter based on the Millennium Falcon’s design. I will build a…
The project is progressing nicely and at a halfway decent pace to boot despite the celluclay mistakes. I fixed all of the trees by making them thicker and that did the trick. They’re all now dry and painted-up. All that’s left is to mount them and add the finer vines…
02.20.2007 » Concepts/Initial Progress This is a bit odd… see, I’ve been a huge Star Wars fan since I was a kid and this is the FIRST Star Wars kit I’ve ever built. Kinda weird to me, but I’ve turned to the dark side and purchased a Fine Molds Boba…
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