Sci-fi kitbash

[Mickc1440]

That looks fantastic Andy sat in its undercoat. The rear section sort of reminds me of the interceptors from UFO that had the enormous missiles on the front.

[Waspie]

That looks fantastic Andy sat in its undercoat. The rear section sort of reminds me of the interceptors from UFO that had the enormous missiles on the front.

Agree, and with maybe a dash of cruise missile thrown in for good measure.

[Andy T]

Thanks again all, I'm glad you like it so far.

I may have to make some kind of stand as it sits awkwardly due to the shape. I did consider adding landing gear but haven't yet. I'll see how it evolves.

[Andy T]

A quick underside shot:

[Andy T]

I made a basic stand from bits of sprue and some textured black paint:



After much thought about the colour I decided on red, similar to the image I'm using for inspiration. I want to go for heavily chipped and beaten up so went overboard with the shading & highlights, knowing they'd be toned down by later stages.

I used AK acrylics, working through various shades: Black Red, Dirty Red, Carmine, Blood Red.

I've also used several different metallics, some out of the bottle, some mixed by me, but it's still early stages with plenty of work left to do.

[minitnkr]

Shaping up beautifully. You could just draw some doors on the bottom in lieu of landing gear.

[papa 695]

Fantastic work Andy. It’s coming along great guns.

[yak face]

Thats looking fabulous already andy

[Jim R]

Already that paint job I very impressive.

[Waspie]

Amazing work made even more fantastic as it's nigh on all from your own head and hands.
You guys never fail to amaze me with your skills and abilities.

[Steve-the-Duck]

It's intriguing isn't it, that ever since Star Wars' 'lived in and dirty' universe, everyone does paint chipping on SF stuff. Unless it's star Trek. In the future / Galaxy far away, no-one has made long-lasting hard-wearing paint...

[minitnkr]

......and what are they running into....?

[Andy T]

Thanks guys

It's intriguing isn't it, that ever since Star Wars' 'lived in and dirty' universe, everyone does paint chipping on SF stuff. Unless it's star Trek. In the future / Galaxy far away, no-one has made long-lasting hard-wearing paint...

I made a right mess of painting the metal strip down the side. I should have masked & sprayed it but decided to have a go a brushing it instead. It looked so bad that I had to disguise it somehow...

[Ian M]

It's intriguing isn't it, that ever since Star Wars' 'lived in and dirty' universe, everyone does paint chipping on SF stuff. Unless it's star Trek. In the future / Galaxy far away, no-one has made long-lasting hard-wearing paint...

I think that is due to the fact that In Star Wars space ships didn't just stay in space. They kept returning to atmospheric planets with weather, sand/dirt and not lived out their entire service in the cold vacuum of space.

[Tim Marlow]

The wear on this is totally believable to me. I know this is totally fictitious but bear with me…..this is how I see it, and yes, I’ve woken up far too early and have nothing better to do. None of this is supposed to detract from what I think is a cracking build full of ingenuity and genuine skill, it’s just the random musing of an overactive mind

The area of operations of a craft like this would probably be planetary orbit or local space (think of carrier warfare in space). It’s not suited to deep space flight on its own, simply because the crew don’t have enough room to move around much. In addition to which any spacecraft moving between star systems would be incredibly unlucky to encounter another craft simply because of the unimaginable distances involved. The areas in which it will operate will therefore have debris fields, especially in a warfare situation.

A developed planet, like our own already does, will have a debris field of space junk surrounding it. This junk comes from big things like life expired satellites right down to small things discarded bolts and even paint flakes. Basically flying through this field will be like moving through a hail of machine gun bullets that are moving around twenty times faster than those fired by a gun. Combat will just make this worse because damage and destruction of the combatants causes more bits of junk to fly off and add to this field. Even a near space battlefield, such as between planetary systems, will briefly be a debris field until the debris disperses.

Flying through this debris field will therefore cause impact damage and wear on surfaces exactly like that shown by Andy. So, great job Andy :thumb2::thumb2: