Spaceship for Sci-Fi novel

[Tim Marlow]

Excellent progress Pablo. You are doing a great job of reworking electrical scrap into a cohesive whole. It will be interesting seeing the greeblies build up.

[boatman]

Excellent progress Pablo. You are doing a great job of reworking electrical scrap into a cohesive whole. It will be interesting seeing the greeblies build up.

HI Tim what are greeblies ? as never heard that before
chrisb

[Tim Marlow]

HI Tim what are greeblies ? as never heard that before
chrisb

Hi Chris. It’s a spaceship builders term for all the little hatches and panels on the surface as I understand it. I may be wildly wrong though :upside:

[Tim Marlow]

There you go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

[boatman]

There you go

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

THANK YOU Tim for info as ive never heard this term used before
CHEERS SIR
chrisb

[Neil Merryweather]

My son did his work experience on 'The Force Awakens ' for which my brother made the C3PO suit ( I am in total AWE), and he has a post card of C3PO signed by Anthony Daniels that says
"Thanks for polishing my greeblies"
I don't think he values it as much as I do!

[perigono]

HI Pablo well please could you fit full size pics of your intened space ship as how they are hard for me to see on my laptop an to try an understand your spaceship build these are all just bits cobbled together to make a space ship are they ? but for me to understand this is this goin to be something like startrek ? to try an get a bit of background an uderstanding of what the ship will represent/militaty or cillivin ? an if i understand this its goin to be part of a novel yes ?
Chrisb

See bellow

[perigono]

HI Pablo well please could you fit full size pics of your intened space ship as how they are hard for me to see on my laptop an to try an understand your spaceship build these are all just bits cobbled together to make a space ship are they ? but for me to understand this is this goin to be something like startrek ? to try an get a bit of background an uderstanding of what the ship will represent/militaty or cillivin ? an if i understand this its goin to be part of a novel yes ?
Chrisb

Chris, I don't completely understand what you are asking me to do with the pictures. I have a laptop too and I have no issue seeing them. If I upload them one by one, would that help you?
So far, the selected pieces are not permanently attached but with some tape, just to create a general shape for the spaceship that pleases me. Later, I will work on each piece. Finally, when all the pieces are ok, I will attach them together permanently.
Something like a Star Trek spaceship, yes. It will be a civilian/scientific spaceship, no military at all. And, yes, the spaceship is part of a novel I will be writing after I finish the one I am working on.

[boatman]

HI Pablow with te pics when you bring up a pic in the thumbnail like you have it will say insert a pic an thumbnail or full size hit full size an your pictures will look so much better sir
chrisb

[perigono]

Chris, you can understand the process better if you watch this video. Plus, this guy thinks like me when it comes to finding the right proportions before beginning the construction.

I hope you can see the images better now.

[boatman]

YES BRILLIANT Pablow an there are some wondefull scratcbuild model there as i often scratchbuild on my war ships so this is not new to me but i have plans to work from but i could not build these ships as good as they have its a case of letting the imgination run riot
but pics are great
chrisb

[perigono]

Some progress

[papa 695]

Loving this build Pablo, keep up the great work.

[Scratchbuilder]

Welcome Pablo,
I can understand your preference for scratchbuilding your own sci-fi model, that way you can decide fictionally what the interior layout could be and how access and departure can take place.
When working as a pro model maker, the model store below our offices sent up a stack of Airfix 'space' kits, plastic card and other plastic items and asked if we could build them a sci-fi model for a store competition. This finished model took on the guise of an extended 'Space 1999' craft using as the base the main craft used. A lot of influence came from the models of Matt Irvine who wrote articles at the time (1970's/80's).
Look forward to more of your 'ship build.

[scottie3158]

Looking good Pablo