Ship Model in Progress - Opinions needed!!!
POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Thursday, June 28, 2007 15:36
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Originally posted by WALRUS:
Nice... Orange
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We need paint... lots of red paint... Shiny work, keep it up!
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Quote:Rcvd and replied to.
Originally posted by citizen: Sent you off a mail.
Quote:Cool, be looking forward to that!
Originally posted by citizen:Thanks, I'm working on some modeling embellishments (airlocks, RCS thrusters, radiators, solar panels that sort of thing) and some texturing, hoping to get a lot done this weekend. I'll try and upload some more pics after that.
Quote:Yep ... true and yet not. True: No doubt thay can sit on dock pads right next to each other, the sleek newer and smaller Dragonfly next to a huge acient decrepit looking Military surplus sold 'lifter'. Now add in the Firefly class: We have the Huey/Chinook vibe with yours; a C-130/C-141 with Serenity and the C-5 with the Agro. Humm ... DragonFire class...
Originally posted by citizen:It's looking really good, and I think both can coexist. Mine was originally a millitary craft designed for duties similar to the Chinook (transport/logistics) but with a touch of the Huey's uses in Vietnam (same but with some gunship thrown in too), your's seems more of a civilian craft, so I think they can coexist quite happilly
See, I am an ex-AF avionics tech and was looking to the Agro as being closer to a C-5 Galaxy - A heavy transport. Not so much civilan in concept - but old military surplus IS sold ... gray market p'haps ...
However, my ship is a homage to Serenity and not 'really' for that 'Verse. Started there but went another direction. The Agro is not my main ship - just a stepping stone on the run from the Authorities by ex-Military personell. NOT the "A-Team", I promise you!
More Later ...
"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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Quote:Cool. From the shape of it I had assumed it was smaller than Serenity, I'm guessing it's actually a lot bigger.
See, I am an ex-AF avionics tech and was looking to the Agro as being closer to a C-5 Galaxy - A heavy transport. Not so much civilan in concept - but old military surplus IS sold ... gray market p'haps ...
However, my ship is a homage to Serenity and not 'really' for that 'Verse. Started there but went another direction. The Agro is not my main ship - just a stepping stone on the run from the Authorities by ex-Military personell. NOT the "A-Team", I promise you!
Quick question, how are you constructing this? Is it custom moulds, kit bash, little of both?
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Quote:Yep, about a 1/3 larger in length {Just shy of 300'}and as to volume - I NEED to do the rough deck plan Soon. The windows: I need to rethink them to show the scale better. Not to mention going thru the gazillion parts I've got to see what would 'work'. Got soe Ideas ... more on the cockpit windows...
Originally posted by citizen:
Cool. From the shape of it I had assumed it was smaller than Serenity, I'm guessing it's actually a lot bigger.
Quote:Totally kitbash with my new 'Ships Tar' putty {the purple stuff}
Originally posted by citizen:
Quick question, how are you constructing this? Is it custom moulds, kit bash, little of both?
Let us see ... the basic model 'bits'
HeadF-117, Sulaco, CutAway Enterprise
BodyKenworth Cab and cut down trailer, "Lost in Space the Movie" Jupiter 2 top half, Trek Maquis Raider wing joints,
Particle Acceleator Ring and Rear2 DS9 inner rings, Star Wars Droid Fighter base, 3 DS9 large Docking pylons, 3" half sphere, DS9 cnetral decks, DS9 reactor core, Trek NX-01 internal engine bits {on the outer biits of the DS9 pylons/arms.
And MUCH MUCH MUCH more...
"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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More pics - Now With Hot Wings
Humm ... Close Up makes the head look HUGE!
Wings are variable on the Z-axis and the engines themselves spin in the X-axis relitive to the wing. That is if I got my axis' labels right!
No, the engines don't collide when transiting postions ... trust me! 
"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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Here is some close-ups of the forward engine{s}...
1}Looking down the intake - yep I am going for different from what has come before - at least what I have seen! :P
2}Sorta a 3/4 view - the orangy-red is the original color of the Robotech piece
3}Looking inboard at the port-fwd engine
4}The exuast - NOT finished, got ideas, but want to hear your ideaRs.
The gray-scale version for those with that pref ...
"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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Hey folks ... new pics. Paint tests and new engine stuff. The "Battpacators" {Battery-Capacitors} are re-painted in international orange over the neon-o. Main body is in Testors Titanium Metal-izer {non--buffed at the moment}.
Other changes - can you tell? Let me know!
"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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I think I got the bridge 'canopy' sussed. It is the blue "V" ... clear blue over chrome - just a test. Oh, see the little guy sunning himself above the orangy canopy? That is a N-Scale train figure - the reason I choose to use train scales in my test-ship-building {IE: nice ways to show scale!}
Thanks for lookin' and even more if you give a detailed opinion!
"I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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What ... No input? Good ... Bad, please feel free to post any thoughts about this project! "I've heard more intelligent sounds coming out of a pair of corduroys" - Herbert Phillip Lovecraft from *Cast A Deadly Spell*
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Wow, you have got some amazing skill there. Makes me wonder how you got into custom modeling and how someone else would do so. That is just fanfriggin tastic.
Any tips for someone who would like to get into custom modeling? (I have no interest in making "kit" models so much as doing what you do.)
Again, one more time, WOW!
Alexis
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