Ship Model in Progress - Opinions needed!!!
POSTED BY: CapnRahn
UPDATED: Thursday, June 28, 2007 15:36
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LOL, Thanks! I started a looooooooong time ago {late 60s and early 70s) when I realized I really liked {even loved} the ships. My first 'love':Classic Enterprise and the CV-57{I think that is what it was called} from "Forbidden Planet" was waaay too cool back then.
But... {there is always a 'but' 
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New shapes and ideas bloomed from that stimulation and I wanted to make ships that fit into that universe {Trek, keeping the example} but was uniquely my own. So I found some old models my brother and I had and started playing around.
30 some odd years later my tools and techniques evolved - BUT { again the 'buts'} I have never finished anything to my satisfaction.
Tips-
1) Save any {and I DO mean any*} models or bits and bobs {tiny parts}, ask the local stores if they sell broken,opened/returned models for a cheaper price, even close outs at Big Lots or dollar stores can garner model gold.
2) Ask friends for whatever kits they may want to get rid of.
3) Use a plastic welder - My favorite is Tenax-7R
4) Styrene sheet and rod stock is a godsend to help finish out details or provide structural support.
Shoot me an email if you want: CapnRahn@aol.com, I'll be glad to help!
Again - Thanks for the compliments!
*Example: Bandi marketed some of the Robotech-Invid Invasion models they made for the Japan market as Go-Bots here in the ol USofA. Very complex models used to promote a vastly lesser cousin of a rather good 70s Japanese animation.
"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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Those pics with the black look pretty good. Quitte the aggresive looking boat. Puts me more in mind of a raven or a crow than a dragonfly. Definatly a raptor of some kind.
Over all, I'm very impressed with this whole thing. And I love Operation Petticoat.
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Op: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
Mal: Yeah, well I'm known for that.
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Quote:Thanks! I really like the titanium metal-buff paint - it photographs really nice.
Originally posted by Kayna:
Those pics with the black look pretty good. Quitte the aggresive looking boat. Puts me more in mind of a raven or a crow than a gragonfly. Definatly a raptor of some kind.
Over all, I'm very impressed with this whole thing. And I love Operation Petticoat.
Ah, it did start off as a dragonfly - but mutated into a DRAGON-fly ... I'll see if I can pull up a pic of Vermithrax Pejorative from the film "DragonSlayer" to illustrate the evolution of my idea.
The Agro is supposed to represent the opposite of Serenity. The Agro's Captain's character is MUCH darker than Mal - closer {or even darker} to the proto-Mal in Whedon's "Alien Resurrection" Captain Elgyn.
I point that out in referance to the ships name - do ya know what 'agro' means?
"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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Found a pic of Vermithrax!
"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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Ha, even better ...
"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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Playign with legos as a child really helps witht he whole custom modelling thing. Like what you have here, boat has a very predatory look to her. Keep up the the good work!
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Actually Very much correct - I made my own "Millenium Falcon" out of legos to use with my Star Wars figures (the Original set} waaaaay back in history.
Thanks! I am glad that that aspect is really coming through!
Any other observations? "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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