EAS Iku-Turso (Babylon 5: Hyperion)
Comments
1 15 March 2016, 21:42
Aris GreyGreat idea and amazing painting on the model!! Congrats, very inspiring!
15 March 2016, 21:47
Heikki LankinenThank you. The hull panels are decals that I made from the original Babylon 5 3D model's skin image.
15 March 2016, 22:35
Bart Goesaertidd a nice painting, the effect of the different shades on the plates is just about right without looking chessboardisch... must have taken a lot of tape...
16 March 2016, 09:20
Heikki LankinenThe effect on the plates is done with decals. Not paint. Only tape that was used was used for measuring the round areas while planning and cutting the decals.
16 March 2016, 20:13
Bart Goesaertyou have by any chance some in progress photo's of this decalwork? Interested in how it's done
17 March 2016, 08:04
Heikki LankinenI printed A4 sheets and then cut small pieces from that. I had lighter decals for the grey areas and darker for the blue. here's one photo: Hyperion WIP | Album by Feikki (1:4105)
17 March 2016, 08:48
Heikki LankinenI added one new photo where you can see my workbench during the decal application phase: Hyperion WIP | Album by Feikki (1:4105)
17 March 2016, 10:43
Heikki LankinenI planned carefully how to cut the pieces from the sheet and cut and test fitted them and carefully added them to the model. I used Vallejo's Decal medium and Decal set. Decal medium goes under the decal and softens it, helping to remove the air bubbles causing silvering. Decal set goes over it and helps hiding the edges.
17 March 2016, 10:46
Mathias CarlRealy nice and impressive work. 👍 👍
Love it. 🙂
And the decal-job is very impressive.
17 March 2016, 11:12
Heikki LankinenThanks! I'm really happy for the result! I haven't done anything like this before. It took lot of work but it was worth it.
17 March 2016, 14:05
Choppa Nuttathere has been a some really nice Babylon 5 models completed recently, yours is great too but I thought you might like this one too, the Whitestar... 🙂
genessis-models.webs..57283?pid=1292685402
29 June 2016, 14:45
Heikki LankinenThanks for sharing the link, Choppa! That Whitestar is gorgeous.
Thanks, Gastón.
30 June 2016, 17:22
Album info
Hyperion Class heavy cruiser EAS Iku-Turso is completed.
EAS Iku-Turso. Hyperion Class heavy cruiser From Babylon 5. Almost 1:4000 scale resin kit by Black Sun models. Bought from Starship modeler Store. Huge thanks for everyone who's been cheering me during these couple of years I've been working on this. I'd like to thank Tom Smith for his inspiring Babylon 5 scrolls site and excellent reference photos. I also got reference pics from Vince. Text marking decals are from J-Bot. Panel decals I made myself from the b5hull.jpg
