Scratch built Spaceship

Thomas Espe
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Skyhiker
Welcome Thomas

Spanjaard
i am certainly in, i have some similar project in mind, so looking forward seeing how you do it 🙂

Skyhiker
What I find fun about these projects is I never know what it will turn out looking like. I just start and let it take me where it goes.

Lochsa River
...add me to the crew...

Skyhiker
Welcome Lochsa

Rui
👀😁

Torsten
I'm in 👀

Robert Podkoński
Interesting. Watching with pleasure!

Skyhiker
A lot of filling and sanding today.

Michael Kohl
pure fantasy. I love it. Keep the pics coming.

Rui
Looking good. Can't wait to see the paint and cosmic weathering 😜

Finn
Cool, will follow

Brandon H
Cool idea! Following this one!

Gareth Windsor
Loving the progress so far. Looking forward to seeing the finished model.

Rui S
I'm in and curious 👍

Cuajete
Very ingenious and original! The vitamin spaceship... Great! 👍

playtime 222
Nice job. Bit unexpected. I saw the title and thought it would be the one NASA tried to launch today... 🤔🤣

Donald Dickson II
Interesting!

Skyhiker
It's getting close to priming time.

Rui
Prime time...bring it on 👍

Michael Kohl
Where can I buy this Bandai kit? 😉

Sukhoi242
Could do with some antenna & stuff like on the Sulaco in alien.

Spanjaard
primer takes it to a completely different level.

bmod
Very cool! I'd spend 50 years in suspended animation on that beauty.

Skyhiker
With the primer on now I can see what I am doing.

Skyhiker
Sukhoi242, I considered adding antennas to the front early on in the build, but I couldn't find a good solution because I don't have the right greeblies to do it.

Spanjaard
i would try with a piece of sprue, with some crossing. cut and drill in the extremes, and insert some pieces of thick copper. add a few tubes and small pieces of plastic, some wires, etc to make it more interesting. prime it and see how it looks, good? add to the model.

Spanjaard
i remember a video from Adam Savage (one of the Mithbusters) were he was building something from scratch, and he was adding quite a few pieces of simply and plain plasticard. it makes the surface less even and more interesting.
great job so far, by the way.

Skyhiker
The squirt gun that I used as a base is very different from a Star Wars styrene build and required a different technique. In Star Wars they layered styrene and added a few tank parts. Apples and oranges.

Torsten
The primer then always makes it something special, the overall composition looks very interesting, I'm looking forward to more 👍

Villiers de Vos
You are very talented.

Ludvík Kružík
Very interesting and creative project 👍 👀

Rui
The plates were a good idea; makes the surface a little more interesting. I agree it could eventually use some antenna clusters or a communications dish, so something that says hello 😁

Skyhiker
Well Spanjaard, I managed to squeeze in some styrene plates but there is not much space to do anything really cool. The rounded off edges of the squirt gun make things a lot more difficult than if I had made something directly out of styrene, like they did in Star Wars. But the whole point of this project is to make something out of junk and the prices for styrene have risen ridiculously.

Rui S
And you are making the "junk" looking like a great kit. Well done. 👍
P.s. the plastic I used in my Zis 5 truck transformation came from a supermarket food container 😄 😉

Spanjaard
It is looking really good. But true, the curved areas certainly make things more complicated
You could use some really thick paper as well, used paper of course, to keep the junk idea 🙂

Rui
A few days ago my partner rinsed and empty margarine container and threw it in the recycling bin. I saw it in the bin as I took it out to the curb and my imagination turned to how the white plastic could be used for detailing so I rescued it and put it on my bench. 👍

Now my partner thinks I'm a hoarder and she is convinced we are all crazy plastic addicts and thinks I should seek help. The family is now thinking of an 'modelling intervention' LOL 🤪

Lochsa River
LOL!!

Skyhiker
My studio is getting too full. I need more storage. Lol.

Rui S
😄 😄 😄

John Hughes
Needs the engine decking from a Panther for that touch of reality.

Skyhiker
More progress...

Skyhiker
Send me a Panther engine decking and I'll make something out of it.

Skyhiker
Ready for the second coat of primer.

Spanjaard
all the extra details make it look even better than before. with the paint job, it will be amazing. are you planning a new spaceship, or also weathering?

Skyhiker
I think I will go for weathering because the mixed materials lend towards that working better. I am imagining it as a probe ship looking for rich gas deposits for the mother ship to later harvest. Going through various gases and temperatures would corrode the ship.

Spanjaard
👍

Neil
Massively interested to see this progress 👍 🙂 Looking good!

Rui
The offset radar dish and that other offset widget make it look realistic in a good way 😁

Neferthorus
Very original ! I like all the details. Congrats.

Skyhiker
Haven't been able to work in a few days because the landlord of my studio broke my rhythm. She just gave me notice because I work long hours and after 13 years she decided that that annoys her. Her office is on the same floor. It makes no sense but sometimes people are just a**holes. Prices have risen since I've had this place and I can't afford the new inflated rent prices in my city. A new studio is out of the question. With every room occupied at home I'm not sure if I will be able to make a corner in my apartment to work. Painting will be problematic and it's clear I will have to sell most of my equipment and get rid of my storage cabinets that are too big to bring home. Really sucks.

Spanjaard
that really sucks .... really sorry to hear.

Ludvík Kružík
That's really unfortunate. I feel for you and wish you to find a reasonable solution to this situation soon.

Sukhoi242
Hopefully you ingenuity will find a way, I was enjoying watching this being built.

Torsten
I keep my fingers crossed that you find something, in your city not easy 🙁

Cuajete
I agree with the mates. So sorry. Good luck friend.

Spanjaard
i hope things are getting better for you

Donald Dickson II
Oh wow, that sucks. Im sorry. Much luck!

Skyhiker
I am currently setting up a new work space and still living out of boxes. Unfortunately my new space is much smaller and I am having a hard time figuring out what to do with everything, but I will make it work somehow. I hope to start up again after Christmas. I have 7 half built models waiting for my attention.

Guy Rump
Hope all works out for you. 👍