Hey everyone, this has been in the works for a while but i don't think i ever started a thread over here.....anyway..
A big thanks goes to Mike R (greeblie gremlin) again on this one, one day Mike and i were talking on the phone about how in the later star wars movies some of the models like the x wing and AT AT had what was pretty much "double" original SS counterparts and that since we had the files for the intakes, afterburners, canopy triangle, afterburner plates, and turbo fan from the 1/24 SS kit, that with a little adjustment we could have the parts grown in 1/12....kind of daydreaming that if there had been a REAL season 2 that Apogee may have gotten around to building a bigger viper...well daydreaming gave way to a project!
Mike put some additional work in so i could have grown not only the parts mentioned above but also the "core" that holds the 3 engines, the 3 cones that get all the heavy greeblie parts, oval greeblies, cannon greeblies, and disk plate, Mike also grewthe 1/12 pilot head. I sculpted the fuselage and everything else by hand, including a 1/12 scale pilot. Some liberties are being taken with the detailing, mostly adding small details to give the proper sense of scale to the larger model.
The interior is modeled after the full size mock up with some compromises to get it to fit in to a scaled model. The forward panels of the interior are cast in clear for lighting, as well as the pilots helmet, and afterburner plates.
Pics in this post are of the nearly completed "test" build....I still need to tweak a few things including securing the canopy frame and straightening out the cannons, as well as finalizing the lighting.
I will post a few follow up pics of the development if people are interested. The last pic is next to it's 15 1/2 inch 1/24 counterpart...
Mike S.
A big thanks goes to Mike R (greeblie gremlin) again on this one, one day Mike and i were talking on the phone about how in the later star wars movies some of the models like the x wing and AT AT had what was pretty much "double" original SS counterparts and that since we had the files for the intakes, afterburners, canopy triangle, afterburner plates, and turbo fan from the 1/24 SS kit, that with a little adjustment we could have the parts grown in 1/12....kind of daydreaming that if there had been a REAL season 2 that Apogee may have gotten around to building a bigger viper...well daydreaming gave way to a project!
Mike put some additional work in so i could have grown not only the parts mentioned above but also the "core" that holds the 3 engines, the 3 cones that get all the heavy greeblie parts, oval greeblies, cannon greeblies, and disk plate, Mike also grewthe 1/12 pilot head. I sculpted the fuselage and everything else by hand, including a 1/12 scale pilot. Some liberties are being taken with the detailing, mostly adding small details to give the proper sense of scale to the larger model.
The interior is modeled after the full size mock up with some compromises to get it to fit in to a scaled model. The forward panels of the interior are cast in clear for lighting, as well as the pilots helmet, and afterburner plates.
Pics in this post are of the nearly completed "test" build....I still need to tweak a few things including securing the canopy frame and straightening out the cannons, as well as finalizing the lighting.
I will post a few follow up pics of the development if people are interested. The last pic is next to it's 15 1/2 inch 1/24 counterpart...
Mike S.
