1/350th Romulan BOP- Vacuform Version..Almost There

Hey All,

Been very busy the last few weeks on the new job, but rest assured work for AW Studios is still going on. As some of you may know, I purchased Richard's (REL) original 1/350th Romulan BOP masters with his permission to use it to create a vacuform version of this kit.

Well we are almost there. First I want to say that Richard really did a fantastic job with this model. I had to separate the wings from the body in order to properly vacuform this model.

The engine detail and Plasma cannon have been molded and are ready for casting. Richard provided me with the original mold for the top fin of the ship, so that is ready to go. Finally, we have molded all of the ship parts and have created positive silicone molds in order to create the negative vacuform mold. Here are some pictures of the silicone parts laid out in the vacuform box we will be pouring the resin into. The box has tappered walls to extract the plastic more easily. The wood has also been given a coat of silicone to seal the wood to prevent the vacuform resin from sticking to it and also for the silicone molds to stick to the surface.

We are waiting for the Slow Kast vacuform resin to arrive and then we will pour the resin and then drill the holes. Once that is done then we will start pulling plastic and a build-up will be done. Hope you all enjoy.... these kits will be available soon.












Additional photos at a higher resolution can be found here:
http://tk386.com/aws/bird_of_prey_mold_box/

Later all.

Scott
AW Studios

Oh yes, looks great. Will the decals be included? What is the estimated price?


Will

feek61 said:

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Oh yes, looks great. Will the decals be included? What is the estimated price?


Will

The Kit will probably be $165. I have to work out the decals with either JTGraphics or another avenue.

Scott

We poured the vacuform resin last night. Hopefully on Tuesday or Thursday next week we will do a reveal. Because next Friday is Halloween, we will not be getting together, but rest assured, the following week, we plan to pull some plastic.

Scot

So . . .who gets to do the build-up???

Actaully, REL will be doing a build-up for the instructions, but you get one to build up and show off here as well...

Well, we pulled the molds out of the vacuform resin and let's just say the results were amazing. I am waiting for Charlie (my partner) to upload the photos of the negative mold so I can show you all. The details came out amazing.

Now all we need to do is do some minor clean-up, drill the holes for the air to travel through for vacuum, and then we can melt some plastic. I am hoping to pull it in .060 styrene, but I am not sure how well the surface detail will come out even pulling 29 inHG and a negative mold. I know .040 will pull just fine, but I like the sturdiness of .060.

As soon as I have the pictures of the mold, I will post them.

Also, my new employer has a full woodshop and metal fabrication shop and after talking to the Production Manager, he said they can build our new larger vacuform table since we are typically slow in November. That means the Stargazer will be back in the hopper very soon.

Scott

WHOO-HOOOO!!!! man I can't wait to get back down there and play!

We pulled a few pieces of plastic tonight. We definitely need to drill more vent holes. The details were still too soft. We had a feeling we would need to drill more, but it was worth testing. We will try again next week.

Scott

Hey Guys,

It has been a few weeks since an update. A lot of progress has been made. Here is a picture of the negative mold. It came out real nice.










Here is is sanded down and cleaned up a bit.









The first pulls were not so good. BOOOOOOOOOOO We needed many more vent holes drilled.






So we drilled MANY MORE HOLES! And it was successful!




















Then someone hit the cloaking device.









And the man behind the madness!



Now a build-up will be done for the instructions. Decals will be provided as well as vinyl windows cut outs. Although the plastic has the windows, they are best used as markers for drilling the holes for lighting. The vinyl will give you even better detail.

For higher resolution photos, go here:

http://tk386.com/aws/bird_of_prey_mold_box/

Just a few more weeks and we will be ready to go.

Scott

Hey! That looks like one of those ships from Star Trek, the one the tribbles flew, I can't remember.

vaderman1701 said:

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Hey Guys,

It has been a few weeks since an update. A lot of progress has been made. Here is a picture of the negative mold. It came out real nice.










Here is is sanded down and cleaned up a bit.









The first pulls were not so good. BOOOOOOOOOOO We needed many more vent holes drilled.






So we drilled MANY MORE HOLES! And it was successful!




















Then someone hit the cloaking device.









And the man behind the madness!



Now a build-up will be done for the instructions. Decals will be provided as well as vinyl windows cut outs. Although the plastic has the windows, they are best used as markers for drilling the holes for lighting. The vinyl will give you even better detail.

For higher resolution photos, go here:

http://tk386.com/aws/bird_of_prey_mold_box/

Just a few more weeks and we will be ready to go.

Scott

I am sitting here at work . . .pumping my fists into the air!!! Everyone is giving me very strange looks . . .


She looks amazing! Man do I miss that table!!!

Well done!

SCOTT!!!

DUUUUUUUUUUDE!

This is FANTASTIC work my friend!

WOW....

When do these make it to the Junkyard?

micdavis said:

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WOW....

When do these make it to the Junkyard?

Hopefully in a few weeks. The build-up instructions are going to be done and then we will start pulling more and getting them boxed up for sale. I don't want to start selling until I have them in stock ready to go.

Scott

Been looking forward to this one for a while! Looks great! the wings look a bit tricky jut looking at the pulls but thats the funny thing about vac-form stuff - looks can be deceiving - hard looks easy and easy looks hard a lot of the time It looks like it will be light as a feather though Very cool!

Jedi Dade

It probably will not be as difficult as you think. The instructions will be in step-by-step pictorial form (for the most part), so you should be able to follow along pretty easily.

Scott

Bump for an update

Hey Scott!!!

What ever happened with this? I was really looking forward to getting one of these. Any update?



Will

He made an update here last month.
resinilluminati.com/showthread.php?p=98752#post98752

Thanks Rob.

Well look at that! WOW!
PM sent . . .see you this weekend!

sweet... I'm getting at least one...

Jedi Dade