Another Star Ship

Thanks for the kind comment and for keep looking at the progress Cadeus-san!

Some progress and test fitting.























Thanks for looking

Looking crazy. Katsu, thats some serious detailing.

Any updates for us?

Hi!! Tom-san

I've been attending to some house keeping things last week.
House yard had been like a jungle of the central America or something.

Yesterday, I managed to have some time to build and maybe today too.
So I will put up a few photos of the progress soon.
Now I'm working on the detailing for the tail section.

Thanks

Here are some progress.
Go on building the stern section.

I thought I want something looks like some support structure here.

These are the parts of Tamiya 4WD racer.

























Oops! Tamiya logo.

A few more detail work needed.

Thank for looking

Beautiful.

I don't get on the modeling forum much, but I have to say that this build is very impressive. Makes me feel like my Gundam builds are junk ! lol

Thanks for looking Tom-san !!

weaselhammer-san ! Thank you very much for looking!!

That last piece looks great. Looks like it was designed for that specific spot. Great work!

Thank you very much, Dart-san!

Here are some updates and this section will be finished soon.











Thanks for looking.

You are Doing GREAT JOB.For Me You Are Mastercraft.

Thank you very much, Mateh-san!

Hey Katsu once again I have to say that your detailing and especially the methods you use are very creative and just look great! I am so impressed by this model

Sorry if I missed that page, but how did you build the six big engines? These really look so cool especially when lit up and with the reflector pattern...

And to the fibre optics you used from the beginning on: How do they have different colors? Do the fibres have different colors? I cant imagine using different coloured light sources for every fibre :P Or is it just the camera that makes them shine in a different color?

...And the Tamiya logo looks good on it! :P

regards

Tom

Thanks for looking, Tom-san!

I'm so glad that you are interested in my work and thanks for asking.

The parts for the engine I used were LED reflector. I bought it at the electrical parts supplier through the internet. I bought 20 pieces for 1200yen(16 dollar). I'm not sure but it's usually used as a custom parts for car/motorcycle rear lights.
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Then I've just put the strips of sheet plastic around the reflector.













And about the coloring for the optic fiber.
I made a small casing for LED bulb. It has a reflector and half inch diameter lens on the nose. I used the small flash light for the key ring I bought at the local one coin shop.

I painted many dots on the surface of the lens randomly with the transparent paint of yellow, red and amber with a thin brush.
Then I stick a bunch of the optics fiber in there.　



I can't control the distribution of each color (which color will go where) but I thought it's OK at this time.

Thanks

katsu

Looking awesome! Sorry I haven't posted in a while... I am doing a lot of research for a 1:1 storm-trooper armor and helmet build. I love all the progress and your imagination is fantastic! I am enjoying this build. ( I saw you are following the BETTY build... There are a lot of great modelers here... I am honored to be able to watch you both.)

Thanks for dropping by Cadeus-san

Making the storm troopers armor is the one ambitious project I guess.
I can't wait for your progress posted. Have a good building my friend!!

katsu

Thank you for the fast reply Katsu!
Those reflectors are really a great find!
And coloring the lights source so to say is once again a great idea you had
You could even make different colored lenses and exchange them for a totally different atmosphere. Or you could make it rotate slowly so the colours of the ship's "windows" slightly change colors...

Once again I really admire your work.

Tom

Little progress

Here's a spray glue and a transparent sheet (for old over head projector which I snatched from my office )



Spray on to make a sticky sheet.



Deep scored plates



Placed the scored plates on the grue sheet.



Put another layer over on the lower plates to fasten them together.



Added some bits.





And the primer sprayed.





First paint in silver gray



And spray thin silver.



Test fitting on the hull.






















How does it look to you?

Any comment will be appreciated.

Thanks for looking.

Katsu-san,

Another very creative addition. Excellent job as usual.

Katsu-san, you are a wizard! Very cool. I like how you used the ends of the zip ties. Very cool.

I just love the way each part of the ship has multiple layers! So much deep detail!

Rich