Star Trek "Jellyfish" scratch

My first scratch after 2 years break and first post here:
The Jellyfish, my favourite ship design of the new Star Trek.



I try to build it with light and moving parts.

Here some progress pix:

Head:




Bow:





Middle part of rotating section:






Blade:
without plating



plating done

Lovely clean work! How did you do the plating?

Lovely work.
I too would like a few more details on the build.

You can't beat those old wooden clothes pegs.

Looking good. interesting ship. will be watching this one.

Thank you.

How did you do the plating?

Plating done with Evergreen Ø 1 mm halfround profiles.

I too would like a few more details on the build.

The basic structure is build up with PS sheets. The "head" and "bow" filled up with selfexpanding PU-foam. And filled the pores with putty.


To give the surface more strength I used one layer with resin soaked glassfibre cloth. Clean up with putty and a lot of sanding, sanding, sanding...
The round cut-out is made with PS sphere:




In case of the symmetry of the ship I planed to do only one half and cast the other half to complete it.

At the moment I´m doing the forked tail. Once again a lot of sanding



And I search for a posibillity to replicate that organic surface of the ship:

Watching with interest! Very cool.

What about some craquelure paint and then a few layers of clear coat ?

http://www.sumbel.com/produkte/03224...a04/index.html

frostrubin said:

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And I search for a posibillity to replicate that organic surface of the ship:

Man from Naboo you beat me to it. I worked in a paint store for a while and there are all kinds of stuff to get this effect,both brush and spray. I was going to say getting that color may be difficult but you just need the effect really and then can paint it what ever color. Also maybe sculpy and "stamp" the pattern in would also work yeah? Quite an ambitious ship to scratch by the way.

ManfromNaboo said:

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What about some craquelure paint and then a few layers of clear coat ?

http://www.sumbel.com/produkte/03224...a04/index.html

Cool thats a german company, I try to get a sample...

Fett_Ish said:

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I worked in a paint store for a while and there are all kinds of stuff to get this effect,both brush and spray. I was going to say getting that color may be difficult but you just need the effect really and then can paint it what ever color. Also maybe sculpy and "stamp" the pattern in would also work yeah? Quite an ambitious ship to scratch by the way.

The colour is not the problem, it´s the surface that I want to get. So if you know some product that do so - your welcome. Stamping is to mechanical in an unorganic sense...but this is something I can cast...

You can also use leather skin from a snake or reptile from a leather shop. I did that when i made a custom predator combi spear.

takevin said:

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You can also use leather skin from a snake or reptile from a leather shop. I did that when i made a custom predator combi spear.

That´s a great idea. I´m looking for that - something that is thin enough to wrap around.

I would think that animal scales although organic may be a bit uniform.The paint method I think could be workable,but scale could be an issue as you only have so much control over the cracking process. When I thought of the "stamp" idea, I was thinking you would be making a few patterns and would create it as uniformly or "organically" to your liking.Good luck on what is already agreat build.

I LOVE THIS SHIP! Great Build!!!

Re: organic looking skin - The texture looks Exactly like a dry-lake bed. Look to model Railroading supplies, where I recall a Co. that sold a latex rubber-mat that replicated this same effect on wet plaster.
The same method was used at Stan Winston's Studios to replicate dino-skin for the Jurassic Park franchise. Why sculpt when you can


Oh & there's also Wrapping paper (check scap-booking supplies) that has this same pattern embossed on it. (just make a mold of it & use it the same way they did at SWS)
I found a great paper that had a fantastic cobble-stone look which I use in a Gotham City diorama.

Looks great so far. You should somehow figure out how to kit it for the rest of us!!

I agree with JP!

Lot of good stuff in this thread, nice shapes you have to create and conquer
you doing an excellent job!

That's amazing work! Very impressive!

I was wondering when some talented builder was going to attempt this ship - it's an amazing design. Nice work thus far, I look forward to watching the progress.

-Speederbiker

Thanks.
A small update.
Added some details on the "head". Once again I use PS-sheet for that.






The 3rd in the back is unfinshed, in case that prt "hover" over the hull. I complete it when the head is casted.

I plated the forked back, I try to get this result.






Next I do clean ups and add more details on the inner side of it.

Very nice

More details on the back part done

Lovely job, I really like the detail of the inner face !!

Cheers

Phil

Very impressive details! You scratchbuilers never cease to amaze me.

Any updates on this?

I´m bussy with my other scratchbuild. An 1/1 lifescale. Finished at 22nd Feb.


But I managed to do casting of some parts Maybe some pics this weekend...