That's no egg... that's a space station!

DAVIDYR1 said:

This project is eggceptional.

David

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It's more the eggceptional, it's eggstraordinary !

Well, that's a roost of continiuing fun!
Please, don't stop that

BiggusDoggus said:

so next up you need a squadron of Imperial Egg Fighters that you can scramble (see what I did there) to chase that Egg-Wing outta there .....

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Yeah, but he'd have to have a dozen of each.

a little imagination and some modelling skill.... nice work. did you have a 'final' picture of the death egg on it's completed stand?

Zombie_61 said:

Yeah, but he'd have to have a dozen of each.

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with markings so we know whether they are barn reared or free range organic ....

This is mind blowingly fantastic. Is there anything you can't build from styrene!? Shame I'm too late to the party to lay down some good eggs puns - but I'm pretty eggcited to see how this turns out!

Gossoon said:

This is mind blowingly fantastic. Is there anything you can't build from styrene!? Shame I'm too late to the party to lay down some good eggs puns - but I'm pretty eggcited to see how this turns out!

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...there are good egg puns?

j/k

Always entertaining.

--Alex

why did the Egg Star cross the road? Because it was carbon bonded to a chicken...

vixr said:

why did the Egg Star cross the road? Because it was carbon bonded to a chicken...

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I prefer the the one about the stormtrooper eggstra who cracked his head off of the set whilst scrambling through a doorway...

Aaaaand we're back! With a vengeance! Took some time away from this project to finish this one;



An ancient (19 -ing 65... older than I am...) Frog kit, all detailed up. Build thread is here for those who are curious; http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/...sil-build-a-fossil-frog-172-p-61-black-widow/

Building up wing-stubs...


Trimming off wing stubs...


Making wings by figuring out clever angles and stuff...


...and before you're all well and done, it all goes pear-shaped. Or egg-shaped...




The wings get greebled up...


...and before you know it, it's ready for paint.




More soooooon!

Rob

Wow!
And for the TIE Interceptor those egg-shaped wings could be cracked ones. For real!

It looks like Darth Lay-der has had to order his fighters to "scramble" ... :lol

Paint time!

Primer...


Pre-shade...


Main colours... a mix of Goose Gray and Duck Egg Green for the T'egg-Fighter, Some Light Gray and Radome Tan for the Eggs-Wing...


Hand-painted details and stuff...










Next up; putting it all together on a stand!

And I have a cunning planning, involving an LED, a bit of clear sprue, some clear red paint and a few batteries...


More soooooon!

Rob

Woohoo! Just those pesky final bits to do! Like a lighted stand... and stuff... because we like a challenge!

A box for the various electrical gubbins made from lots and lots of discs of 2mm styrene. I made the walls of the box by laminating three layers of 0.5mm styrene strip around a tube.
I made a clever lid by stacking various discs and cut-outs of 2mm styrene as well.


The lid got stuck to the bottom of the original stand I made...


More discs and rings made up a hollow foot for under the box. I stuffed it with discs of roofing lead I "liberated" at work... In total it made the stand weigh about 130 grams...


One of the lead discs needed a little channel cut out...


To make room for a bit of copper wire. Part one of the light switch...




Part one of the switch on the weighted base, the two terminals made in the same way sticking out of the bottom of the box...


Twist the base, and the copper wire in the weighted foot bridges the two terminals in the box. Easy-peasy...


Font found on the interwebs... Printed out and stuck to a thin sheet of styrene...


A lot of painstaking cutting out later...


Stuck on and ready for paint...


The base painted Gun Metal Black with a dry-brush of Bright Brass and a coat of Klear. Just put it all together to get a feel for it...


And it feels like... something is missing...

But what?

Hmmm...


NO DROID! We're droidless!! And I personally find my lack of droids disturbing...


Stacking styrene scraps on the end of a bit of tube...


Powertool + sanding stick = WIN!


Leg!


More legs!


Greebled up and painted...

"Aren't you a little short for an Astromech Droid?"

*beeble-greep TWEET pweet WOOT!!*

"Now that's just RUDE!! besides, not really sure you can do that with a photonic power outlet without serious injury... oh, you mean that's the point..."


Just for that, you're getting a grappling hook... *Weeble..?*


*Breeeeeee-iiioooowwww!!*


DONE!


Thanks all of ya'll for watching, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!

Rob

Great work Rob, Can you make some pics with a dark background?

More pics. I will take more pictures tonight, in the dark...





* Breeeeeeee-yowwww!!*






"I have you now..."

This is so cool....

Picks jaw up off floor.

Beyond brilliant.

Contact Disney, maybe next easter there can be a whole new line of toys.....