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Thanks Charles, yeah the chin was the biggest goof i made, luckily i was able to get it "more correct". I am doing this at warp 9 in large part because my time budget was pretty small, since this will not be a kit I need to finish it off really quick and move on to the next projects for spring kits. If this was a kit project much, much more time would have been spent making sure things were more symetrica and the details were closer. All and all the whole project was a compromise, but i am still vey happy to have a nice Galactica model......
mike
You're moving incredibly fast, Mike. Looking good. As to the crack about the blueprints, let's see yours if they're better. :lol This subject is so challenging, no one else has ever drawn more accurate blueprints. Sure, Mike ran into a couple issues interpreting the plans. But he's moving at warp 9 so that's understandable.
The shape looks really good, but the details can sometimes make all the difference. A smaller scale model is going to be an interpretation of the original, more like a sculpture. It will be very hard to get a really close match when working in a different scale.
Mike, yeah the "chin" under the nose was a big goof. That area is pretty darned hard to even draw, much less build. I made quite a few mockups before I got it just right (something I highly recommend, though I understand when folks are so excited to build they just want to get straight to it).
I also noticed your "eyebrow" is off. This should be slanted downward, giving it a "meaner" look. THe head curves behind it, but the part is straight so this causes lots of confusion for people building this ship. Your version looks like what Brad Gaffey did on his model. Also, the eye "sockets" aren't the same on either side of the ship. The port side is much taller, cutting nearly all the way to the "mouth."
BTW, if anyone thinks the plans used to build this model aren't "accurate," how do you explain this?
http://www.starshipbuilder.com/forums/showthread.php?t=884
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Thanks Charles, yeah the chin was the biggest goof i made, luckily i was able to get it "more correct". I am doing this at warp 9 in large part because my time budget was pretty small, since this will not be a kit I need to finish it off really quick and move on to the next projects for spring kits. If this was a kit project much, much more time would have been spent making sure things were more symetrica and the details were closer. All and all the whole project was a compromise, but i am still vey happy to have a nice Galactica model......
mike
