TazMan2000
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Yeah, it looks great. The coloured panels give it way more depth and scale.
TazMan2000
TazMan2000
i don't know if it was your plan to let it look like the imperial II-class star destroyer because you were on the right track with the super structer and that's how you should have done the rest of the ship...if it was your plan because this patterns can be seen throughout the whole ship. for the pannel lines i recommend a mechanical pencil 0.3 mm H instead of a washWell, so far so good. I need to add some more filter to the roof panels which I will do over the next day or so to bring them into line with the main body.
I'll let you be the judge on whether or not the masking was worth it
thanks you'r welcomeThat is a seriously nice pair of SDs right there. The tremendous amount of effort on your behalf is massively evident. I hope you won awards for them! Are they kits or scratch built?
As for what one Im going for; I am not aiming to reproduce either. In fact, I am not replicating any of the classes, I'm just doing my own thing and going with what looks good rather than what was on the screen. I know some people don't like that and its perfectly fine. Each to their own
I too will be using a pencil to add in some more panels here and there but Im mostly using the kit supplied lines as a guide.
I realise that some of the panels are quite large, but this is for 2 reasons, with the main one being that I wanted mine to look a little more cobbled together. Whole sections replaced or patched up before the ship is sent back out. The second, lesser reason being that this build has been going on long enough and I just want it done. Im getting over it and, I think, so is everyone else here and on other forums. But I have invested so much time already that it would be a shame to waste said time if I don't finish it.
Thankyou for sharing your pics, they're seriously beautiful and I appreciate your feedback.
ok yeah that's right...if you see the modifications you made to the rest of the ship then you neglected the engine section a bit...hahaha. anyway i guess your isd looks absolutely stunning when it's all done. I also have the feeling that it is one of the few models in which I will often turn on the lighting, which is otherwise rarely the case. and at some point it has to be over, for my part, I've had enough of this thing for now and I'll be glad if I don't have to touch it anymore in a few daysI have no problems with sharing images. I really like what you did to yours. I just wish now I had paid more attention to the engine block, in particular, underneath the outer engine bells. By the time I realised that there was detail missing, it was too late. Funny how something so obvious can slip by unnoticed.
Like you, I've had to take multiple small breaks to avoid burnout. I still have the base to finish yet. The worst thing about that is that the concept keeps changing and I really have to reign in the enthusiasm to keep it inline with my skill levels
Agreed. Now we just need Bandai to come out with their 1/2700 SD. That thing would sell like hot cakes!For me it is the thing holding me back most is the thought of drilling thousands of fiber optic holes, and then threading them all
I really appreciate that Bandai did pre-drilled holes
I totally agree with you... drilling the holes is a lot less work than you would imagine although I drilled everything by hand and drilled so many holes that I later laid 350 meters of fiber optic cable. the first 30 holes are tedious but once you get the hang of it it's super fast. detailing the whole ship was most time consuming at least for me. but I made 2 huge mistakes that should definitely be avoided. I glued the ship together at the very beginning and only when I started drilling the holes did I realize that it would have been so much less trouble if I had glued it together at the end. second mistake: i did not orgenize the fiber optic cable well from the beginning.yes, it would've been nice of Zvezda to do that as well, but I think Bandai are pretty unique with things like that.
Believe it or not, the drilling didn't take as long as I thought it would. LOL, mind you, that was only the drilling and not the mind numbing threading
LOL, its just another service I provideThanks to you, I have that song in my head on repeat Great work, btw!!