Moebius can't call this Viper an "egg".

[Eagle-1]

A Moebius "Super-Deformed" Mark II Viper. They couldn't call it an "egg" because Hasegawa has that line, but is most certainly an egg type model. It's been out a little while, so I'm sure many here have seen this? I'll be doing a little modifying of this to add more "studio" details to it.

Here's some box art and what you get in the box:

I plan to modify this a little to add some details from the Viper from the show. It'll still be an egg, so it will never be 100%, but I hope to have it look a little better on display. Some what more like this:

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

I started out by modifying the wings just a tad. They needed a little reshaping and some material added here and there. The guns didn't line up exactly like they are on the show Viper, so some alignment had to be tweaked as well, so I removed the lasers.

Here's that effort:

Original box wings:

My hacked up wings:

The way they was:

They way the will be:

I think they came out alright?

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

Next, lookin' down the sucker-inner part of the intakes, they are much more recessed on the show than this model, so I gave 'em a little more scoop.

Stock:

Now with more scoopage. I also added that little pointy nub thingy.

Although barely noticeable, I gave each blade an angle that they didn't have before.

Moving right along.

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

There is a much more recessed engine hole with a fair amount of detail inside that looks nice on the show Viper. Wanting to add some of that later, I removed the original section so that I could fix something in there later. That hole is in a little different place on the show Viper, so I adjusted that too. Also here, you can see I've removed the engine vane ring so that I can help those out later too.

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

The nose needed some help too. On the show Viper, it's more open and those indentions surrounding it aren't present, so I did that to the model part.

Stock:

After a couple hours of drillin', whittlin', filin' and strip addin':

Now it can breath through it's nose!

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

Getting ready to start putting left and right sections together, I, usually remove any locater pins and nubs. It helps me get a much bettert alignment and I hear folks mention how bad these usually are, so I generally get rid of them:

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

Aligning the two halves of the fuselage, the ramp running down the front of the nose needed to be taken way down to match the studio:

So, I lowered it:

I hated to do it, but sometimes you gotta break some eggs.

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

The tail fin didn't match a "real" Viper neither.

Added a few bits of styrene and spot/glaze putty for more holes that ain't there and had to do some sanding and smoothing.

Closer to what's needed here I think.

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

Started working on the engines. To me, this area needs a fair bit of work.

Stock pieces:

Made up some of them points stickin' out the middle. I saw 'em on some reference somewhere. I think. Either way, mine gots points now.

It looks better to me.

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

Better? What y'all think?

More to come!

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

This one catches up with where I'm at with this build. Fixed up the under nose scoop a little:

On a couple reference pictures, I see 4 holes. I like 'em, so I added 'em:

Now, finishing up the rear engine section. I used this as reference:

Starting to wrap this up now:

Critique, comments, suggestions are always welcome!

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

Well...

I'll need to look into this!

That ain't 'spose to be there. All the air will leak out.

Rob.

 

[publiusr]

Being a comical design, I wouldn't fret with the details---but those wings...I bet if you were to make a Miranda-prise with a Reliant atop the 1/537 Refit E....the wings could go in place of the Reliant warp-pylon slot...I instantly saw "aft firing megaphasers."

The "pug cute" nose?
Give the side view a one-quarter turn and imagine it cut away from the cockpit---I see a squat tower...with Maximilian inside.

The parts alone make this bash fodder.

There was an outsized fandom book called AMBERSTAR where a Viper was turned into a blaster.

 

[Duncanator]

I love what you are doing with this. What a fun project!
I imagine you'll be adding details to the side fuselage recesses next.

 

[Eagle-1]

Being a comical design, I wouldn't fret with the details---but those wings...I bet if you were to make a Miranda-prise with a Reliant atop the 1/537 Refit E....the wings could go in place of the Reliant warp-pylon slot...I instantly saw "aft firing megaphasers."

The "pug cute" nose?
Give the side view a one-quarter turn and imagine it cut away from the cockpit---I see a squat tower...with Maximilian inside.

The parts alone make this bash fodder.

There was an outsized fandom book called AMBERSTAR where a Viper was turned into a blaster.

Thank you for stopping by! You don't like it? What about it you don't like? The whole thing or something I can change?

I love what you are doing with this. What a fun project!
I imagine you'll be adding details to the side fuselage recesses next.

Thank you! I would certainly add some fuselage details in those recesses and really want to, but it all matches pretty well from what I can find of the show ship. Give me some suggestions! What do you think I oughta do in there? Would you happen to have a good picture of in there?

Rob.

 

[publiusr]

Oh I like it immensely--I'm just one who sees ship models as parts and parts of cast off junk as ships...funny that way. I found an old vacuum cleaner and took it apart for a future project...if I get any time.

 

[Eagle-1]

Oh I like it immensely--I'm just one who sees ship models as parts and parts of cast off junk as ships...funny that way. I found an old vacuum cleaner and took it apart for a future project...if I get any time.

Ah! Gotcha! Post your vacuum cleaner when you make it, I wanna see.

Rob.

 

[Eagle-1]

I imagine you'll be adding details to the side fuselage recesses next.

Ok Duncanator, I found a couple of the sides and maybe there is a little sumthin' sumthin' can be did in there?

This is where you mean, right?

Rob.

 

[Duncanator]

Ok Duncanator, I found a couple of the sides and maybe there is a little sumthin' sumthin' can be did in there?

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This is where you mean, right?

Rob.

Yup! You’ve done such a nice job upping the detail in other areas, those were starting to look a little plain.

 

[Eagle-1]

Yup! You’ve done such a nice job upping the detail in other areas, those were starting to look a little plain.

Thank you.

Hmm... I'm not too sure about "upping any details", but now that I'm looking at those side areas, they just might need sumthin', huh?

Rob.