Griffworks
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This is the ARVEY Model Products Foundry Ship. Originally, this was the Flattop in TOS BSG, minus all the upper superstructure - which is why it was called the Flattop. It was redressed for Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, IIRC, as some sort of space station(?), tho I might well be wrong about that. The kit is in 1/4105 scale and is roughly 2 1/2 inches / 6.35cm long.
The shuttles are from JT Graphics and are both the TOS (White) and TNS (gray) designs. Neither are permanently attached, just posing to give an idea of just how small they are. Other than the base coat, all detail painting is hand-painted with a regular brush - rather crappily - and the black stripes on yellow are done with a superfine tipped technical pen. I dirtied her up and included some damage to the front upper section of the deck. I might go back and add black to the red that's around the elevator looking middle section.
I've also considered adding some sort of crane to the small round section on the front of the superstructure. Maybe on the next one I build, which is the Second Generation version of the kit. This is the original release, to which I added engine bells, taken from two of the most recent kit, which has three bells per kit.
I've got two more of these. There were at least two of them in TNS BSG, which is why I wanted at least two. I thought I'd build the third with some major differences to the upper details, possibly even given her an extended lower section. The other two are the most recent, revised version of the kit, which has more detail on the underside, as well as added engine bells and an additional detail piece attached to the underside "pod".
The shuttles are from JT Graphics and are both the TOS (White) and TNS (gray) designs. Neither are permanently attached, just posing to give an idea of just how small they are. Other than the base coat, all detail painting is hand-painted with a regular brush - rather crappily - and the black stripes on yellow are done with a superfine tipped technical pen. I dirtied her up and included some damage to the front upper section of the deck. I might go back and add black to the red that's around the elevator looking middle section.
I've also considered adding some sort of crane to the small round section on the front of the superstructure. Maybe on the next one I build, which is the Second Generation version of the kit. This is the original release, to which I added engine bells, taken from two of the most recent kit, which has three bells per kit.
I've got two more of these. There were at least two of them in TNS BSG, which is why I wanted at least two. I thought I'd build the third with some major differences to the upper details, possibly even given her an extended lower section. The other two are the most recent, revised version of the kit, which has more detail on the underside, as well as added engine bells and an additional detail piece attached to the underside "pod".
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