Sith Infiltrator [Revell]

Hi,

recently I got the Revell Sith Infiltrator Easy Kit (from Star Wars E. I, which
more and more becomes my preferred episode) and decided to build it as a
short term project to gain motivation for the ones that never end.
Initially planned as a kit for one weekend, it took me 4 weeks to complete it.
I didn't take a lot of in progress pictures as I wanted it to be fun but
documented most of the changes I did to it.

First I drilled out the engines and replaced them with clear plastic (sanded for
diffusion) and added the blades to it.


I placed two bright green and two normal red LEDs in the sphere for lighting.
They are connected with a 3-pole microphone socket (like the ones used in
computers) to the base, and both sets of LEDs can be turned on and off
seperately.


The only accuracy correction I made was to add 1 mm on the sides of the
fuselage as it was too narrow behind the step at about the half length of the
forward section.


Painting was completely redone with Vallejo acrylics, oil color wash and a
future equivalent.

Here are some pictures of the finished model. Hope to post some detail shots
in a few days when I get the time.





Cheers,
Thorsten

Beautiful job thorst,

How about the cockpit glass, they moulded it with solid plastic (!!??)

How did you get that red glow

I have this kit in my stash.... don't know what to do with the cockpit

J

Thanks Jaitea!

The glass wasn't moulded in solid red but in clear plastic, but painted in red
(on the outside of the parts!!!).
I just sanded the color off with 400 grid sandpaper and left it diffuse then. The
red LEDs were not very bright, the resulting glow is very nice then.
Hope this helps!

Thorsten

Ohhhh, magic!!

Thanks

Your model is even more awesome!!

thanks

J

Looks amazing lit up! Great work

Thanks!

A few more photos at daylight:



Thorsten

Wow that´s awesome! Great results! I wanted to do the same, already removed the red paint with ethyl alcohol from the clear parts and cut out the engines. I wanted to light each engine with 8 SMD LEDs in a row and glued them with two part epoxy but when trying to solder them the heat loosened the glue, the SMDs came off and my plans failed. So I had to put it aside until I´d find a better way to fix the SMDs...
Good to know the fuselage needs correction, so far I just wanted to fix some of the (few) greeblies.
I´ll use your build as motivation when I´ll find the time to get back to it!

Thanks!

If you look at the scene in Episode I where the ship flies by, you can see that the engines are not lit up evenly. I think the solution with two bright LEDs and a diffusor gives you nearly what you see on screen.

The Revell model seems to be based on the CGI version that apparently was used for the film. There's a top- and a front view somewhere in the internet to which you can compare the fuselage. A 1mm strip on each side seems to be about the correct size, although I dodn't go crazy with it. Otherwise, I found the model to be quite acceptable in terms of accuracy. Just don't compare it to the model which was used for the close-up shot where Darth Maul leaves the ship, or the actual model which was built before the CGI version was made. All of them are different.

Thorsten

A little bit of playing with GIMP...



(background is a photo of Titan)

Thorsten

Looks great, I've always loved this ship. What happened to your JJprise build? Still plan on going back to that?

Thanks! Yeah, occasionally I work a bit on the JJ, but I don't have enough motivation to finish it in the moment. But the box lies open besides my chair, as I have no other room to stow it anymore :rolleyes