struschie
Active Member
Hi Gang,
I lurk around these forums for some time now. Just recently discovered, here's a very cool non-studio scale section also. Just kidding. The RPF is a great example, how to run forums despite - and with - facebook.
But to the topic of this thread: A scratchbuild Cargo Space Ship in 1/72 done by a friend if mine and me.
We know each other for 21 years now and in december 2013 we decided to build something together. We now meet every month first friday to make some major progress. Inbetween not so much due to jobs, kids... well - RL, right?!
My friend Miguel has a big talent when it comes to sketches and the creative part. My only requirement was: Give me a design, where I can put as many greebles as possible.
After the first meetup we had some ideas and first mockups from cardboard:
Spaceship with Miguel
Miguel than turned to Sketchup
Progress Cockpit - SketchUp
I used Illustrator for the container:
plates ready
Being a big fan of the 70th models created for the SciFi flicks we all love, I 'had' to get some greebles. As I love to cast and am not keen on buying identical kits for some parts, I started preparing kitparts.
Greeblies to cast
In January new sketches of the whole ship:
After the first full PS cut container sowed me, that I don't like cutting exact plates and thus am not good at it. Or positive: I'ld like to spend my time better than doing that. So I got the parts for one container lasercutted...
... and made molds:
First Cast!
Meanwhile Miguel used Pep to unfold the cockpit:
...and started cutting
I also molded structured sheet to fill the container:
This is where we've been after two month:
Three month:
I optimized my castings with very little flesh in open molds (getting rid of excess with metal ruler over transparent foil:
Also in march - construction and cutting of consoles:
and finishing two containers:
Finally Two Container assembled
I than started with the middle structure. One main component should be a part we see in dozends of screen used ships (Y-Wing, Sulaco, Nostromo [more than you can count], Millenium Falcon etc.): The belly of the 232:
April:
1/72 Cargo Ship - Good Progress tonight
MockUp for substructure:
Internal structure with container clamp
Container plug
May
Middle section MockUp
This is a drawing with just one row of containers:
108 cm of Space Ship
June
Casting, casting, casting. And cockpit progress
July
New concept for middle section
My 3 1/2 year old son also loves to play with the greebles and when he one day asked, if we could build a spaceship, I used resin instead of LEGO ABS :
Greeble Express
I beefed up the MF part with 9 more kitparts:
Casting is very time consuming...
Can you spot 94 single parts...?
August
That's it so far.
If you want to read the (german) WIP with 766 posts so far, check it out here:
http://www.phoxim.de/forum/index.php?topic=9789.0
If you just want all the pictures, check them out here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/struschie/sets/72157639632780905/
If you're on fb - check out and maybe follow the album here:
https://m.facebook.com/struschie/albums/416432515156074/
Thanks for watching - I'll try to post major updates here as well.
Cheers,
struschie
I lurk around these forums for some time now. Just recently discovered, here's a very cool non-studio scale section also. Just kidding. The RPF is a great example, how to run forums despite - and with - facebook.
But to the topic of this thread: A scratchbuild Cargo Space Ship in 1/72 done by a friend if mine and me.
We know each other for 21 years now and in december 2013 we decided to build something together. We now meet every month first friday to make some major progress. Inbetween not so much due to jobs, kids... well - RL, right?!
My friend Miguel has a big talent when it comes to sketches and the creative part. My only requirement was: Give me a design, where I can put as many greebles as possible.
After the first meetup we had some ideas and first mockups from cardboard:
Spaceship with Miguel
Miguel than turned to Sketchup
Progress Cockpit - SketchUp I used Illustrator for the container:
plates ready
Being a big fan of the 70th models created for the SciFi flicks we all love, I 'had' to get some greebles. As I love to cast and am not keen on buying identical kits for some parts, I started preparing kitparts.
Greeblies to cast
In January new sketches of the whole ship:
After the first full PS cut container sowed me, that I don't like cutting exact plates and thus am not good at it. Or positive: I'ld like to spend my time better than doing that. So I got the parts for one container lasercutted...
... and made molds:
First Cast!
Meanwhile Miguel used Pep to unfold the cockpit:
...and started cutting
I also molded structured sheet to fill the container:
This is where we've been after two month:
Three month:
I optimized my castings with very little flesh in open molds (getting rid of excess with metal ruler over transparent foil:
Also in march - construction and cutting of consoles:
and finishing two containers:
Finally Two Container assembled
I than started with the middle structure. One main component should be a part we see in dozends of screen used ships (Y-Wing, Sulaco, Nostromo [more than you can count], Millenium Falcon etc.): The belly of the 232:
April:
1/72 Cargo Ship - Good Progress tonight
MockUp for substructure:
Internal structure with container clamp
Container plug
May
Middle section MockUp
This is a drawing with just one row of containers:
108 cm of Space Ship
June
Casting, casting, casting. And cockpit progress
July
New concept for middle section
My 3 1/2 year old son also loves to play with the greebles and when he one day asked, if we could build a spaceship, I used resin instead of LEGO ABS :
Greeble Express
I beefed up the MF part with 9 more kitparts:
Casting is very time consuming...
Can you spot 94 single parts...?
August
That's it so far.
If you want to read the (german) WIP with 766 posts so far, check it out here:
http://www.phoxim.de/forum/index.php?topic=9789.0
If you just want all the pictures, check them out here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/struschie/sets/72157639632780905/
If you're on fb - check out and maybe follow the album here:
https://m.facebook.com/struschie/albums/416432515156074/
Thanks for watching - I'll try to post major updates here as well.
Cheers,
struschie
