1/144 Blockade Runner scratch build

[Bauble]

Thanks, everyone. Special thanks to kermet and joberg. joberg, I am really sorry you have to dismantle the space station. It looked amazing. The consolation is that it will live on in our collective memories and digital pictures archived on this site.

 

[Bauble]

These past few weeks, I have been fussing with assembling the whole model. Putting in the optical fibers, rigging up the lights, and supergluing stuff. I also painted on the red stripes and paint chipped them. Thank you, Analyzer for the Tamiya hull red paint suggestion. 33% that + 66% flat red + 5% flat white got me the color I kinda wanted. It is almost right, but I think if I am to make another block runner, I would go with 25% hull red + 75% flat red + 15% flat white. Its always hard to experiment on a model this big...

The next and final step is weathering. I hope to get 90% of that done in the next 3 weeks, and finish up the remaining 10% in the next 3 years.

 

[skahtul]

That is unbelievable, nice work! Those details are amazing and so well executed!

 

[EKF5]

Great build!

I hadn't seen your thread before. Really liked your use of the '60s Man From Uncle silhouette for scale on the 1/7/21 photo post. LOL

 

[Bauble]

Thanks, ekf5 and skahtul. The similarity to uncle is coincidental though... but now that you mentioned it, I cant unsee it! This is the sister build to a hammerhead corvette I scratch built earlier. If you are interested, here is the link:

1/144 Hammerhead Corvette scratch build

Hi, everyone. I had a build thread a year ago at Keeper of the Force on this project. I thought I would move some of the pictures over here and add a few more.

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[joberg]

Bauble...thanks for the praises concerning my 2001 Space Station And yes, I have plenty of pics and videos of that model to remember it forever.
As for your Blockade Runner; the details, the paint and the overall look is dead on!! The result shows your level of skills and dedication: Pro-Job all the way

 

[Bauble]

Going to Wonderfest last weekend was a big creative energy boost for me. I channeled that into the Blockade Runner. Here are a few photos of the weathering. I am not completely done yet, but close.

 

[joberg]

ILM is calling: "Paging Bauble...paging Bauble"

 

[Hagoth]

Such a fantastic job on this! Wow! If enough of us ever get together to film a re-enactment of New Hope and Rouge One... Be prepared!

 

[Analyzer]

Fantastic!

This one part reminds me of the engine deck part behind the cockpit from the U-WIng

https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/img_1037-jpg.1422879/

 

[Bauble]

“This one part reminds me of the engine deck part behind the cockpit from the U-WIng”

That is because it is! I think It is a very visually appealing greeblie. Like the panzer tank ventilation panel.

I took it from a Bandai u wing kit.

 

[Analyzer]

“This one part reminds me of the engine deck part behind the cockpit from the U-WIng”

That is because it is! I think It is a very visually appealing greeblie. Like the panzer tank ventilation panel.

I took it from a Bandai u wing kit.

It works out perfectly!

I was not sure if that was a part on the original and if the U-Wing designers had taken that greeblie part from the blockade runner

Either way it looks great on there

 

[Searun]

I keep looking at these two large scratch built hammerhead designs. Incredible, crisp detail is flawless. Survives even the close, high quality photographs you so bravely posted.

It reminds me to stay safe. Only issue construction in progress pictures from my I-phone.

 

[starks]

Beautiful workmanship! And definitely inspirational for the rest of us to push for higher quality results.

Cheers,
Josh

 

[Bauble]

Thanks, Searun and Josh! At this stage of the weathering, I do use a lot of closeup photos to help me find flaws that I need to fix. The photos help me focus and look at each area objectively. I can then mark things up and go back to the model and fix things. Here is an example photo that has been marked up, so that I can do corrections on the model.

Coffee stain effect is quite common at this stage for me. I think it makes the model look off-scale, so I generally want to go over the areas with airbrush to soften the sharp transitions. Areas that are too monochrome need to have a secondary color pin-painted in to improve vibrancy. The rest of the annotations are hopefully self-explanatory.

 

[Bauble]

I checked my greeblies inventory today and found that I have bought 5 1/144 milli falcon over the past few years. I get them whenever I see them going for cheap on ebay. All of them have missing parts that went into my two builds. So non of the kits are complete. In all these time, I have not ever built a complete falcon!

 

[Bauble]

I am 99% done with the weathering. Sorry about the poor lighting - I have been busy and wasn’t able take pictures when the sunlight was the brightest.

 

[Bauble]

A lot of my fussing was about getting the weathering to look natural. You can see the difference between start to end.

 

[publiusr]

Thanks, J, T and M. I took my time on this blockade runner, not really caring when i finish. Just focusing on one area at a time. Toadmeister, if you take you time, I am sure you will be able to get this done too. Dont worry about spending large blocks of time at the bench. I just do15 mins of building at a stretch before other things in life grab me away. Here are the casted greeblies I made for the project. Again, it took me 15 mins at a stretch over many periods to get them done.
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And I thought I had a greeble collection

 

[Paperdandy]

NICE. That's awesome. And looks properly scaled, too. The computer animated one in Rise of Skywalker was waaaaay too small.

It was definitely smaller than it had been depicted before but the one at the base in ROS was a real set piece. I got to visit it and it was the most mind blowing thing I've ever seen. It was like standing under an Boeing 747.