campingboy
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So I sort of got a scratch building itch the other day while I was watching David Lynch's Dune in HD for the first time...
This is my first scratch build. I've been at it for a few weeks and I think it's going pretty well.
I chose 200 as a scale, because I wanted a large model so that I could replicate a fair amount of the wonderful decorative gold detailing on this silver ship.
Thank you so much to everyone online who so generously shared various reference material for the ship. After a good few hours of googling I pretty much had everything I needed to start.
Someone online even got the original studio drawings for the ship (I will credit later when I remember where I got them- might even have been on RPF) but unfortunately they were so low res that I had to re-draw everything from scratch. Though I did realise that there are probably about 5 variations of the ship that was used for various shots in the movie, each with their own differences.
In the end I decided to model my shop after the hero shot of the large studio model that was used for the scene where the Atreides family disembarks on Dune.
I'm happy to share my drawings at a later stage when I've neatened them up a bit if anyone is interested.
From these plans I created a cardboard mock-up to check the drawings in 3d. Various adjustments had to be made to accommodate the curved hull segments, after which I made a final mock-up, which I could use to trace onto my building materials: balsa and styrene.
I've seen some models online of the ship where the hull segments are flat, but the front two, top and bottom rear segments are in fact curved.
I also realised I had to create a balsa support structure for the hull, but especially for the large and heavy wings what would be made of balsa wood.
Next time: the wings.
This is my first scratch build. I've been at it for a few weeks and I think it's going pretty well.
I chose 200 as a scale, because I wanted a large model so that I could replicate a fair amount of the wonderful decorative gold detailing on this silver ship.
Thank you so much to everyone online who so generously shared various reference material for the ship. After a good few hours of googling I pretty much had everything I needed to start.
Someone online even got the original studio drawings for the ship (I will credit later when I remember where I got them- might even have been on RPF) but unfortunately they were so low res that I had to re-draw everything from scratch. Though I did realise that there are probably about 5 variations of the ship that was used for various shots in the movie, each with their own differences.
In the end I decided to model my shop after the hero shot of the large studio model that was used for the scene where the Atreides family disembarks on Dune.
I'm happy to share my drawings at a later stage when I've neatened them up a bit if anyone is interested.
From these plans I created a cardboard mock-up to check the drawings in 3d. Various adjustments had to be made to accommodate the curved hull segments, after which I made a final mock-up, which I could use to trace onto my building materials: balsa and styrene.
I've seen some models online of the ship where the hull segments are flat, but the front two, top and bottom rear segments are in fact curved.
I also realised I had to create a balsa support structure for the hull, but especially for the large and heavy wings what would be made of balsa wood.
Next time: the wings.
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