Griffworks
Well-Known Member
This last weekend (18th of May), I had absolutely nothing planned except to hang around the house w/my kids, as Wife was out of town helping chaperone her schools Senior Trip in Flori-duh. I had just finished a light cleaning of my office when I decided to do some clean up work on my Moebius Pegasus kit.
Well, that whole idea of just popping a few parts and cleaning them up didn't last long....
I've decided that, barring family matters (spending time w/the kids), finishing this build will be my priority. It's been so damned long since I finished anything that I started, that I wanted to see if I could do a project from start to finish w/o having the Oooh! Shiney!!! Syndrome kicking in. I guess we'll see how that works out for me.
I've been working on this build since Saturday afternoon (18 May), putting in about two hours a day. Mostly, it's been sub-assembly work, but I decided to add some extra greeblieage to this particular build and call her Battlestar Triton, BS-69. Why Triton? 'Cause I have the original PGMS Battlestar Galactica Photoetch fret set and not many of the other names on the set will work in that small area. I also like the name a lot.
Why BS-69? 'Cause I'm a Vert....

Teaser pic. She has a coat of primer, but at this stage all parts are simply friction held in place and I'm adding resin bits & bobs.
As with all silly SciFi modelers, I came up with a backstory for why I didn't build a hero ship, as well as she not being exactly screen accurate. I've decided that Triton had just come out of Drydock and was on a shakedown cruise when the Colonies were wiped out. She had received the upgrades that Pegasus would have received, had her yard time been uninterrupted. Mostly, this was done because I don't yet have the PGMS Battlestar Pegasus set for the exterior - mostly the arms - and wanted to spruce up those naked areas.

Here you can see that I had already removed the name Pegasus from the nameplate area. I used an Xacto and sand paper. The tan colored blobs on the two flight pods are resin pieces from the ARVEY Model Products for the TOS Battlestar Galactica accurization set. I had purchased a complete set, as well as a few extra's when they were still willing to "part out" a set, so have plenty extra's on-hand.


The tan pieces in the two above pics are what I'm calling antenna's. They're all over the TOS Galactica studio model and are also present on both the TNS Galactica and Pegasus. As you can see from the shot of the head, these parts are much smaller than what's on Pegasus. I only removed the detail pieces/parts and left the "base" of that particular part, as you can see.

The Triton nameplate. Those gun emplacements on the area where the "arms" join the flight pod - three on top of each - are meant to represent missile launchers. I've still not decided if I'm going to add more on the ventral surface, but would definitely like to add a few more main guns there. I also am thinking of adding some big-honkin'-guns to the top under inside area of the "mouth" area, replacing two single gun emplacements. They're meant to represent a part of the upgrade being that the Admiralty felt that the Cylon's likely upgraded their base ships, as well, so it was a good idea if the Colonial Fleet went for a bit of overkill with some super-rail guns.
More to follow, to include the super rail guns. My plan is to finish this the weekend of 1 & 2 June, if not sooner.
Any constructive comments/criticism appreciated.
Well, that whole idea of just popping a few parts and cleaning them up didn't last long....
I've decided that, barring family matters (spending time w/the kids), finishing this build will be my priority. It's been so damned long since I finished anything that I started, that I wanted to see if I could do a project from start to finish w/o having the Oooh! Shiney!!! Syndrome kicking in. I guess we'll see how that works out for me.
I've been working on this build since Saturday afternoon (18 May), putting in about two hours a day. Mostly, it's been sub-assembly work, but I decided to add some extra greeblieage to this particular build and call her Battlestar Triton, BS-69. Why Triton? 'Cause I have the original PGMS Battlestar Galactica Photoetch fret set and not many of the other names on the set will work in that small area. I also like the name a lot.
Why BS-69? 'Cause I'm a Vert....

Teaser pic. She has a coat of primer, but at this stage all parts are simply friction held in place and I'm adding resin bits & bobs.
As with all silly SciFi modelers, I came up with a backstory for why I didn't build a hero ship, as well as she not being exactly screen accurate. I've decided that Triton had just come out of Drydock and was on a shakedown cruise when the Colonies were wiped out. She had received the upgrades that Pegasus would have received, had her yard time been uninterrupted. Mostly, this was done because I don't yet have the PGMS Battlestar Pegasus set for the exterior - mostly the arms - and wanted to spruce up those naked areas.

Here you can see that I had already removed the name Pegasus from the nameplate area. I used an Xacto and sand paper. The tan colored blobs on the two flight pods are resin pieces from the ARVEY Model Products for the TOS Battlestar Galactica accurization set. I had purchased a complete set, as well as a few extra's when they were still willing to "part out" a set, so have plenty extra's on-hand.


The tan pieces in the two above pics are what I'm calling antenna's. They're all over the TOS Galactica studio model and are also present on both the TNS Galactica and Pegasus. As you can see from the shot of the head, these parts are much smaller than what's on Pegasus. I only removed the detail pieces/parts and left the "base" of that particular part, as you can see.

The Triton nameplate. Those gun emplacements on the area where the "arms" join the flight pod - three on top of each - are meant to represent missile launchers. I've still not decided if I'm going to add more on the ventral surface, but would definitely like to add a few more main guns there. I also am thinking of adding some big-honkin'-guns to the top under inside area of the "mouth" area, replacing two single gun emplacements. They're meant to represent a part of the upgrade being that the Admiralty felt that the Cylon's likely upgraded their base ships, as well, so it was a good idea if the Colonial Fleet went for a bit of overkill with some super-rail guns.
More to follow, to include the super rail guns. My plan is to finish this the weekend of 1 & 2 June, if not sooner.
Any constructive comments/criticism appreciated.