BSG Pegasus last ride..

CTG

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So I dusted off an old BamBam productions resin Pegasus that I had completed and stored in my basement. It's from 5-6 years ago so was the camera phone see Pic 1. I never liked the imperfections in the casting and horrendous paint job so off it went straight to the basement and a month ago I decided to take a blowtorch to it. I don't remember the scale but I my last pic shows the rear engine pod difference to a new mobius. This model back then needed a lot of cleanup and after looking it over 5 years later it still needed more.

This was my first attempt at battle damage paint and after torching it I did a complete repaint over the original with a lighter gray and an abuse of weathering. I then tried creating molten metal on all the hot spots and in person it does look better than the pictures.

After completing peggy all ablaze I still was not happy so I scoured the internet for the smallest scale BSG ships I could find, 1/350 scale is all that's out there. I painted these up and decided to create a Diorama.

All in all as my 1st battle damage paint job I still don't love it. The reason I am posting is looking for criticism/tips/ideas.
 

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I like the overall effect! I'd love to see a closeup of the battle damage areas. It's hard to tell much about them without a closer look. The overall paint scheme might benefit from more subtlety, meaning much less pronounced panel line shadowing. All in all, though, very nice. Thanks for sharing.
 
The one thing I would do if it was mine would be tone down the panels lines. It would have a much better sense of scale if they were closer to the base color, It would also help show off the scorching from the battle damage better as well

The damage does look like molten metal and is painted nicely to emphasize that.

The 1/350 ships work in a forced perspective kind of way (i.e. I see them as being close up to the viewer and the ship being more in the distance, but I might try extending the physical distance between them and the ship to play more on that illusion
 
Thank you both I see exactly what your talking about and will try to tone down the panel lines with some dry brushing. As for the vipers distance I was concerned about seeing to much of the wire holders and in pics I see the 3d effect is lost some. Will touch up and repost new pics. Thank you
 
Thank you both I see exactly what your talking about and will try to tone down the panel lines with some dry brushing. As for the vipers distance I was concerned about seeing to much of the wire holders and in pics I see the 3d effect is lost some. Will touch up and repost new pics. Thank you

For smaller Vipers, you have several options. There are the ones included with the Battlestar Galactica boardgame, a bunch of Vipers available on sites like Shapeways (frosted or ultra frosted detail are the best). There are some resin ones available at http://starfightershipyards.com/bat...tures/battlestar-galactica-fighter-minatures/

Hope this is helpful.
 
I've got the same model. After seeing your's ,I'm thinking of a repaint too.
That looks great.
How did you do the stand?
 
I've got the same model. After seeing your's ,I'm thinking of a repaint too.
That looks great.
How did you do the stand?

Thanks for kind words.

I carved the underneath of a large 3'' thick chunk of non porous Styrofoam so my old wood base wood fit under it. Carved out a few different size meteor craters. Put a beed of clear caulking around each crater to mimic a hard impact. Coated entire top with glue something like elmers will do and spread mini model rocks and sand blaster fine sand (also 1 big rock I thought could pass as a meteor I found in yard, washed and glued down in 1 of the craters).

After Drying I air brushed dark gray primer, then coated all heavy rocky areas and crater bases with Citadel Shade Nuln Oil to darken rock areas. Next a very thin sparing coat of light gray primer. Dry brushed flat white and shaved white chalkboard caulk with my exacto knife to look like moon dust. A light satin spray top coat and done.

Hope that helps
 
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