With many thanks to Jason (moffeaton) and his parts thread here:
Escape Pod - all the donors being cast for you guys
I've been busy behind the scenes building up my studio-scale escape pod. Apologies for not starting a WIP thread from the very beginning, but I just kinda started in on it one day and got fairly far along before I thought to start grabbing images as I went.
The work started, of course, with cleaning up the very nice cast parts. The casting detail is fantastic and details in even the tiniest parts are reproduced almost indistinguishable from original resin donors. Some of the laser cut styrene plating needed to be remade from scratch as they did not fit the cast bucket core but I took that as a good learning experience and it caused me to finally buy my own nibbler tool.
I'll make a few posts with several images each so as not to overload any one post with too many images.
Many thanks to Sean Sides (t2sides) for the inspiration by tantalizing me with good looks at his own model and for providing a few important donor parts to supplement the smaller cast parts provided in Jason's kit.
Dan
Escape Pod - all the donors being cast for you guys
I've been busy behind the scenes building up my studio-scale escape pod. Apologies for not starting a WIP thread from the very beginning, but I just kinda started in on it one day and got fairly far along before I thought to start grabbing images as I went.
The work started, of course, with cleaning up the very nice cast parts. The casting detail is fantastic and details in even the tiniest parts are reproduced almost indistinguishable from original resin donors. Some of the laser cut styrene plating needed to be remade from scratch as they did not fit the cast bucket core but I took that as a good learning experience and it caused me to finally buy my own nibbler tool.
I'll make a few posts with several images each so as not to overload any one post with too many images.
Many thanks to Sean Sides (t2sides) for the inspiration by tantalizing me with good looks at his own model and for providing a few important donor parts to supplement the smaller cast parts provided in Jason's kit.
Dan