Gort
Well-Known Member
I haven't posted here for a long while. Part of the reason being that I've been working on these two build ups of Mike Salzo's excellent 1/2 Scale Battlestars. In order to add an extra layer of accurate detailing I applied many, many 1/2 scale versions of original kit parts by using a special polymer. This polymer shrinks in a dimensionally accurate way to give incredibly detailed mini-versions of the original parts. Its not without its limitations, but for this project it added a whole extra dimension that would have been hard to achieve any other way. I gave a few of these 1/2 scale parts to Mike to add to the original patterns, (eg the Roco tanks along the engine) but I applied a lot more to these buildups to make them unique.Almost the entire 'Nose' section is made from 1/2 scale original parts.
Fibre optics are 0.5mm for the portholes using a warm white LED and an additional filter to tint the lights towards the warm colour temperature as seen in the the original incandescent light sources Apogee used, plus 0.25mm FO for the chasing lights at the entrance to the landing bays. Both ships run off independent battery boxes as per the clients wishes.with the power feeds running up the support pole so no additional power jacks are required.
Both these models are now destined for a collector in Germany, who, I have to say has been the nicest most appreciative client anyone could wish to work with.
Fibre optics are 0.5mm for the portholes using a warm white LED and an additional filter to tint the lights towards the warm colour temperature as seen in the the original incandescent light sources Apogee used, plus 0.25mm FO for the chasing lights at the entrance to the landing bays. Both ships run off independent battery boxes as per the clients wishes.with the power feeds running up the support pole so no additional power jacks are required.
Both these models are now destined for a collector in Germany, who, I have to say has been the nicest most appreciative client anyone could wish to work with.