onebaldman
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Hi! My name is Cameron. I am currently in pre-production for our short film called "Infinitus". I am looking to use miniatures and practical FX mixed with a little SFX. I've been heavily researching scratch builds and kit-bashing, but I am having a really hard time getting started.
I went to the dollar tree, collected some cheap little toys. Then I went to a hobby shop, and got a sheet of plain styrene, a razor saw, cutting pad, xacto knife, dremel, and various other modeling gear.
I'm looking to create a ship similar to the image below, without the green nose and maybe a bit more "grungy". It will also have a folding warp taurus that unfolds and creates a circle when in space. I want to create something that is a blend of submarine and windowless drone vessel.
The story is that this ship is a re-purposed drone retrofitted with a cockpit. It wasn't designed for a person, so instead of a window I will be putting in a periscope similar to what they use on the Soyuz for manual docking.
The budget is around $500. I was thinking of using a 2-liter bottle as the body, and then gluing all the toy bits onto that. Is that a good place to start? How would you build a ship like this?
I went to the dollar tree, collected some cheap little toys. Then I went to a hobby shop, and got a sheet of plain styrene, a razor saw, cutting pad, xacto knife, dremel, and various other modeling gear.
I'm looking to create a ship similar to the image below, without the green nose and maybe a bit more "grungy". It will also have a folding warp taurus that unfolds and creates a circle when in space. I want to create something that is a blend of submarine and windowless drone vessel.
The story is that this ship is a re-purposed drone retrofitted with a cockpit. It wasn't designed for a person, so instead of a window I will be putting in a periscope similar to what they use on the Soyuz for manual docking.
The budget is around $500. I was thinking of using a 2-liter bottle as the body, and then gluing all the toy bits onto that. Is that a good place to start? How would you build a ship like this?