Ion Cannon

[moffeaton]

Done!

 

[el loco]

WOW !!!
Congratulations....

 

[3DImpact]

That's really beautiful! I don;t envy you navigating the fitting and cutting of all those curved-surface styrene panels, but the end result with all the nibbler bits taken out and all the chips applied is just fantastic!

Dan

 

[publiusr]

Maybe a Torpedo Sphere next?

 

[Pyramidrep]

When I worked in the Architectural Industry, it was an unspoken rule to stay away from curves, spheres, globes because of the diificulty and horrendous cost of the work. I can imagine the effort that’s gone into this and wow, did it turn out great. Impressive work, Sir.

 

[Jedi Dade]

Done! View attachment 1478992View attachment 1478993

I Saw on your youtube vid that you mentioned casting this up (not you personally) and am excited to see it as a greeblie pack - it will be a sure buy for me Thanks for busting your butt figuring it out - its been a few years stewing on the back burner and I'm glad you decided to let us take a crack at it after you did all the hard research work on it... Thanks Man!

Jedi Dade

 

[Bjorn]

Super work Jason. Well done!

Such a small but very cool part of Empire.

I very much look forward to seeing what contraption Maruska arrives at for your internal mechanism.

 

[joberg]

Very sharp And working with spheres, as Pyramidrep said is a PITA (ask me about my 1/6 EVA Pod)

 

[joez2391]

Awesome job!! Really looking forward to seeing your final paintup

 

[publiusr]

^^ That would be crazy...but I like the idea already!!

Now here is the thing…if you can get lots of those Abenics rollers in my post #79 in a hemisphere, they could rotate this Ion cannon. Maybe air cushion depression?

For an avalanche or pyroclastic flow, fuller’s earth or lycopodium dust forced into water will make great roiling plumes with no need of CGI.

 

[moffeaton]

Casting has arrived, finally able to build it up! Also making a “snow base” that will be cast up too.

 

[joberg]

Pro-Job once again Jason...and the base will be a nice add-on

 

[3DImpact]

Really nice! Looking forward to seeing to all painted and weathered and 'snowed in'...

Dan

 

[moffeaton]

Some parts are best guesses, but it’s getting really close after a long gestation period!

 

[JediMichael]

So which one is from the movie?

 

[Jaitea]

Love it, just looks perfect

John

 

[Bjorn]

I probably don't need to say this, but I will just in case.

I would be cautious of using Spray 77 to achieve the original look using Baking Soda or Microballons. I suspect the Spray 77 is the main suspect causing the weird reaction that you observed on the painted surface of original at LF.

The glue generally has excellent properties, however in my experience I have see it do some weird things with resin systems. Paint is probably no different.

That said, I guess if you are going for that ultra authentic approach then maybe you do.

Just beware...

 

[joberg]

I understand your pain Jason; always difficult to reproduce greeblies/details looking at a screen cap. Light has a tendency to elongate some details (paneling and others) and what you thought was a quarter inch on the pic is actually way less because of the long shadow created by the lighting.

 

[moffeaton]

Base is done so back to painting!

 

[joberg]

F.A.B.