About a year ago I bought a Corellian Corvette from Randy Cooper. His Sandcrawler, Blockade Runner and Radiant models are amoungst my most prized possesions and I learnt an awful lot building them.
The Corvette is Randys design based on the original "Millenium Falcon" and by original I mean the one that became the Hammerhead Blockade Runner not the flying hamburger that we all love and cherish.
I decided, perhaps a bit foolishly, to have a go at converting Randys kit into a slightly bigger, more heavily built ship. This is was to be a lightly armoured pirate frigate called the Kessel Barracuda.
Its not as easy as you would think to scratch build, even when you are doing so over the hull of a kit thats already been built as a template. However I'm 70% there with her now and determined to get it finished this spring.
Here is the progress so far. Anything yellowed is Randys original casting. The engines are particularly nice as is the cabin. Everything else is sort of built over using what I had. Many old pod racer kits died to give me the greeblies. The red cans on the engines came from bleach bottles, and the rest from battleship bits I had left from the Star Destroyer and whatever else I had in the spares box. CutThumbs tip of the day; never throw anything away.
The engines are lit , or will be when I have finished the electrics and I am thinking about doing the cabin or perhaps just back lighting it. The top is almost done apart from weaponary and the bottom is about 50% completed .The weathering WILL be an epic job at least equal to the sandcrawler but lighter and more like the Falcon I hope. The top area at the back near the engines is designed to take a series of interchangable PODs/containers but I'm at the mockups stage with those at the moment.
The Corvette is Randys design based on the original "Millenium Falcon" and by original I mean the one that became the Hammerhead Blockade Runner not the flying hamburger that we all love and cherish.
I decided, perhaps a bit foolishly, to have a go at converting Randys kit into a slightly bigger, more heavily built ship. This is was to be a lightly armoured pirate frigate called the Kessel Barracuda.
Its not as easy as you would think to scratch build, even when you are doing so over the hull of a kit thats already been built as a template. However I'm 70% there with her now and determined to get it finished this spring.
Here is the progress so far. Anything yellowed is Randys original casting. The engines are particularly nice as is the cabin. Everything else is sort of built over using what I had. Many old pod racer kits died to give me the greeblies. The red cans on the engines came from bleach bottles, and the rest from battleship bits I had left from the Star Destroyer and whatever else I had in the spares box. CutThumbs tip of the day; never throw anything away.
The engines are lit , or will be when I have finished the electrics and I am thinking about doing the cabin or perhaps just back lighting it. The top is almost done apart from weaponary and the bottom is about 50% completed .The weathering WILL be an epic job at least equal to the sandcrawler but lighter and more like the Falcon I hope. The top area at the back near the engines is designed to take a series of interchangable PODs/containers but I'm at the mockups stage with those at the moment.
