Mad Mike's Studio City Nostromo!

[jtparker]

Here is one my Nostromo kit a great modeler is doing, it looks like he is using some of Phase pistols reference pics. He is not an rpf'r, actually he is on a 2-year contract for a major sci-fi production that will be happening in the near future, and he does this in his spare time.
He sent me pictured today of the Kit I shipped him.. His will be done faster than mine, he just got the model a few days ago! pretty cool stuff here he is doing with the hull!

 

[Knightjar]

Wow. You wait thirty years for a kit and then three come along at once!

(edit) Sorry, just read your post again - I thought he was producing his own kit.

 

[jtparker]

Got some more pictures from Mike today, and WOW he is already doing up the landing Struts...man they are going to be detailed, he is even going to have miniature chains up in the gear bays!!!!

 

[phase pistol]

It seems that Mike is, indeed... "mad". :sleep

But usefully so! thumbsup

 

[jtparker]

The Amazing thing about this is how fast he is doing it~! and the intricacy of the parts. I work on mine when I get time, I havent even gotten near the landing gear yet . My Nostromo I think will be a 4 month project for me... He will probably have his completed in just 30 days of spare time!

 

[blipper]

great stuff jtparker, I may have missed it but was a scale worked out for this Nostromo model? Be interesting to see some correctly scaled model people by it.

 

[jtparker]

great stuff jtparker, I may have missed it but was a scale worked out for this Nostromo model? Be interesting to see some correctly scaled model people by it.

1/600 scale

 

[blipper]

thanks

 

[jtparker]

Here is a pic I just got in, a finished landing strut...Im jealous..he is moving along so fast and it looks awesome!

 

[phase pistol]

You don't suppose he'll have tiny little astronauts the size of grains of dust, do ya.... :love

 

[jtparker]

You don't suppose he'll have tiny little astronauts the size of grains of dust, do ya.... :love

Its possible, if so I will need to ask him if I can cast them and include them in the kits. maybe accessorize them as well.

 

[phase pistol]

1/600 scale human figures would be kinda small, (I think the smallest figures I've seen are about 1/350), but you could fudge 'em a little.

 

[jtparker]

..its the winch and for sure getting the name tags correct, Im glad accessable nano-technology is right around the corner...

 

[Knightjar]

1/600 scale human figures would be kinda small, (I think the smallest figures I've seen are about 1/350), but you could fudge 'em a little.

I reckon it's do-able. I suppose they'd be about 3mm. Could maybe get away with a little more given the bulky suits. I might give it a try while I'm getting the funds together to buy my kit from JT.

 

[phase pistol]

You could rig up some grains of rice with fiber optic light pipes for the head lamps.

 

[jtparker]

I wonder if there is some lost Chinese art involving carving grains of rice into people, I could take up....

 

[theprofessor]

1/600 scale human figures would be kinda small, (I think the smallest figures I've seen are about 1/350), but you could fudge 'em a little.

Yes, Bandai actually makes a 1/350 Space Battleship Yamato kit that includes figures the size of "grains of rice" which I happen to own. They are injection plastic and you would need a really good magnifying glass to paint them. I haven't tried painting them yet though I did get the ship assembled and painted. I guess you could take these tiny, tiny figures and attempt to sculpt over them to create Dallas, Kane and Lambert in their spacesuits. But you'd have to have mad skills baby! Of course, with the people on this board that could be done!

 

[phase pistol]

With the advent of the 1:350 USS Enterprise from MR and the silmiarly scaled Polar Lights model kit of the Refit I had looked for human figures in that scale... there is a photoetch set that includes tiny Starfleet figures for use with the PL kit. Figures for this Nostromo would be about half this size!

And you can buy little sets of plastic scale crewmen for ship models such as the Titanic and aircraft carriers and so on.

If you did find crewmen that small, you might could cut off the head and replace it with the round head of a pin... spray it bronze and call it a day. :lol

 

[jtparker]

lollollollollollollollolthumbsupthumbsupthumbsupthumbsupthumbsup:lol

 

[jtparker]

here are 1/600 scale figures I found