Making a practice 1/537 model for aztec painting in airbrush, getting ready for 1/350 build

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First two layers of the 3 layered rear dock are decaled and its fused in place with clear resin instead of super glue because its sandable but maintains transparency. This is roughly fit. I have a lot of cleaning up to do before I ad the final layer and paint the rest of this section.

 

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First two layers of the 3 layered rear dock are decaled and its fused in place with clear resin instead of super glue because its sandable but maintains transparency. This is roughly fit. I have a lot of cleaning up to do before I ad the final layer and paint the rest of this section.

 

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Thats all the updates I have from the last few weeks. Sorry I didn't post sooner. Enjoy and Ill be posting more soon!!

 

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Ok, after a couple of weeks of designing more decals for the photoetch, I applied said decals after rigorously painting the shuttlebay walls and shuttles. I made specialty decals just for the shuttles requiring just a base coat of primer gray. I painted the photoetch for the railings and put them on as well. Still working on the beam photo-etch pieces which even with tweezers are hard as hell to place so Im limiting what I put on.

 

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While Im drying the parts for the shuttle bay, I turned my focus to the arboretum deck in which I used the moss and grains for grass and rock path. I painted the water a iridescent blue with UV resin clear overtop to give it that never-ending wet look.

 

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I hollowed out the turboshaft pillars for the shuttlebay and added a 12v 5mm Ultra-bright LED to light them up because of all the builds I have seen in research, no one lights them and they are supposed to be backlit, so I drilled them out and resin sealed an LED in each pillar. Once I get the painted photoetch on these, it will look amazing!

 

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I decaled the green strawberry photoetch for the shuttlebay, The decals are SPOT ON DEAD Accurate as far as measurements and placement! Being this was my first time using them after designing them I was amazed that they are damn near perfect and virtually no tweaks are needed! I used my wood deck decals for the bridges and the metal gradient dorr decals for the doors it comes with.

I cant believe I totally nailed these decals

 

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Here are the decaled walls of the arboretum deck. A perfect fit according to my design!

 

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Here is the arboretum deck just made with Green Strawberry moss and grain. It needs alot of cleaning up before I add more details. This is before I added water.. I didnt follow the predestined path laid out, I wanted it to be original to me so thats why its this way.

 

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I applied painted and applied photoetch and lit up the shuttlebay pillars. so far Im liking the result. Alot of people in their builds dont light the pillars but if I am going to pull off the proper effect for shuttlebay period specific, it needs to look in operation. Some cleaning up needed but I like it.