<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(studioscale @ Dec 5 2006, 10:28 AM) [snapback]1371825[/snapback]</div>
I was talking about taking a filming model and making a mold of the model as rogue studios mentioned above which would suggest someone has made a mold of a filming model and cast copies rather than building it from scratch.
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Then you may be excluding a lot of SS replicas that are out there- even many of the kits are done from molding an original studio model (Buck Rogers Starfighter, BSG Viper, X-wing, etc.). My Buck Rogers Ranger 3/Searcher shuttle/BSG Lunar 7 shuttle were all built using a casting of the original studio model. Yet there was a lot of 'rebuilding' or 'remastering' that had to go into that original cast before I could mold it to make the copies.
If you are looking to sub-divide the types of SS model replicas, I'd suggest this:
1. Kit bashed/scratch built one-offs
-models that were build as one-time projects and were not cast to make kits or copies. Good examples of this would be large projects like a Star Destroyer, Jim Creveling's Galactica, my BSG shuttle.
2. Cast from an original (like the Viper, my Buck shuttle, V fighter from SMT, Buck Starfighter, etc.)
3. Kit from a completely remastered scratchbuild- like the Cylon Raider, Nice-N TIE Fighter (I believe?)
What it comes down to each replica has its own unique story. Even the above categories don't cover everything. There are models out there that are a combination of these as well.
Perhaps the best thing would be to simply keep it the way you have it, and put a 'techinque' note under each model.
Examples:
Buck Rogers Starfighter
kit by Jim Key, Cast taken from original studio model
BSG Cylon Raider
kit by Jim Key, scratch-built master by Mark Dickson
BSG Colonial Shuttle
scratch-built
Just an idea...
Mark
