t2sides
Master Member
Hello All,
Took a break from some of the Studio Scale models to build up the Amazing Ranger spaceship from Interstellar. This has been one of my FAVORITE Sci-Fi ships ever.
I picked up this awesome Moebius Model Kit way back in 2015. It's a little over 10" long, and has some really great detail. The 'thrusters' aren't quite accurate, but the rest of it is Fantastic. I made a little mod to the upper thrusters, but the rest remained out of the box. I cut out the windows from the kit, but then put it on a shelf.
In late 2016, visiting friends in L.A. area, we were checking out “Burbank House of Hobbies”. I see this guy putting a beautifully built Ranger kit into the display case. He turns around, and Amazingly, it was none other than Mr. Ian Hunter himself! I introduced myself and he was Super Kind to tell me not only the cool things he did with this kit, but shared some of the incredible work he and his New Deal Studios team did working on the Big and Bigger Ranger models for the film. What a cool moment!!!
Fast forward over 5 years, and I found an opportunity to revisit this kit. So below, I’d like to share some completed pics of the model. Now it’s not an ‘IPMS’ quality build, as this was intended to just be a FUN BUILD. So over the last few weeks, here is the result. It just snowed yesterday, so it was a good opportunity to take some snaps of it flying over ‘Dr. Mann’s’ planet. (I photo shopped out the base/stand in a few).
I tried to recreate the weathering as close as possible to both the Full Size ship and the big studio model. The rivets around the windows and the solar panels came out pretty good for this scale. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the final result.
So, with that, here we go!
A few more coming in next post.
Thanks!
-Sean
Took a break from some of the Studio Scale models to build up the Amazing Ranger spaceship from Interstellar. This has been one of my FAVORITE Sci-Fi ships ever.
I picked up this awesome Moebius Model Kit way back in 2015. It's a little over 10" long, and has some really great detail. The 'thrusters' aren't quite accurate, but the rest of it is Fantastic. I made a little mod to the upper thrusters, but the rest remained out of the box. I cut out the windows from the kit, but then put it on a shelf.
In late 2016, visiting friends in L.A. area, we were checking out “Burbank House of Hobbies”. I see this guy putting a beautifully built Ranger kit into the display case. He turns around, and Amazingly, it was none other than Mr. Ian Hunter himself! I introduced myself and he was Super Kind to tell me not only the cool things he did with this kit, but shared some of the incredible work he and his New Deal Studios team did working on the Big and Bigger Ranger models for the film. What a cool moment!!!
Fast forward over 5 years, and I found an opportunity to revisit this kit. So below, I’d like to share some completed pics of the model. Now it’s not an ‘IPMS’ quality build, as this was intended to just be a FUN BUILD. So over the last few weeks, here is the result. It just snowed yesterday, so it was a good opportunity to take some snaps of it flying over ‘Dr. Mann’s’ planet. (I photo shopped out the base/stand in a few).
I tried to recreate the weathering as close as possible to both the Full Size ship and the big studio model. The rivets around the windows and the solar panels came out pretty good for this scale. Overall, I’m pretty happy with the final result.
So, with that, here we go!
A few more coming in next post.
Thanks!
-Sean
