Hey everyone,
Thank you for all the nice comments!!!
Hopli, looking good on the l.e.d front - anyone lighting the front of the engines? Episode The Child, after Mando & Kuiil put the Crest back together - they fire up the engines with glows at the front.
Jimw100 - I have seen somewhere too of those rear lights, but cant remember where, re-watched a lot of episodes recently and finding it hard to see them on the screen. Yes to top and bottom of engines for the red lights
keep up the good work
Hey Chuffy, I'm not going to light up the front of the engines. i did put 0.5 mm Fiber at the top and bottom. i didn't wanne do a LED because I didn't want it to emit to much light. I'm sure the lights erve as a reference point, and aren't meant to actually light up anything. I still can do the rear, I don't know yet. The two at the front is a big yes, the exhausts is a yes. And i have fiber top and bottom of both engines.
following with much interest. looks amazing!
Thanks! I hope I won't dissapoint.
Love what you are doing. The bigger the scale, the more detail and time you put in, but at the end of it all, there will be a great satisfaction in knowing that you created something special and admired by others. Can't wait to see it finished.
Hey Nick, I'm trying to detail up as much as I can but I'll have to draw a line somewhere. I add surface detail here and there but in general the Crest is pretty muc
h flat. So I'm focusing on the top cause that was really bad from the print. And a big other focus will be the inside of the cockpit. That's for soon.
Ok so an update, a late one and a weird one.
In short the issue I had:
I had a 'modelers block' ? I don't know if you can call it that. I was detailing the ship on the top and got stuck every time because I needed the seams to be closed and the hull more complete.
So in a rush late night (when thinking is out of the window) I 'quickly' glued the complete hull and engines together. The right wing didn't go in for 1.5mm and I panicked..... I couldn't push it further in and the glue set.
I just placed it there looking at it and feeling so gutted, closed my workshop and didn't go in for a few days.
I don't know if anyone else had this happen to them before. Especially with a model project. It took me a few days to rekindle the joy and enthusiasm. It was the first time this 'block' was this huge and scary.
Anyway ... I got over it, sat down at my workbench and just powered trough the annoying part. Filled the seams, let them dry, sanded, filled again. And by the time a few days went passed I picked up my enthusiasm and started working again.
I don't know why the right wing wouldn't completely sit flush in the opening that it had to go in. But there is no visible evidence that anythign is wrong shapewise or angle wise.
So to start in the correct order:
Before this 'intermission of hell' I decided to work on the bottom part of the center hull piece, after detailing the top, and focusing on the landing gear. This model is designed to have retractable landing gear and can either be mounted on a stand 'in flight' or on the landing gear. 'landed' (obviously). This design choice is nice but it created a visible problem.
The landing gear looks like an elephant with chicken legs. This huge monster of a hull... supported on fine tiny feet. In short it doesn't look appealing at all:
This picture not only shows the skiny legs but also the start of the reinforcements I put in place. Which brings us to problem 2.... When I put the complete ship on the gear, it bends outwards like crazy.
I did want to use the included system due to correct height and basic sturdiness (not enough but a start) as a basic structure. I connected both ends with a metal piece stopping the bending outwards by a significant bit. After that I added big styrene square stock to stop the wobble from front and back:
I also cut the landing gear doors in half and permanently attached the front part to shorten the gap by a big margin and getting it closer to the look of the model in the series.
Now this is the part in the timeline where we enter the 'intermission from hell' so picture taking kinda went out of the window. My plan now was to thicken the landing gear to give it a more massive sturdy look. Not knowing how in hell I was going to do that (intermission of hell) I started on my crazy glueing the thing together spreee....
I got pictures of this, it also shows the work on filling up the seams. Sanding this beast is tricky. I have to clamp it putting it upright on my leg and sand that way but it gets the job done. You can also see some first detailing of the tail piece. It has an inner spot where allot of greeblies live. I mostly focused on some tubes to give the part more depth.
After I came back to the light i found inspiration to do the legs and started adding detail. I used the piston pieces printed for the doors, since I wasn't going to make the model with an interior apart from the cockpit. The biggest styrene i could find. A few cut up pens and other stuff.
I made the feet longer in the back. added detail (more to come later after first primer). Added the doors on the inside, the doors that slide over the whole leg. Wires, springs etc...
I also did some starting work on the back door. Although I'm making this model doors shut. I still want acces to the electronics. I cut of the axels that fit the holes in the back of the hull for the ramp. Drilled four holes and added magnets.
placed the part in its place, glued styrene strips and added magnets to the back of those. Did not do anything else here, more on that later.
So after all that sanding on the seams, the rough detailing of the landing gear I decided it was best to give this thing a primer coat.
I needed to see the overall look better, the spots on the seems that still needs attention and a better idea of where more detail could be added to give a better feel and look of the Razor Crest.
This is the point where I became completely free of my 'intermission of hell' and got my courage back to continue the detailing and work on this model.
I apologize that his post has more text in it. I needed to vent and nobody I know is a modelmaker or can relate to my issue i had.
I hope you still enjoyed this update. The next part is sanding the hull more, adding more intricate detail on the places I altered. I know this all looks 'rough' but I am planning on adding more small parts and parts that look like they have function to either the altered top and landing gear.
Then I will probably prime it black and focus on the cockpit interior. (Fiber, detail etc)
I hope you had fun reading this and watching the pictures!
-Hopli
EDIT: some spelling and crappy grammar.