Space Shuttle Discovery

[Sebbo]

Hi.
It has been an awful long time since my first post. And now I'm posting my second one

I have been working on a new Revell kit, and this time It's the space shuttle.
I know I'm not doing anything original or from scratch like most of you guys/gals do but I still thinks it's fun and I learn a lot from it

I think it looks kinda good

//Sebbo

 

[diablopartain]

oh wow bro thats a great build! love it!!

 

[Sebbo]

Tnx. I'm glad you liked it

 

[MooCriket]

Love it! Are you going to revisit it and add some weathering?

 

[JMChladek]

Well, it is a good clean build, which says a lot since the Revell kit is not the easiest model to do (even with Revell of Germany's excellent decals). Nice work!

 

[Gigatron]

Looks good :thumbsup

Looks like you had the same problem with the CBDs that I did. No matter what you do, they just don't line up, correctly.

How did you find working with the tail decals? As soon as mine seperated from the backing paper, they folded over on themselves. I ended up cutting them into a half dozen pieces.


If you want to practice scratchbuilding, start with the MLP. It's such a piece of junk, that any upgrade is an improvement :lol

Here's my shuttle, stack and MLP, also as Discovery

-Fred

 

[Sebbo]

Tnx for the kind words

@moocriket, I don't know. I'm not that good at doing that. I have done it on some Warhammer models but nothing this "big". And I like the clean style of it right now.

@Fred the CBDs was headache cus I kinda like the idea of being able to open them but in the same time they never close correctly... But that is kinda the charm with kit's, they never look like the boxart, they are images of your own head

I cut the tail stickers i half, right were they go down to the tail rudder, and it worked nice

But your build is something totally different, it looks really nice I love how you have made the crawler platform fit the rest of the models excellent level of detail. I actually found the platform boring and feeling a bit under prioritized. But now I got some good ideas

//Sebastian

 

[Gigatron]

Hey Sebastian,

I felt the same way about the MLP, which is why I decided to do something about it. I hated looking at the model, and seeing this piece of plastic junk it was sitting on. It's the world's most half-assed display. Part MLP, part nothing. It's like the designer started working on it, went to lunch and forgot about it :lol.

Originally, I was going to replace the entire unit with a papercraft version, that I got on ebay. But that thing is crazy detailed, and I'm not confident enough in my skills (after building models for 20 some odd years), to take on a papercraft of that magnitude. If it were styrene, it would be finished already.

Now here's a link to a guy that has the same papercraft MLP that I do, but he took it to the extreme Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 - ARC Discussion Forums This guy has some unreal skills.

-Fred

 

[NAZGÛL]

Snyggt jobbat! Cant have to much NASA stuff! Some gentle weathering could let you keep the clean look, but add to realism.

 

[Zombie_61]

I felt the same way about the MLP, which is why I decided to do something about it. I hated looking at the model, and seeing this piece of plastic junk it was sitting on. It's the world's most half-assed display. Part MLP, part nothing. It's like the designer started working on it, went to lunch and forgot about it :lol.

Yeah, it's undersized and inaccurate, but I give Revell credit for attempting to dress it up a bit instead of just throwing in the usual boring base. Besides, if they'd gone all out on the MLP the cost of the kit would likely be at least four times what it is and they'd sell a lot fewer of them. That said, it would have been nice if they had included the Tail Service Masts and a little detail for the top deck.

Now here's a link to a guy that has the same papercraft MLP that I do, but he took it to the extreme Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 - ARC Discussion Forums This guy has some unreal skills.

I've been watching Manfred's build for a couple of months now, and I'm constantly amazed by his precision and level of detail. When I look at the photos he posts I have to constantly remind myself of just how tiny most of his scratchbuilt pieces are.

Back to the main topic, nice clean work Sebbo! I've seen "desktop models" sold in gift shops that didn't look as good.

 

[Sebbo]

Indeed, the platform is better than most displays.
I have been reading Manfreds build posts and that guy is amazing. And it is all "freebuild"? I have no idea how one even start something like that
But it surely made one think about making a platform that have the same level of detail as the orbiterstack

 

[DesTROYer8564]

This kit is definitely on my build list. Great work.