SS ANH Escape Pod

[t2sides]

My first Star Wars model in over a decade. Thought I'd tackle this little big fella as I begin ramping up into the SW universe again! This is the Studio Scale "Nice'N" Escape Pod that required a fair amount of work to get ready for paint. My good friend Belleauwood had this as a left over casting so it took a fair amont of sanding/puttying to get it in shape. I chose not to rework a lot of kit parts that I could have replaced, as I just wanted to jump right into painting/weathering and see how she came out. It's fairly close in weathering to the original filming miniature, with a bit of my own artistic license thrown in.
At this point, it's about 95% complete. I am still working on either getting/scratching the Sealab wiring to put in the engine section, need to add the heat sinks inside, and then she'll get a final dullcote all over (please ignore some of the shininess in places for now).
It really displays nicely, and overall it's a great model and cool to have something iconic from one of the original opening shots!
-Sean

 

[moffeaton]

Slow down

That looks GREAT!

 

[emojo5]

Great job Sean. Love the weathered finish. A real sexy beast. But you do realize that you making us all look bad. Cranking these things out, the way you do.

-emojo5

 

[Tsophika]

I LOVE the rusty wash and streaking. It looks spot on to the real deal.

Craig

 

[-... . .- --..]

Love the build, and the paint work, and the weathering looks spot-on. Can't wait to see the finished deal, Sean!

 

[Talkierg]

Beatiful work on the paint job!

Don

 

[DaveG]

Great work on an iconic model. One of my favorites. Such a simple, yet effective model shot.

You've done a great job on it!

 

[Junk Pilot]

That's sheer brilliance. I should report this post for being too good.

 

[OTnROTSfan]

Great job and great paint!! Just pulled out my old Nice-N EP myself and started cleaning up parts about two weeks ago (and deciding which ones to replace)... love this ship. Looking good.

 

[GF]

Fantastic paint and weathering job!!!!

 

[EchoLeader]

Excellent job! You did the pod great justice.

 

[ShowCraft]

Nice work as always Sean.

 

[joberg]

Very, very beautiful pod you have there Sir:cool

 

[GKvfx]

<Insert standard line about displaying it next to a Galactica Laser Turret here>

Gene

 

[Guy Cowen]

That's some mighty fine paintwork

 

[t2sides]

You Guys are AWESOME!! Thank you so much for the nice comments and feedback. I'm in the process of casting up the final few parts for the engine section, should have final build updates in the next week or two. That GKVfx dude sure has a sense of humor (and he might even get a picture of what he asks....)

 

[EchoLeader]

Sean, looking forward to seeing your completed Escape Pod. I hope to own one again some day and that it comes out half as nice as yours.