Moska
Sr Member
Hello friends.
This is my penultimate project. A tattered, slightly steampunk rocket that I fell in love with after stumbling across an image on the internet. I haven't been able to find the origin or author of that illustration.
I was very keen to do it because, this time, I didn't have to stick to reproducing as faithfully as possible an existing original. I was totally free to do whatever I wanted. And so I did.
The basic construction is not very mysterious. A wooden master for the cone, a PVC pipe as a master for the cylinder, and ABS plastic heated in an oven in my kitchen.
For the cylinder I was thinking of using a PVC pipe, but I made the mistake of assuming that Ø80mm was a standard size. And it turned out that it wasn't. But, by the time I realized my mistake, I had already made the cone with that size. So I used a Ø76mm PVC pipe as a master to make my own Ø80mm cylinder.
For both the cone and the cylinder, I used three sections of plastic to form them.
I then etched the paneling and glued on some extra styrene panels to give it more relief and increase its “unsophisticated” look.
I also glued on several pieces from other kits to add detail. The nozzles are from the old 1/144 Apollo-Saturn V kit from Airfix. The steps of the ladder, which look like stapler pins… are stapler pins. And the metal ring at the bottom of the cylinder is actually an aluminium barbecue skewer.
The most interesting part as a modeller was trying out a new technique to make the raised rivets. It is a technique I discovered on Youtube and it is neither as tedious nor as difficult as it may seem. To avoid going on about explanations, here is the link to that video where you can see how that technique works.
I don't know exactly what those little tin spheres are used for. It's something for soldering, but... I don't care too much.
I did it almost as shown in the video, with the only difference that I used the Intermediate Gauzy Agent product, from AK Interactive, to stick the rivets. One layer before putting the rivets and another after. I used a thin brush, moistened with this product, to pick up those spheres, one by one. They adhere to the tip of the brush by capillarity and it is easy to move them to their place fairly quickly.
With this product, the truth is that the fixation is not very strong. But by handling the model carefully and after adding the following layers of primer, paint, varnish, etc... it can be handled without problems.
In my rocket I used Ø0.3mm and Ø0.5mm rivets.
As for the painting, I used the same color scheme as that illustration on the internet. What I did freely was decorate the signs and numbers.
The larger white elements are painted using masking tape and airbrush. The rest are decals printed on virgin decal paper, some on transparent paper and others on white paper.
In those elements I included:
- My own logo (Moska)
- Star Wars
- Mandalorian
- Star Trek
- Battlestar Galactica
- Planet of the Apes
- 2001, a space odyssey
- Space 1999
- Several elements from Starshiptroopers
- Several signs from Alien
- Alien abduction danger
- The flag of my city
- The name of my wife
- And the logo of a cultural association from the small town where I usually spend my holidays.
It's a small tribute to the movies and TV series I grew up with. There are a few more but I decided I had enough.
I have done almost all the weathering using AK's Weathering pencils, and some chipping with a brush.
I hope you like my "whim".
Greetings.
Rafa
This is my penultimate project. A tattered, slightly steampunk rocket that I fell in love with after stumbling across an image on the internet. I haven't been able to find the origin or author of that illustration.
I was very keen to do it because, this time, I didn't have to stick to reproducing as faithfully as possible an existing original. I was totally free to do whatever I wanted. And so I did.
The basic construction is not very mysterious. A wooden master for the cone, a PVC pipe as a master for the cylinder, and ABS plastic heated in an oven in my kitchen.
For the cylinder I was thinking of using a PVC pipe, but I made the mistake of assuming that Ø80mm was a standard size. And it turned out that it wasn't. But, by the time I realized my mistake, I had already made the cone with that size. So I used a Ø76mm PVC pipe as a master to make my own Ø80mm cylinder.
For both the cone and the cylinder, I used three sections of plastic to form them.
I then etched the paneling and glued on some extra styrene panels to give it more relief and increase its “unsophisticated” look.
I also glued on several pieces from other kits to add detail. The nozzles are from the old 1/144 Apollo-Saturn V kit from Airfix. The steps of the ladder, which look like stapler pins… are stapler pins. And the metal ring at the bottom of the cylinder is actually an aluminium barbecue skewer.
The most interesting part as a modeller was trying out a new technique to make the raised rivets. It is a technique I discovered on Youtube and it is neither as tedious nor as difficult as it may seem. To avoid going on about explanations, here is the link to that video where you can see how that technique works.
I don't know exactly what those little tin spheres are used for. It's something for soldering, but... I don't care too much.
I did it almost as shown in the video, with the only difference that I used the Intermediate Gauzy Agent product, from AK Interactive, to stick the rivets. One layer before putting the rivets and another after. I used a thin brush, moistened with this product, to pick up those spheres, one by one. They adhere to the tip of the brush by capillarity and it is easy to move them to their place fairly quickly.
With this product, the truth is that the fixation is not very strong. But by handling the model carefully and after adding the following layers of primer, paint, varnish, etc... it can be handled without problems.
In my rocket I used Ø0.3mm and Ø0.5mm rivets.
As for the painting, I used the same color scheme as that illustration on the internet. What I did freely was decorate the signs and numbers.
The larger white elements are painted using masking tape and airbrush. The rest are decals printed on virgin decal paper, some on transparent paper and others on white paper.
In those elements I included:
- My own logo (Moska)
- Star Wars
- Mandalorian
- Star Trek
- Battlestar Galactica
- Planet of the Apes
- 2001, a space odyssey
- Space 1999
- Several elements from Starshiptroopers
- Several signs from Alien
- Alien abduction danger
- The flag of my city
- The name of my wife
- And the logo of a cultural association from the small town where I usually spend my holidays.
It's a small tribute to the movies and TV series I grew up with. There are a few more but I decided I had enough.
I have done almost all the weathering using AK's Weathering pencils, and some chipping with a brush.
I hope you like my "whim".
Greetings.
Rafa
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