The Betty (Alien Resurection) 1:30 Scale Build

[gooses2]

I'm really excited about this one! It's one of my favourite ships. I settled on 1:30 scale, so the finished thing will be around 55cm in length.

I drew up some designs based on screen grabs from the film. This model is quite a bit smaller than the studio scale model so I'm not intending on capturing all the detail from the actual craft.

These designs are not finalised in terms of the detail. I also need to draw up designs on the large side thrusters.

So I'm pretty far into the build at this point, most of the form for the body is there

Expect more updates soon!

 

[joberg]

I'll be following your build closely for sure. Good start

 

[gooses2]

I haven't posted in over 2 weeks, so heres a little update.

 

[TheNylonGag]

Loving your build so far mate,

Have you seen this studio scale version from The IED bounty dude in SS model section


http://www.therpf.com/f10/ss-betty-alien-resurrection-118968/



Thats a nice little shop you got yourself there

but, you obviously don't know what your doing,



your bench is waaaaaay to tidy mate

LOL

More updates please buddy

Gag

 

[LukaFilm]

Oh man, she's a beauty!!!
Can you show how you build all those details? It looks very precise and detailed, are you using 3d printer, or CNC cutter or something??
Great job!

 

[gooses2]

Oh man, she's a beauty!!!
Can you show how you build all those details? It looks very precise and detailed, are you using 3d printer, or CNC cutter or something??
Great job!

It's a combination of things. Some of the really fine detail is laser cut acrylic the rest is hand cut abs or styrene.

This part (cargo door) is just abs cut with a scalpel.

Vinyl rod turned on the lathe.

This is a small piece of chemiwood that I have layered with thin styrene.

Here Ive stuck the turned rod down and coated with it with primer.

On the cargo door has some more detail here. Again just cut styrene.

The 3 cargo holder things are the same process but the top grate is to fine to cut by hand so it was laser cut.

The cockpit I built from card first. I then took the measurements of each panel and recreated them in illustrator.

Using the illustrator data I then had the pieces lasercut. Still need to do some cleanup on this part.

 

[IEDBOUNTYHUNTER]

Looks good. On the big cargo box. That top piece is a separate shroud. And the cockpit is a little fatter. But you look like nailed all the main details Keep posting updates



Al

 

[ColHero]

Excellent work! will be watching this one

 

[PHArchivist]

Fun stuff; cool ship...

 

[nathanial91]

Looking Badass mate, good to see the old workshop on here as well!

 

[gooses2]

Here's another little update. I'm on a pretty tight schedule for this so I'm working fast. I have to finish this in just 2 more weeks.

The main body has been primed white ready for the yellow.

I've blocked out the 2 side thruster things, their posed quite high here but thats only because the joint isn't tight enough to hold them correctly yet.

 

[jake88]

Very clean work! Love it!

 

[TOM11G]

proper job mate! keep it up

 

[gooses2]

OK guys! I've gone and painted the base coat of yellow. I used a rattle can mustard colour then went over the top with some humbrol enamel to bring down the gloss to a matte.

This is the gloss from the rattle can.

Here i've gone over and lightened the yellow with enamels.

Next up is the reddish zig zag across the body and quite a bit of weathering!

 

[gooses2]

Here's a little update on the paint job.

Ive masked off the wings with an approximate representation of the original pattern and then sprayed a reddish colour over the top.

 

[funboy1013xx]

DUDE!! KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES LATER!! nice nice nice!! :thumbsup

 

[ColHero]

Fabulous scratchbuilding! Kool ship too

 

[Hagoth]

Very cool scratch building project! Nice job on the wing color pattern. The crafting skill here is most impressive.

 

[Durrett]

Awesome, love this ship. Impressively fast build too.

 

[faustus100]

Truly amazing work!