Moreorless37
Active Member
Hello all, I've just started work on scratch building a YT-1760 freighter and figured I'd post my current progress up!
Here are the reference photos I am working off of. I scaled them to 1:48 and figured that the diameter of the dish is about 13-ish inches. So now I had to figure out how the heck to make the dish. I don't have access to a lathe, so I went to a technique that I had seen before.
I cut out the circles of the main dish and the gun turret out of foam core. Now the part I didn't document was cutting out the contour shapes, but that did happen. as did filling the empty slots with expanding foam
and then, bondo, lots of bondo
next step sanding.
I plan on molding and then casting the main pieces in resin. Let me know what you all think, and any advise you all may impart would also be appreciated
Here are the reference photos I am working off of. I scaled them to 1:48 and figured that the diameter of the dish is about 13-ish inches. So now I had to figure out how the heck to make the dish. I don't have access to a lathe, so I went to a technique that I had seen before.
I cut out the circles of the main dish and the gun turret out of foam core. Now the part I didn't document was cutting out the contour shapes, but that did happen. as did filling the empty slots with expanding foam
and then, bondo, lots of bondo
next step sanding.
I plan on molding and then casting the main pieces in resin. Let me know what you all think, and any advise you all may impart would also be appreciated