Three Foot Firefly

pennausamike

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Bought this years ago.

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Kit was $250.
As you can tell by the 12oz. Mountain Dew can, it's a biggun'.

It sat for a few years, until I sold it to finance the 2011 BCB trip (which I ended up not taking.)

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At that point, the only replica Firefly I owned was the old Hallmark ornament version; about 5 inches long.
I saw another kit come up on eBay for $400 that I think was being offered by the original builder.
Hi-lariously enough, the listing used my green pool table pictures of my 3 foot Firefly, but it was definitely not mine for sale.
I didn't buy that one because of both the price (considerably more than I paid)
and because I just couldn't face the amount of work needed to join all that fiberglass together.
Never mind a fully detailed build.
I bought one of the Firefly Yahtzee ships for fifteen bucks, but that really didn't suit what I was looking for.
So, I still didn't have a nice big display ship that suited me.
Until......

...another three foot, fiberglass Firefly came up on eBay.
This one was already built, with nearly no basic cleanup of seams and so forth,
plus some rudimentary electronics (which I have no interest in.)
Still a little high on the price, but closer to what I was willing to pay,
which is about what I was willing to pay the first go-'round.

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I kept it in my watch list for awhile, and yeehaw, it came down to what I originally paid for the kit, plus shipping.
Well yeah, I can do that!
So I'm back in the big display Firefly club.
There is still a fair amount of work to make it displayable, but all that ambition-killing fiberglass work is out of the way.
Knowing my limitations, I'm keeping this really basic; no interior, no electronics, no Altrans display base,
(that was the original plan, I even have the basis for the HO scale Altrans hover-locomotive)
and no super-detailing.

This thing just really looks nice,
with good basic shapes and a sense of impact that the smaller Firefly models don't give me.
Here is the Yahtzee Firefly with one of the 3 ft Firefly engines (with the aluminum rings I machined for it.)

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Thank goodness, 'cause I really needed another project....

Mike
My Firefly/ Serenity Collection:
http://fireflydvd.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3541
 
An in-progress update, just 'cause, yunno,
MERRY CHRISTMAS! to all.

And in the Yuletide spirit, here is my project I have been working on as I can:

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It took a little bit of searching (but not too much, actually) to find a Serenity-sized Christmas hat.
The base will be stained in dark walnut, the riser is made of clear plexiglass (currently with the brown paper protective covering)
and the builder's plate is from a nearly decade old RPF Junkyard run.
Of course, the 12 oz Mountain Dew can is the "standard" to show the size of the thing.

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I checked the QMx site, and their large Firefly is 27" X 18", cost $7,500, and is "sold out".
There is still a lot of basic work to do to make my 3-foot Firefly presentable
(and I know to many folks, it would never be "right")
but I am still thrilled to have it (tho' I'm not so thrilled with the puttying and sanding.)

Mike
My Firefly/ Serenity Collection:
http://fireflydvd.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3541
 
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