Darth Penguin
Active Member
Hi all
My new project is scratch building Starbug from the Red Dwarf TV series.
My first step was to get some acrylic spheres, these are cheap ones that are meant to be xmas baubles, but I figured I could put them to much better use.
After doing some research I got 120mm, 90mm and 70mm spheres for the three sections of the ship, from my research these spheres are not in the perfect ration of sizes, but the difference is maybe 10%. I also found that there were several different versions of the ship so I figured that 10% is not bad at all.
I cut lots of semicircles out of styrene to find the centre of the hemispheres and marked them all.
I then used a picture I found online as a reference and measure where the engine bay needs to go, the rear radar and the middle section greebie cut outs.
These were cut using a razor and thin cutting disk in my motor tool.
I made a styrene circle section to pad out the rear sphere also.
Here are a few shots of the progress and the very initial mock up using the three spheres.
I would be really keen to know if anyone else has built one of these and if they have any advice!
![IMG_4366.JPG IMG_4366.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407070-9228a0c560a120fb11b393f873024c65.jpg)
![IMG_4392.JPG IMG_4392.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407071-35bca602740870c454201f383a500f2f.jpg)
![IMG_4393.JPG IMG_4393.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407072-741648292a2409190f8d8ccd1be075a8.jpg)
![IMG_4394.JPG IMG_4394.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407073-24b532cd1d6b0ed730ea95b3f02bbed2.jpg)
![IMG_4395.JPG IMG_4395.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407074-2ae266a3fde187cc612ac3a8902e33fa.jpg)
My new project is scratch building Starbug from the Red Dwarf TV series.
My first step was to get some acrylic spheres, these are cheap ones that are meant to be xmas baubles, but I figured I could put them to much better use.
After doing some research I got 120mm, 90mm and 70mm spheres for the three sections of the ship, from my research these spheres are not in the perfect ration of sizes, but the difference is maybe 10%. I also found that there were several different versions of the ship so I figured that 10% is not bad at all.
I cut lots of semicircles out of styrene to find the centre of the hemispheres and marked them all.
I then used a picture I found online as a reference and measure where the engine bay needs to go, the rear radar and the middle section greebie cut outs.
These were cut using a razor and thin cutting disk in my motor tool.
I made a styrene circle section to pad out the rear sphere also.
Here are a few shots of the progress and the very initial mock up using the three spheres.
I would be really keen to know if anyone else has built one of these and if they have any advice!
![IMG_4366.JPG IMG_4366.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407070-9228a0c560a120fb11b393f873024c65.jpg)
![IMG_4392.JPG IMG_4392.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407071-35bca602740870c454201f383a500f2f.jpg)
![IMG_4393.JPG IMG_4393.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407072-741648292a2409190f8d8ccd1be075a8.jpg)
![IMG_4394.JPG IMG_4394.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407073-24b532cd1d6b0ed730ea95b3f02bbed2.jpg)
![IMG_4395.JPG IMG_4395.JPG](https://therpf-f28a.kxcdn.com/forums/data/attachments/407/407074-2ae266a3fde187cc612ac3a8902e33fa.jpg)