Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV

[Urashiman]

7 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

I've used special sanding films all the way up to 12,000 grit; by that time, you don't really need polishing compound!

My special polishing compound is tooth paste. XD

@Rock Ooooh yeah! I have the 1/48 YF-19 in my stash. Not sure when I am going to build that thing. It is huge. How are the Jasmine model 1/48 PE parts? I only got the Hasegawa ones. The adjustments on the scheme give it a little bit of Frontier/Delta touch to it

@Bolt Thanks man!

@Thom Thanks a lot! That Battle Star looks like a lot of work, placing all the panels on your own haha.

[Thom]

11 hours ago, Bolt said:

@Thom is that a specific Battle Star? Or will you name it?

It'll be the Pegasus. A lot different from canon, though! In my own head, these ships are set more in the TOS universe, so it is active wartime. This Pegasus was an attempt to increase the fighter strength of a battestar, and it worked well, but it ended up being a one-off, as a streamline in the concept is seen in the follow-up Galactica.

Rather than using four flight pods (expensive in material and time in wartime) they instead went with two large pods above and under. The original Mercuries had a smaller underside flight deck, and they doubled up on the launch decks in between them. I don't have a good shot in this pic, but simply doubled up the launch deck pieces from two kits.

Pegasus' four flight pods doubled her fighter strength, from 200 to 400. The more conservative version on the Galactica did not have the storage/maintenance space for the fully increased compliment, however, so Galactic only increased her number of Vipers from 200 to 325. It was seen as an acceptable compromise.

Also of note, Commander Helena Cain is not the psycho bee-otch of the newer series, but very much in line with the original series Cain.

@Urashiman I'm going to try and reuse as much of the original deck as possible, but I think I'm going to have to make two new pieces to go under the HEW turrets.

 

[Rock]

6 hours ago, Urashiman said:

 How are the Jasmine model 1/48 PE parts? I only got the Hasegawa ones.

That is the Hase set. Lol

Honestly not really worth the money IMO, there are a ton of large blank areas where they had opportunity to detail up the kit and didn't.

Edited January 17, 2023 by Rock

[pengbuzz]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

It'll be the Pegasus. A lot different from canon, though! In my own head, these ships are set more in the TOS universe, so it is active wartime. This Pegasus was an attempt to increase the fighter strength of a battestar, and it worked well, but it ended up being a one-off, as a streamline in the concept is seen in the follow-up Galactica.

Rather than using four flight pods (expensive in material and time in wartime) they instead went with two large pods above and under. The original Mercuries had a smaller underside flight deck, and they doubled up on the launch decks in between them. I don't have a good shot in this pic, but simply doubled up the launch deck pieces from two kits.

Pegasus' four flight pods doubled her fighter strength, from 200 to 400. The more conservative version on the Galactica did not have the storage/maintenance space for the fully increased compliment, however, so Galactic only increased her number of Vipers from 200 to 325. It was seen as an acceptable compromise.

Also of note, Commander Helena Cain is not the psycho bee-otch of the newer series, but very much in line with the original series Cain.

@Urashiman I'm going to try and reuse as much of the original deck as possible, but I think I'm going to have to make two new pieces to go under the HEW turrets.

 

Really liking that idea, Thom! I was never a big fan of PsychoCain to begin with, and your approach on the Pegasus makes a lot of sense!

While Nu-Galactica had stuff going for it, so did TOS; a fusion of the two is a very fertile field indeed!

[Urashiman]

8 hours ago, Rock said:

That is the Hase set. Lol

Honestly not really worth the money IMO, there are a ton of large blank areas where they had opportunity to detail up the kit and didn't.

Oh… hahahaha. Well, I never opened mine, so I was not aware of the large color print.

@Thom ah, yeh that’s cool

 

for me it was: another day, another canopy mask. Prepared the grumman x-29 for priming.

the canopy is the horror as the panel lines of the kit are worn out and really fine, barely noticeable. I scratch along all of them with the trytools from Hasegawa. I‘ll see how it turns out after the first primer coat.

[Chronocidal]

Thank you for reminding me I have that kit sitting somewhere, I should really pick up and work on a bunch of the smaller kits I have laying around, they're nice little builds.

[arbit]

Y'all knew it was coming right?

[pengbuzz]

15 hours ago, Urashiman said:

Oh… hahahaha. Well, I never opened mine, so I was not aware of the large color print.

@Thom ah, yeh that’s cool

 

for me it was: another day, another canopy mask. Prepared the grumman x-29 for priming.

the canopy is the horror as the panel lines of the kit are worn out and really fine, barely noticeable. I scratch along all of them with the trytools from Hasegawa. I‘ll see how it turns out after the first primer coat.

Yeah, the panel liens on the canopy of any craft can be a royal pain. For me, it got to where on kits where they were half-faded or not present, I would use strips of masking tape to make my own and prime and paint it as I would a normal canopy.

My heart really goes out to you...that looks like a beast!

[pengbuzz]

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Edited January 28, 2023 by pengbuzz

[arbit]

Misa Mars Base version! Now up.

It is so much fun working on rare characters.  I'm quite proud of these recent designs, because at this stage I am doing most of the modeling from scratch (like clothing, accessories, helmets).  I still use base models (for bodies, heads, and hands), but often only for proportions to build clothing around. 

https://www.patreon.com/arbitscalemodels

 

Edited January 20, 2023 by arbit

[Urashiman]

7 hours ago, arbit said:

Misa Mars Base version! Now up.

It is so much fun working on rare characters.  I'm quite proud of these recent designs, because at this stage I am doing most of the modeling from scratch (like clothing, accessories, helmets).  I still use base models (for bodies, heads, and hands), but often only for proportions to build clothing around. 

https://www.patreon.com/arbitscalemodels

 

Looks really nice

[pengbuzz]

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Edited January 28, 2023 by pengbuzz

[wm cheng]

Well, I finally got around to taking some better photos of my models that I built during the Pandemic and learned about Focus Stacking.  I've always been trying to fight the depth of field thing where only the nose of the plane is in focus and the tail is blurry - even with tonnes of light, and stepping down the aperture the physical lens limitations and the sensor size will only allow a few inches to be in focus even with Macro lenses.  Anyways, here are proper photos of the planes I've built in the last 3 years... thanks.

[arbit]

7 minutes ago, wm cheng said:

Anyways, here are proper photos of the planes I've built in the last 3 years... thanks.

Dang.  Too good. Thanks for sharing.  

[Rock]

1 hour ago, wm cheng said:

Well, I finally got around to taking some better photos of my models that I built during the Pandemic and learned about Focus Stacking.  I've always been trying to fight the depth of field thing where only the nose of the plane is in focus and the tail is blurry - even with tonnes of light, and stepping down the aperture the physical lens limitations and the sensor size will only allow a few inches to be in focus even with Macro lenses.  Anyways, here are proper photos of the planes I've built in the last 3 years... thanks.

 

Those pictures look great! Everything on focus almost gives it a 3d render look!

[derex3592]

@wm cheng Ohh man!  All those look GREAT! I think the Eagle is my favorite though! 

[Thom]

@wm cheng Those planes look great, esp that F-4!

[electric indigo]

@wm cheng Thank you for the nice gift for the weekend. All museum quality masterpieces IMO!

Which software did you use for the focus stacking?

[Bolt]

On 1/17/2023 at 7:12 AM, Thom said:

It'll be the Pegasus. A lot different from canon, though! In my own head, these ships are set more in the TOS universe, so it is active wartime. This Pegasus was an attempt to increase the fighter strength of a battestar, and it worked well, but it ended up being a one-off, as a streamline in the concept is seen in the follow-up Galactica.

That's cool, i like making variations based on canon. 
@Urashiman I'm looking forward to seeing how those panel lines came out on the X-29. I need to practice my panel lining more. My attempts to add a few panel lines to my super Lancer were not that great.

@arbit I'm loving your work! Keep them coming 👍🏼

 @pengbuzz great job , that beast has a lot going on! Good hob on the mast! Those of us that don't have 3D printers must scratch build 

@wm cheng Excellent photo work! And Most Excellent model builds, wow ! 

[pengbuzz]

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Edited January 28, 2023 by pengbuzz

[Urashiman]

@Bolt re-scribing is… there are no nice words. It is a tedious process and needs much patience. There is no easy way to do it. The easiest so far was with Hasegawa trytools, at least from my experience.

I primed the X-29 and I still need to rescribe some of the panel lines. It annoys me. Hahaha 

The VF-19A is basically done priming now. No further sanding needed. It can go into the pre-shading queue now.

Here are the current stages of the VF-1, X-29 and VF-19A. Found some sanding stuff on the VF-1 after priming the VF-19A and X-29. will prime that when I am done with scribing and more sanding on the X-29.

For pre-shading I decided on the following…

VF-19A: purple base color with black shading along the panel lines.

X-29: beige/sand base color with dark brown shading along the panel lines.

VF-1: light grey base color with dark blue shading.

Still much work to do here.

[wm cheng]

10 hours ago, electric indigo said:

@wm cheng Thank you for the nice gift for the weekend. All museum quality masterpieces IMO!

Which software did you use for the focus stacking?

Hey @electric indigo, I used Photoshop - put my camera on a tripod and manually focused, started focused on the nose and manually turned the lens and took a picture at the next step all the way to the tail of the plane / usually in 5-6 picture steps.  This was the most useful site: https://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-editing/focus-stack-images-photoshop/

Thanks all for the kudos on the pictures!  I'm glad to finally have them taken (before I break something :P)  I think all the pictures of the Pegasus has inspired me to work on my Moebius NuGalactica next...

[Thom]

@pengbuzz Keep an eye out for that plane! But if it doesn't turn up, what is the possibility of moving one of the parked birds to the launcher?

[pengbuzz]

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Edited January 28, 2023 by pengbuzz

[SpacePirateNeko]

Primed and ready..again..theres really no seams to cover on these...except the vf-0. I think at 1/72 the seams dont show too much after priming though.

[Urashiman]

Base shade color on the vf-19A done

[derex3592]

Got my Aztecs in for the 1/1000 Reliant and Enterprise. Lightened up the preshading just a bit more then got most of the Aztecs down on the Reliant over the weekend along with starting on the actual kit decals. No real issues to report. Good quality decals. Also got the Enterprise basic assembly done and the saucer primed. Also got a 1st round of a mottled paint job down on my 1/350 US Attack sub. (Pictures later) 

Edited January 23, 2023 by derex3592

[Thom]

@derex3592 The shading and the decals were very well together.

[arbit]

18 hours ago, Urashiman said:

Base shade color on the vf-19A done

Nice! Purple goes with everything.

[arbit]

Just for fun, I am taking votes for which Milia pilot I should release for free. Most votes wins.

Edited January 24, 2023 by arbit

[Urashiman]

7 minutes ago, arbit said:

Just for fun, I am taking votes for which Milia pilot I should release for free. Most votes wins.

how and where are you voting?

[arbit]

2 minutes ago, Urashiman said:

how and where are you voting?

You guys can chime in here. It's not scientific 🤣

[arbit]

16 minutes ago, Urashiman said:

how and where are you voting?

I have been making a bunch of 3D figures, as you know, and didn't know what to do with them, so this is what I came up with.

I don't sell any figures. All my figures are free.  There are many reasons for this, but primarily it's just a hobby, and I have a lot of fun of doing it and sharing it with others.  I would rather 100 people have my figures for free, than selling 2 or 3 pieces online.  The big payoff is to see people use my figures in their projects. 

So, rather than hording my figures or monetizing them, I release each "main" figure for free, and give "variant" figure poses to my supporters on Patreon.   I also made my Patreon as cheap as possible at 2 dollars, so anyone can get whatever they need.  It's just for fun to chat with like-minded fans and get their encouragement.

[Urashiman]

1 hour ago, arbit said:

I have been making a bunch of 3D figures, as you know, and didn't know what to do with them, so this is what I came up with.

I don't sell any figures. All my figures are free.  There are many reasons for this, but primarily it's just a hobby, and I have a lot of fun of doing it and sharing it with others.  I would rather 100 people have my figures for free, than selling 2 or 3 pieces online.  The big payoff is to see people use my figures in their projects. 

So, rather than hording my figures or monetizing them, I release each "main" figure for free, and give "variant" figure poses to my supporters on Patreon.   I also made my Patreon as cheap as possible at 2 dollars, so anyone can get whatever they need.  It's just for fun to chat with like-minded fans and get their encouragement.

Well - I'd go for number 5 then

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Urashiman said:

Well - I'd go for number 5 then

Same