If only I had the skill, the patience and the equipment to do something like this, then I could build my original designs.
Anyway, Two thumbs up! I can't wait to see the finished product.
Absolutely spot on looking work. Every shot of this makes me more and more jealous of the guy you're building this for. Looks great. How tall is that pole you currently have it mounted on? Can't wait till you light this puppy up.
Wow Sir. I would love to see a real closeup of what you did on the very top of the bridge / or is it the sensor dome. I have no photo that makes that clear enough! I'm also curious about the Egyptian stuff behind the model.
Yeah, I'll second that!! :thumb: You do realize that you are better at this, than the original model makers, right?
The very top of the round dome. I said this before, but it looks like hamburger in the Black and white photos of the TMP model. I took a stab at it, but yours looks better. Forever grateful for a well lit photo closeup.
Awesome! Loving the look of that, and the painting going on in the next few shots, beautiful attention to detail, and like how you've gone with the original model colour rather than the colour corrected grey as it appeared on screen (though I do personally prefer it in grey it is good to see such attention paid to authenticity).
The liquid spray might make for an alternative lighting/weapon effect, especially if flammable liquids are used in metal models.
With putting actual lasers in models--well--that can be problematic--but if you have a model as squirt gun, you just shine a laser through the base and no longer need a smoky room to see a beam/jet espressed from the ship--than can be filled with liquid to fill out light perhaps.
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I'm starting work on the shuttlebay.
Anyway, Two thumbs up! I can't wait to see the finished product.
I'm working on some of the last details, like the bridge dome etc.
Bravo I say!
:thumb:
And a short video
K'tinga Bridge - YouTube
The very top of the round dome. I said this before, but it looks like hamburger in the Black and white photos of the TMP model. I took a stab at it, but yours looks better. Forever grateful for a well lit photo closeup.
In TOS ST, we had great overall shapes. In Star Wars, the overall shape was simple but superdetailed.
K't'inga has both.
A couple of physical effects that might interest you:
http://io9.com/5978592/these-liquid-jets-arent-what-they-seem?tag=physics
Toho superweapon look
http://io9.com/5978744/a-prism-that-shoots-concentrated-beams-of-rainbows?tag=physics
The liquid spray might make for an alternative lighting/weapon effect, especially if flammable liquids are used in metal models.
With putting actual lasers in models--well--that can be problematic--but if you have a model as squirt gun, you just shine a laser through the base and no longer need a smoky room to see a beam/jet espressed from the ship--than can be filled with liquid to fill out light perhaps.
More painting
I'm painting the top superstructure now.
I'm starting on the underside paint.
A little more painting done.
Is this one for a client, or for the personal collection, Rel?
After all of this work, I hope he's keeping it.