| Cacique Caribe | 11 Apr 2017 3:35 p.m. PST |
Just thinking … What if the alien craft was done as 4 rounded sectional pieces, each looking something like this?
link What would you do to make the exterior walls look like they taper down inward (vertically)? Cut a large curving plastic bowl in 4 and use that as the base?
Dan
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nnascati  | 11 Apr 2017 3:49 p.m. PST |
Dan, That is really neat. But why would you need to model the exterior in scale at all? |
| Cacique Caribe | 11 Apr 2017 3:51 p.m. PST |
Why? To have these guys chance upon the crashed ship and then circumvent debris and defenses, find their way in, to "take care of business": TMP link Dan |
| nnascati | 11 Apr 2017 3:58 p.m. PST |
Ah, so you have a plan in mind. The plastic bowl might do it, but it won't be easy. |
| Cacique Caribe | 11 Apr 2017 4:47 p.m. PST |
Or perhaps just two sections then? Dan |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 11 Apr 2017 6:04 p.m. PST |
Do all four, and just use the ones you need ;) |
| Vigilant | 12 Apr 2017 6:50 a.m. PST |
Just like a film set. Sections that can be removed when needed to get at the figures. Have a look at some "Making of" books to see how set builders do it, the methods do scale down. |
| Norman D Landings | 12 Apr 2017 8:56 a.m. PST |
If I was going the "large plastic bowl" route, I'd leave the bowl intact – model a flat floor and interior detail – use a second bowl as a 'lift-off' upper section – and model exterior details on the outside of the bowl. Depending how OCD you want to go, you could put a lift-out floor in, just beneath the rim of the "lower" bowl, and beneath that, an 'engineering deck' in the bottom of the bowl. Clear bowl? Portholes! |
| capncarp | 12 Apr 2017 10:00 p.m. PST |
Very nice and atmospheric, Dan! |
| Cacique Caribe | 12 Apr 2017 11:10 p.m. PST |
@Vigilant: "Just like a film set. Sections that can be removed when needed to get at the figures. Have a look at some "Making of" books to see how set builders do it, the methods do scale down." Brilliant description and suggestion! Dan |
| Thomas Whitten | 13 Apr 2017 8:07 a.m. PST |
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| Pyrate Captain | 22 Apr 2017 7:12 a.m. PST |
This is really cool. I have been toying with the inter dimensional aspect of alien visitation and am reasoning that the outside dimension of the craft should in no way limit the inside dimension of the craft. |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Apr 2017 10:43 a.m. PST |
@Pyrate Captain: "am reasoning that the outside dimension of the craft should in no way limit the inside dimension of the craft" Ooo, I like how you think! Dan |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 27 Apr 2017 9:07 p.m. PST |
Remember the 'probing tables, true believers would stand for nothing else. |
| Cacique Caribe | 28 Apr 2017 4:44 a.m. PST |
Captain, You are so absolutely correct! The probing table is a MUST. Here's the one used for Cowboys & Aliens: link link Dan
PS. This foolish couple has no idea what horrors await them inside:
Or these idiots here:
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| Cacique Caribe | 24 Jan 2018 7:15 p.m. PST |
Ok, I've finally decided … I'm going to be using the Manth aliens from Rebel Minis on this project. Dan
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| deflatermouse | 25 Jan 2018 6:29 p.m. PST |
Those greens look awesome. Especially loving the fellow in the robes.
If they had 4 arms, I would have been all over them as Selenites. |
| Cacique Caribe | 27 Jan 2018 9:35 p.m. PST |
I think they're close enough for me. :) Dan |
| malleman | 27 Jan 2018 11:45 p.m. PST |
You know what would be cool is if you did an aluminum casting of an ant pile and somehow used it in this project
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| Cacique Caribe | 28 Jan 2018 6:21 a.m. PST |
OMG! Now that's some serious tunneling there. Dan |
| Cacique Caribe | 22 Oct 2018 4:35 a.m. PST |
Maybe the spaceship at the very top could be replicated in a more "organic" way, and using much simpler materials too, like this person did: 1) cut up plastic 2-liter coke bottles;
2) rolled up aluminum foil;
3) hot glue; and
4) air dry clay YouTube link
Minus the curly things on top of her build. :) Dan |
's first experience with 1:4800 scale naval models.
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