 Virtualscratchbuilder   | 23 May 2017 4:44 a.m. PST |
Been puttering on this for a while now. That is a regular MKP supergalactic dreadnought alongside for scale.
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| DesertScrb | 23 May 2017 8:30 a.m. PST |
You're scratchbuilding a SGDN??? (I assume it's the gray model in the photos.) Please elaborate! |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 23 May 2017 8:54 a.m. PST |
Sorry.. yes. The super-superGDN (the grey model) is scrachbuilt. |
| Allen57 | 23 May 2017 1:03 p.m. PST |
Very impressive from the complex detail level through the size of the ship. BTW the paint scheme on the other ship great. |
| Covert Walrus | 23 May 2017 6:01 p.m. PST |
That's really a nice scratchbuild on the same theme – exceptional detail, and I would love to see a tutorial on it! :)  |
| Mako11 | 23 May 2017 10:49 p.m. PST |
Looking good. Always wished I'd bought a bunch of those, back in the day. Lots of neat ship designs, and factions to choose from. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 24 May 2017 5:40 a.m. PST |
They are still available. |
| Mako11 | 24 May 2017 2:59 p.m. PST |
Thanks VS, I was wondering about that. Love your scratch-built design, by the way. That is indeed, impressive work! I'd love some tips/hints on what you used to make them, and/or a tutorial too. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 24 May 2017 6:57 p.m. PST |
The hull is plastic sheet laid over a balsa plug. Everything else is just parts from the parts and scrap box. If you look close, you can seee\: NKE Egyptian shields
Thracian shields
Saxon shields
Sung Chinese Halberds
1/700 missle tubes, radar dishes, life rafts, catapults, gun tubs, gunless turrets, etc
axle clips and other hardware
A cut up island from a 1/700 Essex
A cut up AQMF Martian dust launcher I'd like to say I just threw it all in a box with some glue and shook for a couple minutes, but it does take some thought. If I can find them I have done a heavy cruiser and frigate also. |
| TheStarRanger | 25 May 2017 6:21 a.m. PST |
Oooo I like that. Take all the weapons on the SGD….and add more. Your other scratchbuilds are great too and I wouldn't mind adding them to my fleets if MKP or anyone would be willing to make more of them. Now I always wanted a full gun version of the Terran Galactic Battlecruiser to compliment the Hybrid Carrier/Battlecruiser that they currently have….. |
| Virtualscratchbuilder | 25 May 2017 9:54 a.m. PST |
The super-super would not cast well as there are too many undercuts. I have approached MKP about offering up the cruiser and frigate but have had no response from them in the past. |
| TheBeast | 28 May 2017 9:00 p.m. PST |
In the back of my head, I hear Cypress Hill. 'Insane in the membrane, INSANE IN THE BRAIN.' Sad they can't be reproduced. I suspect less about the undercuts than the hull construction; balsa can be problematic to mould. Doug PS I'm biting back my inner pedant. 'NKE Egyptian' is redundant, and I'm 'ancients dumb.' ;->= |
| Mako11 | 29 May 2017 3:05 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the tips on your construction materials. They did come together very nicely. |
| BlackWidowPilot | 01 Jun 2017 9:10 p.m. PST |
Larry, don't you DARE paint that thing until you've contacted Ravenstar Studios and offered it to them as a prototype! Are you listening to me, Larry?!!! HELLLOOOO?!!!!! 
Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
silent-death.mx
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| Marc the plastics fan | 02 Jun 2017 1:41 p.m. PST |
You scratched that!!!! Oh man that is seriously good. I have a load of the "originals" but could never work out how best to paint them. But live the ships cranes etc. That is Star Wars film school building there Marc |
