Your stripes are really good and much like the painters of the stripes on the real ships the only ones who will ever notice their mistakes are themselves.

I've built models in the past, but have not painted them. I'm good at the assembly part, no so good at the painting part. D:

Some day, I would like to build a one off model.

Got my hands on a new release 1/72 scale Saturn V kit.

It's going to be big and take a ton of paint with lots of masking so one stage at a time.
I will also need to super detail it as it is fairly basic in some places so a bit of research will be required.

It comes out at over 5 feet high!!
Then the launch tower even bigger!

For those too young to remember

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OMG that's awesome Jenny! I had a 1/144 Saturn V when I was a teen, and that was big...but yours is HUGE! Bigger than mine! *giggles*

Does it have the lander tucked away inside?

Yes a nicely detailed lander will be tucked away inside

The CSM is finally correct and it has boost protection cover with the escape tower to scale.

I will post some pics when stages are completed.

Mine being bigger than yours, you just have rocket envy...

So, this:


?

Good Lord.. I think I'll stick with dinky 2.5' ships.

The original Star Trek Model

I see  you transported yourself to the Smithsonian, Keaira. I understand the poor TOS Ent. is in bad shape these days. It wasn't built to last anywhere near this long.

Quote from: Lyric on June 23, 2013, 11:37:09 AM
I see  you transported yourself to the Smithsonian, Keaira. I understand the poor TOS Ent. is in bad shape these days. It wasn't built to last anywhere near this long.

Yea, the poor thing. As you can see, the nacelles look like they are starting to droop.

Quote from: Keaira on June 23, 2013, 07:59:01 PM
Yea, the poor thing. As you can see, the nacelles look like they are starting to droop.

Love the pics of the Enterprise! Yes, looks like the left one needs a bit of Viagra...but I imagine that's a lot of weight for the strut to be holding up (even styrofoam would be heavy with that kind of leverage).

I think TOS Enterprise is the best looking one, overall!

It was restored once before in the 90's but it needs help again.

They should tie more wires to the poor thing.

Finished the foredeck (with its many many tiny bits) and all the large gun turrets (currently without their complement of life rafts). There's also a few more individually wrapped cable spools, although these are much easier now that I have needle nose pliers and proper superglue.

I've begun work on the various structures of the main cabin, although I'll probably take a break to install the fore and aft railings. Also to paint the many, many tiny things on the main deck.

That looks wicked! 2 turrets with big triples, flanked by 2 turrets with smaller triples! And of course, guns on top of guns...

Are you keeping your ship clean? or will you add weathering?

Quote from: ZoeM on June 28, 2013, 08:44:51 AM

Finished the foredeck (with its many many tiny bits) and all the large gun turrets (currently without their complement of life rafts). There's also a few more individually wrapped cable spools, although these are much easier now that I have needle nose pliers and proper superglue.

I've begun work on the various structures of the main cabin, although I'll probably take a break to install the fore and aft railings. Also to paint the many, many tiny things on the main deck.

Looks like it is coming along nicely 

Quote from: Keaira on June 28, 2013, 09:10:29 PM
Are you keeping your ship clean? or will you add weathering?

I'll probably add weathering. It'll make my mistakes less glaring.

New pic: the main superstructure, 75% complete.


For size reference, a needle is about 2/3 the width of one of the white circular bumps.

Today's thought. 3 life times of models = no defense when life tells you you need to make up for a lifetime of not buying women's clothing.

I don't see it being easy buying any more models considering how many I already own, and all I have is a single article of women's clothing to date and clearly that is not enough.

Rebuilt all of my bookcases and added scores of new shelves, and the truth is, the unbuilt kits will gobble that up with ease.

Never thought I would be weighing buying panties over a new tank model.

I found a deal on e-bay and could not resist . So I grabbed three plastic 1:100 scale StuG G Assault Guns and one 7.5cm PAK40 team from the Battlefront Open Fire set - it all costed me around 16 GBP. StuGs went together with ease and it should not take long for me to paint them in the late war Dunkelgelb scheme with camo stripes. I will post pics when I will be done with them .

Quote from: -Emily- on July 21, 2013, 12:39:58 PM
I found a deal on e-bay and could not resist . So I grabbed three plastic 1:100 scale StuG G Assault Guns and one 7.5cm PAK40 team from the Battlefront Open Fire set - it all costed me around 16 GBP. StuGs went together with ease and it should not take long for me to paint them in the late war Dunkelgelb scheme with camo stripes. I will post pics when I will be done with them .

Wow, what a find!

The StugG is my fav WW2 German tank (more accurately, "assault gun"; it's just missing the turret, by design)...low profile, fast, and even with the 75mm gun pretty effective in numbers. Sexy too, as far as tanks go...and the mustard yellow + green "tiger stripes" are awesome!



Please post pics!