Thank ya kindly, Bud! I appreciate the kind words.
OK, more schlok from my workbench. This time just pics of the
Berzerk and
Cygnus. The main guns on
Berzerk and on the top "trench" of
Cygnus are from an extra two sets of guns I purchased from Timeslip Creations. I was looking for scale guns to better show these ships as being companions to the marvelous Nu
Galactica kit from TC and George was kind enough to sell me some.
Berzerk will get all ten guns on the topside positions - five on each side - and I'll use some Evergreen .030" Rod for the gun barrels along the sides. It won't look quite as good as if I had some similar gun barrels for those side guns, but it'll still look better than nothing, IMNSHO. I've only added two of the NuG guns to Berzerk, but intend to eventually add them all. I just sort of tacked these on so I could get an idea of what she'll look like. I still need to do detail painting on the model.
For
Cygnus, I'm giving her a total of eight of the quad guns from the Fantastic Plastic
Berzerk kit. I purchased several of those from Fantastic Plastic for various 'bashing projects. I figure those quad guns are meant more for anti-Raider-ish applications, especially since this design has no anti-starfighter guns as
Galactica, Pegasus, Berzerk and others do - at least, nothing that's immediately obvious in the CGI images.
And speaking of painting... Ugh! :mad: Dang, this is a seriously lousy paint job on both of these! Serves me right for hand-painting details w/o using masking tape. Hell, even then, the red stop on the upper starboard engine looks like crap.
Oh, well. These are meant to be sort of quick builds - no major alterations on the original kits other than to add a few detail pieces here and there. I've got another
Berzerk and that kit will get some surgery - a bit too much in the way of asymmetrical detailing on her, especially on the "head", as seen in the top view - done to her as I would like to try and make her more like what we see in the most recent CGI renders from [url=http://www.irrationaldesigns.com/]Irrational Designs.
Pics:
Hope the crap paint job isn't too offensive. I'm having fun w/these builds, tho do wish I had used masking tape in more areas.