Colonial Viper

Lucky for me, I can work small!

I made it from scratch. Not easy. But worth the time IMO.

the little viper are smaller than my 1/144 gundam hovertruck!

I have one of these,  uh where did you get the landing gear???

I felt I had to rework the Viper in my display/diorama since I developed so many good techniques on my newer ones... then I figured I'd tweak the display itself just a tad. So first, I made a tiny viper to put in the background:





Then I worked the big Viper (new pipes, exhausts, dirt, removing intake ridges...), & added some depth to the left wall:









Crappy camera here, I apologize for the lack-O-resolution!

But what do y'all think?

this are the best way!

Thanks! The gear is scratch- I won't buy what I can fabricate!

I'm actually fine tuning the display & the Viper I made for it right now! Little details can mean a lot...

I've seen this build someplace else, but this is rocking! I love the vipers - I see that you're making a fleet. I'd just buy one off feebay, and recast it. It's cheaper that way, and you don't have to worry about size differences, or details between other manufactureres IE: Revell, Monogram.  The sex change is amazing! You'd never know it if you just looked at it as a casual observer - I can't stop laughing, and noticing how much a little cutting can make a huge difference. Your eye for detail is great! I take it that the wood base is balsa for ease of cut, and build. The landing gear is too cool! Are those also scratch made, or kit parts.

~ Cobra Chris

Nice looking build. Really brings me back to the days of watching the show. I love the picture you got of the the hanger witht e Viper in Kligon Cloak mode

Twiggy Twiggy

you're totally viper insane

LOL, no, I made it from scratch!

micromachines?

Oh, I must be insane! Look what I just made to add to my Viper Display:

More pix when it's added!

i see the movie i lkike it but he don't figures that mig-31 was a real plane.. and actually signed in the gb with .. the real mig-31

The Viper is my favourite one man vehicle, followed by the Mig-31, which I see at the bottom of your posts. I really want to build an accurate Firefox soon, all I've done up to now is this toy-like kitbash of other planes:

whow ! this can be called a viper collection!! with eagle from space 1999 , the vioer was my favourite sci-fi veichle in child times

Thanks! It took me a few to get the Viper just right:

The one in the center front I made in 1980. I hacked out the windows, added in a built up pilot & glued in window panes; crude, but pretty good for a kid. The ones on the left & right I made a couple of months ago, and turned out nice, but the three in back that I JUST made came out perfect.

Colour me a Viper nut.

Sweet looking build .

Chrisisall

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And the guy I turned into a girl:

 

that was a surgery uncommissioned (from the guy) operation!!

and .. for the cyclone figure

great work on the backdrop

Isn't it cool??? It's a Joyride toy I got on Ebay last month for $10!!!! He falls over a lot, so I made a black faux-shadow base to epoxy him to, also had to paint his arms & gun a bit, but he is SWEEET!

Go to Ebay, but usually they go for $30 or more, I found it listed as a Cylon Figure, not a Cylon Centurion- that's why I was the only bidder, I conjure.

Chrisisall

I'd kill for that Cylon Centurion figure... was that  model?

Here was the display in progress:

And the guy I turned into a girl:

And the unfinished Viper:

AND... the stranger that forced me to do all the work...

;)

nice job.

Ron

Thanks! I painted the shadows so that no mater how the display is lit, there are always at least 2 shadows under the Viper & flight deck person,  adding to the illusion of depth.

Just too cool.Love that shadow.

Oh, I just leave it where it is all the time.

you have forgot the viper shadow! 

I did a wash for some panel lines near the guns, but mostly it the gray model colour showing through.

The cool thing about my landing bay display is that I can place any Viper I make onto it; the landing gear is actually part of the floor, not attached to the model:

I did a dirty one recently, but it seemed SO dirty... I was going for a blend of the relatively clean full-size mock up & the heavily dirty filming miniature, in essence, what it looked like on screen in the FX shots. Man, the filming miniature was *really* dirty, heh heh.