Latest Project - Starstation Aurora

I've been working on a space station. Had it in my mind since... Well, a while now. Finally sat down last weekend and started on it and finished the bulk of it today, tho it's still a WIP. The main sections are from the Nova Hobbies Regula One Station kit, which goes for $35 plus shipping. I had originally intended to build it "as is" at 1/1400 scale at some point, but obviously gave in to my baser instincts.

Anyhow, the station is named Starstation Aurora, for those great folks Todd Guenther and "Sofia Aridas" and all the awesome works they published. If it weren't for their work, as well as that of "Franz" Joseph Schnaubelt (FJD) and Eric "Jackill" Christiansen, I'd never have started kitbashing and would prolly be some slob living in Mom & Dad's basement with no imagination. :shiney:


Main section up top is from the Nova Hobbies Regular One station, connecting piece below that is actually from the bottom where the cylinders are, next piece down usually connects directly to the main section, next some styrene tubing, then the "labs" section from the NovaHobbies kit. There are several parts from various Star Wars kits thrown in there, as well as a caster from our dishwashing machine, piece of one of those gumball machine balls (bottom part of dome), water bottle outer lid and top of a CA tube for the very bottom.


A piece of styrene tube taken from the parts tree of an ERTL TOS Enterprise runs up the middle of the station, holding it all together. At the very bottom, the CA tube lid is serving the part of a sub-space communications array. I'll do up some sort of identification breakdown at some point on what I intend the various sections to be. Prolly not 'til I finish it, tho.



One of each of my Klingon ships with two exceptions: the Negh'var and my Kang (a MicroMachine Vor'cha main hull and D-7 command pod, nacelles and shuttledeck section). I wasn't planning on putting the Negh'var in and simply forgot to put the Kang in, as the only competed one I had wasn't fully painted and stuck on the back of a shelf, to boot.

More to come. I want ot enter this and a couple other models in the Starship Modeler Model-In-A-Month "contest" that they have on their main site. Just to prove that I can build something in a month.