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Sheridan's B5 Starfury (7 Pictures)

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  • From: Pensacola, FL
Sheridan's B5 Starfury (7 Pictures)
Posted by Foster7155 on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 9:45 AM

Here's my latest build...a Sci-Fi project from a treadhead: Revell's Babylon 5 Mark 1 Starfury.

The kit required a few modifications - most notably the guns - but was a fairly simple build overall. The kit was painted with MM enamals and weathered with pastels to replicate the streaking seen on the official CGI pictures of the ship.

Close up of the rear. The camera was a bit kittywhompus on this shot:

A close perspective shot to show some of the weathering and rear of the engines:

A detail shot of the engines showing the subtle weathering on the plasma tines:

Head-on shot from the front...the one view only a friend wants to see:

A closer, higher shot of the front:

My tribute to matte painters everywhere with the B5 Shield floating in space:

And finally, a beauty shot:


As always, all comments, suggestions, and questions are welcome. Thanks for looking...

Robert Foster

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Posted by PanzerWulff on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 11:13 AM
Great job Foster the corrections on the guns really make them stand out I had one of these kits a while back and boy did the guns stink.The paint job is one of the best I've ever seen on a starfury once again great job
ACE??? you were NEVER an ace AN ace HOLE maybe! (Lister to Rimmer on BBC's RED DWARF) Chris"Hey GRAVITY still works"Gray
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:05 PM
Nice job. Beautiful weathering!!
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Posted by dnatech on Tuesday, June 13, 2006 10:42 PM

Very Nice Starfury. I have this kit and I am still trying to decide if I want to do Ivanova's Starfury or Bester's Omega Squadron Starfury. I think this may be one of my summer projects.

Steve

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Posted by Foster7155 on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:43 AM
Chris, Steven, and Steve...Thanks for looking in and for the kind comments. It's really appreciated.

Robert Foster

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Posted by SNOOPY on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:46 AM
Very nice job.  I have this kit started but I still have yet to finish it.  I started painting it the Presidential colors and screwed up the painting on it.  I have not decided to strip it or complete as is.  Did you have any trouble with the cannons.  I thought the instructions were a little shy in that area.  Any way, very nice nice!
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Posted by Foster7155 on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 12:07 PM

 SNOOPY wrote:
Did you have any trouble with the cannons.  I thought the instructions were a little shy in that area.

Snoopy,

The guns were by far the worst part of the kit. I cut off the molded cannon barrels, sanded off the smaller, lower guns, rebuilt both using styrene tubing, and made my own gun slit decals using the template provided by Starshipmoder.com. After that, I sanded off the upper cannon mounts on the wings, scrath-built some mounts (you can somewhat make them out in the head-on picture), and attached the upper cannons to the fuselage in accordance with the official CGI pictures. The upper cannons mounted to the wings would have been...well, just wrong. Overall, these modifications weren't overly difficult, but they did add 2 or 3 days to the build time.

Thanks for the kind remarks and good luck with your Starfury!

Robert Foster

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Posted by PanzerWulff on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 1:14 PM
I wish I could find another Starfury kit anyone know where to find one I have the B5 station and have been positively DROOLING over the Agamemnon kit on the Monsters in Motion website. Alas I have not been able to find another Starfury other than a resin Thunderbolt Starfury that was a bit overpriced. Big Smile [:D]
ACE??? you were NEVER an ace AN ace HOLE maybe! (Lister to Rimmer on BBC's RED DWARF) Chris"Hey GRAVITY still works"Gray
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Posted by dnatech on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:29 PM

Panzer for what it is worth there is a kit on ebay right now. auction ends tomorrow, or you can buy it now for $25. just a heads up.

Steve

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Posted by grandadjohn on Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:42 PM

Great job, have two in my stash, must build them soon

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Posted by Madman Lighting on Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:37 PM

Really nice work there.  I built one of those a few years ago and took 1st place at GraniteCon (Granite State Modelers show).  I especially like the weathering work with all the pastel shading.  Guns are nice too.  I've got a whole box of special edition Furies up in the attic which will one day be a whole squadron of these beasties.

 

-John C.

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Posted by Cpt.Sponder on Monday, July 17, 2006 3:07 AM

nice work there! love the tiger! (and paint scheme overall!)

very cool indeed!

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