Starfighter

Swanny

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February 2003
From: Sandusky Ohio, USA

Starfighter

Posted by Swanny on Saturday, January 20, 2007 11:34 AM

I picked this Star Wars kit up at the local Wal Mart for about ten bucks and used it as an excercise in Alclad. Everything on the exterior is Alclad Lacquer paint and so too is the stand. Interior is all Gunze Sangyo acrylics.

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maxx1969

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May 2004
From: Oregon

Posted by maxx1969 on Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:42 PM

Wow! Awesome job and killer idea using the Alclad. That is just very very cool

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TANGO 1

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December 2002
From: A secret workshop somewhere in England

Posted by TANGO 1 on Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:06 PM

Cool!

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Griffworks

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June 2004
From: The House of Blues Clues

Posted by Griffworks on Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:39 PM

Excellent work! Turned out looking fantastic w/those Alclad's.

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Woody

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December 2002
From: Third rock from the sun.

Posted by Woody on Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:41 AM

That does indeed look awesome! Makes me curious to see the pilot.

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Swanny

Member since
February 2003
From: Sandusky Ohio, USA

Posted by Swanny on Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:12 PM

Woody wrote:
That does indeed look awesome! Makes me curious to see the pilot.

I could not find anything even close in scale to use as a pilot. Would have loved to put a WW2 Luftwaffe pilot figure with this. 1/24 is too big, 1/35 too small.

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Dubau

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March 2006
From: Boyertown, PA, USA

Posted by Dubau on Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:30 PM

Looks Good Swanny

Bud

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Hippy-Ed

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December 2004
From: Stockton,Ca

Posted by Hippy-Ed on Monday, January 22, 2007 8:08 PM

Totally awesome Matt!!

Alcad looks great too

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Aurora-7

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December 2002
From: Connecticut, USA

Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:00 AM

Swanny wrote:
Woody wrote:
That does indeed look awesome! Makes me curious to see the pilot.
I could not find anything even close in scale to use as a pilot. Would have loved to put a WW2 Luftwaffe pilot figure with this. 1/24 is too big, 1/35 too small.

Would one of the Hasbro action figures fit?

Looks pretty good. Was it a spray can of Alclad or did you use an airbrush?

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Griffworks

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June 2004
From: The House of Blues Clues

Posted by Griffworks on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:41 PM

Swanny wrote:

Woody wrote:
That does indeed look awesome! Makes me curious to see the pilot.
I could not find anything even close in scale to use as a pilot. Would have loved to put a WW2 Luftwaffe pilot figure with this. 1/24 is too big, 1/35 too small.

Have you tried 1/32 scale figs?

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Swanny

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February 2003
From: Sandusky Ohio, USA

Posted by Swanny on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:11 AM

Alclad was done with a Badger 360 followed up with a Sotar 20/20. I have a 1/32 figure (too small) and a 1/24 figure (too big). Have not see the Hasbro figure so cannot comment on that one. If I cold find a good alien and a good human is scale I could do a spaceship sales lot with the human kicking the tires and the alien expousing the good points of the ship. Would have to create a price sticker for the window .... 30 day or 3 light year warrantee.

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Griffworks

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June 2004
From: The House of Blues Clues

Posted by Griffworks on Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:00 PM

I like that idea! There was a guy who made a really kewel Used Spaceship Lot diorama and displayed it at WonderFest '05. He had ships from Star Wars, Star Trek and several TV shows and other movies in his lot. Pretty kewel. If i can find a link to the pic I'll try and post it here - if I remember. I want to say it was at Starship Modeler in both the WF section and their regular Gallery section. I think you'd like it a lot.

On the issue of the figures, perhaps you could modify a smaller fig with some putty? Sort of buildup a space suit...?