PL E-A Aztek Progress and Finished on page 2!!

Here are some photos taken in the dark.  Enjoy!

Dish in Standby

Dish in Active Mode

Ship Illuminated By Base Spot Lights While Powered Down

Base 1

Illuminated Switch Indicators

Ships's Reflection In Base Top

Here...Have A Torpedo

Fantail 

Thats a real piece of art.. I really enjoy what you have done with it!

Chris 

Heya,

Like I said before very nice work. If I had patients like that I would be a Doctor .

Guido

You are doing an awesome job on this!! If I can do 1/2 as good on mine, I'll be happy!!

Everything is done except for the bottom phaser bank decals and the application of dull coat .  Some of the windows in the photos below are already masked off.  The model should be on the base by next week!  Enjoy

Pic 1 

Pic 2 

Pic 3 

Pic 4 

Pic 5 

Pic 6 

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Outstanding Build

Bud

Here are some photos of the final paint scheme.  Decaling is in progress and pictures of those will be taken in a few days.  Enjoy.

Saucer 1

Saucer 2

Belly 

AFT 1

AFT 2 

Front 

The Nacelle pictures with the patterns on them.  Took about 21 hours to complete these.  The camera doesn't do justice to the overall view of the pattern work which changes in contrast with light and angle of view.  Enjoy!

 Nacelle 1

Nacelle 2 

Nacelle 3

Nacelle 4

Nacelle 5 

Really nice work man I am jealous, went shopping with the wife today and actualy found the Ole Amt Defiant I hope my paint job comes out as nice.

Guido

Few more shots with the Secondary Hull just about completed.  Just a few more smaller details and it's on to the nacelles.

Most Impressive

Guido

A few more shot of the progress:

The Aztek Dummy templates are cut out in sections, patterns plucked, and an application of Glad "Press & Seal" is placed over the template.  This keeps the template from folding over while applying it to the surface.  The template is removed and airbrushing is done from there.

LQQKING real nice man, keep up the Great work.

Guido

Yeah...I fly 737's out of PHX.

Here's a picture my brother took of me taking off from LAS a couple of months ago with the new paint:

<edit> I don't mean to appear arrogant by posting a pic like this but not many people get to post pics of themselves flying!

Hippy-Ed wrote:

I am curious, how did you get the aztec to look so suttle?

 I'm using Floquil's "Dust" which is found in the model railroad paint section.  A few quick passes with the airbrush put down just enough to give it that subtle look.  If you can't come across "Dust", use Floquil's "Reefer White" and cut it with 10% distilled H2O. 

The Aztek is a combination of Art Pendragon's downloaded patterns, Aztek Dummy, and my own masked creations.  

Go ahead and clutter the thread with pics.  I don't know if I speak for anyone else but I like it when modelers post pics in their threads.

And the Aztec...it looks really good.