Great googly moogly! Been a looooong time since this thread saw the light of day, neh? Well, I'm dredging it back up due to a semi-related thread and question over at SFM:UK's On The Bench forums.
As promised in my Colonial Defender thread there, here's a brief update on my RTF, as it currently exists. Well, mostly. There are almost a dozen still literally sitting on the bench right now having some sort of work done on them. Mostly painting.
My RTF currently consists of ships from a variety of genre's, to include, but no limited to: Alien (Nostromo & a resin cast refinery, as well as the Derelict), Aliens (Sulaco), S:AAB Saratoga), Star Trek (TOS 1701, Bay-Bee! - as well as a couple of others, such as the Merchantman, Karemma ship and one other), Star Wars (mostly Expanded Universe ships that started out life as MicroMachines, but there's a resin Blockade Runner and Odyssey Slipways dreadnought), Thunderbirds, Blake's 7 Liberator, Event Horizon, Babylon5 and several others. And, of course, several actual BSG ships from the TV Shows, as well as a couple of my own original kitbashed designs.
The battlestar featured in this shot is the Timeslip Creations kit. I've only done some minor modifications to it at this point, mostly just cleaning up, rebuilding some minor detail and adding a bit over half a dozen additional detail bits.
The Colonial Movers featured in this second shot is from MiniModelMadness. It's a bit too larger, but when I purchased it there wasn't another kit on the market. The Timeslip Creations CM model is much better than the MMM kit, having more accurate and tons better detailing. The Prison Barge featured in this pic, tho, is the absolutely beautiful TC kit and I highly recommend it if you can find one now - they've recently gone OOP, sadly. The Celestra-looking ship is one I purchased from Armoury Toys & Hobbies of Canada.
This pic features the ARVEY Model Products Mineral Ship and "Flattop" (sometimes called the Salvage Ship) and the Timeslip Creations Rising Star. Several MicroMachines make their appearance here. I plan to take the Nebulon-B medical frigate from the end of "Empire Strikes Back", cleaning it up a bit, putting it back together and then painting it.
Here we have Event Horizon, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (an old Starline 2200 gaming miniature that's pretty darned close to-scale! Needs to be painted, tho), "Space: Above and Beyond's" Saratoga, USS Sulcao from "Aliens" (another MicroMachine) and a few others. You can't really see it, but the Timeslip Creations Gemini Freighter is in there, too.
Last pic here shows the second "Merchant Man" from the movie ST:III, the Odyssey Slipways Imperial dreadnought (the one w/the dish antenna's on top and bottom), Liberator from "Blake's 7", the primered Timeslip Creations Mineral Ship and the several kitbashes. The last one on the far left of this image is another version of a botanical cruiser/agro-ship that I've sort of stalled on.
Several other ships I've not got on the shelf is the Timeslip Creations Colonial Movers, a second Rising Star (to be re-named as another ship in my RTF), a pair of Odyssey Slipways "Corellian Gunships" (which are just over half an inch long!), Nostromo (a MicroMachine) & refinery that I purchased from MiniModelMadness some years ago on eBay and several others, most of which were purchased from Ravenstar Studios.
Please bear in mind that, with the exception of the ARVEY Model Products Mineral ship, none of those models are 100% finished. Several are close and there are actually two others that only need a dullcote and they're done. However, most are still very much WIP's - which seems to be something like 95% of all the models on my shelves!
I've also got several kitbashes that are either in the planning stages are very early construction stages. I end up having all these extra side projects going because I"m waiting for paint to dry, putty to cure or there's always the Oooh! Shiney! issue that I'm sure several of us deal with. At least, I hope I'm not the only poor bastiche who gets beset by that affliction on a fairly regular basis....
Hope you enjoy.