wow, thank you for compliments, Bish! And thanks also, Crown.

Even though this kit isn't big, was a lot of work beating it up. So guess was worth the effort.

Certainly was worth the effort.Got the front page updated and it nice seeing the AT-ST and AT-AT next to each other. Got to get hold of these kits soon.

Thanks again guys.

Thank you! :-) Definitely get as many of them as you can. 

PB

Oh wow that's beautiful PB!!! Love the weathering, she really does look the part of a giant machine. 

Love the diorama idea, would love to see that done up! 

Thanks, Gamera. 

I've never done a diorama, but might be a good first subject. 

OK, so I know it's been awhile but it took a lot longer to strip the paint job I did as a kid. I got it to where it's as good as it's going to get.  I've been slowly working on the cockpit. Here's the stock kit part: 

Not very accurate to what you see in the movie.  I'm not going to 100% accuracy, but anything would be better than this.  I cut down the spare instrument panel from my Revell A-6E that I just finished and grafted it on.  I also removed the "seat" and will be replacing it with what I think is a WWII aircraft seat, but I couldn't tell you what kit it came from.  It was just floating around in a spares box.  Here's where I am right now: 

I filled in the spaces with Perfect Plastic Putty and it looks a lot better.  You can also see the seat I'm going to be using.  I need to check some reference pictures for the side consoles to figure out what I'm going to do there.  I still need to tackle the area behind the seat, scratch-build a targeting computer, and then hit the front panel.

I didn't take a picture of this, but I cut open a panel on the bottom of the ship, and plan on opening up a panel behind one of the proton torpedo launchers and build that.  I'm also going to have one of the engines exposed, and open up the nose.  I want to get more ambitious, but I don't think it would be good for me .  After all, there's still the rest of the diorama to build.

God to see your making headway Bob.

She's looking good! 

I remember the AMT kits as being sorta kinda like the real thing. That Lamda class shuttle Bish did, well the cockpit was pretty friggin' awful! 

Gamera

She's looking good! 

I remember the AMT kits as being sorta kinda like the real thing. That Lamda class shuttle Bish did, well the cockpit was pretty friggin' awful! 

 

Yep, your not wrong, nothing like it looked in the movies. I can see why people paint the canopy black.

Nice start, Bob! Cool that you're going to do some open panels. Looking forward to that. 

PB

crown r n7

Reys Blaster is complete. The wip is in the sci-fi forum this is the blaster I hope its welcomed to the Star War GB. thanks for watching.

 

Many apologese crown, i completly forgot to add thge blaster. Roster is now updated, thanks again. Thats a great piece.

so, after showing off my Dambusters raid in progress dio (which can be seen in the RAF group build) on facebook,  it was suggested that I do a dio of an x wing running in the channel of the deathstar....which, coincidentally,  George Lucas used the raid from the movie Dambusters! To lay out the attack on the deathstar in episode iv....

I don't think I will make that for this episode of the group build, but quite possibly for episode iv....

Justin

And so it was!

Sounds like a cool idea, someone here was building a Death Star interior from RotJ but that was probably over a year ago- I don't think he's posted since then.

Now that a nice idea Justin. I plan on Ep IV being a bit shorter, plan is to start next Oct.

Bish

Now that a nice idea Justin. I plan on Ep IV being a bit shorter, plan is to start next Oct.

 

I better start collecting the necessary components now, then...huh?  Lol

OPP's, just realised how that reads. I meant to say Oct 2018 as Ep IX is due for realease in May 2019.

Just to prove I'm still plugging along on this, here's where I'm at.

I drilled out the proton torpedo launcher tubes and removed a panel so I can build the launcher inside.

I've also modified one of the engines so that it will be visible when the panel is open.  I still have a lot of work to do here in modifying the parts so that the panel would actually fit closed over the assembly.

Lastly, here are some card stock templates I made for the cockpit.  The plan is I'm going to use them to cut styrene parts from a sheet then glue them in position once the cockpit is in the fuselage and then putty up any gaps.  Then I'll paint it all up.  I'll get the hard to reach areas painted before I put it in.  I still need to build the targeting computer as well.

Oh wow, I didn't guess at how extensive your reworking the kit was going to be. That's going to be friggin' cool! 

Off to a good start! Also didn't know you were doing this many modifications, so definitely looking forward to seeing what you do. 

I didn't realise you were doing this much to it either. Like the idea of the open torpedo launcher. Can't wait to see more.

Liking the mods on this Silentbob.

On another note, trying to find a replacement for photobucket, I was thinking about using Imagur. Anyone have any comments good or bad or other suggestions? I would like to start posting pics soon.

NMT:

I switched to Imgur and haven't had any issues. The only difference I could note between PB and Imgur (and the only reason I liked PB) is that PB seemed to automatically scale full-sized images when you posted them on a third-party site, while with Imgur you have to do resizing manually before posting.

Also, about a month ago someone on another forum posted an excerpt from the Imgur ToS that seemed to indicate, in harsh language, that they would murder you and your family if you posted Imgur photos to third-party sites but...I haven't heard anything about that since and I'm still alive so.....

PB

Stephan: I have no idea about Imgur but I've been pretty happy with ImageShack for the month or so I've been using it.

Porkbits

NMT:

I switched to Imgur and haven't had any issues. The only difference I could note between PB and Imgur (and the only reason I liked PB) is that PB seemed to automatically scale full-sized images when you posted them on a third-party site, while with Imgur you have to do resizing manually before posting.

Also, about a month ago someone on another forum posted an excerpt from the Imgur ToS that seemed to indicate, in harsh language, that they would murder you and your family if you posted Imgur photos to third-party sites but...I haven't heard anything about that since and I'm still alive so.....

PB

 

That seems a bit harsh for posting pics. Make PB's demand for 400 bucks seem almost reasonable

silentbob33

Thanks guys, it's been too hard to get in some solid bench time so this isn't going as fast as I was hoping. Hopefully I can get a lot done this week.

 

No worries Bob, i have been struggling a bit as well. Hopeing to get some done this week and then put in a good session at the weekend.

Lol! That is truth. :-) 

Bish

 

 

Porkbits

NMT:

I switched to Imgur and haven't had any issues. The only difference I could note between PB and Imgur (and the only reason I liked PB) is that PB seemed to automatically scale full-sized images when you posted them on a third-party site, while with Imgur you have to do resizing manually before posting.

Also, about a month ago someone on another forum posted an excerpt from the Imgur ToS that seemed to indicate, in harsh language, that they would murder you and your family if you posted Imgur photos to third-party sites but...I haven't heard anything about that since and I'm still alive so.....

PB

 

 

 

 

That seems a bit harsh for posting pics. Make PB's demand for 400 bucks seem almost reasonable

 

Still plugging away at this, getting all the internal parts together and finding suitable greeblies to stuff inside.  With just a couple of little things here and there, most of them are done.  They are mostly car parts with some absolutely random things I found scattered around my spares boxes.

The cockpit is also ready to go into the fuselage.  I'm going to do the coaming panel and sidewalls after it's inside, I think it will be easier to get everything lined up properly that way.  I rigged up some hoses by the seat and built the targeting computer.  You can't see it very well in the picture but there are some foot pedals under the instrument panel as well.