Scratch Built Ships |
By Steve Williams |
Here are some pictures of some models that I have scratch built over the last few years. One is a 5 foot long Red Dwarf that has since gone to a collector. It was fully lit up with fibre optics. The base was plywood completely covered in plastic card panelling and finished of with assorted kit parts. The whole model took me about a year to build. Some of the images have been edited to take out the background. There are also pictures of STARBUG 1. This was studio scale and was just under 3 feet long. It had a fully detailed cab, complete with all crew which sadly cannot be seen in the photos. It was finished with a Ford signal green, wet and dried down, then dirtied up with an airbrush to get the final look. The model was mainly plastic domes and fibreglass. The last model was a 3 foot long Scorpio from Blake's Seven season 4. This was completely modelled throughout with plastic card and then completely covered again in panels and kit parts. Athough I made a good job of the build I got the colour wrong - it was to0 bright. |