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SS Imperial Probe Droid Pod - 232 Version - bg_451 - 09-13-2011
I decided to do the 232 probe droid pod to put into our local modelling competition for the weekend (10th and 11th). I had all of the parts, including the plastruct stuff and decided to build it from all original bits, no castings (this time....).
Thanks go to Lee for the most of the initial interest and ID's for this thing, as well as Jason E and Allen H's builds for inspiration and photographic guidance for the placement of parts. Also thanks for the reference from all of the other pod builders on the RPF and RI. There are more pictures on those sites.
It took about two weeks, working for 2-3 hours per night (all the time I had). The hardest parts were aligning the hulls and measuring and masking the markings on the domes.
I used styrene strip (cut from sheets) and fine rod to help align and support the hull joins. Each end had a pentagon backed with styrene discs to support the central tube/armature. I put thin discs on the outside of each end pentagon to help aligning the T-34 wheel and the Lotus rim.
The "armature" is simply different widths of styrene tube slipped into each other, with a piece of styrene rod as the centre stopper. The metal model support rod from the base, slides into the central tube from the front of the pod and rests against the styrene stopper rod. This way the pod can be taken off the base for transport.
I think I may have gone a bit overboard on the "soot" around the engine(s), but I kept the weathering fairly light on the rest of it.
Colours used were Tamiya Haze Grey (rattle can) and German Grey, with flat black soot. Drybrushed with pastel chalks, then sprayed with Testor's Dullcote to finish. I tried to give the engines a bit of a burnt ceramic look (as with the insides of jet exhausts), a creamy brownish colour, but the Dullcote seemed to wipe it out pretty well.
As to the competition.........it came second in its class.............out of two!
The comp was mainly military and planes and they weren't looking for gaps between components, open holes and visible ejector pin marks!
Anyway, it was primarily built for me and the comp was just motivation to get it finished.
Cheers and enjoy,
JT
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RE: SS Imperial Probe Droid Pod - 232 Version - darkimmitator - 09-13-2011
Very nice !!! I like it alot . Excellent job sir !!!!
RE: SS Imperial Probe Droid Pod - 232 Version - JAWS - 09-15-2011
Yeah thats nice. Thanks for posting it here. I just have 2 more hulls until I can have a crack at this build.