Dan's Escape Pod (WIP)

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Hi All,

Rather new here still, this is essentially my first posting beyond my initial introduction. I caught the studio-scale bug after visiting Sean Sides and seeing his 5-foot Millennium Falcon build in progress.

I've been busy behind the scenes building up my studio-scale escape pod from Jason Eaton's really nice kit. Apologies for not starting a WIP thread from the very beginning, but I just kinda started in on it one day and got fairly far along before I thought to start grabbing images as I went. I'll make a few posts here for starters with several images each so as not to overload any one post with too many images...

Dan

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I decided to replace the cast hatch rim with styrene-wire core tubing. I also wanted to build in a central mounting tube in pretty much the same location as the original model. I'm sure this isn't quite the way the original looks mount-wise but at least it's in the right place more or less...

Dan

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The last few days have seen the rear end greeblies go on. I've supplemented the build by replacing some of the cast kit parts with original donor kit parts (thanks to Sean Sides for some of those!)...

Dan

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When you're missing a small part and you make a replacement from scratch by shaping one from a piece of scrap styrene...



That was a satisfying confidence booster!

Dan

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Nice work.
It's a nice kit.
Thanks for sharing.

[Turrican]

Always like this super clean stuff.
Hope the quality of kit's will get more that way in future.
Still a lot cheaper as scratch build with real parts for sure and hey, if it looks like this it get's closer the real deal as well.