The Cylon Battlestar: Annihilation

[Cylon-Knight]

@Red III, thanks! Glad to have a fan.
I've been collecting bits, and pondering some "Cylon twists." Indeed, it'll be fun to get to the detailing point - once all this silly building is done! lol (If anyone has model bits they don't want you can send it to me - I'm asking everyone so I have to ask here too )

@Wombat, thank you! Yes, the dimensions are "close" and that'll do for me at this point. I was not sure how much plans cost and I have to mind my shoe-string budget after my Centurion costume cost me *ahem* *ahem* *ahem* *ahem* dollars. *blush* Having plans for some of the areas would be DREAM, that is for certain. This may seem like a "small update" but redoing the front and back of the "head" section literally took me all day to find reference images and scale them, ponder them and draw them out. I think (HOPE) you'll be pleased with the new direction of my second attempt at the head section is going - much less "rampy," I think.

Thanks again for looking, and feedback. It is such fun to share and learn from all you master builders - Galacticas and beyond!


Started the cross member items... still need to work on them more after reworking the "head" section.


Here is the ship as it stands... just a review photo.


Okay, so the "head" section was all sorts of wrong as I realized and discussed with others, it really needed an overhaul.
So - back to the drawing board.
Here is the new back being ironed out... I reverse engineered all new measurements for it.


And the front needed redone also.
I worked from past photos of the Original Galactica without the front cap on... VERY HANDY!


Fresh from the factory!


I flipped the part over and got quite a surprise!
Tony the Tiger being there was NOT planned... what a hoot. Cylon Battlestars are GRRRRREAT!


The old and the new side by side. The new one will have the trenches down the sides as it should.
(I skipped over them on version 1 trying to figure out the larger overall shape.)


The new bottom angled trenches going together. I reinforced these to be two layers of cardboard really.
I wanted to ensure that any flex is not going to put a wrench in the works.


And here is how they will fit.
Now, I did put them on and two more panels on each side... then I realized an error.
These parts angle from the large back to the small front (skip down two photos and you'll see the red lines & ruler and see what I mean).
SO - since these parts should angle I've cut each end square, they are perfect rectangles. OOPS!
I've slit the tape as needed and as I get the bigger sections in place I can go back and add the slight angles as needed so they have the correct look/fit.


TONY! Still makes me laugh.


So here is a good before and after.
Version 2 on the left. Version 1 on the right.
You can see how version 2 has the correct slight upward slope going on (about 10 degrees, I figure).
Version 1 had a totally flat bottom, and the top is way too "rampy," indeed!


It was getting LATE on me and I was tired. I decided that I needed to put in a mock skeleton to keep the head in shape.
I've roughly started that, then stopped.
If you look REALLY close you can see a white line at the front (where Tony the Tiger is). That's actually a model tree spru (spelling?).
I needed something STURDY to keep that Tony the Tiger front from bending and distorting the build. I Macgyver'd a bit off of the model
parts that I've been collecting to embellish the ship with. I was a Cylon without Popsicle sticks so I had to rig something up.


Oh look... my Battlestar has a new little friend thanks to my Cylon brother, Groupleader Zeta! My own Remote control Land Ram. AWESOME (and with BRIGHT lights).

...oh, I used Scotch tape for the first time now too... it's just as good or maybe a bit better for some things than masking tape.
This clunky 1978 Cylon has put 2 and 2 together... and I got 22