LastBattlestar's Galactica: 12 years & counting!

[LastBattlestar]

OK guys, update time again. I've torn out all the original styrene inner bay trenches from 1999 and replaced them with aluminium and Plastruct C channel like the outers I refurbished last year. It's all locked in with CA and construction glue, so the bays are really tight now. I've also opened up the bulkheads in the front halves so I can get my hand in there for possible future lighting ideas. My Dremel is dead and buried, so how to cut holes in the styrene bulkheads? A hot soldering iron will do that! Hey, whatever works huh?

I've been wearing grooves in the BG DVD looking for missing parts. The shuttle flying out and overhead pass scenes show how much is missing from the inner bay areas, a lot. I've ID'd a few, but due to the low res image, I've had to guess a few, but there are definitely a lot of empty spaces that clearly had parts on them. The long, tan 25 pounder parts on the lower edge of the bays were a nice discovery for me, they're plainly visible in the overhead pass shot. Never noticed those before. Somehow I'm missing one of them from my stash, I'm sure I've bought at least 5 of those kits!

Here is the progress so far:

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Mike