The final step is weathering a model. There are as many different ways to do this as there are people who make models. The way I do things for the Star Saga models is the McConnell Way, or my own… Read More »UCSDF Franklin Build (Part 6)
Building the main antenna for the back of the ship was pretty straight forward. I used interlocking pieces of Palustric square pipes and some round pipes for the antenna grid or mesh. After it was glued up, I then detailed… Read More »UCSDF Franklin Build (Part 5)
Today is the debut of my second series on my YouTube channel – On the Bench. If you enjoy the model builds that I do on this site, this series if for you! I will talk about my latest build… Read More »On the Bench – Debut
Primer, Deck Paint and Starfighters I painted the flight deck of the space carrier the same gray color that it was underneath the hangar. Then I weathered it with streaking and tire marks from the service vehicles. Happy with how… Read More »UCSDF Franklin Build (Part 4)
Because this starship was going to be white, I used gray primer on it. This was done with common, everyday car primer from a spray can. Nothing fancy. I use a drop cloth on my driveway and wear a mask… Read More »Ostrov Warship Build, Part 3
I decided to paint this model silver, to make it different from all the other ships in this universe. Silver models start off life with a flat black primer. For this one I used a rattle can. Below is the… Read More »Sultran Warship Build, Part 3
At some point I decided that I really needed a way to mount this model, if it was going to be used for a book cover. So I had to cut a block of RenShape and fit it inside the… Read More »Sultran Warship Build, Part 2
Just as I’m crazy enough to write an entire trilogy at once, I’m building two book cover models at the same time. This one being the Sultran Warship from the Destroyer Trilogy. The Ostrov system is where our heroes are… Read More »Sultran Warship Build – Part 1
It’s fall and the temperature here in Boise has finally come down to tollerable levels. This means it’s model building season at House McConnell. My workbench is already dirtied up with bits of plastic and a new model frame on… Read More »New Starship Models
I actually took the time to include Vynn’s four winged starfighter as it would have looked after he rammed the bridge of the Black Star in chapter one of the novella. I build it from strip styrene stock and stuck… Read More »Black Star Build, Part 4