GCU Griffin Build, Part 3
First up is boxing in the scanner body ends. This area will have lots of greeblies and strips of styrene when finished. It will be… Read More »GCU Griffin Build, Part 3
First up is boxing in the scanner body ends. This area will have lots of greeblies and strips of styrene when finished. It will be… Read More »GCU Griffin Build, Part 3
I don’t normally just build random spaceship models these days. I have a plan, as the Cylons would say. That plan is closely related to… Read More »Upcoming Model Builds for 2016
All of the parts and pieces finally come together in this post. This has been a fairly quick and dirty build for me. I’ve never… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 3
As with any airplane model, you start with the insides. Here I used the wheel well turned upside down for the seat bucket. Then added… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 2
The Triak starfighter was derived from the Two Piper design from the start of the Great War. The design goes back to the 1980s when… Read More »Triak Starfighter Build, Part 1
And then there was the canopy. I wanted it to have good visibility for the pilot and let people look inside to see all that… Read More »Terrox Starfighter Build, Part 3
Continuing with the Terrox build, we start to focus on detailing. I started with the hidden area between the missing engine covers and the fuselage.… Read More »Terrox Starfighter Build, Part 2
This Votainion starfighter has it’s roots back in the early 1980’s when it was known as the Triak. I think “Tri” referred to the middle… Read More »Terrox Starfighter Build, Part 1
There’s not much to add about my weathering techniques. I just go slow and make multiple passes, each with a different layer of gunk or… Read More »Weathering the Terrox Model, Part 2
The cover of my novella The Blood Empress features a dual KIV-3 starfighter. This is actually a 1/48 scale plastic model scratch built specifically for… Read More »Cover Model – The Blood Empress