Mounting The Griffin was not going to be a large and heavy model, like the Renoke. It was a smaller starship than the GCU Sokol and would be built to the same scale as that model, 1/350. I’ve had some…
The above scene from my WIP is a perfect example of a Second Act hurdle that your main characters must face and eventually overcome. I’ve raised the stakes a bit and made Kiloe’s fighter completely disappear right when he was…
The GCU Griffin is a prominent starship in the Starstrikers novel. It’s a Class-C Scanner ship, smaller than most other fleet starships it has to rely on bigger ships to protect it. It was such an important ship, I actually…
When I’m actually writing my first draft of a novel I only listen to movie soundtracks. I can’t be distracted by lyrics so listening to songs is out for me. But for some reason, instrumental pieces seem…
Weathering This is one of my favorite steps in modeling. I love making a model look like it just came out of the real world where it has lived a long and hard life. Weathering sounds like it should only…
Painting I wanted to show off how the model looked in the pristine, gray primer stage to see how it might have looked on the factory floor. I have decided to let the gray primer be the undercoat or base…
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 done a kit bashed starfighter before and in many ways it felt like cheating. I…
