BSC2025 Wirelizard's small dropship/shuttle

[Codsticker]

This is one of my favourite builds- I love the shape of the craft.

[anevilgiraffe]

It looks outstanding.  I am still interested in what the landing gear will look like as the rest of the build is solid.

somewhere, in the distance, there is a faint cry of "landing gear!?!?!"

[Wirelizard]

somewhere, in the distance, there is a faint cry of "landing gear!?!?!"

The landing gear is in progress, I promise. I'm just deep in getting the base colours down and frankly all I'd do to the landing gear if I put it on tonight is break it off later this week...

It's also not much to look at right now - a trio of plastic wheels with wire struts coming out of them. The nose gear strut hasn't even been trimmed to length, because I want the main gear installed and set before I figure out how tall the nose gear needs to be to make the thing sit correctly, and any extra detail on the struts, or gear bay doors, or anything like that, is waiting until after the structural parts of the gear is done.

Base colours look awesome even roughed in, it's a simpler version of the red and blue seen on the drone - slightly angled wide bands running across the width of the shuttle, alternating blue and red. Extremely Chris Foss vibe even incomplete, which is exactly what I was going for. I do wish we could share painting WIP photos as part of BSC...

[Daeothar]

... I do wish we could share painting WIP photos as part of BSC...

I've been doing that after the competition usually 

[Wirelizard]

Painting is DONE as of last night and decals on the outside of the beast started. The red and blue alternating stripes came out looking fantastic.

Also realized that, just like Lost Egg's shuttle, mine looks interesting and plausible upside down too. Hah.

Decals and spray varnish seal coat Sunday, probably, as I'm busy all day Saturday, then some weathering and detail painting for a night or two before photos!

I have a trio of the Handiwork Games backdrop books via Bad Squiddo that I'm going to try to use for some of the photos, but I only bought the A4 books (shipping was hideous for A3 size books from the UK to Canada) and this beastie is so large I'm not sure the A4 backgrounds are big enough. Oh well.

Best of luck to the other participants in the home stretch!

[Mick_in_Switzerland]

This is a brilliant project. I am looking forward to the finished model.

[Overrevdsquat]

Excellent work

[Lost Egg]

Blimey Wirelizard, you're on fire!

At least our shuttles will look good if they crash 

[Wirelizard]

Landing gear and gear doors installed on our last day of building, they'll get painted tomorrow and then I have a few days to muck around trying to get good photos of this beast...

[Wirelizard]

Photography is being committed. I activated the cloaking device built into the dropship for this photo, to comply with BSC rules.


The jar is there because it turned out to be the perfect height to rest the phone on for a bunch of the photos. We're real high tech here at Haus Wirelizard.

Also catching up on blogging, there's now a Part Five blog post assembling the photos I shared here in late Feb/early March and a few extra pics as well.
http://www.warbard.ca/2025/04/06/bsc-2025-wirelizards-shuttle-part-five/

Now on to the hard part... photo editing!

[mikedemana]

I activated the cloaking device built into the dropship for this photo, to comply with BSC rules.

  Good luck!! I actually enjoy the photography part of posting pictures of my stuff. Another trick with the iPhone is to set it on the 3-second delay. That avoids the movement you may get when you tap the button to take a photo. Good editing software helps, too. I used to use Photoshop before they went on a subscription paradigm. Now I used Affinity Photo -- relatively cheap and does the basic stuff I need.

Mike Demana