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Offline Cheeky Monkey

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Old Build see the light of day - again
« on: 01 December 2009, 11:09:52 PM »
Many years ago - when the first Battlestar Galactica was on tv - I was inspired to build a space ship of similar design to the ones used on the show. A neighborhood kid had given me a bunch of old PC boards and I thought - "What the heck.....". With the proper application of balsa/bass wood, candy bar trays and model battleship parts to a puddle of glue I came up with the following :








Enjoy
« Last Edit: 01 December 2009, 11:11:45 PM by Cheeky Monkey »
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Offline Wolf 359

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Re: Old Build see the light of day - again
« Reply #1 on: 01 December 2009, 11:52:40 PM »

Righteous...!! I remember how modeling took off in the mid-late '70's on into the 80's, with many people building the same kind of studio-scale space ships. Very cool, thanks for sharing!!

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Offline aircav

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Re: Old Build see the light of day - again
« Reply #2 on: 02 December 2009, 08:11:54 AM »
Thats Brilliant  :D :D :D :D :D



Keith  :?

Offline Sangennaru

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Re: Old Build see the light of day - again
« Reply #3 on: 04 December 2009, 05:46:36 PM »
LOL, this is really smart!!!
cheers,
Jack

Offline Bako

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Re: Old Build see the light of day - again
« Reply #4 on: 04 December 2009, 08:25:27 PM »
Nice. Ever since I first saw Alien I wanted to try my hand at the studio-style ships. Never got around to it though...

I like the old photo look on your pictures, really adds flavor to them. :)
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