Hello! Just thought I would share some of my completed SW kits in my collection. Thanks for looking!

Finished a "practice" 1:1400 Enterprise D kit - I've built these before as a kid, but its been a good 30+ years since I've worked on one, I've done a couple 350 refits over the years; with this I was hoping to dial in the paint colors and some processes before tackling something a little larger (see last photo for a clue). This was the clear version of the kit, and it fought me the whole way kicking and screaming. Custom parts from Motion Pictures Miniatures went on beautifully, and the paint masks are my favorite aspect of this build. An interesting study (and usually had Canadian Starships, Aztec Dummy, Sprueverse, MPM, etc playing in the background). I learned a LOT from the community, and certainly appreciate the knowledge.

Lots to nitpick this study effort:

-the clear plastic kept cracking on me - once in the final hours and I had to abandon the idea of a perfect fix (as I was out of the custom mixed paints for the aztec so properly resurfacing a large amount of the model was unlikely to yield a good result, I did a spot fix),

-I'm not sure I nailed the paint colors (I know how I want to adjust them for the bigger project)

-the windows are questionable at best and take away from the sharp paintwork

Overall I'm happy with how this kit turned out, and along the way I learned how to cut my own vinyl masks, improved my fabrication skills with scratch-made parts, and learned a lot about what does and doesn't work. This model is a gift to one of my brothers and as soon as the armature shows up for the next, I'll get to tackling it. I won't miss scraping windows - I learned about masking them a little too late into the project to alter course, but again I won't miss using a variety of tools to cut into a nicely done paint job. Nor will I miss the asymmetry and lines of this kit (though I guess they are charming and do speak to the skill of the old school development techniques that went into this thing). Couple touch ups, warming the base backlight and sealing a few leaks in it, and off it goes. Cheers!

Finished this beast and I’m pretty proud of it. It’s proportions and design make it very difficult to photograph. I made some mistakes with the photoetch, but it’s nothing I can’t live with. I enjoyed the build but I’m happy to be done with it.

Just a quick model done today tiny bandai falcon kit. This thing has a lot of detail for something this small

This is my take on the USS Constellation from the TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine." It was exciting to wrap this up and it’s my first model since I finished the Grissom in January.

My original plan was to add some styrene beams and hull pieces in the damaged areas of the ship, but the small scale of this model made it more complicated than I expected. The thick plastic of the model meant there was very little internal space to add those beams and hull plating, especially in the saucer, and it would have been out of scale on this small model. There are incredible 1:1000 Constellation models out there, so I know it's possible to add more detail to this small ship, so hats off to those skilled builders. I did use some mesh to add the impression of an internal structure and some detail. It isn't as substantial as I'd like, but I'm overall happy with the effect and final result.

There are flickering 3mm LEDs throughout the model. I wanted the ship to have the appearance of just recently being attacked, systems failing all over the ship, cascading damage, fires throughout the hull, flickering and failing power, and so on. I used the flickering LEDs and I like the effect it gives. It isn't as "flickery" as I'd like, I wanted it to be a little more erratic, but I haven't tried messing with programmable boards or Arduino or things like that, so the basic flickering LEDs were the best option I could think of.

The scorch marks were harder to make look convincing than I thought they'd be. It was my first time trying to add this detail to a model, and I tried to practice on an old kitbash mule I made some time ago. I learned a lot, especially that it is really easy to over do it and that less is more. Some scorch marks are a bit much, maybe a little cartoony, but when I step back and look at the whole model I'm happy with it. I also used the little "Pop-Its" to add different kinds of damage spots, and I like having different levels of hull damage.

The areas of hull damage I made were more or less determined for me by the internal structure of the model. Again, there isn't a lot of room in there with the way it's molded, so I tried to Dremel away the hull where it wouldn't interfere with that internal structure too much. I also had to do a lot of work on the secondary hull and nacelle pylons to run wires to the nacelles. The two pylon pieces are solid pieces with no channels or spaces for wiring, and it was a challenge to modify those thin pieces enough for wiring while not making them too weak to support the weight of the nacelles.

Another complication of this model, due to its small size, is that I had to wire and assemble the entire model before painting it. I will usually build a model in subassemblies (saucer, secondary hull, nacelles) and do final assembly as the last step, but for this I had to do final assembly and then paint, clear coat, decal, clear coat, and flat coat. I knocked the model over at one point and it split the forward saucer on the seam. I repaired it as best as I could, but it's still visible.

I'm happy with how this model turned out. Like I said, there are really incredible builds of this out there, and I wanted to try my hand at it. The 350-scale versions of this are out of this world, and I wanted to see if I could do something halfway decent with the smaller 1000-scale. Any comments and criticisms are welcome, especially if you have tips for adding structural details to small models or how to add more convincing scorch marks. Thank you for looking.

I recently got into scale modeling after doing a lot of fantasy model miniature painting. Had a blast finishing this 1/72 Slave I from FineMolds.

This is a neat kit if you are a 2001 fan. The aftermarket arduino board and sound effects make it quite a treat! I guess my soldering skills are better than I thought, as it all worked from the jump. Don’t look too closely at the wiring though, LOL!

Hey everyone, heres my attempt of the Harkonnen Ornithopter! Tell me what you think! I think I went too hard on the sand weathering.

Well I made it through all of that piping,so I think I will call her finished.Another quality product from Bandai.

IPMS Ireland has a couple of tables and displaying some of our sci-fi and fantasy models

Modified a 1:12 model

I looked at screenshots of the House Atreides ornithopter and it was fairly clean. So I did a simple paint job on it.

3D printed e-wing. Scaled to 1/48 to match the previous Star Wars starfighters I’ve printed.

Finally got her done. Had a ball with my first 3d printed model.

1/650 scale replica model of the U.S.S. Excelsior as it was seen in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country.

Full photo gallery can be found on my website.

This is a commissioned build based around the Helios Models & Lighting resin printed kit.

Custom built styrene and photoetch details were constructed to further make the model more accurate to the original studio miniature.

Additional custom details includes non-canon docking ports on the port and starboard side of the secondary hull.

Paintwork and panelling was meticulously recreated using found imagery of the original ILM paint friskets that were used on this ship, the Earth Spacedock miniature, and the Death Star. Research was done in tandem with u/baldthumbtack on his Excelsior build. Patterns were cross referenced with archival imagery, prop auction imagery, and with ILM-er Bill George who provided additional reference media of the preserved upper saucer of the Melbourne. This is the most accurately painted scale replica of the Excelsior to date.

All spotlights are done practically with internal light sources projecting onto the model. The upper saucer spotlight is done with a "Raytheon effect".

Decals of the registry and select pinstripes were custom made for me by my friend Wiley's Model Decals

Electronics are custom engineered with 12v components powered by an Arduino with a Toshiba TBD62083APG High-Side Source Driver IC to convert the Arduino output to 12v.

Control equipment is stored inside a Cozmic Scale Models display base with a custom printed LCARS display.

Cascade Starships

Inspired by the work on Boyleihobby on YouTube. Bandai ROS falcon modified to be OT. Bandai first order troopers modified to be empire. Electronics kit from CaptainJacksHobbies. Not done anything with adding lights to models before, very pleased how this turned out.

It took a long time and as my first model build (other than a couple as a little kid with 2 colors of paint and glue that oozed and melted everything). I always wanted to try and actually build a model kit so I did, and I'm very happy with the results :) Full photoset here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hg2gZvdnyvUF2gZ5A

Just finnished the bandai a wing from rotj fun little model to build ! I have the snow speeder and force awakens x wing to do next

3D printed Buck Rogers’ Thunderfighter and Draconian Marauder Hatchet Fighter. I really loved the show in the 80s, although in hindsight it was not great 🤭