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Whoa. This is amazing scratch-building!

A beauty!

Thanks.

So. Many. Rivets!!! I’m starting to rivet things in my dreams now.
For just one tank I cut up 1 and 1/3 14” long plastic rods for a grand total of about 875 rivets per tank. Aside from the hatches, which I’ll have to sculpt the crew before attaching, I think this build is finished.

Wonderful!

What an amazing project!

Kudos and thanks for sharing.

Looks amazing, can't wait to see the paint job on that. Any chance of a group shot of the whole gang in the near future?

Thanks!

Not all of the "gang" is painted yet. It might be a while before that all happens, but I could probably post a shot of them as is next weekend.

Nice work!
I envy your ability to add so many rivets to anything, five is usually my maximum before I need to take a a two day break!

such a beautifully clean build there bravo sir!

That is just amazing! Impressive stamina to do all of those rivets so neatly . Finished off an epic build really well. Intrigued to see how you get on with the crew sculpting

Well, I decided to take a little break from the tanks. I’ve been wanting to scratch build a spaceship for a while now and since I still had my styrene out, I went ahead and built one. I’m overall happy with the finished build, but if I did it again there are a few things I’d do differently. I think it was a good learning experience for me.

Great scratch build, kinda has a similar vibe to some Halo human ships.

I'm a lurker in this topic, but I'm also really impressed, almost intimidated by your skills. It's amazing to see what is possible with dedication.

Another awesome model, well done!

Love how monolithic it looks. Tbh, it looks like a scale model or concept for a big-budget sci-fi film. I could see that being in the next Dune movie.

Some of youse guys- Ezki, Camkhieri, you:

"I grew weary of minute manipulation of styrene, so to relax, I built this different incredibly complex thing out of styrene....."

Beautiful little ship!

As mentioned, could easily fit in with the Halo-type fleets, or going even further back, might almost belong to the same shipping company as owned the Nostromo or even the Marine Transport Sulaco.

Rock on!

Thanks all!

It actually wasn't that difficult to build. The hardest part was the "bridge" area and the fact that I had to make most of the greeblies as my greebly box is almost non-existent.

I took a lot of inspiration from Sublight Drive on a Youtube video I saw. I took his basic design and changed a few things to make it my own. I also watched a few Adam Savage videos and found that I was already using quite a few techniques that he uses, which I thought was pretty cool.

I'm still waiting to paint up a whole bunch of stuff, but the HobbyTown that I used to drive past on my way home from work closed a few months back. Now I have to drive almost an hour to the nearest hobby shop to get most of the supplies I need.

The Macharius' are currently in the paint shed (waiting on some varnish before they can be weathered) and I finished the cargo ship (pics to come). In the meantime, I started this. I've wanted to scratch build a battleship for some time, so. First some sketches and the skeleton of the ship.

I can already tell this is going to be awesome

The sketches are already awesome :O