the SS Rabid Empanada -- a spontaneous scritash

[urumomo]

Thanks guys ;D

It's only going so fast because I'm working from the house currently and I can mess with it throughout the day .

I really need to go by Home Depot for paint and it'd be nice to get a couple of small bottles for mixing more tinted Future ...
BUT -- : -- I'm afraid of the Christmas shopping masses .

I should just go to the Home Depot in small-town Alvin to my east and avoid the madness to my north .

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving I ended up with the wrong paint from Hobby Lobby and when I realized it I figured " guess I won't be exchanging this till next week --- Uru no like crowds ,. that Black Friday nonsense is like my own personal hell


More tonight for sure ,

U M

 

[urumomo]

Awesome! It's like a real space station designed after an airbrush!

look at me now
Triple Action

Zero Gravity Feed




You got me thinking : ;D

It could be the private art-yacht of an eccentric airbrush master The bulk of the hull is a fantastic gallery .
Where only his airbrush art is showcased ..
.. there's acrobats
classical musicians

cats



I also decided that we're gonna want some lighting inside of it -- you know we will ..
I know I will after getting all the colored glass installed


I had to cheat slightly with material to make the starboard end removable :-X

I had to use a partial stick of .25 mm styrene strip :



I cut the end piece out of the solar array thingy then ringed it with the strips to 3 layers .
The thing fits like a glove ;D ... I was thinking it would need some magnets but ,, 8)



The lifeboat dock is made from a piece of gutter spike ferule and that piece of PVC fall-off





Few more shots :



And we're using the dispensing nozzle instead of the glue - cap for the engine exhaust



For good good reason



Heck Yeah !!


I got my palette ready

We got : Blu Fu , Green Fu , YellA Fu , Orng Fu and one super black Blk Fu ;D

I had to make a Black Lite Fu(ture) for shading



probably shouldn't practice on the final product





And now
I leave you with some refreshing breakfast music :-*


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE[/youtube]

 

[urumomo]

ShapeTastic

 

[Jason Abbadon]

Soooo cool. Looks like it could be a manned telescope observatory for the far side of the moon!
Or a secret orbital lair for sn sirbrush-themed supervillian. Maybe he was an artist before gaininh three super powers and turning to villany underthe nname TRIPLE ACTION A

The long part could be a orbital heat-ray for scortching enemies like ants with a magnifying glass...

Overall, it's weird and garish and I love it!

 

[urumomo]

. . Uh :
We won't explore the whole " Triple Action A " thing ..

BUT ;D

I like the death and discomfort ray 8)

I've been thinking about addressing the holes in the nose section .
Figured that could accommodate a lighting module also - just inserted thru the nose .

I'm thinking I can construct a little 'geo-dome' out of small pieces of the lighter plastic for the bow .


What's happening in SW land ?
I was hoping for more eye-candy ;D


Mr Momo

 

[Jason Abbadon]

Soon. Making a base with escorts- maybe a landed shuttle on that back "porch".

 

[Quaralane]

Enjoying this one immensely.
Lots of trial and error here

 

[urumomo]

Ha Ha - awesome ;D
Happy for your viewership !
Thanks , Quaralane


I started applying color .

As you can imagine , it takes coat after coat to build up
BUT
What fun ;D ;D


I Blu-Foo'd the larger ( fuel tanks ) balls : blue , then blue again and again .
Started the small ( oxidizer tanks ) with the green ..
Thought I took more intermediate pics -- but you can see what's going down 8)
layering orange , yellow over green , blue then reversing etc etc





more in a few hours as the color builds .
It should look much different



AND -- I'm going with the whole " airbrush-master " thing . ;D :

So - the ship's name is the COLOR MODERATOR .
The owner - the airbrush-master ( interplanetary fame ) is named Iggitus Biggitus

That's all I got rite now .
Leaves plenty of room for character development ;D

 

[Jason Abbadon]

The orbital deathray "Easter Eggtastic".

 

[urumomo]

Stand -by , Captain .

I'm loading pics to Photobucket at the moment .

;D

 

[Hagoth]

Another interesting scratch build. ;D Love your use of pellets for thruster nozzles. 8)

 

[urumomo]

Thanks , Hagoth

Good to see you ;D


So first , a few more pics of where the fuel cans have gone :




Then I started on the combustor :

First - scarlet red


Then , silver-gray acid dye :



more red -- then a shot of yellow



then a back and forth to get what was needed :



Using 3000 grit sponge to blend the work




I realized that the Modulator would need docking ports for obvious reasons .
That explains the three holes in the bow ;D

.. and every super-high-end ship would have its own handing equipment

Allowing us to use the arm :



Needed to fold it in ...
and was deciding what should be at the business end ???

-- they would need a service bay - and could bring the end of the arm in to fit it with whatever manipulator was required . For mooring or repair work etc .

So they need the service bay and door . With emergency airlock forward of main door








then I thought " what about the huge art pieces that would be loaded and unloaded ? "

Iggitus would need another , bigger bay for that . Away from the engineering deck :
Directly beneath the main gallery .
The lower door opens straight in and then up along the exterior blkhd ,
The upper are casement doors - opening out ..




and for this kinda money ;D you want the arm to be able to reach as far as possible .
You need the docking module rotatable 8)

I'm giving myself a Christmas cheat and using a PE joint form Wave Co




So this is where it sits currently .
Making the docking module rotatable ..
finish up the maneuvering thruster pods ( they mount to the flanks of the bottom fin )



More color to the engine
.. about to nock-it down with the 3000 grit sanding sponge and shoot some yellow ..




Ta Da !
I think this assembly is ready
probably a bit more color on the engine combustor can




So her scale has changed ..
Greatly .

Now that I know who this guy is and what the ship is for , it needed to be much bigger

I was going to move it up to 1/700 . That gives me a chance to compare it to 1/700 ships ,
But - it didn't make her nearly big enough

So in a nod to SW , since that Jason guy is the one that started all this , I'm scaling her at 1/2 the 2256 scale to 1/1128


I set the copier at 65% and it actually did exactly that : who woulda thunk it ?



She ain't small

I've got every piece of this ship figured out .
I'll do a call-out of the components and internal deck layouts once she is fully together .



Builder : Erosomo Heavy Industries
Deimos Naval Shipyard

Type : Private Yacht

Primary hull: 329 meters
Engineering hull including engine : 270 meters

Crew : 28



What else do they usually list ?
I don't have any idea how to calculate her mass

Cheers !

El MoMo

 

[Quaralane]

Fun fun fun

 

[Jason Abbadon]

Absolutely georgous! It's perfect for a wealthy art collector- the paint on his yacht is a work of art unto itself- you REALLY outdid yourself (an there's more to come, obviously!).

Kinda looks like something you'd see on Coyboy Bebop- orbiting Earth- a gem among all the space debris that make a ring around the planet.

She may be smaller than first envisioned, but she's perfect for an orbital yacht/art gallery with a crew of 48 you could have Downton Abby....IN SPACE!

 

[urumomo]

Awesome , Jason ;D
Thanks !

She's actually almost twice as big as first scaled ( 1/620 to 1/1128 )

I'm guessing 48 is enough with automation and droids ..
That's just ship's company for all the maneuvering , docking , maintenance ...

Iggitus would have way more additional staff . The numbers varying depending on what's going down .

 

[Jason Abbadon]

A crew of beautiful women in playboy bunny outfits. And fembots. Gotta have fembots.

 

[urumomo]

: That's that other " Triple A " fella you're thinking about ,...

;D



pic from the shipyard ..
... this one change-order will pay for the New Years party :

 

[urumomo]

Neodymium magnet CA'd to the arm :



Female end of poly-cap embedded with Aves epoxy sculpt .
Connecting point for arm drilled out and short part of this broken drill bit CA'd in :



I guess I need to make the arm articulated now :




. ... that's 4 joints




since it pops right off , I can always do it later 8)

Ciao ,
Uru

 

[urumomo]

Preview of thruster placement :




I planned on gluing them in position - but I decided to try the magnets , , take advantage of the threaded steel support even though I figured they were too heavy .

... and they are ..
They won't fall out but they won't stay positioned much above vertical .

The nozzles are positioned for the struts to be mounted as below :




;D

 

[Jason Abbadon]

Those RCS thruster pylons are wild! Paint them like some mobile- msybe bright csndy-apple red?