To get me back into the swing of building, I present a couple pictures of my new project, the Shelly Class ship from the Deep Space Nine era. Sorry for the bad quality of the pics, but my scanner seems to be having some trauma. Going by the more popular name, the Curry Class (as seen on DS9) had the inflated nacelle design of the Constitution. Thinking this as rather
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Here are some pics of a Star Wars dreadnaught that I am scratchbuilding. It is my second atempt at scratchbuilding. My first was the “Wilde Karrde”. My only source was really the “essential guide to vehices and vessels” for this dreadnaught. I picked the dreadnaught for mostly the same reasons that I did the karrde. This one had a few more curves to it, but looked like a logical
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I’ve included pictures of my Enterprise-A project. One shows the building/painting status. Since it is almost impossible to re create the shining effect of the hull plating the proper way on a small scale like that, I decided to go with some kind of a snap shot. The hull might show these kind of colors on the Aztec pattern if viewed under an angle.(With low light it almost looks like
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The Atlanta Historical Miniatures Show was held February 15 and 16th, 2002. Lots of good genre stuff in addition to standard historical miniatures
Here is a special On The Bench treat from our good friend Joel Tavera. Joel has a number of models on the CultTVman site, and here he shows us a project for start to finish. Joel was tasked with designing an interior for the Lunar Models Flying Sub kit. It took him a while, but the results are great! You will see the finished figures for the interior set.
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These are images of my C57-D interior. With the exception of some small detail parts, the entire assembly is scratch-built by using the studio set blueprints found in an old Cinefantastique magazine. I added some realism by using fine wire mesh for the communication room control panels and the DC Station screens. Phil Lublin
