Recent content by Richard Baker

I have a very limited budget for my hobbies. I have to choose between one large kit I want or several smaller ones, between buying a kit or replace some of my aging collection of paints. I do have a fair amount of unbuilt kits in my closet of doom so it's hard to justify getting new ones, even...

Wonderful painting, they really look natural

When I first started building I paid $2.50 for the AMT Enterprise kit (which included lighting). That seemed expensive in the early sixties but jeeze, what the newest edition of that kit costs now... Model building is an expensive hobby, especially if you start adding aftermarket pieces into...

Some construction photos- I do not take these often, I get into the zone and documenting things is my last thought during this. These two focus on adding the new aft engines: As you can see- they fit back there like an original Bandai part- no glue needed. I did trim the back of the joined...

The one thing I really love about Star Wars is that it is such a big universe, we only see a small slice around what the heroes are doing.

Thanks! I have only read a couple Rogue Squadron books when they first came out, no idea even which ones now... This build is just from my head, started off with some parts left over from the Lando Falcon project, I liked the unused engines from the escape pod and they looked about right for the...

The Story: Wedge Antillies was tasked by the Rebellion to come up with innovative ideas to help overcome the numerical superiority of the Empire. One of his special projects was to find a way to obtain reconnaissance data about Imperial forces in heavily fortified areas. Stealth probes and...

Fantastic build!- it is amazing once you realize the scale you are working with, well done!

Here are some final photos of my Lando's Falcon project. I have added some tiny markings decals and redid some of the weathering. My goal is to show used parts with different histories but all were the source ships were mostly taken care of- these were passenger ships and not junk freighters...

The Story: This build is a different take on the Falcon as we saw it in the film 'Solo', this is the unfinished state the ship was in a year before we saw it. A lot of this is based on how I understand the character Lando Calrissian. Lando has two obsessions, gambling and appearance. When he got...

I used a simple technique for years- a 50-50 mix of Testers styrene tube glue and Elmer's white glue, stirred together like epoxy. I glued styrene to balsa, cardboard and paper with zero problems. My first scratch builds in the sixties were mixed media like this to save costs and allow large...

Here is my build of that wonderful Bandai kit- pretty much straight out of the box. A couple of things to note- being all black plastic I painted each panel a different type of black, from flat & gloss to reflective (this does not show up very well in the photos). This is the first build where...

Not sure which version I like better http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/schematics/sovereign-oldnew.jpg

Quite a wonderful project! Are you going to add the additional phasers and torp launchers? I think thrre was an aftermarket kit out with new pylons to reposition the nacelles up higher and more forward to match the stance of the Nemesis version...

I was digging around looking for some old files and found this old design sketch for this build-