Sloth
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I'm a newb here, but I thought I'd jump in on this lil contest thang yall got goin on here. I figured it might be a good way for me to actually get this thing built as I've been putting it off for quite a while now.
So the plan is, to use a paper model pattern as a guide and scratch built a Vagyr Battlecruiser from scratch out of styrene, brass bits, misc extra kit parts, human hair, bat droppings j/k. You get the idea.
For those not familiar, the Vagyr Battlecruiser is a ship design from a popular game from back when dinosaurs roamed the earth called Homeworld 2. I don't play many games and never really did. If I recall correctly, I saw this cool looking box in the $1 bin at a local super turbo big box store and figured what the hey. I'd never seen anything like this game before and I was hooked. It is a massive space strategy game and a lot of people figured out how to hack it up and built all kinds of cool add ons for it. You could also go in and tweak settings for ships etc. One of the coolest things about it was the AI was built to auto level with you, so you couldn't really cheat it. For example, if you hacked the config file to start your fleet with 15 battlecruisers, the AI would give your opponents the same. Made it challenging.
Enough history. The simple explanation of the build is below.
First, the obligatory start proof image. I guess I'm getting a bit of a late start on this.
Next, better than words, a screen shot of what the ship looks like. This is pretty much the paint/decal scheme I'm going with too.
I have no idea what scale this is. I don't think anyone ever knew the size of the ships in relation to humans or feet and inches etc.. I just like the design (designed by Rob Cunningham) and always wanted to build a nice model of it. From the print of the paper model plans, it is quite large. I'm guess it should be around 16 or 18 inches long!
So I plan on doing a build log and as soon as I start chopping styrene, I'll post some pics to this thread. I'm looking forward to this. I think this is my first model comp and first real build log.
Hope I haven't bored everyone to death...
So the plan is, to use a paper model pattern as a guide and scratch built a Vagyr Battlecruiser from scratch out of styrene, brass bits, misc extra kit parts, human hair, bat droppings j/k. You get the idea.
For those not familiar, the Vagyr Battlecruiser is a ship design from a popular game from back when dinosaurs roamed the earth called Homeworld 2. I don't play many games and never really did. If I recall correctly, I saw this cool looking box in the $1 bin at a local super turbo big box store and figured what the hey. I'd never seen anything like this game before and I was hooked. It is a massive space strategy game and a lot of people figured out how to hack it up and built all kinds of cool add ons for it. You could also go in and tweak settings for ships etc. One of the coolest things about it was the AI was built to auto level with you, so you couldn't really cheat it. For example, if you hacked the config file to start your fleet with 15 battlecruisers, the AI would give your opponents the same. Made it challenging.
Enough history. The simple explanation of the build is below.
First, the obligatory start proof image. I guess I'm getting a bit of a late start on this.
Next, better than words, a screen shot of what the ship looks like. This is pretty much the paint/decal scheme I'm going with too.
I have no idea what scale this is. I don't think anyone ever knew the size of the ships in relation to humans or feet and inches etc.. I just like the design (designed by Rob Cunningham) and always wanted to build a nice model of it. From the print of the paper model plans, it is quite large. I'm guess it should be around 16 or 18 inches long!
So I plan on doing a build log and as soon as I start chopping styrene, I'll post some pics to this thread. I'm looking forward to this. I think this is my first model comp and first real build log.
Hope I haven't bored everyone to death...