Prince of Styrene II
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Greetings!
I started this build a bit ago when I had a very long & slow day coming up at work, so I planned ahead & brought tools & umped off to the hobby shop. The idea is that I want to recreate a Calvin & Hobbes "Spaceman Spiff" comic strip in 3-D!! Basically recreate every box in a Sunday strip as a little shadowbox of the drawing.
I posted some pics earlier on other forums, took a small break form building & now I'm starting up again & I wanted to share the progress with the members here. First up is the comic I've decided to replicate! This was a hard choice as there's so many fun strips, but I did have a couple criteria that needed to be met. Working with the Pegasus "Alpha Centauri UFO" kit which has two ships, the first factor was that the strip shouldn't have more than two closeups of Spiff's ship. Smaller, more distant shots of the ship can easily be scratched. Second was that the scenery shouldn't be too hard with too much detail- this is my first try at this after all! Third was that I didn't mind having aliens in the strip, but nothing too detailed as I'd have to sculpt them.
From about five finalists, I narrowed it down to this one:
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/final3.jpg
I bought some Sculpy in the proper colors to use for Spiff. The white will be used for other items & aliens. I plan on making his mask from styrene sheet.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/sculpy.jpg
I have the hulls glued together & the fins in place. The cockpit is in, but some details like the wraparound dash & the steering wheel need to be installed.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/DSC08970.jpg
In this "before & after" shot, you can see the seat was heavily modified by cutting the height & width down & cutting off some of the "ribs". I added the tubes & topped them off with craft beads that were cut to shape. Some trim pieces still need to be added to the cansiters.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/DSC08949.jpg
I've also purchased some balsa wood planks from the LHS that are 4'x4"x.25", so the planned depth for the boxes of the model is 4" deep. It's the same width as the ship, so I was thinking that it may be fun to have some things protrude out of the box. It won't be too many things, maybe just the edge of the ship & some edges of the boulders, but it'll add to the 3-D look of it. I've plotted out the dimentions on graph paper (sorry, no image of that just yet to see) & the entire thing will be 16" wide by about 12" tall. A decent display, but not obnoxiously large.
I started this build a bit ago when I had a very long & slow day coming up at work, so I planned ahead & brought tools & umped off to the hobby shop. The idea is that I want to recreate a Calvin & Hobbes "Spaceman Spiff" comic strip in 3-D!! Basically recreate every box in a Sunday strip as a little shadowbox of the drawing.
I posted some pics earlier on other forums, took a small break form building & now I'm starting up again & I wanted to share the progress with the members here. First up is the comic I've decided to replicate! This was a hard choice as there's so many fun strips, but I did have a couple criteria that needed to be met. Working with the Pegasus "Alpha Centauri UFO" kit which has two ships, the first factor was that the strip shouldn't have more than two closeups of Spiff's ship. Smaller, more distant shots of the ship can easily be scratched. Second was that the scenery shouldn't be too hard with too much detail- this is my first try at this after all! Third was that I didn't mind having aliens in the strip, but nothing too detailed as I'd have to sculpt them.
From about five finalists, I narrowed it down to this one:
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/final3.jpg
I bought some Sculpy in the proper colors to use for Spiff. The white will be used for other items & aliens. I plan on making his mask from styrene sheet.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/sculpy.jpg
I have the hulls glued together & the fins in place. The cockpit is in, but some details like the wraparound dash & the steering wheel need to be installed.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/DSC08970.jpg
In this "before & after" shot, you can see the seat was heavily modified by cutting the height & width down & cutting off some of the "ribs". I added the tubes & topped them off with craft beads that were cut to shape. Some trim pieces still need to be added to the cansiters.
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff5/Prince_of_Styrene_II/Spaceman%20Spiff/DSC08949.jpg
I've also purchased some balsa wood planks from the LHS that are 4'x4"x.25", so the planned depth for the boxes of the model is 4" deep. It's the same width as the ship, so I was thinking that it may be fun to have some things protrude out of the box. It won't be too many things, maybe just the edge of the ship & some edges of the boulders, but it'll add to the 3-D look of it. I've plotted out the dimentions on graph paper (sorry, no image of that just yet to see) & the entire thing will be 16" wide by about 12" tall. A decent display, but not obnoxiously large.
