wHUSe that kNOCKin at my front door

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Decided to give some attention to this printed beauty that MEATLOAFr over on AST sent me recently.
I've always wanted a model of this ship from the first time I saw it on STTNG...




Husnock - STTNG - The Survivors by Steve J, on Flickr

This is in 1-5000 scale. A massive piece of solid plastic...


Husnock Warship 009 by Steve J, on Flickr

A little cleanup to do, this plastic is very hard. Rather than try to sand out the shallower ridges left from the printing process, I will probably just level out them and any deeper gouges with some Tamiya polyester putty before sanding with my new electric sander tool from Micro Mark. I will also cover some areas with pieces of thin styrene sheet. So expect to see some panels forming on the surfaces.
I could also use AVES epoxy putty where I expect to see wear.

Stay tuned!

 

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This plastic material is very strong, I keep thinking I'm going to snap the pointy bits off but the plastic doesn't break.
Cool stuff but harder than styrene by far and dense as hell.


First thing was to drill a hole for my display rod mounting tube.
Out of focus but this is my pinvise drilling the pilot hole into the underside:


Husnock Warship 011 by Steve J, on Flickr


Underside after puttying with PPP and sanding:


Husnock Warship 010 by Steve J, on Flickr

Using Dymo label tape as guard rails while scribing panel lines:


Husnock Warship 012 by Steve J, on Flickr

Panels line scribing came out well after touchups:


Husnock Warship 014 by Steve J, on Flickr

Groovy... finished starboard side panel line scribing:


Husnock Warship 015 by Steve J, on Flickr

After several rounds of puttying and sanding most of the surface is smooth.
After adding some detailing she'll get a few shots of filler primer though before I move on to airbrushing the basecoat:


Husnock Warship 016 by Steve J, on Flickr

Next up... some cleanup and scratching some small details.