Been going through a major building drought of late. Just haven't been inspired to build anything. But a couple of weeks ago, there was a "Babylon 5" movie on cable so I got inspired to build something from the B5 universe.
This is a largely scratchbuilt model of a (non-canon) light cruiser based on the Omega-class destroyer. For the forward, midship and engine sections, I used Jaybats' Agememnon card model, but they were reduced to 75 percent and heavily modified. I used Jaybats' engine parts as templates to make my own pieces out of metallic paper. (I simplified the plumbing, too; why have all that exposed plumbing on a warship?)
Most everything else is scratchbuilt.
The finished model is 11.75 inches (29.8 cm) long. Years ago, when I built Jaybats' Agememnon, I figured out the scale was 1/2868. If my math is correct (always an iffy thing...) that means that at 75 percent, this model's scale is 1/3824, so it would be 3,748 feet (1,142 meters) long. Given that a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is 1,092 feet long, these ships must be huge.
Since I'm posting on my iPad, I can only do one photo at a time....
This is a largely scratchbuilt model of a (non-canon) light cruiser based on the Omega-class destroyer. For the forward, midship and engine sections, I used Jaybats' Agememnon card model, but they were reduced to 75 percent and heavily modified. I used Jaybats' engine parts as templates to make my own pieces out of metallic paper. (I simplified the plumbing, too; why have all that exposed plumbing on a warship?)
Most everything else is scratchbuilt.
The finished model is 11.75 inches (29.8 cm) long. Years ago, when I built Jaybats' Agememnon, I figured out the scale was 1/2868. If my math is correct (always an iffy thing...) that means that at 75 percent, this model's scale is 1/3824, so it would be 3,748 feet (1,142 meters) long. Given that a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is 1,092 feet long, these ships must be huge.
Since I'm posting on my iPad, I can only do one photo at a time....
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