Star Wars Rebel Transport

[sherban]

It's a brilliant work both in design and paercut.

[Fargo]

Originally Posted by lehcyfer

Wow! I'm flabbergasted!

It's extremelly intriguing ship.

I want to build one too :D Will you publish it?

ahh.... really, this time it could be almost impossible to publish it, because... well, this model is really a hybrid: I mean, there's paper, ok... but there's even a huge amount of "kitbashed" plastic and that's due to my (poor!) past in plastic scratchbuilding. when I decided to use paper instead of styrene, my mind gave birth to this ship, a sort of passage from a tecnique to the other. I think I could make available the paper structure but that would be, more or less, the 50% of the model. are you familiar with Rhinoceros 4.0?

Originally Posted by SJPONeill

Are you sure that's paper??? Looks awesome!!

Am very interested in your build first then paint approach....

Originally Posted by imcold

Yeah, the underside looks cool - and weathering, that's the fun part, I'm looking forward to see that Did you use a regular brush or some spray for painting?

thanx I'll answer both of you: I used normal paper covered with an adhesive clear plastic sheet (for the same reason of some lines before and that's why it doesn't seems paper) and the primer is a common gray spray paint. weathering will be added with a brush, I don't have any airbrush. that's way I'm interested in learnig how to put a texture on the model before printing it... less laborious and if the texture is good enough, the result would be great the same

[Fargo]

Originally Posted by Texman

Very cool.

Originally Posted by sherban

It's a brilliant work both in design and paercut.

thank you!!

[Fargo]

painting progresses:

I applied a white paint layer over the primer (spray), like the original transport, even to the lower shields (sorry, the light sucks...). just one coat: it allows the model to keep a sort of transaparence for the gray underneath that mucks up that "once immacolated" white hull.


the contrast is good IMO. it needs a light touch of sandpaper (also because, when spaying, a little fly flew through the paint jet now there's a corpse stuck to the rear hull!!!)


I think the biggest part is done: now it's time to bring the brush and give some life to all the boxes and do some HEAVY weathering

[Fargo]

hi folks
after a long brake I'm back on this ship and the end is approching very fastly. today I managed to complete all the containers and to attach them under the main hull. looking to the poor reference stuff found on internet, I couldn't get a good idea about the original support system for all those boxes, so I simply glued them together and directly to the hull... in a way, it's a maze

work just begun


in the middle...


et voilà





next step: weathering, weathering, weathering everything

[gomidefilho]

Fargo you work is amazing... Great scratchbuilder, and a font for inspiration...

[Fargo]

Originally Posted by gomidefilho

Fargo you work is amazing... Great scratchbuilder, and a font for inspiration...

thanx man :o

"fresh" update:

[Fargo]

well... I haven't glued the two halves together yet, due to last check or whatever could come to my mind, but it could happen in no time

[sagittarius]

This is absolutely outstanding job Fargo.a Big inspiration for me

[Millenniumfalsehood]

Awesome! I wish you would post these pics on Starship Modeler. They'd get a kick out of seeing what paper can *really* accomplish given the time and care you've put into both this and the BFF-1 Bulk Freighter.