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Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

A friend of mine (Virtualscratchbuilder) on another forum jsut built....this!

Final assembled model - 557 individual pieces of wood - a new record.

Overhead

Starboard quarter close-up

Business end close-up

Starboard bow quarter from underneath

View down the starboard side of main hull

Out past wingtip looking back at starboard side

Blows my pitiful skills away!

He's also built a Valdore! [Eek!]

Posted by Bones McCoy (Member # 1480) on :

Wow. Respect.

Posted by TheWoozle (Member # 929) on :

Yeah, what he said

Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :

Ok, now let's analyze carefully the other contents of the workshop for clues as to the details of other starships they're working on.

Oh, wait a minute...

Seriously, I feel bad for his wife. But that is too cool.

Posted by Nim' (Member # 205) on :

Looks like the wood chipping machine had a case of supersonic diarrhea.

Ah j/k, the model is very nice and the builder is a wonderful man.

Posted by DoughBoy05 (Member # 1417) on :

Wow! I checked out the rest of the site too. Incredible work! I build stuff out of lego so I can understand the sheer number of hours one can put in on a project like that. ( I'm on month ten of my 18th century 44 gun frigate built out of lego, its over 4 feet long and pisses my wife off thats its on top of the entertainment center [Smile]

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Posted by jesus X (Member # 1201) on :

What I noticed in the background was the box for a Zenith Goldline inhaler, as I get oneevery month. With all the chemicals in wood finishing, I'm not surprised. [Smile]

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

The best part of his work is that he (now) models in 1:2500th scale- like myself!

He even built the world's second physical model of the Son'a Battleship mine own being the very first).

Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

That's awesome. While it is already hard enough to reproduce the details, I wonder how it is possible to get the overall proportions right.

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

Well, he finished it!
The speed he scarcthbuilds in is incredible.
Final Pics

Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :

Does he do resin casting or just straight sheet?

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :

It's wood and sheet styrene- almost completely wood though.

I'd love to get my hands on that- I could super-detail it with paint and custom decals and...

Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :

Yeah, its nice. especially if its wood. I had assumed he'd made part and resin-cast the rest. I remember when I had time to do the fun stuff.... sigh....