RC Sci Fi

I have had, for some many months, a pile of large diameter PVC plumbing parts and a commercial grade toilet roll holder loitering around the door to my garage/workshop, all of which I fished out of the bin at work.

I took one of the primer grey photos into photoshop and messed about until I had something pleasing for a paint scheme.

Grey primer - done.

I believe I have completed the surface detailing phase of the project.

I added a strip around the back edge to give the rear bulkhead a bit of an inset.

I made four landing pads from some 1/35 scale Maus tracks and suspension parts.

I came across this image of a kitbashed spaceship on Facebook made from the two halves of a submarine Plastic model kit.

The HPI Savage XL chassis received a few slight modifications.

Once the 3D printed main hull was completed it was time to go old school and fill in the undersides with kit-bashed detail.

I have always wanted to make a shallow dome roofed watchtower of some sort and over the years scribbled many thumbnails of the sort of thing I had in mind.

After layers of spray putty, primer, spot putty and sanding I finally got a reasonably smooth 3D printed body with almost no layer lines visible.

An AI image popped up in my Pinterest feed that stood out as a possible RC vehicle project.

The body was primed with light grey primer and then masked and sprayed with a can of yellow enamel.

The Speed controller is a cheap brushed controller capable of running 3s - 6s (12 - 24 volts).

Way back in 2015 I came across the concept art for Hardware shipbreakers a computer game that eventually became Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak.

Started in 2016, the container spaceship project is finally done.

It's finally time to push this project through to completion.

I masked up all the areas I was going to leave dark primer grey and sprayed the base colour from a Montana Spray can.

I have fooled around in photoshop and come up with a rough paint design for the model.

The grey primer stage has been reached for the Jan Buragay inspired spaceship project.

I decided to tackle the side windows.

I made up the "wings" from 6mm foamed PVC sheet, bent using a heat gun and some scrap wood formers.

I have nearly completed the detailing on the rear and the engines of the Jan Buragay Spaceship project with a start made on the detailing of the top surface and skinning the sides.

We had this old Sony Micro Hifi thing which was always a bit problematic.

I started on the control console and built a backlit desk from styrene and a clear acrylic desk top.