First photos of painted ship posted.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:09 pm

Steve has posted the first images of a painted Mongoose Starline 2500 miniature on the SFUDB.

You can see them HERE!.
They are near the bottom of the page.

Darkwing · Post by **Darkwing** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:48 pm

Looks great! I can't wait to get my hands on a couple of those!

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:43 pm

Good job, Tony!!

Nice decals

Burning Chrome · Post by **Burning Chrome** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 3:29 am

Nice.

Is it just me or is something "off" a bit?

Nacels too far apart or too thin?

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 3:52 am

The nacelles splayed out a bit.
I was under a rushed deadline to get it painted, so I epoxied it together - let it dry a bit - then turned it upside down to paint the underneath.

Once everything was painted underneath and I flipped it over, I saw thatthe nacelles had splayed a bit from the weight of the mini on the uncured epoxy.

I'll let me next one cure completely before inverting it.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 4:03 am

A few more photos posted to my photobucket site. The link is in the sig below.

Thenur · Post by **Thenur** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 10:46 pm

Looks great you did a great job on it. I can't wait to get my hands on some.

Starfury · Post by **Starfury** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 11:02 pm

Scoutdad wrote:The nacelles splayed out a bit.
I was under a rushed deadline to get it painted, so I epoxied it together - let it dry a bit - then turned it upside down to paint the underneath.

Once everything was painted underneath and I flipped it over, I saw thatthe nacelles had splayed a bit from the weight of the mini on the uncured epoxy.

I'll let me next one cure completely before inverting it.

When using epoxy I'll do that on the inside of the item (5 min expoxy) but will put superglue on the outer part to hold it in place. Worked good so far...have some dragons from the 90's that haven't fallen apart.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:37 am

My understanding is that Tony is a fan of the "two glue" method too.

I think he was just in a really big schedule-crunch to get this one done and had other things competing for his time. It still turned out really well and looks like the "tv ship" enough to get some folks talking.

Lords knows I've botched my fair share by getting called away to answer the door, a sudden gust of wind, an overly excitable dog, etc., etc...

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:56 am

Yep. I do typically do the "two-glue" method.
Several things conspired against me in this instance...
Lack of still liquid CA adhesive (oops)

Lack of time (SVC really needed the photos in time for HF)
and a plain old desire to put some paint on the mini itself.

OGOPTIMUS · Post by **OGOPTIMUS** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:11 pm

Very nicley done Tony. I'm jealous that you got to be the tester guy.

I really hope that it's a glue reason that the nacelles are so far apart.

Scoutdad · Post by **Scoutdad** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:33 pm

OGOPTIMUS wrote:Very nicley done Tony. I'm jealous that you got to be the tester guy.

I really hope that it's a glue reason that the nacelles are so far apart.

Paul,
That is most defnitely the reason. I dry fit everything after sanding the flash off (and it held together quite nicely. ALl the pieces fit very well) and verified the angles.
During the dry-fit stage, the nacelles were indeed much closer together and raised above the saucer just a bit more.

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:16 am

Actually, when I overlaid the orthographic views of the Mongoose computer model with the various blueprints for the "tv ship", the Mongoose model does put the engines a little higher and further apart than tradition. It's a change, but one only uber-geeks like me would notice.

Bolo_MK_XL · Post by **Bolo_MK_XL** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:01 pm

Looks like their mounted to the pylon at a different spot on the engine --
Which uses a shorter pylon --

djdood · Post by **djdood** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:51 pm

Could be for production reason, could be style, doesn't really harm anything either way.