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dderidex Ensign
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:12 am Post subject: Some re-paints of Mongoose's new miniature renders |
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Those of you who follow ADB on Facebook have *probably* all seen these already, but I'd done some texture/painting over the Mongoose renders to get a feel for what they might look like as 'finished ships'.
Results as such:
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Ravenhull Lieutenant Commander
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Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 231 Location: Mobile, AL
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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Great work there. And while I'll probably do my Hawks in classic Rom dirty white, they do look good in your gemstone green. I especially like how the Rom Eagle looked on the beak of the heavy Hawk there. _________________ NOLI UMQUAM VIM TURBARUM STULTORUM DEPRETIARE.
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dderidex Ensign
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Joined: 21 Sep 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Portland, Oregon
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Ravenhull wrote: | Great work there. And while I'll probably do my Hawks in classic Rom dirty white, they do look good in your gemstone green. I especially like how the Rom Eagle looked on the beak of the heavy Hawk there. |
FWIW, my plan was to paint the old 'Eagles' in the off-white colors, switch over to grey and blue for the Kestrels, and do the 'Hawks' in green.
So, something like what this guy did for the old FASA 'Stormbird' look:
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OGOPTIMUS Captain
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Joined: 10 Nov 2006 Posts: 980
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Awesome artwork. I never really liked Roms in green, but that looks really great!
Awesome model/mini! What scale is that? _________________ O.G. OPTIMUS
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dderidex Ensign
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Joined: 21 Sep 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Portland, Oregon
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:47 am Post subject: |
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AFAIR, the FASA miniatures were 1/3900 scale.
But that might be fudging things a bit, as that would make it even smaller than the original Starline 2400 minis (at vaguely 1/3788 according to the recent blog post)...and I don't think the FASA ships were.
In any case...much, MUCH smaller than the new 2500s (1/3200). |
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Scoutdad Commodore
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Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 4754 Location: Middle Tennessee
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, I have some ofthe old FASA ships in my minis box. I use the D7 for a DX and the CA for a CX.
thay are indeed a bit smaller than the ST2200/2400's , so I'd say 1:3900 is correct.
Which really makes that paint job all the more impressive. _________________ Commander, Battlegroup Murfreesboro
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OGOPTIMUS Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah. I was just wondering what scale that was since those details are awesome! Even more awesome since it's the 1/3900 mini.
I didn't know that the actual mini had different nacelles than the D7. I know that the line art does, but I've never seen a Stormbird, all the ones I have are the D7. Cool that the nacelles match (they look like the ones on the Winged Defender). _________________ O.G. OPTIMUS
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dderidex Ensign
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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OGOPTIMUS wrote: | Yeah. I was just wondering what scale that was since those details are awesome! Even more awesome since it's the 1/3900 mini.
I didn't know that the actual mini had different nacelles than the D7. I know that the line art does, but I've never seen a Stormbird, all the ones I have are the D7. Cool that the nacelles match (they look like the ones on the Winged Defender). |
I think that the guy who did it crafted the mini as a kitbash - so using the same engines as the Winged Defender seems a likely choice.
I don't believe FASA sold a different kit for the Stormbird - at least, in the catalog photo I'd seen, it was SKU'd as a 'Klingon D-7/Romulan Stormbird' in a single item. |
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trynda1701 Lieutenant SG
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, that Stormbird isn't the FASA 1/3900 mini, but this one here...
http://tykensrift.blogspot.com/search/label/Romulan
... which does NOT detract from the cool standard of modelling skill on the mini. Scale is 1/1400. Knew I had seen it somewhere before. _________________ C'mon the Orions!
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OGOPTIMUS Captain
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hang on, I found that guy's website. This is a 1400 scale D7 that he made some custom nacelles and decals for.
It still looks awesome. It's just not 1/3900 scale.
EDIT: Oops! Double post. My page didn't update. Hmmmm. _________________ O.G. OPTIMUS
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dderidex Ensign
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Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:57 am Post subject: |
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It's definitely about the best paint job of a 'Stormbird' I'd ever seen - didn't realize the scale was quite so big on it!
Still, that's basically the inspiration for what I'll be aiming at for the KRs from ADB/Mongoose. While I'm not a huge fan of much that came out of FASA's time with the Trek license, the paint job they proposed for the Romulan-crewed Klingon ships was a real gem. |
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