Plastic modelling - Battlestar Galactica WIP

[Iriorne]

Hi all,

Early last year I started working on a plastic model kit of the Battlestar Galactica from the 2004 TV series of the same name (if you haven't seen it, you're missing out). After working on it off and on over the past year I've decided to make a big push and get it finished - I thought I'd share my progress here to help with motivation.

The base kit is the Moebius Models 1/4105 Battlestar Galactica. I also bought a third party set of decals and photo etched metal detail. Actual progress is pretty far along now, I just have to take some more photos.


Test fit of the main hull straight out of the box, held together with tape and rubber bands.


Aftermarket decals and photoetch.

The photoetch set contains replacement gun turrets, raised name plates, windows for the museum hangar and internal structure for the landing bays. The decal set includes decals for almost the entire ship, covering the armour plating as well as the spaces between all the ribs.

In addition I'm incorporating some of the modifications to the kit that I've other people use, including:

• Lowering the 'head' section to eliminate the height mismatch between the top of the head and main hull and correcting the head angle to make it level with the hull.
• Removing and re-making the armour plating on the sides of the head.
• Undercutting all the edges of the armour plates to give the appearance of armour plating sitting on top of the rib structure.
• LED lighting for the landing bays, 'neck' windows, landing bay garages and engines.

As I said, I'm much further along than those photos now, so some of this will be more of a retrospective than recent progress. I've gotten most of the boring, tedious bits out of the way, mainly just waiting on the electronics so I can start planning installation and assembly.

More soon