I finally got a weekend with two full days uninterrupted by any trips to or from the airport. Instead of continuing any of the dozen or so projects I've started but not finished (giant monster sculpt, boxer sculpt, Marvel Super Heroes RPG cards…the list goes on) I went back to the security of the familiar. I made another scratch build spaceship!
I went back to my roots and made this one out of spaghetti, as well as toothpicks, very thin sheet styrene, and some other materials for the domes. Unlike any of my old spaghetti ships however, I will not use this one for impression molds. I like it so much, I plan to make an Alumilite RTV rubber mold of the ship directly and then cast copies in resin. The pictures here show the master primed; I plan to let it sit for 24 hours to make sure the primer is really dry and an effective barrier between the spaghetti and RTV rubber.
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| 59mm long |
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| Bow is left in picture; stern is right |
Glad to see the shipyards are open again. That's one nice-looking vessel!
ReplyDeleteThanks DS! It's good to be building again.
ReplyDeleteAren't the cockroaches and mice going to eat this? They don't eat plastic.
ReplyDeleteNo. It's covered in paint which is composed of many of the same petrochemicals as the plastic you are referring to. And as I indicated in my post, this is simply a model that will be used to make a mold. I will then cast resin (plastic) ships in the mold.
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