On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7:50:57 AM UTC-4, Bones wrote: > Well I've started the build even though I haven't finished colouring it > yet..today I did the fusion drive and built it. Colours are a nightmare > with this thing, I have the whole lot as a boxed set of DVD's but the > colours of the interior are...well..nondescript. I've had to colour > match from photos of the built Mobeusplastic model to get some ideas. > There seems to be a lack of interior photos on the web and even watching > it on DVD makes it difficult to actually know what shades to make walls > etc. > For the outside I selected a light grey, it was the closest thing I > could think of to the real aluminium colour. With the drive I tried a > couple of shades of blue but it just didn't look right so I borrowed the > colours from Gary Pilsworth's model and used his orange/gold and yellow. > Lots of parts in the drive and nightmarish cutting out the "cage" around > the outside since it's layered. Thank goodness for the colour matching > tool in the GIMP. > If anyone has any alternate ideas for colours then I'm open to suggestion. > When I glued the floor on missed a big glob of glue and it bled through > right in the middle...if I can't hide it with some clear spray I'll have > to redo the whole thing <sigh> > I have a whole new respect for the people here who actually design > models, just colouring them is a horror show... > > Bones > > -- > The last great hurdle now awaits. All the answers to life's mysteries > will be illuminated with death. I almost confess to believing in > reincarnation and look forward to striding upon this earth in another > form...the majesty of the lion, the grace of the antelope, the swagger > of the defiant buffalo. Just as long as I don't come back as pastry......
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