Mar 162013
Mar 122013
Over 1.150 individual decals, that’s how many are on this model. I purchased this kit and the decal sheet over 2 years ago. When I first received the Paragrafix Photoetch and Decal set I was so excited to get started but was soon overwhelmed by the amount of time it was going to take. Each [more]
Jan 202013
Back to part 9A Get it straight out there: the effects miniatures of the SEAVIEW were not painted ‘blue’ they were a simple primer gray in ‘color’. Never blue. Don’t paint a model of the SEAVIEW blue. So many of you armchair ‘experts’ spout off periodically, with unjustified authority, that some shade of blue is [more]
Jan 202013
In honor of David Merriman’s birthday, I’m reposting the final segment of the Seaview article. Start with intro Back to part 8 Well, here we are. Part-9, the concluding installment of the SEAVIEW article. Finally! Time to wrap up and prepare to launch into another multi-installment article … that upcoming piece dealing with a build-up [more]
Dec 302012
In 1979 ABC canceled Battlestar Galactica. In January of 1980 we were treated (or threatened, depending on your point of view) with the appearance of “Galactica: 1980″. It lasted for ten gruelingly awful episodes (except for the last: The Return of Starbuck, which actually had a script that was better than most of the original [more]
Dec 302012
back to part 8B Though the four sail mounted deadlights should not have been represented on this version of the SEAVIEW, a brief discussion on the technique used to represent them (the simulation of clear parts through the use of black paint shot within masking tape) is, nonetheless, instructive. Each deadlight is represented on the [more]
Dec 302012
Back to part 8A Like model airplanes, the observer’s eye is drawn to the ‘office’ of a model submarine; that point on the model where, on the real thing (the prototype), the vehicle is controlled (piloted or conned). On an airplane model we naturally concentrate our study into the cockpit to see how well the [more]
Dec 302012
Back to intro Back to part 7 With this installment I’ll discuss the initial ‘sea-trials’ of the SEAVIEW model and cover some of the finer points of masking and painting. Masking, that vital skill one must master if you’re to achieve accurate color demarcation lines through the practice of applying shields to protect model structures [more]
Oct 152012
We got our first glimpse of Jay’s Viper in the Bench Section This is my second Viper, the first one I built a few days before the premiere of the Battlestar Galactica back in 1978. For this one, I decided to go all out and build my version of an “ultimate” Viper with a scratchbuilt [more]
Oct 082012
Here’s my rendition of the dreaded Cylon Raider from the re-imagined BSG series. I hadn’t really planned on building this model but when it appeared on a shelf at my local hobby shop, I took one look at it and HAD TO HAVE IT. This thing just oozes BAD ASS! I built this OOB, which [more]
Sep 262012
Here are some pictures of my Buck Rogers Starfighter and Marauder models. The kits were purchased I believe for $3.95 each back in 1979, which is also the year that I built them. They were left the overall color they were molded in, (off white for the Starfighter, coral orange for the Marauder). Then some [more]
Sep 262012
Mike Greaney sent these photos of his Munsters kit as built by Glenn Rodriguez
Sep 162012
This is the First Issued Monogram Viper kit from 1978. I scratch built the canopy. The pilot and cockpit are aftermarket resin kit from Space Creations from Canada. I scratch built the battle damage in the wing and scratch built the lighting kit using copper pluming pipe and blue LEDs inserted at the end of [more]
Sep 152012
This is a what-if kind of model that grew out of my inability to find an original Comet miniatures model of the Blake’s 7 Liberator. I decided to build an undated version instead as if a new vessel had evolved from the concept and here it is. The ships was made mostly from a Babylon [more]
Sep 152012
The Ultra Probe from the Space: 1999 Year 1 episode ” Dragon’s Domain ” is one of the most recognized models from the classic series. It was originally built in three scales. My model is a replica of the smallest of the three. At just over 2 feet long, it was constructed from Plastruct tubing [more]
