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Thorsten Scholz' Bird of Prey |
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Since I used some reference material of your site to build my Bird of Prey , I thought I would send in some of the pictures I
have recently taken.
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I did not change much, so it's mostly straight out of the box. I own the excellent book "The Art of Star Trek", on page 219 you
can find a nice picture of the BoP. I used that picture as my main guide. On the picture I noticed some detail under the wing shoulder. So I scratch built four parts similar to it and placed two on each
side. You can see it on the pictures directly under the shoulder, one looks like an antennae the other like a heat pipe or something.
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Main color of the model is leave green, since I live in Germany I use revel email colors. The other greens are light green
and dark green variations, to have a unified look I mixed the main color into all the other greens. At some places I used a light grey as can also be seen on the picture of the book. Since you can not
see the upper and lower parts of the wing and the top of the ship, I got inspiration on CultTVman of how it might look.
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The color of the wing mountings, or what ever it is called to connect the wing to the rest of the ship, is a wild mixture of the
primary green, some black, grey, copper, gold and metallic grey, perhaps some thing else, since I wanted to achieve a color that looks really dark almost like a kind of black/dark grey, but with
different lighting, or while looking at it under a different angle, would show a kind of green.
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Since the Klingons are not the people that take care of how their ships look, and I love the afore mentioned picture, I wanted
the model to look as used as possible while staying true to the studio model. Every time when I had painted some panelling on the wings/hull with a green variation, I removed some of the color with sand
paper/brush cleaner, to get that used look.
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Since the Klingons are not the people that take care of how their ships look, and I love the afore mentioned picture, I wanted
the model to look as used as possible while staying true to the studio model. Every time when I had painted some panelling on the wings/hull with a green variation, I removed some of the color with sand
paper/brush cleaner, to get that used look.
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As the paint job was done, I weathered the whole model using a medium grey, by painting the edges with a brush (painting the
edges over is desired), let it dry and remove the majority with brush cleaner. The recessed lines will look darker then the rest of the ship, additionally the grey will give a dirty look to the panel
surfaces. I know there are other techniques but this works well for me.
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To achieve a chipped look I put streaks of silver on some of the edges all over the ship. When this was done, I thought rust
might look great on it. Since the BoP can enter an atmosphere, it can rust right? So again I painted some edges/recessed lines with rust (a reddish brown), and while it was drying I washed it of by using
a brush with brush cleaner on it.
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You can see the resulting effect quite good on the second picture at the wings and on the gun mounting. Surface detail like
wires, pipes, hatches and so on where painted with silver gold and copper, as well as the color used to paint the wing mounting. I opted not to put a clear coat on the model since some of the mixed
greens look shinier or more flat then the rest and it gives a real nice touch to the model.
Thorsten Scholz
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