Chris Mulcahy’s Botany Bay

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This is my Botany Bay modelled from the “Sci-Fi Spaceship Miniatures” Vac-Form kit. I modified the antenna’s at the back with scratch built parts out of styrene and micro-mesh. I used only the front and back sections of the cargo pod from the kit and scratch built the rest using .030 styrene stock and 1/4″ strips of plex. The “wings” on the top of the sail were also scratch built from styrene. The base was built for me by a good friend who also helped me mount the model onto the base once it was finished. I used Testors Spray Enamel Gray Primer (1237) and the base color was Testors Dark Tan Spray Enamel (1942). The model was then weathered using pastels and a spray fixative was applied (Testors Dullcote 1260). Once that was dry I accented most of the edges of the model with chrome silver to give it the “stressed metal” look.

Chris Mulcahy