Sheet Styrene, Bass wood [master], PVC Pipe, clear acrylic, various kit
parts
Model Specifications:
Viper
Scale = 1/12
Length = 71.1 cm
Width = 35.6 cm
Height = 30.5 cm
This my
scratchbuilt Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica. She is 28" long, 12" high, and has a wingspan of 14".
The main body and intakes were made by carving them out of bass wood and then
vaccuforming them in styrene. The rest of the ship is made from sheet styrene and
PVC pipe.
I used TV footage and 1979 blueprints as a guide for construction of the model. The
cockpit of the Viper is an F-16 cockpit with some small changes.
For the overall weathering, I used pastel chalks and matches for laser
blasts.
After these pictures were taken I added a more detailed canopy.
This
photograph was taken in a rock quarry. The small rocks gives an appropriate
sense of scale to the Viper.
My Viper was in the May '97 issue of Fine Scale Modeler magazine
and this was the first picture in the Reader Gallery of that
issue.
