How to Scratchbuild a Starfighter
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ค. 2024
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Nimble, hard-hitting, and with a thrust-to-weight ratio that puts other craft in it's class to shame, the Etosha-Nydam K/F-8G Kingfisher is a common sight among mercenary groups, independent militaries, and pirate bands alike. Originally envisioned as a planetary defense fighter, the Kingfisher rose to prominence with the introduction of the carrier-based K/F-8G variant. A narrower profile, lighter power plant, and reduced maintenance requirements took a plodding (if well-regarded) fighter-bomber and reimagined it as the ideal choice in the limited conditions of a shipboard hangar.
Thanks to their loosely tuned stability and explosive acceleration capabilities, Kingfishers have earned a reputation as temperamental hot rods. Individual craft are often plagued with "personality quirks," and no two Kingfishers are said to fly alike. Kingfisher pilots take pride in this fact, claiming their ability to overcome the unpredictability of the craft is evidence of their superior skill.
Tools I used:
Scissors
Masking tape
Drafting Triangle (aluminum)
Hobby Knife & extra blades
Pencil
Tweezers
Superglue
Weld-on 3
Cheap brush
Small eyedropper and dish for the Weld-on
Sanding sticks and paper
Machinist's Scribe
Pin Vise drill
Plastic nippers
Materials I used:
1mm (.040 in) and .5mm (.020 in) Styrene sheets
Styrene rods
Various kitbashed parts including marker caps and K'nex pieces
Acrylic paints in various colors
Oil paint for weathering
Music:
Abstract World - AlexiAction
Gallows - Isaiah Mathew
Lofi Reverie - Melodigne
Endless Sequence - Zen_Man
Dream Team - SergePavkinMusic
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:18 What You'll Need
2:20 Cutting
5:07 Step One
6:16 Steps Two and Three
6:50 Steps Four and Five
7:40 Steps Six and Seven
8:25: Step Eight
9:37 Step Nine
10:45 Steps Ten and Eleven
11:52 Step Twelve
13:00 Detailing and Kitbashing
15:53 The Blasters
17:00 Painting
19:20 Decals
20:00 Weathering
22:33 Outro
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Infinitely more satisfying than any asmr video
Really cool! I'd be very interested to see a video of your Affinity designer work making templates. That's a big gap in my knowledge.
Always a pleasure to watch you build!
WOw Awesome Ship. Thx for sharing with us.
I really like that. reminds me of a viper. well done!
Amazing video, please keep up the great work!
Viper vibes as others have said. I made a cardboard viper when i was 11yr old, so based on the original bsg because that was my favourite tv show in 1981 😊
Your work inspires me to get back into modelling. Use to use parts from different kits to make all sorts of cool vehicles. 😊
Thanks for your channel. Great fun 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! I always love hearing when I’ve inspired someone to get into (or back into) modeling.
If Carrol Shelby designed space fighters in the 24th century!!! Love it buddy! you did a great job!
This is a hood prototype for a toy that could be mass produced.
Dry cool stuff. Gives me a ton of inspiration 🙌
Excellent build. Looks great 👍
You're so organized 😅 this ship is super cool and the paint job is 👌
The illusion of me being organized is the biggest bit of editing magic in this entire video
@@Sublight_Drive 🤣
This reminds me of the ship in the old game Descent.
The ship is incredible. Love seeing those details come out. By any chance, would you have any interest in doing a video more thoroughly detailing the initial design process? It's one space that feels like there aren't a lot of people talking about it, especially in the context of making actual miniature THINGS from the designs.
Now dis is pawd racin!
Well this is cool as heck. Hope we get to see more original designs in the future, freighters and cruisers and big things in small scale. Actually just picked up a cutter machine because my hands shake too much to cut these out. Uhm, have you considered a discord or mastodon? Unfortunately my old butt doesn't really partake in the Zuckbook or the Tweets.
LETS GO, NEW FULL LENGTH VIDEO! Building one of your Atlas Haulers as a birthday gift for a friend, i'm loving it so far.
Hell yeah cousin. Glad you’re having fun with it.
Neat little fighter you made there my dude! Giving off strong viper (BSG) vibes, but with a neat twist. I love that you build mostly with Styrene, though that can get a little flat unless you layer on various thicknesses and sizes of panels. Love the gentle curve you gave the nose section.
I saw the PDF on Etsy before I noticed the new vid, stupid YT notifications. Got to say once again you do NOT dissappoint. I saved them to my cart and will purchase them soon.
Keep on keeping on!!
That is indeed a wooshable-ass ship
I noticed that you cut out the little notches in your details panels by hand. I've seen some videos from Adam Savage where he and other modelers use what they call "nibblers" that just cut the whole notch out at once. Might be something worth looking into! Thanks for another cool video!
Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing this.
Battlestar Galactica just rang they said they want their ship back.....😊
A truly awesome build!!!
Love the results!!! ❤😊❤
Symetrical AND the same on both sides...Hilarious!😂😂😂😂😂
I wonder if one of those vinyl cutters like a Cricut could be used to design and cut out the styrene?
very interesting, I didn't understand how you build 3D modeling templates?
I never understood why the Viper fighters has an open nose and air intakes on their engines. Always seemed odd for a spafecraft.
Nice build.
It’s for the space air
@@Sublight_DriveI believe it is for "exo-atmospheric flight" (going from space to atmosphere and back to space)...at least that's what a nerd told me once. 👀😬
Man, throwback to K'nex.
I’ll sacrifice a thousand K’nex if it means achieving my goals
Yeah, I think I still have a few of those under/behind the couch from when my daughter had a bucketfull fifteen or so years ago. Which isn't surprising, those things get everywhere, except we moved house a couple years ago. 🤔😲😕
Amazing video as always. Any plans to build a bad guy looking fighter now that you have built a good guy fighter?
I might have to, now
Just found your channel and you came out with a new vid! Amazing work! What is the brand of your concept art markers ?
All my sketches are done in pencil. I was fighting with the white balance so they look a little bluish but they’re just regular graphite.
I want to start making this, as it is awesome. I have a basic question. In my country I only get polystyrene. Is it the same material as Styrene? Thanks in advance
Yep, those are the same material. It’s also sometimes branded as plasticard.
sometimes called High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS)
Thanks for the answers. Next step for me is to buy the plasticard and templates. 🖖
Promo sm 💐
OK, so...
A camera's autofocus is looking for the amount of detail it can see, it assumes the most complicated thing will be what you want in focus. Hands are amazingly complicated. I think if you opted to wear black gloves that'd stop being so much an issue.
Being a modelling and painting channel it feels a little churlish to mention, this is not the most original design in the universe. I mean, GL kinda locked in utilitarian universe fighters, so, not a biggy.
Are ye no getting close to the point where you wanna have a stab at interiors?
Oh, and, superglue is not good for stollypyrene. One thing you might wanna try is punching a bunch of holes through the big piece where the little piece goes and cementing through those as well as the edges. Not to mention you can paint cement on the whole smaller piece, you don't have to use the capillary dropper doodad whatsit thingy for everything.
nice little build, though, as always
Where do you get your styrene?
I got most of mine from an industrial plastic supply place. I had to hunt around before I found a place that would sell me just one 6’ by 8’ sheet lol. Most had a minimum order of like a hundred.
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