I came to say that. I fear that this will be an art consigned to history with the advent of 3d printing. Im bad at scratch building, but im happy that people can do it well. As an old man its my right to yell at the clouds and bemoan modern fangled technology!
3d printing isn't a low skill thing, you still have to design and then model whatever you're making, and then cleaning your prints and painting it is also something you need to have skill in.
@rudolfthecat1176 even the printing part has its own challenges, like the orientation, support placement, detail vs print time, if you split the model or not, etc
I know the big ones take damn long, and you are getting tired of it just before its ready for paint, but when they are DONE....well worth all the time!
I actually like how the slightly darker bottom looks. It has always made very little sense to me to see Sci-Fi ships just blatantly nosediving into the atmosphere, so the darker bottom would indicated that they can enter the atmosphere in a way that puts a larger, flat area in the way, and tells a lot more about the flight profile of the vehicle. Love the design!
I really liked your presentation style. Post edit narration. The camera never moves. Everything’s in focus. The music isn’t overpowering. The model is great, too. Original design, dynamic detailing. Well done!
A tungsten carbide pen. We use wolfram carbide, which probably are of the same sort with our Leopard 2A7DK. APFSDS-T ammo that slices through metal like butter. It is so heavy, and travels over 1500-2000 meters a second with the L55 smoothbore cannon. Insane. Back to the world. I love that you are building it from Scratch. Star Wars forever... Love it. Regards from Denmark..
I was just sitting here taping stencils to styrene for my Atlas when I found your new post. YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF!! THAT CRUISER IS A THING OF BEAUTY!! FANTASTIC JOB ON THE GREEBLIES!!. I think the idea of a space station would be a good project or even a drydock for the ships. VERY COOL YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE!!
Oh that would rock. A space dock (with or without a ship in it) sounds really fricken' cool!! I nominate this as a suggestion for your next large build.
This was EPIC! I love scratchbuilt ships like this and you sir are a master of the styrene. Not only did you create and build this gorgeous spaceship, but you went to the trouble to prototype it and the make templates for your fans to build as well. Thank you! 🙏🏻
Fantastic build. My suggestion for future builds is space pirates or raiders. The paint job with teeth felt like a good step into that sort of aesthetic.
Your videos have been incredibly helpful for me. Thanks to them I was able to build and finished An E- wing following your example . Plus a large world devastator and a custom space gunship. Thanks so much for your hard work.
I actually made it couple few years ago to have as a fun prop (and not intending it to be a sketchbook), and when I realized that I needed a place to draw in it was right there waiting for me
Its always a good day for sublight drive. I would love to see you pick a starship theme and make 3 ships in the same "universe" but different scales. Like a cruiser, a frigate and a corvette ( or a tug maybe?) All in the same design concept. As always beautiful work.
Wow. Just wow.... A casually found your video through my TH-cam feed. I do Warhammer 40k but nothing of planes, spaceships or boats. So, being totally new to this side of modelism, this is amazing! I love the design, that subtle mix of Halo and Star Wars! And the amount of work for all the plastic card cutting then kitbashing all the tiny parts, sculpting every panel. I am 10 000% impressed. The final result is mind-blowing! I'll have a tour into your TH-cam channel, I might have developped a new hobby passion 😅
What a quite beautiful and impressive spaceship, a masterpiece. It's looks much better than the spaceships from many movies. I love it. I want to see it in a movie. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
RE aztecing: hue shifting might help there in the future. Assuming an individual project allows for it, a cool grey paired with a warm grey would really boost the contrast.
Also, when painting two very similar colors close to one another like here I have found adding a drop or three of a contrasting color, like light blue, bright white or even a light sand really helps distinguish the colors.
I've been working on my scratch building skills. This video gives me inspiration to keep at it. I have a diorama in the planning stages for my gunpla. I want to make a space colony. I'd love to see your take on a space colony
Just a tip for the application of the MEK (WeldON), get yourself a nail salon pushdown pump, then use which ever brush you like. Really stable, really easy to use and oh so quick, also save spills and evaporation. (Thanks to Geoff for the tip, best concept model maker i know).
It would have been awesome to have seen a side by side of this ship and your Atlas ones. Going forward, if you do build any more ships that are from the same lore base, it would be nice to see them all together to show of the scale.
I just happened upon Your Channel, IMPRESSIVE! Your work reminded Me of the time spent with a very good friend w-a-a-y back in time, Sam Tauser, I wonder what he is doing now?? This ship is much like what he enjoyed working on. Well We did our building on paper. I am very pleased to have watched this AND that You have offered it fo building, I will be looking into this. Thank You for reminding Me of some great times and looking forward to more. I have subscribed. Looking forward to more videos. Take Care, Be Safe, God Bless, Later
Excellent work as always. This one is super cool though! It would be cool to see your take on the ship on the cover of the book A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. It’s a sort of stingray shape and I’ve always loved it. Keep up the good work!
this is amazing and i learned some new bits, but i always find funny how people designing space ships never think of the fact that ship needs to stop and rotate, its not flying on air,so there is no surface controls,you need thrusters in the front or the sides that rotate lol. cool ship though lol
The split frontend on UNSC frigates is for the integrated MAC, or Magnetic/Mass Accelerator Cannon, you can see it in use in Halo: Reach where the Paris class Frigate Grafton fires on a covenant spire. They don't fire from the gap but I believe the gap is needed for heat dissipation, since the only frigate class that doesn't have a full size MAC doesn't have this pronged stern.
This process is so COOL! I've tried this once before making a scifi building, and one thing that I struggled with that I'm not noticing you having to deal with is styrene burs. Whenever I cut any styrene, there is always a bur on the edge that then shows up with painting, breaks my clean edges, etc. Watching you cut, the edges look so clean! What am I doing wrong, styrene-sensei?
Without actually seeing the cuts, I can only give general advice, but: Use a fresh sharp blade (I legit go through like 3 to 5 in a project) and don't twist the styrene as you snap it. The real answer though is probably just: sanding. Sand the edges to get rid of the break lines, sand the surface to get rid of a lip, sand where two pieces are joined to hide the seam. I have a bad habit of downplaying how much sanding I do cause it's boring and messy and sucks to film lol. Glad you like it tho! Your channel was one of my inspirations to start making my own content.
Beautifull work. dig this. It Evokes some of my favorite shapes. The Robocop gun. The Cantwell Millenium Falcon version. The Twin guns from the Black Hole. The ILM Stardestroyer... and so much more.
Great method, I just tend to...wing it, mostly. But one thing I learned, even if you just cut shapes and stick odd shaped boxes together, is to have an initial drawing or reference you're going for on hand, and make a VERY rough paper mockup. Even a box that's roughly the shape and size you're going for. Least I'm really bad for scale creep, and things get oversized WAY beyond what I was intending. Which is why/how I have a super heavy landing shuttle for my 40k inquisition army, and not a slightly larger tank.
Reminds me of a Dindrenzi Federation Scuta-class frigate from the old wargame Firestorm Armada by Spartan Games. Game has long been out of print but those ship designs are amazing.
I would align all my straight parts against each other. This means you have to cut one line less per panel. As well as waste material. Also if you make you templates more compact you will use way less styrene as well as paper
i'd classify this one as a light cruiser, the proportions suggest it's large but not dreadnought sized. but maybe i'm thinking too much in SW terms ;p nice build!
I've only just discovered your channel and I love it, I'm curious have you ever tried to add internal ELD lighting to one of these models? I'm guessing it might be tricky.
You could! It's a little extra work but it's more efficient in terms of saving on styrene. I have an ungodly amount of the stuff tho so I'm not super worried about it.
Fantastic! Just got a couple of the templates and looking forward to start building :-) Have you thought about building something Chris Foss style? Or painting one of your own designs in that way?
It's so refreshing to see someone build something by hand without resorting to 3D printing 👍
You are 500% right, my friend. That made the ship highly detailed and realistic. It's looking like updated Sulaco from Aliens but even much better.
I came to say that. I fear that this will be an art consigned to history with the advent of 3d printing. Im bad at scratch building, but im happy that people can do it well. As an old man its my right to yell at the clouds and bemoan modern fangled technology!
Agreed, that's borderline cheating imo. Not everyone has a 3D printer.
3d printing isn't a low skill thing, you still have to design and then model whatever you're making, and then cleaning your prints and painting it is also something you need to have skill in.
@rudolfthecat1176 even the printing part has its own challenges, like the orientation, support placement, detail vs print time, if you split the model or not, etc
I know the big ones take damn long, and you are getting tired of it just before its ready for paint, but when they are DONE....well worth all the time!
lol you're telling me, I made TWO of the damn things (4 if you count the prototypes). All worth it to see them finished though
@@Sublight_Drive Very worth it!
Casual flex of the clearly handmade Destiny sketchbook
the U.N.S.C called, they want their frigate back.
awesome ship design!
Hey I stole that frigate fair and square
@@Sublight_Drive as the crew of the Rocinante put it "it's a legitimate salvage"
@@Sublight_Drive is this the ship the rebels stole from dry dock in Halo Reach?
I actually like how the slightly darker bottom looks. It has always made very little sense to me to see Sci-Fi ships just blatantly nosediving into the atmosphere, so the darker bottom would indicated that they can enter the atmosphere in a way that puts a larger, flat area in the way, and tells a lot more about the flight profile of the vehicle. Love the design!
Crazy wizardry from start to finish
I really liked your presentation style. Post edit narration. The camera never moves. Everything’s in focus. The music isn’t overpowering.
The model is great, too. Original design, dynamic detailing. Well done!
With all these awesome spaceship builds. You need to pick up A Billion Suns!
Excellent build sir, very UNSC, I can totally see that arriving at Reach just in time to see it get glassed 👍
A tungsten carbide pen. We use wolfram carbide, which probably are of the same sort with our Leopard 2A7DK. APFSDS-T ammo that slices through metal like butter. It is so heavy, and travels over 1500-2000 meters a second with the L55 smoothbore cannon. Insane. Back to the world. I love that you are building it from Scratch. Star Wars forever... Love it. Regards from Denmark..
I love the music you chose for this video 👍
I was just sitting here taping stencils to styrene for my Atlas when I found your new post. YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF!! THAT CRUISER IS A THING OF BEAUTY!! FANTASTIC JOB ON THE GREEBLIES!!. I think the idea of a space station would be a good project or even a drydock for the ships. VERY COOL YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE!!
Oh that would rock. A space dock (with or without a ship in it) sounds really fricken' cool!! I nominate this as a suggestion for your next large build.
The ship also reminds me a lot of the USS Sulaco from Aliens. Keep up the awesome work!
This was one of the greatest modelling videos I have ever seen! The ship came out amazing!
Yep. You're 110%. It's looks much better than the spaceships from many movies.
This was EPIC! I love scratchbuilt ships like this and you sir are a master of the styrene. Not only did you create and build this gorgeous spaceship, but you went to the trouble to prototype it and the make templates for your fans to build as well. Thank you! 🙏🏻
I like the one with a shark face it looks like a pirate crew steal and modify it
This is fantastic fella. Really cool design - I'm a big fan of the twin prow too.
Outstanding as usual, expected nothing less. Looks very "universe" appropriate. Thanks for sharing your hard work and talents again!
Awesome! 🔥🔥🔥 Now you just need a big old space station for your ships to dock at!
That takes me back a bit - loved the design build and paint- High Yield Nostalgia Warhead!
gorgeous build 👍 Like a star destroyer and the Sulaco had a baby.
Fantastic build. My suggestion for future builds is space pirates or raiders. The paint job with teeth felt like a good step into that sort of aesthetic.
Very very nice again. I love you're ability to make realistic sci-fi paneling for space ships.
Your videos have been incredibly helpful for me. Thanks to them I was able to build and finished
An E- wing following your example . Plus a large world devastator and a custom space gunship. Thanks so much for your hard work.
Great Build, Your panels and detailing is fantastic.Great job!
The metal squares from Hobby Lobby are excellent for cutting guides.
You have no idea how much I needed to see this
Outstanding as your others projects, doing such a big starship, expecialliy the paneling & detailing, is an arrowing job !
Awesome! You could flatten one side wing and place the command tower to one side to create a carrier out of the model!
I’m always blown away by your creations!!!!! Looks amazing 😊😊😊
One of my favourite channels. Gonna be buying this guide and gonna be building this bad boy soon
I love the Festival of Lost notebook!
I actually made it couple few years ago to have as a fun prop (and not intending it to be a sketchbook), and when I realized that I needed a place to draw in it was right there waiting for me
Really cool build. I can't wait to tackle one of these for myself.
Holy Molly Guacamolee, that's a really cool work =)
Awesome. Thx for the Templates i must buy one 😛
Its always a good day for sublight drive.
I would love to see you pick a starship theme and make 3 ships in the same "universe" but different scales. Like a cruiser, a frigate and a corvette ( or a tug maybe?) All in the same design concept.
As always beautiful work.
It would be really cool to see you build something from Space: Above and Beyond
Wow. Just wow....
A casually found your video through my TH-cam feed. I do Warhammer 40k but nothing of planes, spaceships or boats. So, being totally new to this side of modelism, this is amazing!
I love the design, that subtle mix of Halo and Star Wars! And the amount of work for all the plastic card cutting then kitbashing all the tiny parts, sculpting every panel. I am 10 000% impressed. The final result is mind-blowing!
I'll have a tour into your TH-cam channel, I might have developped a new hobby passion 😅
This is badass. Learnt a lot!
What a quite beautiful and impressive spaceship, a masterpiece. It's looks much better than the spaceships from many movies. I love it. I want to see it in a movie. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
RE aztecing: hue shifting might help there in the future. Assuming an individual project allows for it, a cool grey paired with a warm grey would really boost the contrast.
Also, when painting two very similar colors close to one another like here I have found adding a drop or three of a contrasting color, like light blue, bright white or even a light sand really helps distinguish the colors.
that looks absolutely awesome!! Fantastic job!
Nicely done ! 😎
I absolutely admire your work, passion, skillz.
I've been working on my scratch building skills. This video gives me inspiration to keep at it. I have a diorama in the planning stages for my gunpla. I want to make a space colony. I'd love to see your take on a space colony
Very cool. Not my type of craft but very impressive to watch the technique.
Dude. I've wanted to try styrene sheet building and here you are. Easiest sub ever.
Sweet! It’s a great hobby, I’m always glad to see more people picking it up.
always enjoy watching you work! Love your designs! not sure how to show you my work here!
Great job!
How about a mix of ST and SW?
Just a tip for the application of the MEK (WeldON), get yourself a nail salon pushdown pump, then use which ever brush you like. Really stable, really easy to use and oh so quick, also save spills and evaporation.
(Thanks to Geoff for the tip, best concept model maker i know).
Very cool, great vid!!!!!!!
It would have been awesome to have seen a side by side of this ship and your Atlas ones. Going forward, if you do build any more ships that are from the same lore base, it would be nice to see them all together to show of the scale.
I’ll have to do that! I haven’t taken a family photo of all of them together, but I ought to now that you mention it.
Looks fantastic. Well done
Thank you very much for doing this. I bought the plans and look forward to building it
This is amazing! I've been looking for solid, practical tutorials on working with styrene. I'm making a death star trench run
A beautifully designed and made ship.
I'm a wannabe scratch builder. I have some Evergreen odds and ends. May just have to get a pack of sheets too...
Great job. Anyone could attempt this and wind up with interesting results. Nice build and paint work!
Ok, i do have to say that was really cool
Super detailed! Thanks for sharing this one with us.
I just happened upon Your Channel, IMPRESSIVE! Your work reminded Me of the time spent with a very good friend w-a-a-y back in time, Sam Tauser, I wonder what he is doing now?? This ship is much like what he enjoyed working on. Well We did our building on paper. I am very pleased to have watched this AND that You have offered it fo building, I will be looking into this. Thank You for reminding Me of some great times and looking forward to more. I have subscribed. Looking forward to more videos. Take Care, Be Safe, God Bless, Later
Excellent work as always. This one is super cool though! It would be cool to see your take on the ship on the cover of the book A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. It’s a sort of stingray shape and I’ve always loved it. Keep up the good work!
That thing is wild, I might have to give it a try one of these days. All the more reason to finally get a vacuforming rig lol
I have just found your channel and it awesome. Thank you creating this channel.
You did an amazing job. Everything is perfect ✨✨
this is cool as hell man. amazing work
Not sure if you’ve seen much of Jake Parker’s work, but I think it could be right up your alley!
I have! His stuff could be fun to kitbash, I think.
this is amazing and i learned some new bits, but i always find funny how people designing space ships never think of the fact that ship needs to stop and rotate, its not flying on air,so there is no surface controls,you need thrusters in the front or the sides that rotate lol.
cool ship though lol
stunning, great step by step, thhank you
Very impressive work. Instant subscribe
Solid sci-fi build, bruh!!
The split frontend on UNSC frigates is for the integrated MAC, or Magnetic/Mass Accelerator Cannon, you can see it in use in Halo: Reach where the Paris class Frigate Grafton fires on a covenant spire. They don't fire from the gap but I believe the gap is needed for heat dissipation, since the only frigate class that doesn't have a full size MAC doesn't have this pronged stern.
Brilliant work!
Love your videos... Great work!
lovely build and great instruction. really nice work!
What a nice creation.
Well done awesome.
Very nice ❤ impressive work 🎉
Oeh...very nice, like it!
Really great as usual!
This process is so COOL! I've tried this once before making a scifi building, and one thing that I struggled with that I'm not noticing you having to deal with is styrene burs. Whenever I cut any styrene, there is always a bur on the edge that then shows up with painting, breaks my clean edges, etc. Watching you cut, the edges look so clean! What am I doing wrong, styrene-sensei?
Without actually seeing the cuts, I can only give general advice, but: Use a fresh sharp blade (I legit go through like 3 to 5 in a project) and don't twist the styrene as you snap it.
The real answer though is probably just: sanding. Sand the edges to get rid of the break lines, sand the surface to get rid of a lip, sand where two pieces are joined to hide the seam. I have a bad habit of downplaying how much sanding I do cause it's boring and messy and sucks to film lol.
Glad you like it tho! Your channel was one of my inspirations to start making my own content.
Reminds me of the SULACO. Nice.
Beautifull work. dig this.
It Evokes some of my favorite shapes.
The Robocop gun.
The Cantwell Millenium Falcon version.
The Twin guns from the Black Hole.
The ILM Stardestroyer...
and so much more.
those are all good shapes
really impressive!!
Awesome build!! This video provides a ton of inspiration🙂
Thank you! I always want to inspire others to make cool stuff.
Fantastic work mate. I would ask to maybe write or link the tracks you use in the videos. The music is great vibes.
Great method, I just tend to...wing it, mostly. But one thing I learned, even if you just cut shapes and stick odd shaped boxes together, is to have an initial drawing or reference you're going for on hand, and make a VERY rough paper mockup. Even a box that's roughly the shape and size you're going for. Least I'm really bad for scale creep, and things get oversized WAY beyond what I was intending.
Which is why/how I have a super heavy landing shuttle for my 40k inquisition army, and not a slightly larger tank.
amazing
what about a ring style station large enough for the Kestrose and similar sized classes of ships to dock at?
that would be rad, I haven't tried making a space station before
Excellent work!
Awesome Build!
Excellent details!
I should get one of those machinist scribes
Reminds me of a Dindrenzi Federation Scuta-class frigate from the old wargame Firestorm Armada by Spartan Games. Game has long been out of print but those ship designs are amazing.
Firestorm Armada does have some rad ships
Bonjour merci pour cette vidéo. Un travail magnifique. Cordialement. Pg
I would align all my straight parts against each other. This means you have to cut one line less per panel. As well as waste material. Also if you make you templates more compact you will use way less styrene as well as paper
i like it a lot
i'd classify this one as a light cruiser, the proportions suggest it's large but not dreadnought sized. but maybe i'm thinking too much in SW terms ;p nice build!
I've only just discovered your channel and I love it, I'm curious have you ever tried to add internal ELD lighting to one of these models? I'm guessing it might be tricky.
This is awesome
This is great!
Could you save some cuts by lining up some cut edges with others and but the pieces together if you know what I mean?
You could! It's a little extra work but it's more efficient in terms of saving on styrene. I have an ungodly amount of the stuff tho so I'm not super worried about it.
Fantastic! Just got a couple of the templates and looking forward to start building :-) Have you thought about building something Chris Foss style? Or painting one of your own designs in that way?