ID4 City Destroyers - Various Scales

[Prop-Builder]

Here's a tiny project that anyone can do at home. I'll start making here some tutorials on creating tiny 2 inch City Destroyers. I will be making a few dozen of these for fitting into my larger Mothership model (discussed in Mothership thread) and will be cast solid in resin.

UPDATE!

Ok, I have made some progress on the dome shape for the 2" Destroyer. I cut a small circle from a piece of sheet styrene and packed the rear side with clay, so that the clay was exposed from the front face. I then took hold of a large circular shaped stencil and rotated this around on its edge on top of the clay to scrape out the dome shape using the rim of the pre-cut 2" circle as a guide.

Next, I filled the crater left in the clay with plaster and, after pulling it from the clay mold, I then attached a thin circle of sheet styrene to the underside to reinforce the fragile plaster cast (edges were very thin) before creating a silicone mold. I was then able to do a pull from the silicone mold in resin for final clean up. This will gve me a neat little dome for the main section of the City Destroyer. I will then proceed to cut out the smaller crater section at the front of the ship and add the vertical wall part.

[moviecreature]

Can't wait to see your bigger models. ;D

[Prop-Builder]

I've started the template for doing the dome of a 25cm dia Destroyer. I can put pics up of that sometime within a week maybe.

[moviecreature]

I'll look out for it.

Are these going to be made solid or hollow?

[Prop-Builder]

They will be solid. I may make the 2.5 ft model hollow though.

[Fraggleman]

Are you going to put lights in the 2 and a half foot one? The film makers added tons of fibre-optics to their destroyer ships which took them weeks to complete.

You can purchase strands of optics online and just add a light source at one end. It's easy to change the colours too.