That's no egg... that's a space station!

[Rob1970]

It's that time of the year again! The Annual Easter Egg Hunt! (at another forum, but meh... I like to share my wackiness...)
Last year I did a scratchbuild AT-ST with an eggy twist, this year I'd thought I'd stick to the theme.


Aaaand we're off! And like any egg that's off... you need to clean them!



Begone, foul spots! Only took a bit of scrubbing with a sponge and some nailpolish remover... Groovy...


Speaking of groovy... this thing needs a trench. How can you have a trench-run without a trench?

So we sacrifice one egg to make a guide to draw some parallel lines...


Sorted!


Two halves make a whole...


One half -gets- a hole...


...aaaand the hole gets another half...


CA-glue, some kicker, a sanding stick and a little elbow-grease later we have a massive planet-killing laser cannon dish thingy!


And now we start working on making those halves whole again...


Cutting more discs... and holes in the discs...


Each half gets a disc...


Another disc to separate the two halves...


And we have a whole(ish) egg again...


One egg gets sacrificed so I can draw parallel lines on another egg... That's number 3...




And we cut the egg to pieces...


...and we glue all the pieces to the first egg...


Halfway there...


More soooooon!

Rob

[JamesPerrin]

Brilliant idea! It's going to look cracking!

[PaulBradley]

Egg-cellent idea.....

[SJPONeill]

Watch all the yolkers come out of the woodwork now...

[Gregers]

Great idea, Maybe it's one we should do next easter?.
Not doing egg yolks, I'm too chicken and you'd see white through them,

All the best.

Greg

[MarkyM607]

Attacking that thing would be a huge whisk!.

[Rob1970]

Great idea, Maybe it's one we should do next easter?.
Not doing egg yolks, I'm too chicken and you'd see white through them,

The puns! They're eggscruciating!

Progress!



Capped, with a stand from a left-over bit of shell, and ready for another round of plates...


This is going to take a while...


More sooooon!

Rob

[philp]

Looking good. Liking how this is coming together.

There was a resin Egg-Star a few years ago.
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/G ... on/00.shtm;
http://treswright.vervehosting.com/Page ... stoms.html;

Also found this one made with a real egg.
http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2 ... /13415050/;

[Rob1970]

All greebled up... (And yes, that's a word... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble )






Paint time! Grey primer first... (I ran out of egg-shell white...)


Pre-shade...


And covered in RLM 84, Light Grey and a dusting of Gunmetal Black Metallic. The effect is very subtle. Alas too sublte for a camera...


And a coat of Klear... Ready for a wash as soon as the it's dried thoroughly.


Next; working on the stand and preparing for Phase Two (Dun-dun Duuuunnnnn!)

More sooooon!

Rob

[Rob1970]

Time to take a stand! Or make a stand...

Printed out a line drawing of the Imperial logo and glued it to a piece of 0.25mm styrene with a paper-glue stick, then pierced each corner with a needle.


A nice fresh hobby blade and some cuts later...




I glued it to the bit of egg-base I was already using, just need to make a few cuts here and there to make the flat piece conform to the curved surface.


Filled in all the cuts with some CA-glue gave it all a bit of sanding...


A coat of primer, then a layer of Gunmetal Black Metalic, and a drybrush with Bright Brass... very shiny after a coat of Klear.


And tomorrow I hopefully get the stuff I need for Phase Two...

More sooooon!

Rob

[splash]

It looks like all the silly puns have been eggs-hausted.

That's a brillient piece of scratch building did you have to shell out much for the eggs?

Regards Splash

[Clashcityrocker]

What a great little project.

Nigel

[Rob1970]

Phase Two...

More eggs!!


Hmm... too small...


Better!


It needs a nose-job tho... Starting with a strip of 1.5x2mm styrene around the nose...


Creative clamping...


Building up the rim...


More styrene stock... until we have some mass to sand into shape...


And a lot (and I mean A LOT) of sanding to get it into shape...


Filled some holes with CA-glue, and the seams as well...


Can you see what it's going to be yet?


Some square tubing as a base for the canopy...


Front and rear...


Side one and two, one side trimmed up...


Time to do some framing...


All framed up...


And a hole for a loyal little Astromech...


Tomorrow we make some wings for this thing. How many? An x-number of wings perchance..?

More sooooon!

Rob

[Rob1970]

I AM CRACKING UNDER THE PRESSURE!!

Well, not really...

First, I made a template for the wing so I had an idea of the size and angles and stuff...


That gave me a sense of the size the engines should be. I started out by covering some tube with 1mm wide half-round strip of Evergreen. 8 strips in total, evenly spaced. Gotta love Evergreen...


...and then cut the resulting ribbed tube into engine sections...


I shaped the rear end and fitted a wider tube around the front end...


Made them all the same size and gave the rear of the engines a ring. Engines love rings...


Time to make some intakes. I started by closing off a bit of the larger size tube I already used on the other half of the engine.


Excess cut off and the whole thing sanded until it was round...


Cut to size, a hole drilled and reamed out so you get a nice intake shape. I attached it to the main body of the engine with a t-shaped bit of styrene.


The sticky-out bits of the T cut off and sanded smooth...


Repeat until cross-eyed and you have four engines. I greebled up the engines with some random panels too...


Back to the wing. After I cut out four wings using the template I made a second, slightly smaller template to make panels for on top of the wings.


I ended up with two tiny templates (numbered 1 and 2) and a spacer (marked X) to keep the space between the panels constant and a perfect fit for the engines. I marked the templates on some styrene and cut out enough panels to do the wings.


Panels fixed to the wings...


Laser cannons, from some stainless steel welding rod, half a ring of styrene tube...


Result!


Cannons fitted into some more tube glued to the wings...


And wings fitted to the hull...




And on to Phase Three...

More sooooon!

Rob

[Jagewa]

Bloody AWESOME!

Cracking work Rob, loving your solutions for scratch building, I was wondering how you were going to do the engine pods, and those guns are just genius.

Looks like you are hardly egg-stending your self here...