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

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Yes, this is wonderfully creative !!
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Phase Three...

What a surprise! Another egg! With a monocle!
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Center-line ring...
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It's the Ivory Snitch from that movie... what's it called again...
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Ah yes... "Luke Potter and the Prisoner of Alderaan"...

Man, I loved that movie... especially when Gandalf told Luke; "You're a wizard, Luke..." and then cut off his hand with a free-range Bat'leth...

More sooooon!

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Great Eggs-wing fighter :grin:
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Aaaaand we're back! With a vengeance!

Building up wing-stubs...
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Trimming off wing stubs...
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Making wings by figuring out clever angles and stuff...
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...and before you're all well and done, it all goes pear-shaped. Or egg-shaped...
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The wings get greebled up...
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...and before you know it, it's ready for paint.
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More soooooon!

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Back from the time warp, I see .... Looks good !
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Paint time!

Primer...
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Pre-shade...
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Main colours... a mix of Goose Gray and Duck Egg Green for the T'egg-Fighter, Some Light Gray and Radome Tan for the Eggs-Wing...
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Hand-painted details and stuff...
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Next up; putting it all together on a stand!

And I have a cunning planning, involving an LED, a bit of clear sprue, some clear red paint and a few batteries...
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More soooooon!

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Inspired scratchbuilding under egg-stenuating circumstances.....
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Woohoo! Just those pesky final bits to do! Like a lighted stand... and stuff... because we like a challenge!

A box for the various electrical gubbins made from lots and lots of discs of 2mm styrene. I made the walls of the box by laminating three layers of 0.5mm styrene strip around a tube.
I made a clever lid by stacking various discs and cut-outs of 2mm styrene as well.
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The lid got stuck to the bottom of the original stand I made...
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More discs and rings made up a hollow foot for under the box. I stuffed it with discs of roofing lead I "liberated" at work... In total it made the stand weigh about 130 grams...
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One of the lead discs needed a little channel cut out...
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To make room for a bit of copper wire. Part one of the light switch...
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Part one of the switch on the weighted base, the two terminals made in the same way sticking out of the bottom of the box...
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Twist the base, and the copper wire in the weighted foot bridges the two terminals in the box. Easy-peasy...
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Font found on the interwebs... Printed out and stuck to a thin sheet of styrene...
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A lot of painstaking cutting out later...
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Stuck on and ready for paint...
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The base painted Gun Metal Black with a dry-brush of Bright Brass and a coat of Klear. Just put it all together to get a feel for it...
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And it feels like... something is missing...

But what?

Hmmm...
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NO DROID! We're droidless!! And I personally find my lack of droids disturbing...
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Stacking styrene scraps on the end of a bit of tube...
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Powertool + sanding stick = WIN!
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Leg!
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More legs!
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Greebled up and painted...

"Aren't you a little short for an Astromech Droid?"

*beeble-greep TWEET pweet WOOT!!*

"Now that's just RUDE!! besides, not really sure you can do that with a photonic power outlet without serious injury... oh, you mean that's the point..."
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Just for that, you're getting a grappling hook... *Weeble..?*
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*Breeeeeee-iiioooowwww!!*
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DONE!
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Thanks all of ya'll for watching, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did!

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"I have you now..."
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Bravo! What a build! Eggcellant work Sir!
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Great fun from start to finish!
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Eggs-ellent, and that's no yolk!
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Always nice to see something a little different.
I wish, that I knew what was doing!
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Brilliant! :grin:
So many models, so little time.
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Wonderful !!! I so wish I had a 10th that creativity !
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