U.S.S Cygnus 1/700 scale… a study in insanity

[Engage]

That is beautiful. I wish I could build one of those in 1/350. Is the STL for sale?

 

[mrchester]

That is beautiful. I wish I could build one of those in 1/350. Is the STL for sale?

Greetings, thanks. Um, STL?

 

[mrchester]

On a quick side note. I failed to see this MPC Cygnus offering at Modelpalooza this year. The venue was set up to where the ‘Display Only’ models were at the front wall. It must have shown up late on Saturday morning and I never went by that table but once. I lifted the pictures from a YouTube video. The funny thing is that this one has one too many sections in the center. Wished I could’ve talked to the model’s owner about that. I’ll try to do better next year.

 

[mrchester]

Wow! I’ll definitely be exploring that.

I’ve reached out to this guy about his Palomino work… even if it doesn’t pan out for the smaller scale, thanks for the info.

 

[mrchester]

Thanks for the kind words and the Palomino pictures. I grew up in Orlando and my wife worked for Disney the first 11 years of our marriage. We made one trip to the studio park but had to leave early because of a prior commitment. I find out decades later that the Black Hole hero models (except Cygnus) were on display out there. I was annoyed about that. The pictures will help when I build my big Palomino. I’ll find the scale but I think it’s 1/196 scale. It was sold at Kremmen’s shop at the former Shapeways. This is the guy who is the guy who helped with Primitive Dave develope Cygnus.View attachment 1875553View attachment 1875554View attachment 1875555

This Palomino is 1/192 scale.

 

[mrchester]

While I have stalled out on remaking the power box, I have made a couple of acquisitions. There is a vendor on ETSY who specializes in SciFi Helmets. He offered a Black Hole Sentry Robot helmet, pre finished. Couldn’t pass that up.

 

[mrchester]

Well, well, well (to quote Bill Cipher), I had mentioned this Cygnus back in the day on my MPC Cygnus thread because I liked the way it ‘popped’ out at you. It seems this guy is still making them (on and off). I bought his most recent one. I know my limitations when painting things and the MPC version is a big one…why do you think I spent all that time mentioned earlier in that thread trying to do what I did. Model looks good for the shelf but I think I’m going to tweak some of the body work.