Space Battleship Missouri, or whatever you want to call it.
- BlackSheep214
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And a decal at the nose of Moe from the Three Stooges fame. Call it Mighty Mo!
“Who controls the skies, controls the fate of this Earth”
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I've got a ton of spare decals. Hopefully I can find something "spacey". Im working on the superstructure pieces and guns. I'm rounding the turrets to make them more futuristic.
I was thinking of modifying the gun barrels but not sure right now.
I was thinking of modifying the gun barrels but not sure right now.
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Started on the superstructure on guns. The guns are not glued yet and I want to do a lot more to the super.
I'm thinking of converting the forward blisters into gun pods. Make hole, insert tube, sand tube even with pod, bingo, some sort of fusion pulse phaser or heavy sonic cannon. I think I need to raise the super firing B turret a little.
I'm thinking of converting the forward blisters into gun pods. Make hole, insert tube, sand tube even with pod, bingo, some sort of fusion pulse phaser or heavy sonic cannon. I think I need to raise the super firing B turret a little.
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Re: Space Battleship Missouri, or whatever you want to call
So good! This is is a wonderful project here and I am really learning a lot. Thank you so much for sharing. I bought a coffee and did a few sketches: thinking how the dazzle camo would look (top series), then starting to think you needed a combination logo of the name within an image of the solar system, finally thinking about the antenna superstructure (forgive my lack of proper nomenclature here) of the H.W. Bush.
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Well HW or W, can you say nuclear correctly LOL. They gave W such a hard time about that.
Cool camo scheme, yes, I was thinking along the lines of the North Carolina like you have there. I like the.....I guess it would be a sensor suite You have there. I am digging through the spares box and coming up with landing gear doors, panels and such to piece something together. Last night in my extremely limited time, I work about 14 hours a day between driving Lyft/Uber and my normal 8 hour job, I found and added a piece of circular sprue tree that fit perfectly on the "B" turret barbet to raise it up a tad I'm looking hard at the superstructure to see how I can make it more futuristic.
Cool camo scheme, yes, I was thinking along the lines of the North Carolina like you have there. I like the.....I guess it would be a sensor suite You have there. I am digging through the spares box and coming up with landing gear doors, panels and such to piece something together. Last night in my extremely limited time, I work about 14 hours a day between driving Lyft/Uber and my normal 8 hour job, I found and added a piece of circular sprue tree that fit perfectly on the "B" turret barbet to raise it up a tad I'm looking hard at the superstructure to see how I can make it more futuristic.
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Those are some long hours, Steve. You have my respect for doing what you do. This is one project where it is possible to be extremely flexible with details of cannons and sensors. Your work so far looks perfect to me. I am excited to see your progress going forward!!
Bruce / SPEEDGRAFLEX
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Steve this is crazy cool!!! Hats off to you bud. Wow!!!
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Thanks Mustang,
Some more work on the MO last night. I decided to make the forward blisters nutron pulse guns and the bow barrel a sonic wave gun. Of course sanding and filling is in order. I'm also going through the slow process of rounding all eight 5" gun turrets.
Some more work on the MO last night. I decided to make the forward blisters nutron pulse guns and the bow barrel a sonic wave gun. Of course sanding and filling is in order. I'm also going through the slow process of rounding all eight 5" gun turrets.
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting the head off a Hydra, two more take it’s place.
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Brilliant man! What fantastic work so far!
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Thanks Mark, just about done adding stuff to it and finishing the guns. Then comes the final prep and then paint.
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