Moebius Nu-Galactica finished with lighting, Acreation decals, Paragrafix PE & Admiralty Turrets...

[wm_cheng]

Finally finished the Nu-Galactica - not the greatest of kits (I've been spoiled with Japanese kits that just goes together!). Lots of huge gaps, internal sprue gates to cut off and shaved an entire deck off the nose and ground away so much plastic just to the head to align correctly with the body. The Admiralty turret guns were a highlight to use, but the string of dollar store LED lights were too dim to see in the daylight (you get what you paid for) afterwards. The Acreation Models decal set were great and added a lot of depth to the ribbed areas, however there was a variation in darkness between the 3 sheets and lots of areas were left missing without decals - I had to scrounge up and not use decal that where in hard to see places to piece up missing decals in more hero areas.  There were hundreds of ribs to cut out individually that my neck is so sore now from the days/weeks I spent hunched over in my magnifying glasses cutting and applying the decal strips.  Funny, I always had this deep metallic finish in mind when I first watched the show, and the model turned out similar to what I had in mind, but upon reviewing the references now afterwards, its much more matte and bluish grey. I did do an overall dry-brushing of bluish grey filter and hand painted matte clearcoat between the ribs over the decals and spot matte/flat coated the paneling to create more variation in the sheen especially when viewed from certain angles.

[phantom]

Oh, thats just excellent, Have to light up space ships!

[Lost_Erik]

Awesome!👍

[spejic]

That is extremely impressive. I love all the little details you added, particularly inside the landing bays.

 

It looks like you didn't do any light blocking internally - was the exterior paint sufficient for all that? Did you do a particularly heavy black primer?

[southwestforests]

That build came together well. Have always liked the shape of that ship.

[MattP]

Once again, I bow to the Master...