This model was started around the same time as the "Sony" model. It is so close to being finished I don't know why I didn't just complete it. I think it was because I couldn't think how to resolve the front command section that I just sort of abandoned it. I find I often had difficulty coming up with a suitable front section for my spaceship models, changing them a number of times on various models, I'm not sure why. This round shaped front section was a stand from an Airbus plastic kit with a plastic tablespoon measure glued on top. The section behind that was part of the front from one of the earliest models I made, which again I didn't end up liking. It is actually solid carved Jelutong wood, a once very popular pattern making rainforest timber. It was actually the front of this model before I decided to hack the very front extremity off and add the rounded shape now attached.
The engine Bells are two more of the same ribbed acrylic cups with two plastic tap handles glued on as nozzles.
The ribbed central section sides were a cheap Styrene plastic lampshade. Behind those are two halves of a plastic blender cut on the bandsaw.
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| Underside. |
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| Topside. |
The shape below the command section is a 1/25 scale Le Mans racing car kit.
Below you can quite easily make out the Blender jug shape on its side.
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| "the Blender" |
Inside the plastic tap handle nozzles are a couple of Short Sunderland kit engine cowlings.
I have some new ideas about finishing this... one day.
The model length is 930mm
The story of this model continues here
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