Finished Projects

Have a look here to see finished projects with links to their respective work in progress posts. I'll add new projects as they get finished and add photo's when I find them. I'll also try to keep it in chronological order.

Note: Cast parts refers to parts I made, then molded and cast, an especially useful technique when needing multiples of the same part.

Chernovan Tank from Warhawk Video Game (PS4)

I guess this is my first scratch built model using papercraft plans and stills taken from the game. Would still like to do a final paint job on this. Roughly 1/35 scale. All scratch built from styrene, cast parts and brass. The tank track are from a model tank kit.

William Underwood (re-named the Krista B) scratch built wooden model boat.

I found the plans and instructions for this in a great book called "Boat Modeling the Easy Way by Harold Payson". Built from various types of wood, some styrene and found parts. Only a few parts like the blocks and the prop are store bought.

YT-1000 Corellian Freighter. From the Star Wars universe. A lengthy build, 16 months I think. Again scratch built from styrene, cast parts and model kit parts for all the greebles. 

MAKO from the Mass Effect Video game (X-Box). Another scratch built, mostly styrene, cast parts and some 3D printed parts.

Rey's Speeder from Star Wars The Force Awakens.

Probably one of my fastest builds. 

More to come....

Models

Here are just some of the models I've built over the past few years.


I used to own this truck back in Regina, it's a 1946 Chevrolet 3/4 ton that I bought for $500. The farmer and I were trying to get it started but without any luck. Suddenly the engine ran for about 5 seconds then quit. It was enough time for me to know that it would live. I spent several months rebuilding the carburetor and brakes. The first time I drove it the stick shift came out of the floor, and I almost hit a small compact car. Anyway I finally got all the bugs out and drove it for several years. 

A few years ago I bought a model kit of the same truck and modified it to look like my old truck. I cut the running boards and built a box and hoist to match the real truck.

The same truck was used during World War II in the deserts of Africa under the name LRDG or Long Range Desert Group. I ordered a model of that vehicle, built it and added some extra details.

When I built my model tank I used the video game of course as reference, taking photo's off my TV.

I would use one of the airplanes in the game to flip the tank over onto it's side or upside down to get a good view.

I finished the model a few years ago but never got around to finish the paint job to make it grimy.

Introduction

Hi, my name is Gattaca. Since I was small I've loved Science Fiction movies and Sci-Fi art books. 

I grew up watching Star Trek, Space 1999 and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. One of the aspects of these and many other shows and movies was my fascination with the space ships and the sets. 

In 1977 my family went to see Star Wars, my younger brother and I were blown away. I remember seeing a TV documentary on the making of Star Wars shortly after the movie came out and was amazed at how it was all done. Later my brother and I made some Y-wing bombers out of toilet paper rolls and set about to re-create the trench run.
I've always collected sci-fi books and movies, but model making was not really on my radar until I moved away with my wife. We had sold our house where, in my garage, I was more into fixing up my MGB and building a race car for the local track.

I started out with a 1977 and a 1980 Firebird.

Safety first!

The roll cage was a kit but it was only half of what was needed. I had to build the rest. 

The finished car at the track. I painted it based on a colour scheme used by Dale Earnhardt.

In late 2003 I quit my job and moved to another city in another part of the country. We could not afford a house right away and I needed to keep busy with some kind of hobby, so I started building models on the kitchen table of our apartment. A couple years later we bought a condo and I built this little work area in the den.

At first it was model warplane kits but I found I needed a bigger challenge.










I found some plans for a model ship and set about to build it. It's my first and so far only attempt at scratch building a model like this. It took me almost a year of off and on building. I never did much building in the summer so I didn't get much done during those months.

Then later a scratch built model Tank from a PS3 video game I used to play called Warhawk.












A major project I completed is my YT-1000. It's an ambitious scratch build of a precursor to the YT-1300 line of Corellian Freighters, a model line of which the famous Millennium Falcon belongs to. Please visit the build sections of this project. Here are some photo's of the nearly completed model.

The top view.

 Bottom view.

And a side view.














I started this Blog to share my projects with my friends and family, and anyone else that has an interest in the kinds of things I'm doing. I've been inspired by the work of so many others that I thought I'd pass on my experiences and knowledge in hopes that someone will get excited and build stuff too.






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