TTA Avery Hornet Finished

sotoolslinger · Post by **sotoolslinger** » 2011-02-16 07:42pm

Mostly

My first true scratchbuild. How do y'all like it?

Thanas · Post by **Thanas** » 2011-02-16 08:47pm

I have to admit I do not know what TTA is.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2011-02-16 11:58pm

I don't know what it is either.. but it LOOKS awesome, judging by the picture in the background you did a VERY good job of following faithfully to the source material. Whatever it is.
Congrats Bra!!!

Kenny_10_Bellys · Post by **Kenny_10_Bellys** » 2011-02-17 05:29am

Now that is awesome, you've knocked it out the park. How the hell did you do the decals? Painted or printed and stuck on?

sotoolslinger · Post by **sotoolslinger** » 2011-02-17 09:39am

The Terran Trade Authority was a fictional organization created by Stewart Cowley in the late in the late '70's early '80's. He published 4 books under his own name. This one is from "Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD". They were basically coffee table books done along the lines of Janes military books. He took sci-fi artwork and made up a backstory for each spaceship incorporating the whole into a timeline of development.
I completely scratchbuilt this model as I just could not find the right shapes to kitbash her together. The stenciling and paint are a combo of paint and waterslide decals.
Here is the photobucket so you can see the buildup from start to finish.
http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50 ... %20Hornet/
I have one other ship from the book completed and am working on a third.
I am very glad y'all like her as I have wanted to build this for about 30 years.

erik_t · Post by **erik_t** » 2011-02-21 12:56am

Ooooh, very very fantastic work. I proudly have a copy of 2000-2100 on my bookshelf - just about the only scifi my (artist) grandmother ever had around. Lots of daydreaming these boats as a kid.

What's your other work, and what's #3 going to be?

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2011-02-21 02:19am

Sadly, my dog destroyed my copy of that same book, but hell yes, awesome job there.

sotoolslinger · Post by **sotoolslinger** » 2011-02-21 10:10am

Thanks y'all. I previously built the Alphan Stingray

I am currently working on the Proximan Shark

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2011-02-21 10:34pm

It's very colourful.

Honestly I find it very distracting, but the overall shape and design is pretty cool. I trust it's faithful to the book's depiction of it? I don't know anything at all about the source material.

sotoolslinger · Post by **sotoolslinger** » 2011-02-22 10:07am

It's pretty close to the original artwork. I took some liberties with the small details. There are only two views of the ship and they make use of forced perspective so the overall shape is as close as I could get it just eyeballin.
The markings are different in that I did not try to exactly duplicate what is in the painting. I got everything in the same places but I basically scavenged about 10-12 diferent decal sheets for the small bits.

Ryan Thunder · Post by **Ryan Thunder** » 2011-02-22 10:10am

Wait you modeled that from scratch? Man, that's hardcore. I've tried it before and I wish I could get results like that.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2011-02-22 03:42pm

That's pretty impressive. Keep it up!

sotoolslinger · Post by **sotoolslinger** » 2011-02-22 07:12pm

Thanks. Yep she is a total scratchbuild. The others are mostly scratched but use a larger percentage of model parts. The Proximan Shark also has the advantage of using 2 turkey basters

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