Good to see you training him early!
he likes airplanes and stuff thats easy and light to handle, scale model aircraft are about perfect for that.
but also
But Mr Tomcat, your models are so much easier on the eyes than mine...
Nice to see an update and it looks like you're overcoming the challenges with your typical elan.
Wow those 1/1 scale kids get big fast, don't they? Before you know it, he'll be clogging your airbrush. Now you know why I stick to 1/72 & smaller...
Brian da Basher
You are too kind! Have you thought about trying your typical fun backstories with a Science Fiction project? I can only imagine the backstory to a Klingon Garbage Hauler
Got to admit, when I was 1st looking at it, I thought this;
needed a similar nose to this;
https://p3d.in/QMOIN,
too.
Are thinking like with the Longer, angular Canopy and a under hung sensor?
That is some meta modelling right there. Not only whiffing the kits, but whiffing the instructions as well!
The questions is, of course, if you don't follow instructions on real-world kits, do you follow your whiffed instructions on your whiffed kits.
Theoritically I do
. My goal is to do lik AXOR does and have Profiles and models and have both informing the other. :) Maybe even some background or backstory, but the more I get caught up in that, the less building gets done, and the mroe indecisive the builds.
So in the Homeworld Art book the Designers mentioned that the Taiidan have ships of 3 Sections (kind of like Insects I guess) So I used a Profile from Willy Peeters and the lovely DACO book and did a quick demo:
Forward section line is roughly where a lot of Tomcat Models have their subsections. Another thing the Book mentioned is that the Taiidan paint their ships, in fact they paint them in snazzy stripes,
However their opposites, the Kushan paint Subsections, and then join them together:
with minimal paint afterward. So very helpful tips that will help get things right. Easier to paint whole sections and glue them on too when I decide to get a Kushan ship going. I might you a combination of both subsections, and painted sections for some of these Tomcats. But one thing is for certain, I need to get some painting done
Time to see some color
Lastly, I discovered the font that Homeworld uses Eurostile, and its a little detail that I overlooked that I really should not have. Trying to create a fusion of Space Fighter and Tomcat is kind of challenging, you want it to look like the original F-14,
but not too much like the original I think making some decals using these numbers and fonts will help create that futuristic Science fiction feel and as it turns out,Eurostile is
extremely common to science fiction:
https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/11/29/fontspots-eurostile/