Author Topic: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!  (Read 3008 times)

Offline Faust

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A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« on: January 25, 2019, 07:27:53 AM »
Despite building them very rarely, I really do like space ships. On one hand, they really let  you use your imagination, since they’re not real. On the other, most ships of which there are kits are so famous that to paint them in other than their “accepted” schemes can often be considered akin to heresey! I’ve always wanted to build my “own” ship, with its own back story. However, I’m not up for that kind of scratchbuilding, so that left me high and dry.

That was until I came across the Wave kit of the Solvalou, a non-scale kit of the main fighter from the video game Xevious. Since I’m no gamer, and never was, I had no connection to the ship, nor did I have any preconceived notions about how it should look, scale or anything else. So, I finally had a chance to get imaginative!
I had great fun paying tribute to my two favourite books, the Usborne Book of the Future and the original TTA Book (Spacecraft 2000-2100AD) with this little model, which turned out to be a great kit!

Check out my personal addition to the TTA universe at the link below, and let me know what you think!

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/1-1500-cam-1228-p2-super-gunship-wave-non-scale-solvalou/



Offline Aeroplanedriver

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2019, 08:15:34 AM »
Beautiful!

Offline The Big Gimper

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2019, 08:44:19 AM »
Superb build! I would not not want anywhere near the CAM-1228-P2!
Work in progress ::

I am giving up listing them. They all end up on the shelf of procrastination anyways.

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Offline Antonio Sobral

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2019, 05:57:36 PM »
Great looking ship!


Offline Jeffry Fontaine

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2019, 12:43:23 AM »
Pretty sure Tiadan Tomcat will be glad to see this. 

Great looking model.
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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2019, 05:57:48 AM »
Pretty sure Tiadan Tomcat will be glad to see this. 

Great looking model.

Truer words were never posted. This is right up Mr Tomcat's alley.

Pure eye-candy all the way!

Brian da Basher

Offline tankmodeler

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2019, 11:38:24 PM »
Perfect ship for the Terran Trade Authority universe.

Bloody well done, mate.

Offline ed s

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2019, 12:09:47 AM »
Looks like a perfect fit in the TTA universe.

Offline Camthalion

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2019, 06:15:58 AM »
Looks great

Offline andonio64

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2019, 05:18:15 PM »
Great work Faust, I peeped into your website and saw the details of this great model.
Saved the pics for future reference!

Antonio

Offline Faust

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Re: A new ship for the TTA - The Super Gunship!
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2019, 09:01:34 AM »
Thanks guys!

I'm glad that everybody liked it. It was fun to build and is one of those rare cases where it turned out like I thought it would!