A couple of you have inquired about my scratch CVE
here so I put together another one (and took notes
) as requested
. I have placed links in places where I wasnt sure if everyone would understand exactly what I'm talking about as I'm sure a lot of us use different terms for these.
The Basis
The basis for this build lays in a pile of these little things that got mixed in with some escorts I was painting for BFG. Shown in the picture are a
Coaxial F connector and
screw anchor both readily available cheaply from hardware stores, walmart, radio shack, etc... The ones I have used are for RG-6 cable and the screw anchor is about 5-6mm in width, I sourced mine of course from my work tote
.
As you can see here I have pushed the anchor into the base of the connector to form the main engine, this is where the size of your connector matters as an RG-59 connector accepts a slightly smaller cable which makes fitting the anchor in a bit of a pain. I place a small bit of superglue on the anchor before placing it in, its a tight fit and probably is not needed but why skimp!
In these pictures you can see I cut some auxiliary engines out of dowel, not pictured is a third piece that was placed inside the hole for a screw in the anchor. Once this was completed I drilled the hole for the base about midway up the connector.
The Bits
Here you can see I clipped a piece of sprue for the bridge.
The bridge attached, along with a small antenna from the Imperial cruiser sprue, a small hole was drilled to the size of the antenna but I couldn't get a good shot of it due to the small size.
Here you can see the gun mounted to the prow, I wanted a very small gun for these as is on the
GW transport model and after several failed attempts at creating one I decided to cut one off of the weapon battery of a Chaos cruiser.
The launch bays are from the Imperial cruiser sprue, but have been shortened by removing a section from the center and then shaved by first removing about 2mm (to the first line as you look at the inside of the piece) then carefully carving a curve into the front and back pieces
The lower ?fin? (because everyone knows spaceships need fins!) for the bottom of the ship was cut from a piece of box and then shaped to fit the contour of the engines and hull.
Lastly the cargo door at the front is a trimmed down bit of
zip tie.
Everything was assembled and the gaps were filled using Milliput.
The finished product
Other than a little bit of cleanup on the putty were ready for paint on this one!
