USS Sulaco / Aliens

Hi Jan!
So many people had build the tiny dropship! perhaps you can show your finished parts of the Sulaco with the dropship as size reference??? PLEASE:rolleyes: That will be really great for us (I think so)

BTW: I love again your texture work:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

Greetings
Marko
 
For structural strength, I plan to use a lot of 1mm card to re-inforce each block to form a very strong and rigid infrastructure.

Looking at the way the model is constructed (the inner blocks - which form double-layer ribs where glued together - with the layers of the outer hull glued to them) I don`t think that this is necessary. I guess it will be a very strong model at the end without any additional reinforcements.
 
a few pics of the dropship and finished parts...:mrgreen:

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a top of the skyscraper :mrgreen::wave:

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and one stylized for the D-WHALE:twisted:

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You win the respect of your peers, and an all-expense paid tour of the "Holiday Home For Pets Meat Pie Company" :)

Seriously, that model is amazing. It may be tiny in stature, but it is huge, as accomplishments go. Well done.
 
after long time i have some new progress:mrgreen:
the "cargo"hangar section is finished:thumb:..
and here are some pics of the whole thing:twisted:

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same angle...without flash

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from behind...
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and some detail...:twisted:

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..plastical detail..:rolleyes:

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and one with the old known dropship :twisted:

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..more soon.....sign1
 
[polite quiet british voice]...and here we see the young offspring has suckled onto the mother ship, a precious moment indeed...[/polite quiet british voice]

Open the dropship bay doors Bishop!

I'm afraid I can't do that, Ripley...