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Type A Free Trader cargo ship - 14cm long Medical flight Explorer Class scout - 12cm long 20T Ship's Gig / Lifeboat - 6cm long Information on prices and ordering here http://martins-models.co.uk/Sales/Traveller/travelle.htm Cheers Martin

Type H Hunter - 11cm long Chasing a Type S SAR training flight

I've recently produced a few 1/350 scale starship models based on designs from the roleplaying game Traveller. Here are a few pics of them... ( spread across several posts ) Type S 100T scout ship - 10cm long

Holy thread resurrection - someone just posted the pics of your finished model on Facebook !

Sorry - it was a freebie from back when I worked for the DWP

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Recipe.... Take a bag full of Christmas tree baubles, add the moulds for the fuel tanks of my Nuclear Rocket and a few other existing resin moulds.... |http://thumbsnap.com/zGYosXHo'>|http://thumbsnap.com/zGYosXHo Stir in a little inspiration in the form of..... |http://thumbsnap.com/y2r6NNtR'>|http://thumbsnap.com/y2r6NNtR ....throw in a quiet Saturday afternoon and evening, and a day later I have a new resin kit |http://thumbsnap.com/GixV2c7S'>|http://thumbsnap.com/GixV2c7S

H G Wells departing Earth orbit My 62cm resin replica of the old Project Sword Booster Rocket toy ( see build thread here http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234980924-nuclear-booster-rocket/ ) More pics to follow

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Started painting - not sure whether to go with the toy's grey/blue scheme or something more realistic

Incredible work !

Lotsa resin bits - not bad considering I only started making a sketch of the design last Saturday night !

More new resin bits fresh from the mould - core fuselage section, aft transition section, rocket engine, nose transition section/ I've made the centre section of the rocket modular to a) keep the size ( and cost ) of the mould down, and b ) it gives the option of building a short version with only one ring of tanks or a longer version with three or more rings of tanks

First fuel tank assembled - just another eleven to cast and glue together.... Fun while sanding some of the parts - sorry, couldn't resist, especially after seeing Blue Origin's new rocket.....

Glider now painted and decals applied Three more parts fresh from the moulds - reactor cooling fin section, drop-tank body and end cap Mould for core body section currently curing. Just need to make the conical front & rear transitions and the engine now

First set of glider parts from the moulds Assembled, and a test fitting of the docking collar which will mount to the nose of the main rocket

Lovely work !

Those of a certain age may remember the 'Project Sword' range of toys from the 1960s, which were loosely associated with Gerry Anderson. I had the one pictured below, which was based on a design from NASA's Ames Research Centre. The NASA version is mentioned here ( scroll down to near the bottom of the page ) http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php and was also the subject of this Ed Valigursky illustration in Arthur C Clarke's book 'Man and Space' Anyway, I have now started on a kit to resurrect the design - though at around 57cm long I think it will be larger than the original. While waiting for various sizes of plastic tube to be delivered, I made a start with the re-entry glider, which is a very simple delta-winged design. Moulds now taken from the above parts, and test shot curing. More later

Some new pics

And a day later, with a coat of paint and some decals on them.. Still need a coat of varnish to seal them, then time for some proper photos

A little light relief, with a couple of small and simple retro spaceships Here they are assembled

So you are the US Navy. Your F6D Fleet Defense Interceptor has just been cancelled, but you urgently need something to protect your fleet from air attack. You have the Eagle missiles and fire control from the cancelled program, and you have a number of F3D Skyknight airframes....... OK, the Skyknight can only carry two of the big missiles, but two is better than none.... F3D-3 |http://thumbsnap.com/9pRZIbTD |http://thumbsnap.com/bBF4BwjY |http://thumbsnap.com/9vDVxFvZ 1/72 Matchbox kit, with missiles from a YF-12A

And the X-24 version http://martins-models.co.uk/Sales/72/X24/X24.htm