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Looking good Paul. Great job making it look used. I also liokie your attention to detail in the cockpit. If only my painting hand were as steady. Well done!

Thanks for your kind words. This dio originally started out at 2 feet long and i'd started it about 7 years ago. It was only last year I decided to make it into a proper battle scene and extended it considerable. It measures 6 ft long by 18" wide by 21 inches high - I had the perspex cover custom made to keep the snow all clean on the inside.

I finally put my rather large Battle of Hoth dio on show for the first time in last July at Modelmania 2009. It's still a work in progress but should be complete before the end of this year. Here's a photo I recently reeived that a friend shot...give it a bit of scale, shows the size of the thing....lol! (yup, that's my l'il head poppig up in the background) http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Scif...aniaresized.jpg

This fantastic kit, mastered by a Norwegian modeller called Lasse, is almost complete. It's bloody huge...and heavy. All resin, (and looking like an injected styrene kit the quality was so high) it came with a super detailed cockpit, I just had to add lighting to it...so I did. The 2 interior consoles have animated lighting via a series of 2mm miniature LED's. Frontal weapons, rear ion engines and low level interior cockpit lighting were also added. I still have to add some drybrushing to bring out the fantastic detail as wll as some washes...here's what it looks like so far: http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Scif...t=Vader7brs.jpg http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Scif...nt=Vader5rs.jpg http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Scif...t=Vader9ars.jpg http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Scif...nt=Vader2rs.jpg http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i64/Scif...t=Vader10rs.jpg

Now it's starting to look alive! well done, keep it up

I've been playing around with some words and photoshopped the stand away. This will look nice printed out large for a wall poster and framed up... [poat=100]

This build is more or less complete and just about to come off my workbench. I may add some wee paint chip effects and some silver drybrushing to a section wen I get the time. For now, it's on display in the house. Here's a few shots I took this morning.

Started paimnting and weathering this kit over the weekend. Only just attached the wings at midnight last night. Now to weather them up a bit, add alittle more here and there. Last thing will be to permanently attach the upper cockpit dome. It weighs a ton....the lower dome is also solid resin to act as a counter weight to the long solid front piece. And it's monted on a tube mounted in solid British Oak almost 2 inches thick and 12 inches long....hmmmmm, but will it float, I ask? Here's a quick grab shot taken at 1:15 in the morning last night.

Almost ready to start painting...

Yeah, some serious clean-up required as shown in your 3rd photo. A lot of sci-fi & fantasy kits have multiple molding problems to challenge the skills of the builder...yet I've met many modellers who don't consider this genre to be "serious" modelling....never could figure that one out. Nice build you got going so far tho.

I raised the height of the cockpit by 2mm so the red slit between the windows could be seen better - it's also been finished painting. Both port and starboard wing assemblies are finished and painted. I primed the rest of the ship with my usual gray primer, temporarily stuck the rest of the pieces on and photographed it......nice, if I do say so myself, lol!

Cockpit (upper dome kit part) is now complete...

Completed the port wing assembly this morning. Painted but not weathered yet. These past 2 work closure days have been great for my modelling time.

<quote & photos removed to aid readability> Very nice - used to watch the episodes every week as a kid. Always loved the design of that sub. You're right about the interior....definitely cries out to be lit.

Sorted out the impulse engine tonight...