Babylon 5 Starfury ( with custom 5th ERS scheme )

[Army_Air_Force]

I built this Monogram Starfury around 1998/99 from one of the special addition kits, but only recently got around to taking some decent photos against a black screen. Once I had those pictures, I was able to select the black sky and delete it, pasting the Starfury onto some of my astronomy deepsky photographs ( another of my hobbies! ). The colour scheme chosen was based on a model of a model! Back in 1998, I was flying a 1/6 scale R/C P-47 Thunderbolt with 5th Emergency Rescue Squadron markings on it. That inspired a 1/72 P-47 in the same scheme as the R/C version, and that in turn inspired the Starfury colours.

 

Starfury and M31, the Andromeda Galaxy

 

IC405 Flaming Star Nebula

 

M45 The Pleiades, or Seven Sisters

 

NGC7039 Open Cluster

 

and here's the R/C and plastic P-47's that inspired the scheme.

 

 

[Pete in Lincs]

Very cool indeed.

It's a big old universe to be alone in a tiny little spaceship!

[Gimme Shelter]

great photo adaption work there - looks good to me - and of course the model..

 

 

[Will Vale]

That's a great mapping of the scheme onto the Starfury's shape, the chevrons really suit it.

 

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[F-32]

Very nice indeed, I always really liked the look of this ship