Starship Maintenance trench wall hanging

[Pete in Lincs]

Remember the opening scenes of Red Dwarf? A spacesuited figure is painting, the camera pulls back & we see a huge spaceship.

Well, that partly inspired this build.  I built a Star Wars freighter and wanted a different way to display it.

I had a redundant noticeboard and an idea. Plastic card, Polystyrene foam and glue came together to create this...

 

 

Here's the Squadron badge. I thought some colour might brighten things up, and then this happened.

I used a Japanese wing roundel and a pirate decal plus pen & pencil. Panel lines were enhanced with acrylic pastels.

 

 

The Starships all seem to have maintenance trenches. This is only loosely based on them, I just used what I had for greeblies.

 

More greeblies. We're going from left to right BTW. No prizes for guessing what these were originally supposed to be.

 

The front end of the Vaurbian Freighter hoves into view. Above it is a repurposed 1/350th F-5. 

 

And in this shot is the Imperial shuttle. This picture was taken before I added the F-5.

 

See, it's back again. The F-5 and various other bits were donated by @bootneck, so my thanks to him for his generosity.

 

Hopefully it doesn't look too far out of place. I tried to add a nav droid behind the cockpit.

There's room for more ships to be attached to this, so I'll start another in the near future. 

The WIP is in the usual place. Comments are always welcome, and thanks for looking. Pete

 

 

[Hunter Rose]

This is great Pete! I liked the concept from the start and its a really impressive way to display all your space based creations

[TEXANTOMCAT]

anyone else hearing Red Dwarf trumpets? ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba b baa ba baaaaa - really inventive chap - top work 

 

TT

[TheBaron]

You're a gem Pete.

Never told anybody that I liked their trench before.

[Pete in Lincs]

Thanks you, chaps. I'm rather chuffed with it myself. I think next up will be a coupe of scratchbuilt Tie fighters.

I have the dimensions and pictures. I just need the time!

[Head in the clouds.]

That has turned out rather splendidly Pete, was not sure where it was going when you started but it sure ended up in the right place, although I do see a problem in my glass ball.....a much bigger shed/cave, that trench takes up some serious shelf space.

 

[Hunter Rose]

3 hours ago, TEXANTOMCAT said:

anyone else hearing Red Dwarf trumpets? ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba b baa ba baaaaa - really inventive chap - top work 

 

TT

 

Yeah and if you look at it long enough goldfish will start nibbling at your toes!

[RAF4EVER]

 

[rockpopandchips]

What a fantastic piece of wall art. Really great idea well put together, I think.

[Cadman]

Looks brilliant!

[Andy Moore]

Really clever build Pete, and a great way of displaying the Vaurbian freighter.

 

Andy