Building 1/350 Star Trek USS Grissom Part 1
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- This is part 1 of my Polar Lights 1/350 USS Grissom kit which I will be naming the Pegasus. I'll be detailing the model accordingly using reference pictures found on the Modeler's Miniatures and Magic website as a guide. This video includes a brief look of the unbuilt kit and a review of my plans for detailing and lighting. The build starts with painting using masks from Aztec Dummy. NOTE: Blending can be minimized or even eliminated by simply choosing a lighter color for the medium gray accents. Mine was too dark so it took a lot more effort to blend them in. Possibly consider something close to the old Testors Light Gray or even Tamyia's Sky gray lightened with white. Another option, Mission Models Light gray assuming you use white as the base color.
O:00 Start
0:50 A Look at the kit
4:01 Plans for Lighting
4:48 Starting the build
11:58 Applying the paint masks
15:18 Paneling
17:30 Wrap up of part 1
Links
Trekworks: • Building The 1:350 Sca...
Lou Dalmaso: • Aztek Dummy Update 3/0...
Pegasus reference pics
modelermagic.c...
Good short videos on thinning Tamyia paints
• How To thin Tamiya Col...
• Thinning Tamiya Paints
• How to Airbrush Tamiya...
Resin Filter: • Aztek Dummy Update 3/0...
Modeler's Miniatures and Magic
modelermagic.c...
Paint Mask
www.culttvmans...
Evan Designs.com
evandesigns.co...
Evan Designs SMDs
evandesigns.co...
Colors used (did not end up using Mission Models light gray at all)
Hull color: Tamyia White XF2
Accents: Medium gray CraftSmarts Gray with black 85/15
Blue Gray Accents/Grills: Testors Helblau mixed with grayblue
Metallics:
Brushed Metal Silver by Folk Art
Gunmetal Folk Art
Obsidian Metallic by DecoArt
That metallic paneling looks awesome! Thanks for the shout out for our Grissom board.
Thanks and you're very welcome Spencer. I definitely appreciate these great options you guys have come up with.
Really obvious in this kit, when you see the primary hull detail, that the original studio model must have had parts from a truck kit used for the greebels. You can see two truck tyres, part of the chassis, an axle and the underneath of the gearbox. Nice they reproduced this so well in this model, that you can still tell what the studio model had.
Thanks Dan...yes they sure did a great job with the details here.
The blaster cannons from a Snowspeeder can be seen on the underside of the saucer section too. Very cool to spot Star Wars parts on a Federation ship!
Nice Bob Ross there, ship looking nice always nice watching a master at work
Lol....thanks so much
This will go perfectly and to scale with my Tomy USS Enterprise refit
@@Arduex2020 its a great kit
Hi Oggie, brilliant prep and paint work. Lovely detail on the model and nice size.
That extra time prepping really shows with the quality of the finish.
Hey Eugene. Always great to hear from you. Thanks for the compliment
Ships looking fantastic Oggie and love the D T-Shirts too.
Thanks so much
I haven't done any model building in probably 20 years... maybe 25 years since I've done a sci-fi kit. But now that my wife and kids are old and boring and don't require as much of my attention... I've been getting the itch to return. Stumbled across your channel and I'm hooked.
Full disclosure: I am one of those guys that has never been a fan of the aztec look on consumer scaled models. To my eyes they almost always end up looking like some kind of experimental WW2 German aircraft camo. While I can truly appreciate the skill and craft that goes into the end result, paint detail that was barely discernable on screen when using 6 or 8 foot studio models just doesn't translate to comparatively tiny consumer models... But all that said, these Grissom panels are looking damn gorgeous from an execution standpoint. Will be curious to see the final product. Subscribed.
Thanks so much for your comment. I got back into modeling for the same reason so definitely understand. :) I appreciate what you say about azteking. Even with this model I debated about how much to add. Thanks for the compliments and for subscribing. I really appreciate it.
Very nice. I've always loved the Oberth class (along with all the rest of the TMP era ships).
Thank you Paul
A quick tip for you on the larger paint masks. You can mak it easier by using clear transfer film. Cut out around the desired mask and then lay the transfer film over it. This will keep the paint masks from not being uniform. It works the same way as if you buy pre-cut vinyl stickers. The vinyl shape is on a backing paper and there is a clear film on top. Once you get your vinyl mask in place and burnish it down you then peel the clear off and your all set to go. You can get a 12 ×48 inch roll at Walmart for around 4 and a half dollars. This way you don't have to cut the masks and then piece them together. Have a great week ahead.
great tip Jim, thanks
Great attention to the detail oggie! Looks amazing so far.
Thanks Derek
I have a Japanese book called Star Trek Mechanics. Published in 1999, it features close up photos of the filming miniatures of most every vessel shown in Star Trek up until the TNG movies... except the Grissom! It has a picture of the Enterprise facing off with the Klingon BoP from Search for Spock even, but no pictures of the Grissom. Such a mystery...
Acrylics have the same book myself. Lots of great pics.
I remember watching Star Trek and Star Wars on my old tv thinking the ships were all white or light grey. I would buy magazines with movie prop models and be amazed how different they looked from the onscreen look. Modellers would mimic the prop look based on the magazines or the "onscreen look" what it looks like in editing. These days with the 4k I still notice lighting and dark settings still obsure the real look of space ships. It's fun to dive into the details.
Absolutely agree. I also was amazed at the level of detail whenever I would see pics in Starlog magazine. Still love looking at pictures like that and through the years have had the opportunity to see a number of filming miniatures in person. They are really something to see. Thanks for your comment.
Get video Oggie. I finishing up my shopping list tonight and ordering some supplies.
Thank you Mark.
Great start, looking forward for what's next. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Scott
Really impressive masking and paint work. Thanks for sharing the video.
Thank you very much
Your build is looking great Oggie.
Thanks Boyd
Great masking and airbrushing Oggie! The various metallics look awesome!
Thank you Ken
Like always: great job! Thumbs up 👍
Thanks so much
Oggie, great work, hope to see you at SDCC I'll be there, I was just at Wonderfest 2022 and won a Silver award for my Enterprise refit.
Awesome…congrats on the award. Thanks for the compliment too
That paneling turned out fantastic! I'm glad to see more modelers using craft acrylics. They're so much cheaper. I always feel totally ripped off buying hobby paints at $8 for a tiny spray can or $5-$6 for a tiny bottle. It's part of the reason I've been taking a break from modeling for a while.
Thanks so much. Yeah the filtering is what really did the trick for me. With metallics it helped to run it through 3-4x to avoid clogging. Feel free to leave any other tips with using craft paints. I think they're great alternatives for sure.
@@InterstellarModeler Eventually I'm hoping the craft acrylic companies see the potential for their paint for modelers and make affordable paints geared towards model kits.
You have alot more patience than I have....looking forward to part 2...thanks for sharing and stay safe!
Thanks Jean....the masking is what made me procrastinate LOL but it wasn't as bad as other projects I've done.
Looks great Oggie. That’s a lot of masking and painting, but we’ll worth the work. Thanks for sharing. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
Thanks Peter...yes for sure, lots of masking. It's what kept making me procrastinate LOL
WOW! That was very informative! Great job!!!!!!
appreciate the compliment Paul, thank you
Looks like your off to a Great start. I'll be watching
Thank you Michael
Thanks for the video, sir! Good luck in San Diego!
Thank you kevin
Hey Oggie
Wow that went by fast and you do great work 😀
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All the best for the upcoming show.
Thanks so much Tim
@@InterstellarModeler
🙂
Holy Smokes, your paint work is studio quality! Especially the sensor pod/secondary hull(?) . Looks gorgeous.
It's cool to see the MPC Snowspeeder gun halves in the molded detail as well.
Thanks Ken....and yes they sure do look like those guns
Fantastic start mate
Thanks Dean
Excellent masking and paint work! Really good tips for spraying acrylics too!!
Hi Marc....thanks so much
She is looking great.
Thanks
Great work, as usual!
Thank you
Top notch. Looking great 👍
Thanks Paul
I love everything you do! ❤️
Thanks so much.
Great video! Thank you for posting.
Thank you for the compliment
Awesome start, can’t wait to see the finish product. I can’t get to SDCC, but I have tickets to NYCC. Hope to see you there.
Thanks Lawrence. NYCC is definitely on my bucket list.
I really need to check out these Polar light models :D Love it Oggie
Thanks Wayne
The tooling on these Star Trek and
Star Wars models have come a long
way Oggie, I have built a few of the
Tamiya and Eduard model airplanes
and their tooling and decals have
become top notch too!!
Absolutely agree. They are a far cry from some of the old AMT kits. Thanks for watching and for the comment
I love your videos! I’m inspired to get into LED lighting and already have some ideas of a diorama with a Star Wars model kit. Can we say, LEGO builds are cool and all…..but, I appreciate scale modeling even more.
Very kind of you to say Larry, thanks so much. Legos are awesome
Killer build!
Thanks
I'm going to be playing this back in slow motion when I come to paint the metallic parts on my Grisson - your end result is great.
I'd also thought I would paint the insert in the secondary Hull separately to allow better access. I hadn't spotted the tabs but if they are easily removed I'll go that route.
It's an exciting kit this one.
Hey Antony. It's a pretty easy technique. Using the Pegasus picture as a guide is helpful. If you've not tried it before, practice on a piece of styrene or a scrap piece from an old model. Start with some basic rectangles and overlap shapes of various sizes as you go along. Vary the shading, you want to be able to see the shape your spraying over. You can start to get fancier by using thin strips in between to create other types of panels. Thanks for watching. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.
Looks fantastic! I really appreciate the explanations and in depth instructions. For me I think I would appreciate a bit more of the painting shots to kind of see as it’s being painted a little longer. The clips were a little fast for me since my eyes aren’t as good as they used to be lol that’s Just me personally, the work is fantastic!
Thanks. Is there anything in particular about painting that you’d like me to elaborate on or provide info about? Thanks for your compliments and for watching
@@InterstellarModeler I’m a new subscriber so I haven’t looked through all of your videos yet so please let me know if you have made similar videos previously but for me I was fascinated about the panel layering effects you did. It made that model look spectacular. I’m interested in the choice of paint,layering,effects of panels currently. Space vehicles and kit bashing stuff is my area right now and making my models more realistic is my goal. I have to work on larger scale models such as this because of my bad eyes hahaha so paint is often a bid deal for me. The explanations are top notch, I would just like to see a little longer cut of the painting maybe before and after each step of a multiple layer panel? I hope that makes sense lol Thanks very much for the response and keep up the good work, I’ll look forward to watching many more videos! I have already learned a lot.
Well. My approach to modeling has been less than spectacular for the past 45 years. How did I know? It's when you said "...some of my art will be hanging...." and I looked at my lame shelf of glue globs and bad paint. But I really enjoyed watching you work!
Thanks Bryan. Send pics of some of your builds to interstellarmodeler at gmail
That was some fantastic paint work O! I really like what you did and great explanation of your process!! And, again thank you for letting everyone know about the board. Looking forward to part 2 of the build.
Thanks Kenny and you're very welcome. Am really liking my Iwata Eclipse airbrush. I seem to have a little better control vs the Badger. The next video will definitely show lighting and connecting to the board. Looking forward to working with it.
Awesome start on this one! Definitely jealous of your painting skills. I have one of these in the stash but I'm going to build a few more models first to get some more painting practice. Looking forward to part 2!
Thanks so much. So far a very fun kit to work on
I appreciate it's after the fact, but I've found that Vallejo Model Air is the best option for those tricky Star Trek blue / green pastel colours - they do a wide range, they are not too saturated and not too dark and can be air-brushed straight from the bottle, whereas most paints need to be thinned and white added.
They are military colours for aircraft, e.g. Russian blue, duck egg blue etc. it's best to buy a few different ones and test them on a sheet of paper, I guarantee you'll find one that fits with the effect you're after with minimal effort.
Great job so far by the way 👍
excellent tips thanks.
Looking good
Thanks Travis
NICE WORK AS USUAL OGGIE!
Great to hear from you David. Thanks so much
Thanks for the lighting suggestions!
You're welcome
I used that same Brushed Sliver on an Orville blaster it came out great. good tip on straining the craft paint I'll have to try that to improve my paint application.
It makes a world of difference. Thanks Brandon
Looking good so far. Won't be getting around to mine till fall. It's been way too humid for any painting this summer. I've been using the cheap Apple Barrel matte acrylics using a mix of about 40 percent paint to 60 percent Isopropyl alcohol. I use the Equate 90 percent alcohol and the paint goes down well and I have never had to filter it before use. It dries very quickly and I have never had any problems with masking tape pulling up the paint. Testors clear spray paints don't effect the paint in any way. I used the same 90 percent Isopropyl alcohol with my Tamiya acrylics when I built the big 350th scale Klingon K'tinga and had no problems whatsoever. You can also use the 70 percent Isopropyl alcohol and mix the same 60/40 ratio and it works fine too except it has a little more drying time as it contains more water than the 90 percent alcohol. I have never had any issues with having to filter the paint before spaying. I just use my old Badger single action air brush. Have a great week ahead.
Great tips Jim, thanks. I've tried various mixes with craft paints and always had problems with clogging. On the other hand I don't readily find Apple barrel brands locally. Always Craftsmart or FolkArt. I wonder if there's a difference??? Will experiment further though. Thanks.
I pick up the Apple Barrel paints at Walmart. Folk Art is a good brand as I believe Chris over at Classic Plastic uses it. I don't know how much of a difference there is between different brands of craft acrylics other than colors that are available in different brands. It basically comes down to what works best for each individual.
Amazing work! What's the thinner ratio that you found that works best with Airbrushing Tamiya paints?
Sorry for the late reply….2 parts paint to 1 part thinner. Thanks for the compliment
Hey dude, I know it's been a while, but I had a question. What color did you end up using for the "Robin's Egg Blue" color? I didn't see it in the video at all. The call-outs on the boxes are not always accurate. I just finished the 1/1000 Reliant from WoK and it said to use Duck Egg Blue, which is *way* too green for what was supposed to be on the Reliant. Also; your aztecking is ridiculously good. Would you create a video with more detail on how you did the aztecking on this ship and others? I'm still learning my airbrush, so trying to focus on 'light' oversprays like you did here.
Hi...thanks for the compliments. When doing my research prior to working on this project, I discovered that the studio model did not have any of the duck egg blue colors that were recommended. The model instead had panels painted with light shades of gray. So I did not use any blues. The colors I used are listed in the video description of part 1. As for the paneling, I will make a note of that request. I do plan on doing serious of how to videos some time in the future. These would short, concise videos devoted to one particular technique. Easiest way is to just practice on scrap plastic or even wood. Use tape to partially mask off sharp corners and apply your paint. Proceed by overlapping the squared off shapes and airbrush with varied densities of paint. Thanks again for watching.
The gunmetal I use is extremely dark when painted. What gunmetal did you use that made this come out so perfect? It's very light and grey
Hi...thank you for watching and I appreciate the kind compliments. The colors used are listed in the video's description. Thanks
Did you have any issues with the mounting rod and base that came with the kit?
No. I needed to use a hollow rod however, due to lighting. Did u have issues?
@@InterstellarModeler No issue, but I wanted a hollow rod, also for lighting. Boyd at TrekWorks went with the Polar Lights base that comes with a slightly bigger rod 15/64", so you have to drill the hole out to that size. I wondered if you went with that solution also.
What is the filter that you used to filter the craft paints? Are those available to purchase?
here it is www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09229X52P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Are those the Snow Speeder guns on the underside of the hull?
Hmmm.... I thought they looked familiar
@@InterstellarModeler LOL. Great work on that Pegasus.
I'm surprised it didn't explode as soon as it was touched 😂
@@MaxFleye lol
Just a comment for the algorithm
thx
You taking commissions
Thanks for asking but no I’m afraid I dont have time for commissions.
@@InterstellarModelerdammmmmmmmmmnmmmn
@@InterstellarModeler not even for lights