USS Sulaco / Aliens

Hi Jan!
So many people had build the tiny dropship! perhaps you can show your finished parts of the Sulaco with the dropship as size reference??? PLEASE:rolleyes: That will be really great for us (I think so)

BTW: I love again your texture work:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

Greetings
Marko
 
For structural strength, I plan to use a lot of 1mm card to re-inforce each block to form a very strong and rigid infrastructure.

Looking at the way the model is constructed (the inner blocks - which form double-layer ribs where glued together - with the layers of the outer hull glued to them) I don`t think that this is necessary. I guess it will be a very strong model at the end without any additional reinforcements.
 
a few pics of the dropship and finished parts...:mrgreen:

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a top of the skyscraper :mrgreen::wave:

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and one stylized for the D-WHALE:twisted:

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You win the respect of your peers, and an all-expense paid tour of the "Holiday Home For Pets Meat Pie Company" :)

Seriously, that model is amazing. It may be tiny in stature, but it is huge, as accomplishments go. Well done.
 
So... crumbs. I'm gunna make the full size Sulaco, cos it's awesome, but... crumbs, that's REALLY SMALL!!!
Well done!
 
after long time i have some new progress:mrgreen:
the "cargo"hangar section is finished:thumb:..
and here are some pics of the whole thing:twisted:

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same angle...without flash

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from behind...
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and some detail...:twisted:

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..plastical detail..:rolleyes:

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and one with the old known dropship :twisted:

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..more soon.....sign1
 
[polite quiet british voice]...and here we see the young offspring has suckled onto the mother ship, a precious moment indeed...[/polite quiet british voice]

Open the dropship bay doors Bishop!

I'm afraid I can't do that, Ripley...