Battlestar Galactica - Light Bomber "Aurora" - Viper concept by Andrew Probert

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Thank you! :)

Naw, it isn't that difficult. At least when compared to the Colonial Blaster :D . No, really, there are only a few tricky spots (mainly due to small glue tabs); the rest is fairly straight forward. Reason for the slow progress is that I am designing a few components on-the-fly, such as the big bomb, the "Sagitarrian Fire Lizard" ( :cool: ! ) and the landing gear. The engine tubes are pretty easy though (but repetitive ;) ).

In addition, this build has developed a life of its own so-to-speak (because of a very special fan ;) ). To be honest, when I was designing my first paper model (the Landram) I thought of making this concept ship some day, too. In the past few weeks I decided not to make "only" a model of what is shown in the draft but to make a model which is able to show what could have been seen on screen if it had been made for the show. :astronaut::):rolleyes:
 
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Oh, great news - as I managed somehow the Colonial Blaster I should also be able to build this ship.
@ Slow progess: I am (I think I can speak for many of us) happy about the "slow progess", because this gives the model the "extras" which make this build so extraordinary. So, Please take the time you need - it is worth as we all can see on the pictrues already posted.
 

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@ Slow progess: I am (I think I can speak for many of us) happy about the "slow progess", because this gives the model the "extras" which make this build so extraordinary. So, Please take the time you need - it is worth as we all can see on the pictrues already posted.

Weeeeeeellllllll, having spent the last three months attaching ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the tiny tubes around the engines I continue with this plane. I hope if you build it, you won't need as much time to do that! (Just kidding! :D)

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Everything attached:

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Current state:

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Next will be the landing gear and the weapon's pod. :)
 

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Thank you! :)

While looking at the engines I noticed that something didn't look quite right. So I changed the texture from this

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to this (engines off)

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and this (engines on).

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Since there are four thrusters you'll have several display options:

off - off - off - off
on - off - off - on
off - on - on - off
on - on - on - on

or any combination inbetween. ;)
 
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I like the new look of the exhausts. I think that these will work better.
Not only that, but if someone decides to fit it for lights. They can cut out the black sections and have the yellow LED behind it.
 

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You can also laminate the the grey rings to recess the black (or yellow) exhaust vents as well (to show a little detail).
 
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