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Doc's Chop-Shop ("Jo'Bray" cargo skiff added, 4/4/11)
DocOutlands:
I will say it is all Jules' fault... ;D
Beige-4, one of your guesses is close!
Vehicle goes to detail-paint today. Pulled out an old model-building trick on the canopy for masking it - burnished scotch tape down over the clear parts and trimmed it to fit. Sprayed and peeled. Voila! Only one small area of seep, which I will show up close soon.
I never could figure out a reason to buy that stupid Naboo Skiff mini-rig... until something in one of Jules' threads triggered a thought that bordered on an instant obsession! Now it has a backstory and a place in the Outlands Station corner of the universe. Detail work should hopefully take just the weekend. I give lots of drying time. ;)
wraithnine:
sweet! cant wait doc ;)
DocOutlands:
Here's today's look at the beast...
upper and lower fuselage, side-by-side:
cockpit closeup. you can see the minor amount of paint seepage under the edge of the cheap tape I used.
cockpit closeup. I chipped the paint slightly when removing tape from the canopy.
rough fit of parts:
rough fit, open canopy:
DocOutlands:
Tentative backstory is the combat airspeeder is owned and operated by a private security contractor with a contract to defend mining interests on a planet close to Outland Station. It is used as a CAS bird (close air-support), having four blaster cannon mounted in the fuselage and wings. A lack of missile/bomb racks likely hurt sales of the craft. Additional details are continuing to percolate - frex, is it a development by the Naboo firm that designed the Star Skiff or was it a retro-fit/upgrade by a third-party or by the PSC armorers?
Tentative name has been the "Sky-Raider," but the real AD-1 was a much better CAS bird than this thing would be.
I am also developing a custom pilot idea for it. Prolly use a biker scout as the base body with a Cobra Tele-Viper head, or similar.
Phatty:
Doc, I'm liking this quite a bit already! Can't wait to see and hear about more.
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