Topic: Rebel Medium Transport. WIP.

[Tamer]

Great progress. Off to share.

[JDeck]

I love the work I'm seeing here. The Rebel Transport will look fantastic when done. I also love what you're doing with that unknown TESB ship. I built one several years ago as a tanker. Mine was much smaller, but a fun build for something you don't see covered anywhere.

Great job!!

Thank you this project really is a lot of fun.

 

Great progress. Off to share.

  Thank you Tamer again for the FP slot.

[JDeck]

 Gave some attention to my clamshell transport today. Just need to trim it up finish the rear section and put on a final layer of panels. Then I'll work on the underside. I think I'll re-work the auxiliary engines. It'll look good eventually its pretty rough right now.

[Tamer]

Keep it going. Looks like you are making good progress.

[BenAlius]

Looking good! I'm getting curious about the end result!

[hemble]

loving where this is going buddy and the details are perfect.

Ron

[JDeck]

Keep it going. Looks like you are making good progress.

Thank you for your support and the whole website altogether if not for this I wouldn't have the confidence to even start. I've been wanting to scratch build ships for years. Although not perfect I have to start somewhere.

Looking good! I'm getting curious about the end result!

  Thank you hopefully you will see it finished within a couple months.

loving where this is going buddy and the details are perfect.

Ron

Thank you Ron when I was building the pods on the tanker I couldn't help to think of the 6" scale escape pod you built. That thing was cool.

[JDeck]

   I pretty much finished the construction of the Rebel Fuel Tanker. I used a headphone jack for the refueling boom. In front of that is the bridge made of a 1/24 hot rod carburetor/air filter. I used a 1/25 engine and various parts for the body that works as a fuel pump. This is why I have so many greebles it pays off to have when building these models. I put a sloppy coat of primer/basecoat on I'll sand it and so forth and paint it up make it look used. I could build these all day it was really an enjoyable build.

[Tamer]

Looks like it turned out nice! Off to share.

[JDeck]

Thanks Tamer for the FP slot. When I was building this model I took a lot of liberties mostly because you can't see the details from the reference picture. I wanted to make this ship like a Merchant ship repurposed for military use. Pretty much a "piece of junk". I was watching this movie "Murphy's War" with Peter O'Toole he had this P.O.S river barge and he ended up going head to head with a U-boat. Anyway I thought it was cool as I paint it I'll try to follow the same theme.

[JDeck]

This is a picture of the tanker with some micro machine X-wing escorts. I'm building my fleet more or less in this scale. The problem is the bridge on the tanker is way too small(I sort of knew it would be.) The bridge should seat a pilot, co-pilot and/or refuelling boom operator. So I'll have to change it. On a different note I kind of want to custom paint my X-wings, A-wing and Y-wings in Washington Capitals colors. Red, white/gull grey and blue. With some subtle markings. Just an idea for now.

[Tamer]

I like this vehicle. You did a great job from such an obscure picture.

[hemble]

A little late on replying but the tanker looks great.

Ron

[JDeck]

Finally painted this rebel tanker. I wanted to make it appear worn and used. I replaced the cockpit/bridge with a 1/144 bomber canopy to make it to scale ill use the same mothod on my gr-75. Next week I'm taking some much needed time off work, I haven't had so much as two consecutive days off in over a year but anyway. During my break I'll finish my transport.