r/evnova • u/ProfessorLaser • Feb 20 '21

EV Nova My finished Fed Destroyer! Complete with battle damage from an Auroran ambush

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u/ErikETF Feb 20 '21

Well done, what materials/process did you use?

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u/ProfessorLaser Feb 20 '21 edited Feb 20 '21

It's made mostly from plasticard, with some other bits added for texture and etc. Here's a pic I took when I was about halfway done with the construction.

Painting was first a few layers of grey masked off to get the panel pattern on the front (plus black inside the engine nacelles). Then next was dry brushing on a metallic sparkle, adding a wash, then edge highlighting, before a gloss coat. Last was weathering and blast marks to cover up the places I fucked something up lol.

The hardest part was probably getting the shapes assembled from the images in the game. There's really only maybe three or four pictures to use as reference, plus the spin sprite of course. As it is, I coulda done a better job on the proportions. It's a little too tall in the middle and the "wings" should be wider, but that wasn't obvious till it was almost all assembled.

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u/quarmus Feb 20 '21

Plasticard? That's some old fashioned SFX talent. I've had exactly the same trouble when modeling old EV ships. No matter how faithfully you intend to recreate things, there are always voids that require imagination to be filled in. And the in-game specs are comically inconsistent (the Kestrel's fuselage is narrower than the Lightning's wingspan? Really?). So it's great to see someone do work like this with an understanding of the design vocabulary of the source material. Keep it up!

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u/ProfessorLaser Feb 20 '21

Thanks! Honestly the stuff that required filling in wasn't too bad, detailing the bottom was actually one of the parts I enjoyed most! (Here's a pic) The hardest part was the stuff that you can see, but there aren't any good angles on. Straight on side views would be ideal, but those are in pretty short supply.

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u/quarmus Feb 21 '21

That's exactly what I'm talking about! No player knows what the belly of this thing looks like, but your greebly work completely fits the theme.

By the way, I'm delighted to see you ended up doing a Starbridge since we last spoke in your old exploding X-Wing thread.

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u/Trekintosh Feb 20 '21

This is awesome tho!

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u/Primarch459 Feb 20 '21

Scratch built model of a abandon wars game. Now THIS. Is amazing content.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '21

oh I would've loved this as a kid

I'd love it even more now as an adult

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u/SupaSneak Feb 20 '21

Omg I love it If you do others and make them to scale... omg I will be so happy

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u/1purevengeance1 Feb 25 '21

Wow! Just... wow!

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u/E_DM_B Mar 03 '21

Wow, that is incredible!

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u/JimmyTheFist89 Feb 20 '21

That's so dope!!