Miniature quality

[M1ndr1d3rs]

Awesome work Burger. I notice your Omega is quite crisp and clean. When did you get it? Mine has a very ugly head. Nearly impossible to make out the details.

@ McGhee: Where did you read about Omega replacement? Does MGP say when?

 

[Burger]

Thanks
It was from a box set I won at Q-Con last year. The box was actually an original EA fleet box, from before they were split into 3 eras - so presumably it was quite old. The Omegas were quite well molded but the Hyperions needed quite a bit of filing.

 

[M1ndr1d3rs]

Understandable if they were from a then new cast... I must have got a leftover
Really wish they remold it soon. It pains me to see such an iconic ship so badly cast.

 

[EDFDarkAngel1]

I hope they don't. only because it seems to take them FOREVER to remold something. I know it's a long and drawn out process... but still...

Dark Angel

 

[Methos5000]

If you're running a rod through it, might as well make it a round rod and make the rotating section, really rotate :lol:

That really takes some work. You have to have a rotating section OF the rod or else the rotating section of the ship just sags and sits on the rod. Sure it rotates, but it looks loike crap.

http://www4.webng.com/chburger/projects/Omega.html
I haven't painted it yet, but it spins really well!

I did the same thing putting together my brother's Command Omega. It worked out pretty well though the assembly of the Command Omega's spinning section with a tube in the center of it was a royal pain. It required lots of dremeling (is that a word?) to get the tube to fit properly.

 

[Tolwyn]

Has someone got wrong packted Olympus Blisters, too?
I'm missing the engine fins and parts for the front of the ship.

 

[Greg Smith]

All my Olympuses have been fine. If you are missing bits contact rveal@mongoosepublishing.com

 

[Tolwyn]

THX

 

[Iain McGhee]

If you're running a rod through it, might as well make it a round rod and make the rotating section, really rotate :lol:

Stick a motor in it and I'll be REALLY impressed

 

[Burger]

If you're running a rod through it, might as well make it a round rod and make the rotating section, really rotate :lol:

Stick a motor in it and I'll be REALLY impressed

That was my next idea
Already got a Victory with a battery pack to power its LEDs... http://www4.webng.com/chburger/projects/Victory.html

 

[Triggy]

If you're running a rod through it, might as well make it a round rod and make the rotating section, really rotate :lol:

Stick a motor in it and I'll be REALLY impressed

That was my next idea
Already got a Victory with a battery pack to power its LEDs... http://www4.webng.com/chburger/projects/Victory.html

You need some reversing lights too

 

[M1ndr1d3rs]

@ Burger: Your real challenge would be to hide the motor and batteries

 

[silashand]

Fiber optics probably would have been less noticable as well as more in scale. But hey, it looks cool so what the hey...

Cheers, Gary

 

[Burger]

Not bad though seeing as it cost me roughly... £0 :lol:
Well alright about 5p for electrical tape, solder and green stuff...

 

[Iain McGhee]

I have actually seen an Omega model with running lights and a motor-driven rotating section. Mind you, it was a scratchbuilt 3-foot long version, not a Mongoose 3 1/2 inch one !

 

[Taran]

Silas, where'd you get that avatar? I want to steal it...

 

[Burger]

Silas, where'd you get that avatar? I want to steal it...

Right click it, "Save picture as..."

 

[Drahazar]

mine came well I had to bend some sharlin fins and drill holes into the bottom of all the minbari and vorlon ships. the vorlon HC had no holes to speak of. I had to find the balance of the modle then drill the hole there which was in a weird area.

 

[Banichi]

mine came well I had to bend some sharlin fins and drill holes into the bottom of all the minbari and vorlon ships. the vorlon HC had no holes to speak of. I had to find the balance of the modle then drill the hole there which was in a weird area.

This is a common thing. I havn't had a mini yet that didn't need the hole drilled out. Some of the minies I've recieved have had the hole in such an odd place that the mini would never balance in a million years,