Lost in Space since 1996!
Here's the S.S. Botnay Bay in all her finished painted glory! She came out fantastic!
All the paneling is airbrushed on, with pencil detailing on some areas to give more definition and some pastel weathering to give it a chalky dusty look. I didnt want to overpower the sleek lines and simple detailing of the ship with weathering that was too heavy or out of scale. It fits right alongside my 1/350th scale Enterprise which, with the exception of the rust ring and extremely faint penciled on gridlines, is otherwise clean.
Such a great desing for a ship! The spindly radiators on the back end wound up snapping off twice during assembly, luckily after painting no more incidents have occured
The overall size was again kept slightly smaller than canon references. I wanted it to look like this could have (as is seen in book covers and photos from the various series) possibly been launched from within the atmosphere atop a booster stack. Plus it makes the enterprise look alot bigger.
Some simple greeblies along the back end really give it that TOS feel, much like the sparingly placed yellow and red bits of plumbing/widgets along the enterprise corridors.
A nice shot from 1996 of the Botnay Bay zipping away from us at archaic speeds... wonder what will happen to those guys on board?
Coming up next! I'm am goig to be making some more small craft, Charles Evans favorite old clunker the Antares, the Tholian webspinner, and the "No Herbert's Allowed" Aurora! I am also looking to the Animated series for inspiration and will probably be working on some of the smaller auxillary craft as well as the villain ships from that series!
