OlCabour's Hangar

After much research, I found a simple way to install a support strut in the main body.
I'll use a 3cm diameter metal table leg, screwed on a medium plate, itself screwed to the central part of the ship.
The foot is cut to stay within the model. Via copper tubing and the other part of the table leg, it will rest on the foot of an old office armchair.

It will be the support for display on our stand, there will certainly be other less high and fixed.

The power wires will run inside the support, so a hole is made in the foot to let it go out (so it will be invisible in the model).

I will made some other support options to vary the displaying ways :
- From above, here I use an hardware kit for bedstead.

- From each side, via steel square tubes. This will require much more work: hollow all along the resin part that connects them (belly cross), drill and adjust accordingly the hangars.

I will fill the hole with resin later.

With this metal bar in the middle, the inside of hangars will be cut in half, so will be the future detailled interior (which, I hope, should not be seen in the end).

All this means that I will also have to provide three more power paths.

To strengthen the big resin parts and prevent them from bending under their own weight in the future, I prepared wood reinforcements (with 1 cm thick medium).

Notches in the medium are made to let the optical fibers run there later.

The head is the part that asks me the most concern. Here the resin is thin. On the upper part as the bottom one, the edges are very thin and in my opinion not thick enough to hold the weight of the bottom piece over the long term. So I think to screw the parts together, which will require a bit of preparation.
Meanwhile, the upper is reinforced with an aluminum U-channel and a block of medium wood.

After the race for Migennes with Galactica (9 months anyway to get at least half the elements I exhibited), I wanted to get back on Space:1999 and especially StarWars, but finally I started a new large project this time, and that will be the focus of this collection it is the Battlestar Galactica to half scale studio: 37.5 inches, so a meter long !

This is a resin kit from Mike Salzo available on RPF .
The proportions are faithful, and casting seems correct.

Here it is beside his little 1/4105th brother (from the rag tag fleet diorama). The scale of the large Galactica is between 1/1900 and 1/2000th scale.

The parts of the main body are designed to be screwed together for assembly. The locations are planned and the thickness of the resin on the facing surfaces is consistent. The front modules, central and rear hollowed (usefull to light it) .

Similarly, the level of detail is very important, and it is relatively close to the studio model, while not exact. Here and there, we can find 1/144th tanks kit parts where they were 1/ 72 on the original studio model, for example.

I noticed some flaws :
- The manner of stairs where the launch tubes Viper. The steps are not wide enough, and the cavities of the tubes themselves are missing .

here next to a mini viper 1/700 from the Cylon Ambush diorama (the one with the Cylon Tanker)

- On the back of the hangars, it's missing some raised lines (it needs 4 instead where they are 3 on the kit).

- The alignment of the body tanks on the engine module is not great. Too bad, because it will have to stay like that.

- Lines structures are lacking on some parts : dome, sheds ...
- It lacks a dome : there should be 2 (one above and one below ). The one below is lacking as the model support arm is supposed to go there. Anyway, this dome is not symetrical, and need some reworked.

Sheds are recessed on almost their entire length. The rear part is not hollowed entirely.

Points to check before starting the assembly :
- Verify if an internal frame is needed to prevent it from sagging over time (this is a default of the resin)
- Design the support (1, 2 or 3 points for example)

In the meantime, he went to a good cleaning step.