After 6 months of collaboration, development, prototyping, fabrication and mailing parts... I took the pile of what was left over and hopefully will be able to assemble my battle station from it. Notice I said "assemble". Although this is a scratch built wooden model, the way we fabricated most of the parts results in a delightful assembly activity more akin to building a plastic model than a wooden kit. The combination of various types of hardwood with laser etched details should allow for a beautiful model without the need for any paints or stains. I plan to build my example straight forward out of the box so to speak. I'm sure Doc and Don will add some customization to their own examples down the road. I am excited to get this model finished and hope it to be a quick build. So, let's begin....
I started by selecting a 12" x 12" x 1" piece of sapele to use as a build board/base for the model. I gave it a quick coat of satin wipe on poly and let it dry. I have a tradition on all my wooden models of using a marker to sign and number bottom of all my bases. For this model I laser etched the credits on the bottom of the base.. this will be my 14th wooden build. I also attached felt pad sliders to the bottom of the base.
I started by selecting a 12" x 12" x 1" piece of sapele to use as a build board/base for the model. I gave it a quick coat of satin wipe on poly and let it dry. I have a tradition on all my wooden models of using a marker to sign and number bottom of all my bases. For this model I laser etched the credits on the bottom of the base.. this will be my 14th wooden build. I also attached felt pad sliders to the bottom of the base.