Ferengi Marauder, Restoring a casting from the studio model

Modeling Subjects Science Fiction
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This is a piece I made for a client that was cast from the original studio molds. I was hired to repair the original casting, then mold and cast clear fiberglass shells that could be built up and lit.

Here’s how it came to me. It had a really bad crack on the bottom, and a flaw in the casting.

You can see the crack and flaws on the left side here, my daughter is holding it.

Here’s after the repair, I cast parts and pieces from the other side, and also went to a hobby shop and bought replacement details that went on the bottom, most of them being train parts.

After the repairing the original I made a mold and cast it in clear fiberglass.

Here’s a pic of the clear casting.

And the completed build up.






The finished piece is 37" long.

Here’s some pics of the base I made for it.



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REL,as I said at Thomas Models, your work is astounding.

Do you have any pictures of the paint up?

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Beautiful!! I hope I can paint my Macrotrek Marauder as nice. If I ever get around to it.

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[8-] The Trekkie in me is running in happy circles at the sight of it. I always like the lines of the Ferengi ships. They are quiet preditors and it shows.

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Heya

Very Sweet and at the same time " Damn that is Huge !" . I would not mind ya giving out the colors used on this toy. I am going to be building the 3 ship advesary kit from AMT soon ( sorry about my bad spelling ). I have the colors for the BoP and the Warbird but not for the Ferrengi ship.

Guido

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Thank you, I don’t mind sharing the colors.

I used acrylic “reefer orange” by Pollyscale for the base color. Then mixed in “Oily Black” by Polyscale for the darker panels, then added more of the black for the weathering. I also mixed in some acrylic white for the lighter weathering.