Here’s my latest build…a Sci-Fi project from a treadhead: Revell’s Babylon 5 Mark 1 Starfury.
The kit required a few modifications - most notably the guns - but was a fairly simple build overall. The kit was painted with MM enamals and weathered with pastels to replicate the streaking seen on the official CGI pictures of the ship.
Close up of the rear. The camera was a bit kittywhompus on this shot:
A close perspective shot to show some of the weathering and rear of the engines:
A detail shot of the engines showing the subtle weathering on the plasma tines:
Head-on shot from the front…the one view only a friend wants to see:
A closer, higher shot of the front:
My tribute to matte painters everywhere with the B5 Shield floating in space:
And finally, a beauty shot:
As always, all comments, suggestions, and questions are welcome. Thanks for looking…
Great job Foster the corrections on the guns really make them stand out I had one of these kits a while back and boy did the guns stink.The paint job is one of the best I’ve ever seen on a starfury once again great job
Very Nice Starfury. I have this kit and I am still trying to decide if I want to do Ivanova’s Starfury or Bester’s Omega Squadron Starfury. I think this may be one of my summer projects.
Very nice job. I have this kit started but I still have yet to finish it. I started painting it the Presidential colors and screwed up the painting on it. I have not decided to strip it or complete as is. Did you have any trouble with the cannons. I thought the instructions were a little shy in that area. Any way, very nice nice!
The guns were by far the worst part of the kit. I cut off the molded cannon barrels, sanded off the smaller, lower guns, rebuilt both using styrene tubing, and made my own gun slit decals using the template provided by Starshipmoder.com. After that, I sanded off the upper cannon mounts on the wings, scrath-built some mounts (you can somewhat make them out in the head-on picture), and attached the upper cannons to the fuselage in accordance with the official CGI pictures. The upper cannons mounted to the wings would have been…well, just wrong. Overall, these modifications weren’t overly difficult, but they did add 2 or 3 days to the build time.
Thanks for the kind remarks and good luck with your Starfury!
I wish I could find another Starfury kit anyone know where to find one I have the B5 station and have been positively DROOLING over the Agamemnon kit on the Monsters in Motion website. Alas I have not been able to find another Starfury other than a resin Thunderbolt Starfury that was a bit overpriced. [:D]
Really nice work there. I built one of those a few years ago and took 1st place at GraniteCon (Granite State Modelers show). I especially like the weathering work with all the pastel shading. Guns are nice too. I’ve got a whole box of special edition Furies up in the attic which will one day be a whole squadron of these beasties.
