So these are a few photos of my model of Battlestar Galactica so far. This one is available from Revell, but was originally from Moebius Models. It was an awesome Christmas gift from my girlfriend, and although it's taking a while, I am really enjoying the painting and assembly so far.
My girlfriend recommended the 2004 remake of the classic 70s/80s sci-fi to me last year, and now I'm hooked, and around half way through season 3. I think the main attraction is the early noughties CGI and retro-futurist technology, as they are so reminiscent of that epic TV show Firefly. The main cast are a host of amazing characters; complicated, flawed and trying to do what they consider right in a chaotic universe where the remnants of humanity are being chased down by the Cylons, a race of artificially intelligent machines. In this constant game of cat and mouse, decisions are made continually harder as characters find that there are many moral, ethical, political and existential grey areas when it comes to surviving as a species.
Talking about grey areas, the eponymous space ship Battlestar Galactica is overwhelmingly grey. It's a combination of spaceship, aircraft carrier, castle and battleship. To bring out the main detailing, I am using three different greys. The undercoat and darker areas are in Tamiya Acrylic XF-24 Dark Grey, raised areas are being drybrushed with GW's Dawnstone medium grey, and the armour plating, engines and "ribs" are then to be drybrushed further with GW's lighter Administarium Grey.
Still got quite a while till this Battlestar takes position on my chest of drawers, but it'll be worth the wait... If I don't get sick of the colour grey!
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