Matakishi's Tea House
A simple little site...
By Auton (Nick Whittock)
A while ago I was lucky enough to get sent a drinks cup from Denny's by Pete Murray.
Scroll on 6 months and I decided to 'get it sorted', here's the process...
Step one was to file some of the extra lid details down, drill a hole into the end & insert a nose spike (also know as a golf tee!)
Step two, cut out a pair of doors & window frames from .30 plastic card for detailing the body and stick them on with superglue
Step three, taking some plastic tubing, cut lots of 10mm lengths, then superglue them around the body as rocket ports. Once finished have a strong drink to settle the nerves! The tubing is 1/8" / 3.2mm styrene tubing from Plastruct. It took two lengths to cut enough pieces, with some spares left over afterwards.
Step four, cut front windows frame from plastic card. This needs to carefully curved to apply it to the rounded surface
Step five, wing stubs. Taking a rounded slide binder (used to hold papers together), cut two 25mm lengths, glue the open edge together then cut end pieces and stick them on the outer ends (inner ends will stick to hull)
Step six, all construction complete, paint. I decided on the classic silver scheme, spray with a can of Tamiya silver for polycarbonate (to make sure it covers the plastic ok) Next paint in windows & edge doors etc.
Final ship next to figure for scale
Step seven: I finally gloss varnished the ship to protect the paintwork as I wasn't sure how the paint would hold onto the plastic cup surface
Once again, thanks to Pete for the cup!
Figures from Killer B games.
Scroll on 6 months and I decided to 'get it sorted', here's the process...
Step one was to file some of the extra lid details down, drill a hole into the end & insert a nose spike (also know as a golf tee!)
Step two, cut out a pair of doors & window frames from .30 plastic card for detailing the body and stick them on with superglue
Step three, taking some plastic tubing, cut lots of 10mm lengths, then superglue them around the body as rocket ports. Once finished have a strong drink to settle the nerves! The tubing is 1/8" / 3.2mm styrene tubing from Plastruct. It took two lengths to cut enough pieces, with some spares left over afterwards.
Step four, cut front windows frame from plastic card. This needs to carefully curved to apply it to the rounded surface
Step five, wing stubs. Taking a rounded slide binder (used to hold papers together), cut two 25mm lengths, glue the open edge together then cut end pieces and stick them on the outer ends (inner ends will stick to hull)
Step six, all construction complete, paint. I decided on the classic silver scheme, spray with a can of Tamiya silver for polycarbonate (to make sure it covers the plastic ok) Next paint in windows & edge doors etc.
Final ship next to figure for scale
Step seven: I finally gloss varnished the ship to protect the paintwork as I wasn't sure how the paint would hold onto the plastic cup surface
Once again, thanks to Pete for the cup!
Figures from Killer B games.
"Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don't care I'm still free, you can't take the sky from me. Take me out to the black, tell them I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me......There's no place I can be since I found Serenity, you can't take the sky from me." -Joss Whedon
