How to Scratchbuild a Spaceship from Styrene

ETSY LINK TO BUILD YOUR OWN:

Materials I used:
1mm (.040 in) and .5mm (.020 in) Styrene sheets
Pre-textured Styrene sheets
Styrene rods
Kitbashed parts from model ships, an x-wing, tanks, etc.
A thread spool and a lip balm container
Cheap Jewelry Wire
Acrylic and Oil paints

Tools you'll need:
Masking tape
Drafting Triangle or Ruler
Hobby Knife & extra blades
Pencil
Tweezers
Superglue
Weld-on 3
Cheap brush
Small eyedropper and dish for the Weld-on
Sanding sticks and paper

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:58 Tools
2:56 Cutting
5:58 Steps 1 - 10
9:00 Steps 11 - 23
11:52 Greeblie Break
17:11 Steps 25 - 33
19:28 Kitbashing
23:25 Painting
25:23 Decals
26:10 Weathering & Washes
29:31 Outro

[Phantasia_Workshop]

It's so refreshing to see someone build something by hand without resorting to 3D printing 👍

[SciFiCrafts]

I know the big ones take damn long, and you are getting tired of it just before its ready for paint, but when they are DONE....well worth all the time!

[Quick-Silver]

Cairo Station meets Republic Venator. I like it!

[MrShogunfish]

Casual flex of the clearly handmade Destiny sketchbook

[StevoE]

the U.N.S.C called, they want their frigate back.
awesome ship design!

[-webster]

I really liked your presentation style. Post edit narration. The camera never moves. Everything’s in focus. The music isn’t overpowering.
The model is great, too. Original design, dynamic detailing. Well done!

[digitaleva]

I actually like how the slightly darker bottom looks. It has always made very little sense to me to see Sci-Fi ships just blatantly nosediving into the atmosphere, so the darker bottom would indicated that they can enter the atmosphere in a way that puts a larger, flat area in the way, and tells a lot more about the flight profile of the vehicle. Love the design!

[geodrive]

@ 3:27 I recommend using different color highlighters, that represent the different thicknesses to mark the paper templates. That would help tell them all apart as well.

[BajaTym]

Outstanding little ship and build. Thanks for sharing your work.

[kevinmaloney]

I was just sitting here taping stencils to styrene for my Atlas when I found your new post. YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF!! THAT CRUISER IS A THING OF BEAUTY!! FANTASTIC JOB ON THE GREEBLIES!!. I think the idea of a space station would be a good project or even a drydock for the ships. VERY COOL YOU NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE!!

[SethPiros]

Love the star wars halo crossover build style

[Stormonu]

Awesome! You could flatten one side wing and place the command tower to one side to create a carrier out of the model!

[Cmonster-ui]

With all these awesome spaceship builds. You need to pick up A Billion Suns!

[leoadk]

A tungsten carbide pen. We use wolfram carbide, which probably are of the same sort with our Leopard 2A7DK. APFSDS-T ammo that slices through metal like butter. It is so heavy, and travels over 1500-2000 meters a second with the L55 smoothbore cannon. Insane. Back to the world. I love that you are building it from Scratch. Star Wars forever... Love it. Regards from Denmark..

[cynicalmamc]

Excellent build sir, very UNSC, I can totally see that arriving at Reach just in time to see it get glassed 👍

[herpenderper]

The ship also reminds me a lot of the USS Sulaco from Aliens. Keep up the awesome work!

[DrKaiju]

I love the music you chose for this video 👍

[Squidmaster]

Fantastic build. My suggestion for future builds is space pirates or raiders. The paint job with teeth felt like a good step into that sort of aesthetic.

[Iamvalcristvalentine]

Its always a good day for sublight drive.

I would love to see you pick a starship theme and make 3 ships in the same "universe" but different scales. Like a cruiser, a frigate and a corvette ( or a tug maybe?) All in the same design concept.

As always beautiful work.

[PitstainHobbies]

This was one of the greatest modelling videos I have ever seen! The ship came out amazing!