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2003's Battlestar Galactica

as seen in Battlestar Galactica reimaged TV series

Battlestar Galactica with all vehicles, characters, names and designs is Universal Pictures.

modified and re-detailed Moebius kit in 1:4105 scale

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And here it is: my modified Moebius Galactica. With permission of Frank Winspur of Moebius Models I show a way to modify and re-detail the kit.
Additional to the kit I used some styrene, brass, photoetched parts by PGMS Paragrafix (I only used the hangar bay interior), replacement guns by
Timeslip Creations and custom printed decals by JBOT Decals.

2003's BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

- modifying and re-detailing the Moebius kit to the CGIs of Zoic Studios -

building process:

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click on each pic to get a hi-res image

First - I scaled and printed the Zoic orthos and

started measuring and comparing... I wanted to
armor plates to be ontop of the ribs, so I drilled and
cut space underneath the plates:

I also started sanding off the lower plating. These will

be replaced by styrene sheet or PE's. Not decided
yet. The battledamaged Galactica as seen later in
the show has a slightly different plating + some areas
that are not covered any more:

The middle-part needed to be shorter and reduced in

height.

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I kind of hated this area here, because the ribs

MUST go underneath the armor plating, so same
procedure - drilling, cutting, sanding.

And here's a comparison shot (before/after

modification)

Here's the crucial area - where the front parts joins

the fuselage. Different to what the instructions say I
glued this one before I attached the rest of the head.

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sanded the edges smoothly:

The head-neck-joint need A LOT of work. The head

needed to ... - be in-line with the neck - 2 mm
lowered - have parallel ribs with the neck's ribs - fit to
the previously attached lower part of the alligator-
head

Before attaching the upper head section, the

underside needed some re-detailing...

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... as well as the lower head section. The main

antenna is completely missing. Smaller ones will be
added later.

The hangars... well... The hangar doors look cool,

but do not match the Zoic CGI images... Moreover,
an additional 1mm height is need.

Here you can see that I drilled and sanded the ribs to
go underneath the armor plating and removed and re-
designed the hangar doors. Additional ribs added to
the inside. New armor plate will be added later.

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Here I took a photo of the tools I used for re-creating

the ribs:

I cut the landing bay decals to shorten them and after

attaching them I sprayed them with 70/30 matte clear
coat/light grey for the scale effect.

interior parts added

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The landing bays are a bit too long, so I cut out one
element of ribs:

The bigger triangular door required a new window for

the museum hangar

Modified hangar-housing, rising of the arm-

attachments

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Tried some details on the hangar-housings attempt

to drill triangular holes into the hangar for the viper
launchtubes.

Test-fit of hangar... The shape of the arms needs

some correction as well does the positioning and
attachment to the hangars.

almost done with scribing panel lines, detailing and

re-shaping... Test-added some antennas and the few
armor plates on the head-section:

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...

finished detailing... primed and applied some

different grays...

...

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...

...

For the side of the flightpods I used a scratched

Moerser Karl-part in that tiny scale (quite difficult
work) and a 1:700 PE ladder to get the stripe next to
the nameplate:

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a bow shot: Note that all colored areas are sprayed

with clearcoat+gray for the scale-effect:

battle damage and altered armor plating

Here is the battle damage on the flight pod. I tried to

make the plating look like bent inbetween the ribs:

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I printed the letters for the nameplate on self-

adhesive transparency film and cut them out - one by
one... what a stupid job

after that I colored that area and applied the custom

printed nameplate-decal by JBOT: (the original ones
were too big)

Here's how the decal looks like in 2D. You can also
see how the clear styrene window works on the
(almost) finished model. Replacement guns by
Timeslip Creations added:

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