The mighty Venator, backbone of the Old Republic's navy. I love this ship, not only is it a great design but you can clearly see that it is a predecessor to the Empire's fearsome Imperial Star Destroyer. This kit I got for Christmas, and it is truly spectacular. Mastered by Nicholas Sagan and cast by .jpg models, this is one of the best resin kits I have ever worked on, the level of detail and accuracy is better that most styrene kits, and that includes the RSD produced by Revell.
Now for a few pictures:
Here is the kit with all the goodies it comes with
My copy came with only one big casting flaw. This top part of the back "fin" was gone.
Not a problem, I used some sheet styrene to build and replace the fin and armor panel. Now good as new.
There were also a few minor air bubbles in my cast, but nothing a little bit of putty and sandpaper can't fix.
Smooth:
Added detail parts:
I have been spending this week adding detail to the rear of the ship. I still plan on adding more the side trenches as well.
I got a little more work done this week. I used my trusty pinvise to drill out the barrels on the main guns, then added a little photetch detail to them.
With those cleaned up I've moved on to detailing the front of the hull. I added some more detail around the bridge towers:
The RSD has a set of forward guns on the side trenches, this kit came with resin barrels that were thick and looked out of scale to me. I replaced them with some smaller, and thinner styrene barrels from the 1/700 scale battleship kit:
Painting on the RSD.
The stripes are masked off:
And the final result:
Engines and main guns:
I used my Dremel and and new cutting tool to make the base:
Finished pictures of the Republic Star Destroyer. The only decals are the Open Circle Fleet insignia on the top hull, everything else is hand painted detail.
The Venator over Coruscant
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