I think that's it, are those the main decisions we're talking about? I think so and then just for funsies because there are a few bits of Darker Grays around I have a whole complement of different Grays to choose from including I went ahead and just left a straight primer tray visible. Primer is nice, um that's lovely, is that a gunmetal? Yeah, so that one is actually let's see that one's 42, that is light gunmetal. So this one I'll swear what what I like about it is it's not quite semi-gloss, yeah and we could make this pop like hell with a little silvering in the corner exactly which we have a few more of the rub and buff and chrome samples up here. Um this is great, I like this gray too, I think this one might end up being too well, don't know actually, I mean those complement each other quite nicely. Yeah, there's a again you start to see a bit of green in there to my eyes, my father was an inordinately good at color matching and he would always do that when we were kids like look at all the Green in that sky, and I remember being eight and being like I don't know um that is awesome. Okay, and we can start to divvy this up now we get to paint, I know I'm very excited, I've been waiting a while for this, uh Sean Sean it really does look like an animal, hahaha, uh we're ready for painting dude, yeah so we're just gonna basically take a part of everything put together yep let's part it out we're gonna do this in a couple of passes first we're gonna to separate all these pieces and spray paint them a a basic White then we're gonna bring this back together and we're gonna hit it with a Insignia white which is a much better darker, and that'll we don't have any more than one can of Insignia white so we got to make the best use of it. We get everything coated then Insignia white will bring it all to cohesion then we take it apart again and we'll divvy it up for the color cool, thank you how much ah here we go looks like I'm getting this whole thing in one can now I'm not trying for a perfect bright white coat I'm actually trying for a tonal evening out of this whole thing because I'm going to hit this with the Insignia white afterwards to try and give it that color cast of the Insignia, this is just more like a base tone foreign coats right now because at this stage in the model making if I got a big drip out of spray paint it could be a real disaster because it could happen on a part of the ship that I don't have access easy access to for sanding and I'm gonna have to address it before continuing so it could really gum up the works to get a drip, so instead of the normal like you know six to ten inches I'm literally just like breezing by while doing this and kind of getting a mostly coat, do you know how I know to do that is because I screwed it up and had to spend half a day fixing something because I was lazy for one second.

Oh foreign outstanding, this is one of those days where I will go in there and I'll scrub the crap out of my hands they still won't look clean, they'll be clean like I'll eat with them though that's not necessarily the marker you want for clean, they'll be clean but I go home and my wife is like can you wash your hands when I'm like I okay here's what here's the best we can do here we go. I use the Fast Orange it's got uh like pumice in there for scrubbing it's a lot of scrubbing I love the warm water, my weird proclivities is I love doing dishes I really do I love the water, I love cleaning things up like it's a little bit of my ostv you know like making the kitchen spotless it's not like it's always spotless but like when it's time to make it spotless I like that.

Oh my God, my poor fingernails who cleans their hands with a dirty rag there we go that's actually not that's not so bad, but yeah yeah see that that's after scrubbing Clean Hands can I make you a sandwich. Follow along in the coming weeks as the tested team and I continue our work on these models scratch building lighting painting detailing and prepping these Miniatures for filming. Thanks to Bethesda game studios for partnering with us on this project and inviting us to play in their new universe Starfield Launches on Xbox series X S PC and Game Pass on September 6, 2023, and is rated M for mature you can find details below or visit www.starfieldgame.com to learn more.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign we've partnered with Bethesda game studios to build a filming model of the frontier ship from their upcoming game Star field I couldn't be more excited for this project it's a celebration of the exact kind of practical effects filmmaking I'm obsessed with and that we all love follow along over the coming weeks as the tested team and I embark on a scale miniature build that combines the latest fabrication Technologies with my favorite old school model making techniques let's Dive In thank you cable routing cable routing yes so I tried as hard as I could to sort of Tidy it all upside yeah and we're gonna need to just I guess figure out how how best to hide what we can yeah so I think up here it could literally be we actually laid down a panel of styrene here oh okay with a Leading Edge like we hide all of that there's no reason to get elaborate it actually adding detail here takes it away from here so I've got some black styrene and I can ease we can I think we should just like plan to Sock that in okay um and then coming off back here you we've got all this lovely c channel and H Channel so what do you first of all okay you're right you've got heat shrink on all of them wow you got it on all of that yeah yeah this one took a bit of time yeah um yeah the resistors uh are somewhat exposed just because we want to have some heat but I feel like with the siren covering it I don't I don't think we should worry too much about it no I don't I don't um tell me what you've already been thinking so I don't like Yeah so basically like this is I've sort of mapped out where I think everything should be routed to Center I have the backlight here and then these all kind of come in from the side there was not really a good spot for me to hide unfortunately this part yeah sneaking through so um this is the only one where I'm like hmm all right and all that really needs to happen is that all these umbilical back to a central location yes yes and then so we've got I I get a metal post okay right a hollow metal post that will come down to the base oh interesting that will be the stance so we'll we'll be able to Route these through that oh interesting okay that will be my goal is that these I don't think I have to hide I think I hide this I hide this I hide that under here I can be a little looser okay and it's gonna it goes inside a metal post that we have access to from the from the underside and the over side okay right so we can get our umbilical end to plug all these in like eight plugs or something like that yeah so there's like gonna be one more from like the um there's like the cockpit right right right monitors that can't be installed unfortunately until everything has been finished okay but that that's that seems like it would work out fine we just snake it in I think at the tail end is that this is roughly where it's going to come out do you think or maybe actually it's probably best if it comes out here yeah so I guess like we just need to make like some sort of pilot hole Mark that right I'm gonna make a mark and then is there anything else this is coming down over here this is great this is great this should be really fun I think the the last thing that we should probably focus on is that there is this like sort of uh detachable monitor that's going to be living here and I have the light for it great yeah um but it has to unfortunately because this thing is removable I ended up having to put it on a separate circuit right so we just need to figure out a good way to sort of hide the battery pack and still have access to the switch when we want to turn it on okay so let me see this great I so this is I could just make this integral to the door and it attaches into here yeah great okay cool okay that that's like that sounds like a lot of fun I'll jump on this dude the lights just make everything pop yo yeah is like I've been loving it on it's just it's got this nice like blue like nice blue glow and it's just yeah makes you feel like a ship it really does all right I'll jump on this and I'll bring it over when it's done awesome thank you sweet thanks Adam foreign by the way I'm Kim blue member if I've mentioned this on the channel before but one of the ways I hold my sanding sticks is directly a response to watching my colleagues get carpal tunnel so instead of like this I hold it about as Loosely as I can in a very light touch just leave it against my palm with my in this case my ring and my thumb or middle finger and my thumb and I'm just it's a very light touch okay good that's starting to hide some crimes that's lovely okay now let's I can do one more happy happy let's see here Wait no that's not the one not the one that's the one oh yeah that's the one oh yes awesome awesome awesome okay okay so now this guy out nice and oh oh that's not good okay wow it's a deep cut 0.9 we go to 0.9 foreign foreign all right so now what I have is a discrete power pack for this light which goes in here and it can wrap around the back and put a panel on that light it's ideal all right all right one rule of masking there will always be overspray that's another one there will always be overspray no matter how careful you are I mean look maybe you're um maybe you're one of my old colleagues like Peggy raster or Kim Smith or Lauren Vote or Melanie wayless and you don't have overspray but The Mortals Among Us this human painters unlike those Geniuses there will always be overspray so you just got to resolve yourself that you're going to have to fix some crimes that you've left with your masking now I want that's good that's good that's good I'm happy with that I'm happy with that that looks great this is fine good good good okay that'll all coat well gotta get the door so that should be ready to paint nice foreign that's the most important coat because that's the black coat and that will hide all the crimes of the other black coats did I just do that I started with the wrong paint it doesn't really matter but I just sprayed that with the textured but I meant to start with the primer it's not that big a deal I'm gonna let that sit for a minute and think about what it did so my cutaway model now has a coat of black paint but it's a little too smooth and uniform I tried out the um Rust-Oleum textured paint and I I understand what it kind of does but it's so low texture it doesn't really help me the reason being is I don't want this just to be a dark value I kind of wanted to eat the light I want it to be a negative draw on your attention and the way I want to do that is I want to add a just a little bit of texture to this so it's you really understand it's not something you should be looking at now when you want to add texture to a paint job one of my favorite ways is this really weird way of using wait where did it go ah here spray adhesive this is super 77 this is sort of uh this is sort of the lifeblood of the spray adhesive industry like everyone uses 77 there's a multiple kinds but 77 uh well I'll show you I'll show you what I did with 77 I made um I made the hero guns on the front of the mjolnir for uh The Matrix sequels when it crashes through the door so these were actually mounted to the fiberglass buck that crashed through the doors of the dock and I got a CG reference model that I broke apart in Rhino turned into some laser cuts and then I did all the model making on this this was really this is like a reward for me towards the end of The Matrix sequels Mike Lynch my supervisor was like you want to just build that thing from scratch and I'm like oh yeah I do so um you can see it's got this heavily cast iron texture and that was all done with multiple layers of super 77 and primer uh and the practice would be I laid down primer and then I laid down a little 77 let it dry put primer on top of that lay down another let that dry put primer on top of that I think it's like four or five passes with light sanding between them and then you end up with this really nice variegated mottled texture that feels very much like um like it's been cast in iron um and why do I have this because well I asked the mold room for one more gun than I needed for production and I took this one home I don't think anyone's going to get mad at this point so that I'm not going for this texture I'm not even going for this texture but uh I will be I will be uh the 77 will add a dimensional feel to it that I hope just allows you to concentrate your attention on the inside of the cockpit not anything else oh you want to wait until it's no longer tacky which is where it's at so I'm gonna hit it with some more primer all right the next step is we'll peel off the tape but I'm going to let it dry for a little while it's time for the unwrapping the moment of truth and every time you pull off masking is like Christmas I mean and I mean that in the full scope of what Christmas can be it can be crushing disappointment or spectacular wish fulfillment let's start with the back now this transition will get cleaned up this will end up being painted red so that you know you're looking at a cutaway model all right overspray what'd I tell you and if you're in a shop with lots of people it's incumbent on you to take the tape ball and throw it at somebody that hard just it's that's like that's just required foreign ladies and germs that's lovely that's really great I'm very happy all right let's take this stuff off all right let's power her on hey is that everything yes yeah very nice bam I uh I was fully expecting to mess something up wow that is great handled with care it really looks terrific too excellent I'm so pleased that we don't have more that I didn't create more work for us to do yeah no this is great it looks fantastic it's such a pretty model we are in the painting phase of our ship which means we're coating everything with a primer coat to give it a base on which to lay on all the other paint and it's a lot of pieces it's a lot of primer and it's better not to just wait for the primer to dry it's better to kind of bake it make it accelerate its setting and to do that I'm going to make a painting oven and it's a it's a pretty straightforward build it's even more straightforward than you think it is we start with this this is the basis of our drying oven for parts and I have made dozens of these over the years this is one of my favorite constructions so the first thing you do is yeah Step One is get the box step two is cut a hole in the Box and then see here and let's see and Wait Almost great we're done so this is the thing when you set this up with a part inside and you roughly close it just like that just like that you get this really dry box that's just slightly over like 100 degrees Fahrenheit which is fantastic for drying stuff without melting it uh so there's our painting dry box hey Kate the oven's ready for drying parts you're welcome I love you there we go and just bake it at 350 for 30 minutes and come back and it'll be delicious all right sir oh you glued some of these we made it I glued these in but these also aren't broken off anymore I those are new yeah yay there's a replay like I just did what you said I cut off the other ones made an insert right so if these break we can just take them off and put on new ones yeah but I beefed them up as well uh so um one of my okay right that's where I go great we actually we're this is gonna be this is gonna be our filming site so let's go from this side lovely yeah uh then let me make a mark just so I can memorialize that so this whole thing the magnets on so just take it that's awesome yeah okay so I'm going to cut away that marvelous you want to take it off to do that uh no I don't think I'm ready to do that just yet okay yeah when I do I think I can just bring in a Dremel circular saw and yeah it came out real easy yeah cool so yeah so so what's in front of us here so Kate's got everything primed yeah uh we're gonna do some railings and strut work so you can kind of see this is a stand-in that the the ship the game model has all this cool oh I see this is the only one that actually has them you can go here and then go all over okay yep so this is uh three Thirty second inch Rod um and uh we're just gonna put it it's nice thing it's the same on all of them we're just gonna put these in glue them in and then we can we can paint it the other thing we're going to do is some little railings kind of like you did on the ramp oh okay that we're gonna put on the outside here on the hall here nice and those are thinner yep so there's some you have the brass that we need yes and we can bend that by hand and just glue it in place do you want to do the struts and I'll start on the railing absolutely picture reference for the rally is it coming and sort of matching this curve so here's our reference for the uh railing so we're going to be building this uh right here they snake a little bit yep and I have these standoffs if you want to use them I'd rather not I figured yeah actually they're 3D printed yeah so actually yeah let's break this red right on no those will those will this can glue in so and it's duplicated up here on the top cowling it's exactly the same oh I love all this visual reference I know a large format printer was awesome oh yeah I like that I like 16th better Duke you monster I know so so I have a whole bunch of 16th inch Rod but I I think I'm going to go with the thinner Rod actually now yeah I I like press fits I like you know yep dimensionally stable fits but I don't want to be forcing and snapping and gluing and drilling okay so it's one two three four five six seven eight sixteen total of the corner rails yep and they're all pretty identical to each other in the spacing I think so because they're looking to be efficient yeah yeah and they just whatever layout here they duplicated it I guarantee it I appreciate that yeah I appreciate that about them all right there's these guys which we can yeah you can do it like that one okay and then I get one here like that so because I have 16 of these little railings to make I am effectively uh assembly lining them I'm making the first curve which is out of here which is at 90 degree on the biggest 20 millimeter but assembly lending means that they'll all be identical and that will actually help me in scale that will actually help sell the scale of the ship that they are matching you don't have any weird wiggles or bumps or yeah those those can draw your eye and make you like why is that done that's all right so this is unlike how I normally work but this is one case where I did not measure any of these rods okay we have to put all this strut work in here so I I just I just I yeah I just put them in Markham by hand and I'm just going to duplicate them by cutting a bunch yeah but the funny thing is so these we had a problem early on I was a little worried about these little guys which are are some kind of like uh docking clamp or something yeah and we man just snap every single one of them several off uh and that was partly I didn't have them beef as beefy should I just printed them as is and you had a great idea where we basically sold all them off and then I just reprinted a new insert that we glued in on top and we beefed these up now and also what's going to help is these actually get tied in with the metal strut work right so by the time I glue these in these should be they should not snap anymore I appreciate that foreign I'm going to play around here I'm happy with that uh so are you gonna do the the standoffs the connecting piece no I love it wait that was right so wait that oh right I haven't done those dude I love it so I'm just condemning all these by hand laughs all right these are looking good thank you okay I am doing these railings thinner because all right so model making is all about the perfect being the enemy of the good it's all about hiring people who know how to prioritize what looks good on camera because with n amount of time you can make a perfect model but there's never the perfect amount of time so you have to find the efficiencies and when you're selling scale there are certain things that you cannot oh I don't have my glasses for this here we go there are certain things when selling scale that you can't let go so if you take a look at this railing here that railing looks great for scale and this one on the other side does not do you see it because this Bend is too sharp and that means the top of this railing is bowing down and that bowing it draws my eye and doesn't look like it's the scale it should be that one does so I've got to come in with needle nose pliers and fix that bend and if I can I just have to pull the whole thing and replace it but like that's what I'm talking about about the little precisions that sell the thing to be the scale that it's supposed to be so I don't have glue up here so I'm just going to try and do it and see if that can help here we go and Earth that was it that's literally it that tiny tiny amount so that the bow no longer happens when that paints those will sell the scale that simple I got the strut work installed on all of these and one so we installed this metal core that Adam machined and that's going to allow us to to mount the landing gear right into that but as an extra just extra little precaution we also made these which are pins that go directly into the block which then engage that so if it wants to start torquing like this way they're just a little something extra I don't think they're necessary but it makes you feel better and then and then we got the steel rods that are going to go in there that also uh act as these Pistons um this guy can go back on here all right I will do that um those look great that's really good yeah I'm very happy I think we are I think we are done with the strut work yep no more over here nope the only thing we have to add later is there's probably some hoses that we want to do in the landing gear but I don't think we want that on there before we paint no Kate's already started on some of the other stuff and and I think at this point we can hand this off to her the do the paint job dude really it's time yep yep we've reached the painting part um this is great that was I I'm just really happy with how this is going good this is back in the ilm days this would have been like a million dollar model this I I don't I don't know how much you'd actually bid at it but this would be in the this would be in the you know several people for weeks and weeks during something like this from scratch yeah uh I have to hand it uh we got a lot of help from the modelers who worked on the games thank you yeah yeah yeah no that that shortened the struts look great yep I love it and it actually made things actually they're actually doing the job made everything stronger these aren't going to snap off anymore oh that's great um and we got our pins in the landing gear and we'll wait to put the steel rods in until after we paint and then we'll be done yeah dude let's uh bring it over to Kate from here all right looks cool wait until you see this thing once I put all the Pistons on this this is the coolest part but it needs to be painted first yeah exactly foreign colors colors colors everywhere we're finally in the color zone so tell me tell me what we're what's going on so I basically took every color that we had that could have possibly worked for this model and I sprayed samples on some you know leftover pieces we had I like to do it on this you get some of those curves you can see the light and you can see them compared next to each other I like that um what are your thoughts after laying these down you've immersed your head in the color palette of this guy and this isn't this isn't like perfect Canon right we're not having to match a thing because people customize these exactly so we get to customize it as well uh but if we're going off of some of this reference we have I'm definitely leaning towards this white here it's a base as a base and that's the this is the Insignia yes Insignia white and we're in an issue because we have one can of this and a whole ship yeah okay um I had we we talked about this off camera my suggestion is I have five or six cans of this matte white sort of a primer my inclination is to because I have enough I think to coat the whole model in this to do that and then get a dust coat on it of this maybe even paint it in this assemble it and paint it in this I think that's a great idea and that means we get the colored cast we want which is that nice deadened yeah sort of it's almost a green to it it really is lovely I one of my favorite things at ilm was going to talk to the painters and asking for help to get to a color because I'd be like my purple's all washed out and they're like you got to use the opposite side of the color wheel and I got like so much smarter trying learning from those amazing painters oh yeah you're right there is green in there a little pink too yeah let's coat everything in this extremely bright white and then we'll kill it with this sounds like a plan I like that I like that because people don't realize how white a lot of the Star Wars ships started out yeah the Millennium Falcon is famously reefer white and when you buy a can of reefer white you're like this can't be right oh if you were to ask me what color the Millennium Falcon was or anybody else they would say gray yeah Battleship Gray yeah which would be like so dark it would almost disappear exactly weirdly okay so we'll go with that and then on top of that what are the colors that stood out I I this is a yellow we have yes that that seems to me like a perfect one to one exactly and then one of the things we I was playing with here is we have this doll red which I got and then looking at some of the reference it looks like it was almost too dull so I did a test where I sprayed an apple red on top of it both um super opaque and then like misting towards the edge so you could get an idea of what it would look like by doing that if you wanted to lighten it up so I really like the misting effect here I really like how much depth that gives the color and it also weirdly feels a little like old paint it does right this is so monochromatic I mean and also I look at this and I just think primer red yeah which is one of my favorite different colors to be sure but that's kind of awesome yeah I think it gives a bit of depth to it and we're not the stuff that gets this color is like panels and pieces not huge chunks or cells or things yeah so I I think we definitely have a workable solution here and then I got a bunch of different blacks um at least so this one's a rubber black which you can see is is much more dulled and has that gray tone to it and then we've got um a semi-gloss black here um and then this is like a metallic black if you wanted to catch the Light a little bit more my inclination for scale is to go with that I like that one a lot and then we can we can we can make this reflective selectively with specular yes coats and other stuff well not to mention there are things like um here I've got a sample of some rub and buff ebony so anywhere that you want to like mix it up a little bit you can just use that or we also have some Gundam markers that's great that's great yeah the semi-glosses tend to show some of the crimes of the of the original model yeah and it's fascinating and that definitely hides it um okay and then I think that's the perfect black I think you're totally right I'm into that one uh we also have a bunch of yeah Silvers and Golds to choose from it's interesting I got this spray gold thinking that's definitely what we're looking for I sprayed it I didn't like it so then I did a second test where I sprayed it on black because that changes the way it looks it really does but this European ribbon buff gold is pretty spot on to what we have in our reference so it can also be something we make up on the Fly do we want to just spray it and add some rub and buff or do we rub and buff the whole pieces that's as we're allocating those are choices that we can make and again if we get it wrong we just mask it and redo it exactly that's one of the things I love the most about paint is you kind of can't mess it up too bad you say that and my experience in mixing paint is I would try and get this purple and it ended up with like three gallons of the wrong color and it keep on adding well that's where I come in I I Delight in color matching so put me in a room and I'll get it right eventually okay um so I think that's it are those the main decisions we're talking about I think so and then just for funsies because there are a few bits of Darker Grays around I have a whole complement of different Grays to choose from including I went ahead and just left a straight primer tray visible primer is nice um that's lovely is that a gunmetal yeah so that one is actually let's see that one's 42 that is light gunmetal so this one I'll swear what what I like about it is it's not quite semi-gloss yeah and we could make this pop like hell with a little silvering in the corner exactly which we have a few more of the rub and buff and chrome samples up here um this is great I like this gray too I think this one might end up being too well I don't know actually I mean those complement each other quite nicely yeah there's a again you start to see a bit of green in there to my eyes my my father was an inordinately good at color matching and he would always do that when we were kids like look at all the Green in that sky and I remember being eight and being like I don't know um that is awesome okay and we can start to divvy this up now we get to paint I know I'm very excited I've been waiting a while for this uh Sean Sean it really does look like an animal hahaha uh we're ready for painting dude yeah so we're just gonna basically take a part of everything put together yep let's part it out we're gonna do this in a couple of passes first we're gonna to separate all these pieces and spray paint them a a basic White then we're gonna bring this back together and we're gonna hit it with a Insignia white which is a much better darker and that'll we don't have any more than one can of Insignia white so we got to make the best use of it we get everything coated then Insignia white will bring it all to cohesion then we take it apart again and we'll divvy it up for the color cool thank you how much ah here we go looks like I'm getting this whole thing in one can now I'm not trying for a perfect bright white coat I'm actually trying for a tonal evening out of this whole thing because I'm going to hit this with the Insignia white afterwards to try and give it that color cast of the Insignia this is just more like a base tone foreign coats right now because at this stage in the model making if I got a big drip out of spray paint it could be a real disaster because it could happen on a part of the ship that I don't have access easy access to for sanding and I'm gonna have to address it before continuing so it could really gum up the works to get a drip so instead of the normal like you know six to ten inches I'm literally just like breezing by while doing this and kind of getting a mostly coat and do you know how I know to do that is because I screwed it up and had to spend half a day fixing something because I was lazy for one second oh foreign outstanding this is one of those days where I will go in there and I'll scrub the crap out of my hands they still won't look clean they'll they'll be clean like I'll eat with them though that's not necessarily the marker you want for clean they'll be clean but I go home and my wife is like can you wash your hands when I'm like I okay here's what here's the best we can do here we go I use the Fast Orange it's got uh like pumice in there for scrubbing it's a lot of scrubbing I love the warm water my weird proclivities is I love doing dishes I really do I love the water I love cleaning things up like it's a little bit of my ostv you know like making the kitchen spotless it's not like it's always spotless but like when it's time to make it spotless I like that oh my God my poor fingernails who cleans their hands with a dirty rag there we go that's actually not that's not so bad but yeah yeah see that that's after scrubbing Clean Hands can I make you a sandwich follow along in the coming weeks as the tested team and I continue our work on these models scratch building lighting painting detailing and prepping these Miniatures for filming thanks to Bethesda game studios for partnering with us on this project and inviting us to play in their new universe Starfield Launches on Xbox series X S PC and Game Pass on September 6 2023 and is rated M for mature you can find details below or visit www.starfieldgame.com to learn moreforeign we've partnered with Bethesda game studios to build a filming model of the frontier ship from their upcoming game Star field I couldn't be more excited for this project it's a celebration of the exact kind of practical effects filmmaking I'm obsessed with and that we all love follow along over the coming weeks as the tested team and I embark on a scale miniature build that combines the latest fabrication Technologies with my favorite old school model making techniques let's Dive In thank you cable routing cable routing yes so I tried as hard as I could to sort of Tidy it all upside yeah and we're gonna need to just I guess figure out how how best to hide what we can yeah so I think up here it could literally be we actually laid down a panel of styrene here oh okay with a Leading Edge like we hide all of that there's no reason to get elaborate it actually adding detail here takes it away from here so I've got some black styrene and I can ease we can I think we should just like plan to Sock that in okay um and then coming off back here you we've got all this lovely c channel and H Channel so what do you first of all okay you're right you've got heat shrink on all of them wow you got it on all of that yeah yeah this one took a bit of time yeah um yeah the resistors uh are somewhat exposed just because we want to have some heat but I feel like with the siren covering it I don't I don't think we should worry too much about it no I don't I don't um tell me what you've already been thinking so I don't like Yeah so basically like this is I've sort of mapped out where I think everything should be routed to Center I have the backlight here and then these all kind of come in from the side there was not really a good spot for me to hide unfortunately this part yeah sneaking through so um this is the only one where I'm like hmm all right and all that really needs to happen is that all these umbilical back to a central location yes yes and then so we've got I I get a metal post okay right a hollow metal post that will come down to the base oh interesting that will be the stance so we'll we'll be able to Route these through that oh interesting okay that will be my goal is that these I don't think I have to hide I think I hide this I hide this I hide that under here I can be a little looser okay and it's gonna it goes inside a metal post that we have access to from the from the underside and the over side okay right so we can get our umbilical end to plug all these in like eight plugs or something like that yeah so there's like gonna be one more from like the um there's like the cockpit right right right monitors that can't be installed unfortunately until everything has been finished okay but that that's that seems like it would work out fine we just snake it in I think at the tail end is that this is roughly where it's going to come out do you think or maybe actually it's probably best if it comes out here yeah so I guess like we just need to make like some sort of pilot hole Mark that right I'm gonna make a mark and then is there anything else this is coming down over here this is great this is great this should be really fun I think the the last thing that we should probably focus on is that there is this like sort of uh detachable monitor that's going to be living here and I have the light for it great yeah um but it has to unfortunately because this thing is removable I ended up having to put it on a separate circuit right so we just need to figure out a good way to sort of hide the battery pack and still have access to the switch when we want to turn it on okay so let me see this great I so this is I could just make this integral to the door and it attaches into here yeah great okay cool okay that that's like that sounds like a lot of fun I'll jump on this dude the lights just make everything pop yo yeah is like I've been loving it on it's just it's got this nice like blue like nice blue glow and it's just yeah makes you feel like a ship it really does all right I'll jump on this and I'll bring it over when it's done awesome thank you sweet thanks Adam foreign by the way I'm Kim blue member if I've mentioned this on the channel before but one of the ways I hold my sanding sticks is directly a response to watching my colleagues get carpal tunnel so instead of like this I hold it about as Loosely as I can in a very light touch just leave it against my palm with my in this case my ring and my thumb or middle finger and my thumb and I'm just it's a very light touch okay good that's starting to hide some crimes that's lovely okay now let's I can do one more happy happy let's see here Wait no that's not the one not the one that's the one oh yeah that's the one oh yes awesome awesome awesome okay okay so now this guy out nice and oh oh that's not good okay wow it's a deep cut 0.9 we go to 0.9 foreign foreign all right so now what I have is a discrete power pack for this light which goes in here and it can wrap around the back and put a panel on that light it's ideal all right all right one rule of masking there will always be overspray that's another one there will always be overspray no matter how careful you are I mean look maybe you're um maybe you're one of my old colleagues like Peggy raster or Kim Smith or Lauren Vote or Melanie wayless and you don't have overspray but The Mortals Among Us this human painters unlike those Geniuses there will always be overspray so you just got to resolve yourself that you're going to have to fix some crimes that you've left with your masking now I want that's good that's good that's good I'm happy with that I'm happy with that that looks great this is fine good good good okay that'll all coat well gotta get the door so that should be ready to paint nice foreign that's the most important coat because that's the black coat and that will hide all the crimes of the other black coats did I just do that I started with the wrong paint it doesn't really matter but I just sprayed that with the textured but I meant to start with the primer it's not that big a deal I'm gonna let that sit for a minute and think about what it did so my cutaway model now has a coat of black paint but it's a little too smooth and uniform I tried out the um Rust-Oleum textured paint and I I understand what it kind of does but it's so low texture it doesn't really help me the reason being is I don't want this just to be a dark value I kind of wanted to eat the light I want it to be a negative draw on your attention and the way I want to do that is I want to add a just a little bit of texture to this so it's you really understand it's not something you should be looking at now when you want to add texture to a paint job one of my favorite ways is this really weird way of using wait where did it go ah here spray adhesive this is super 77 this is sort of uh this is sort of the lifeblood of the spray adhesive industry like everyone uses 77 there's a multiple kinds but 77 uh well I'll show you I'll show you what I did with 77 I made um I made the hero guns on the front of the mjolnir for uh The Matrix sequels when it crashes through the door so these were actually mounted to the fiberglass buck that crashed through the doors of the dock and I got a CG reference model that I broke apart in Rhino turned into some laser cuts and then I did all the model making on this this was really this is like a reward for me towards the end of The Matrix sequels Mike Lynch my supervisor was like you want to just build that thing from scratch and I'm like oh yeah I do so um you can see it's got this heavily cast iron texture and that was all done with multiple layers of super 77 and primer uh and the practice would be I laid down primer and then I laid down a little 77 let it dry put primer on top of that lay down another let that dry put primer on top of that I think it's like four or five passes with light sanding between them and then you end up with this really nice variegated mottled texture that feels very much like um like it's been cast in iron um and why do I have this because well I asked the mold room for one more gun than I needed for production and I took this one home I don't think anyone's going to get mad at this point so that I'm not going for this texture I'm not even going for this texture but uh I will be I will be uh the 77 will add a dimensional feel to it that I hope just allows you to concentrate your attention on the inside of the cockpit not anything else oh you want to wait until it's no longer tacky which is where it's at so I'm gonna hit it with some more primer all right the next step is we'll peel off the tape but I'm going to let it dry for a little while it's time for the unwrapping the moment of truth and every time you pull off masking is like Christmas I mean and I mean that in the full scope of what Christmas can be it can be crushing disappointment or spectacular wish fulfillment let's start with the back now this transition will get cleaned up this will end up being painted red so that you know you're looking at a cutaway model all right overspray what'd I tell you and if you're in a shop with lots of people it's incumbent on you to take the tape ball and throw it at somebody that hard just it's that's like that's just required foreign ladies and germs that's lovely that's really great I'm very happy all right let's take this stuff off all right let's power her on hey is that everything yes yeah very nice bam I uh I was fully expecting to mess something up wow that is great handled with care it really looks terrific too excellent I'm so pleased that we don't have more that I didn't create more work for us to do yeah no this is great it looks fantastic it's such a pretty model we are in the painting phase of our ship which means we're coating everything with a primer coat to give it a base on which to lay on all the other paint and it's a lot of pieces it's a lot of primer and it's better not to just wait for the primer to dry it's better to kind of bake it make it accelerate its setting and to do that I'm going to make a painting oven and it's a it's a pretty straightforward build it's even more straightforward than you think it is we start with this this is the basis of our drying oven for parts and I have made dozens of these over the years this is one of my favorite constructions so the first thing you do is yeah Step One is get the box step two is cut a hole in the Box and then see here and let's see and Wait Almost great we're done so this is the thing when you set this up with a part inside and you roughly close it just like that just like that you get this really dry box that's just slightly over like 100 degrees Fahrenheit which is fantastic for drying stuff without melting it uh so there's our painting dry box hey Kate the oven's ready for drying parts you're welcome I love you there we go and just bake it at 350 for 30 minutes and come back and it'll be delicious all right sir oh you glued some of these we made it I glued these in but these also aren't broken off anymore I those are new yeah yay there's a replay like I just did what you said I cut off the other ones made an insert right so if these break we can just take them off and put on new ones yeah but I beefed them up as well uh so um one of my okay right that's where I go great we actually we're this is gonna be this is gonna be our filming site so let's go from this side lovely yeah uh then let me make a mark just so I can memorialize that so this whole thing the magnets on so just take it that's awesome yeah okay so I'm going to cut away that marvelous you want to take it off to do that uh no I don't think I'm ready to do that just yet okay yeah when I do I think I can just bring in a Dremel circular saw and yeah it came out real easy yeah cool so yeah so so what's in front of us here so Kate's got everything primed yeah uh we're gonna do some railings and strut work so you can kind of see this is a stand-in that the the ship the game model has all this cool oh I see this is the only one that actually has them you can go here and then go all over okay yep so this is uh three Thirty second inch Rod um and uh we're just gonna put it it's nice thing it's the same on all of them we're just gonna put these in glue them in and then we can we can paint it the other thing we're going to do is some little railings kind of like you did on the ramp oh okay that we're gonna put on the outside here on the hall here nice and those are thinner yep so there's some you have the brass that we need yes and we can bend that by hand and just glue it in place do you want to do the struts and I'll start on the railing absolutely picture reference for the rally is it coming and sort of matching this curve so here's our reference for the uh railing so we're going to be building this uh right here they snake a little bit yep and I have these standoffs if you want to use them I'd rather not I figured yeah actually they're 3D printed yeah so actually yeah let's break this red right on no those will those will this can glue in so and it's duplicated up here on the top cowling it's exactly the same oh I love all this visual reference I know a large format printer was awesome oh yeah I like that I like 16th better Duke you monster I know so so I have a whole bunch of 16th inch Rod but I I think I'm going to go with the thinner Rod actually now yeah I I like press fits I like you know yep dimensionally stable fits but I don't want to be forcing and snapping and gluing and drilling okay so it's one two three four five six seven eight sixteen total of the corner rails yep and they're all pretty identical to each other in the spacing I think so because they're looking to be efficient yeah yeah and they just whatever layout here they duplicated it I guarantee it I appreciate that yeah I appreciate that about them all right there's these guys which we can yeah you can do it like that one okay and then I get one here like that so because I have 16 of these little railings to make I am effectively uh assembly lining them I'm making the first curve which is out of here which is at 90 degree on the biggest 20 millimeter but assembly lending means that they'll all be identical and that will actually help me in scale that will actually help sell the scale of the ship that they are matching you don't have any weird wiggles or bumps or yeah those those can draw your eye and make you like why is that done that's all right so this is unlike how I normally work but this is one case where I did not measure any of these rods okay we have to put all this strut work in here so I I just I just I yeah I just put them in Markham by hand and I'm just going to duplicate them by cutting a bunch yeah but the funny thing is so these we had a problem early on I was a little worried about these little guys which are are some kind of like uh docking clamp or something yeah and we man just snap every single one of them several off uh and that was partly I didn't have them beef as beefy should I just printed them as is and you had a great idea where we basically sold all them off and then I just reprinted a new insert that we glued in on top and we beefed these up now and also what's going to help is these actually get tied in with the metal strut work right so by the time I glue these in these should be they should not snap anymore I appreciate that foreign I'm going to play around here I'm happy with that uh so are you gonna do the the standoffs the connecting piece no I love it wait that was right so wait that oh right I haven't done those dude I love it so I'm just condemning all these by hand laughs all right these are looking good thank you okay I am doing these railings thinner because all right so model making is all about the perfect being the enemy of the good it's all about hiring people who know how to prioritize what looks good on camera because with n amount of time you can make a perfect model but there's never the perfect amount of time so you have to find the efficiencies and when you're selling scale there are certain things that you cannot oh I don't have my glasses for this here we go there are certain things when selling scale that you can't let go so if you take a look at this railing here that railing looks great for scale and this one on the other side does not do you see it because this Bend is too sharp and that means the top of this railing is bowing down and that bowing it draws my eye and doesn't look like it's the scale it should be that one does so I've got to come in with needle nose pliers and fix that bend and if I can I just have to pull the whole thing and replace it but like that's what I'm talking about about the little precisions that sell the thing to be the scale that it's supposed to be so I don't have glue up here so I'm just going to try and do it and see if that can help here we go and Earth that was it that's literally it that tiny tiny amount so that the bow no longer happens when that paints those will sell the scale that simple I got the strut work installed on all of these and one so we installed this metal core that Adam machined and that's going to allow us to to mount the landing gear right into that but as an extra just extra little precaution we also made these which are pins that go directly into the block which then engage that so if it wants to start torquing like this way they're just a little something extra I don't think they're necessary but it makes you feel better and then and then we got the steel rods that are going to go in there that also uh act as these Pistons um this guy can go back on here all right I will do that um those look great that's really good yeah I'm very happy I think we are I think we are done with the strut work yep no more over here nope the only thing we have to add later is there's probably some hoses that we want to do in the landing gear but I don't think we want that on there before we paint no Kate's already started on some of the other stuff and and I think at this point we can hand this off to her the do the paint job dude really it's time yep yep we've reached the painting part um this is great that was I I'm just really happy with how this is going good this is back in the ilm days this would have been like a million dollar model this I I don't I don't know how much you'd actually bid at it but this would be in the this would be in the you know several people for weeks and weeks during something like this from scratch yeah uh I have to hand it uh we got a lot of help from the modelers who worked on the games thank you yeah yeah yeah no that that shortened the struts look great yep I love it and it actually made things actually they're actually doing the job made everything stronger these aren't going to snap off anymore oh that's great um and we got our pins in the landing gear and we'll wait to put the steel rods in until after we paint and then we'll be done yeah dude let's uh bring it over to Kate from here all right looks cool wait until you see this thing once I put all the Pistons on this this is the coolest part but it needs to be painted first yeah exactly foreign colors colors colors everywhere we're finally in the color zone so tell me tell me what we're what's going on so I basically took every color that we had that could have possibly worked for this model and I sprayed samples on some you know leftover pieces we had I like to do it on this you get some of those curves you can see the light and you can see them compared next to each other I like that um what are your thoughts after laying these down you've immersed your head in the color palette of this guy and this isn't this isn't like perfect Canon right we're not having to match a thing because people customize these exactly so we get to customize it as well uh but if we're going off of some of this reference we have I'm definitely leaning towards this white here it's a base as a base and that's the this is the Insignia yes Insignia white and we're in an issue because we have one can of this and a whole ship yeah okay um I had we we talked about this off camera my suggestion is I have five or six cans of this matte white sort of a primer my inclination is to because I have enough I think to coat the whole model in this to do that and then get a dust coat on it of this maybe even paint it in this assemble it and paint it in this I think that's a great idea and that means we get the colored cast we want which is that nice deadened yeah sort of it's almost a green to it it really is lovely I one of my favorite things at ilm was going to talk to the painters and asking for help to get to a color because I'd be like my purple's all washed out and they're like you got to use the opposite side of the color wheel and I got like so much smarter trying learning from those amazing painters oh yeah you're right there is green in there a little pink too yeah let's coat everything in this extremely bright white and then we'll kill it with this sounds like a plan I like that I like that because people don't realize how white a lot of the Star Wars ships started out yeah the Millennium Falcon is famously reefer white and when you buy a can of reefer white you're like this can't be right oh if you were to ask me what color the Millennium Falcon was or anybody else they would say gray yeah Battleship Gray yeah which would be like so dark it would almost disappear exactly weirdly okay so we'll go with that and then on top of that what are the colors that stood out I I this is a yellow we have yes that that seems to me like a perfect one to one exactly and then one of the things we I was playing with here is we have this doll red which I got and then looking at some of the reference it looks like it was almost too dull so I did a test where I sprayed an apple red on top of it both um super opaque and then like misting towards the edge so you could get an idea of what it would look like by doing that if you wanted to lighten it up so I really like the misting effect here I really like how much depth that gives the color and it also weirdly feels a little like old paint it does right this is so monochromatic I mean and also I look at this and I just think primer red yeah which is one of my favorite different colors to be sure but that's kind of awesome yeah I think it gives a bit of depth to it and we're not the stuff that gets this color is like panels and pieces not huge chunks or cells or things yeah so I I think we definitely have a workable solution here and then I got a bunch of different blacks um at least so this one's a rubber black which you can see is is much more dulled and has that gray tone to it and then we've got um a semi-gloss black here um and then this is like a metallic black if you wanted to catch the Light a little bit more my inclination for scale is to go with that I like that one a lot and then we can we can we can make this reflective selectively with specular yes coats and other stuff well not to mention there are things like um here I've got a sample of some rub and buff ebony so anywhere that you want to like mix it up a little bit you can just use that or we also have some Gundam markers that's great that's great yeah the semi-glosses tend to show some of the crimes of the of the original model yeah and it's fascinating and that definitely hides it um okay and then I think that's the perfect black I think you're totally right I'm into that one uh we also have a bunch of yeah Silvers and Golds to choose from it's interesting I got this spray gold thinking that's definitely what we're looking for I sprayed it I didn't like it so then I did a second test where I sprayed it on black because that changes the way it looks it really does but this European ribbon buff gold is pretty spot on to what we have in our reference so it can also be something we make up on the Fly do we want to just spray it and add some rub and buff or do we rub and buff the whole pieces that's as we're allocating those are choices that we can make and again if we get it wrong we just mask it and redo it exactly that's one of the things I love the most about paint is you kind of can't mess it up too bad you say that and my experience in mixing paint is I would try and get this purple and it ended up with like three gallons of the wrong color and it keep on adding well that's where I come in I I Delight in color matching so put me in a room and I'll get it right eventually okay um so I think that's it are those the main decisions we're talking about I think so and then just for funsies because there are a few bits of Darker Grays around I have a whole complement of different Grays to choose from including I went ahead and just left a straight primer tray visible primer is nice um that's lovely is that a gunmetal yeah so that one is actually let's see that one's 42 that is light gunmetal so this one I'll swear what what I like about it is it's not quite semi-gloss yeah and we could make this pop like hell with a little silvering in the corner exactly which we have a few more of the rub and buff and chrome samples up here um this is great I like this gray too I think this one might end up being too well I don't know actually I mean those complement each other quite nicely yeah there's a again you start to see a bit of green in there to my eyes my my father was an inordinately good at color matching and he would always do that when we were kids like look at all the Green in that sky and I remember being eight and being like I don't know um that is awesome okay and we can start to divvy this up now we get to paint I know I'm very excited I've been waiting a while for this uh Sean Sean it really does look like an animal hahaha uh we're ready for painting dude yeah so we're just gonna basically take a part of everything put together yep let's part it out we're gonna do this in a couple of passes first we're gonna to separate all these pieces and spray paint them a a basic White then we're gonna bring this back together and we're gonna hit it with a Insignia white which is a much better darker and that'll we don't have any more than one can of Insignia white so we got to make the best use of it we get everything coated then Insignia white will bring it all to cohesion then we take it apart again and we'll divvy it up for the color cool thank you how much ah here we go looks like I'm getting this whole thing in one can now I'm not trying for a perfect bright white coat I'm actually trying for a tonal evening out of this whole thing because I'm going to hit this with the Insignia white afterwards to try and give it that color cast of the Insignia this is just more like a base tone foreign coats right now because at this stage in the model making if I got a big drip out of spray paint it could be a real disaster because it could happen on a part of the ship that I don't have access easy access to for sanding and I'm gonna have to address it before continuing so it could really gum up the works to get a drip so instead of the normal like you know six to ten inches I'm literally just like breezing by while doing this and kind of getting a mostly coat and do you know how I know to do that is because I screwed it up and had to spend half a day fixing something because I was lazy for one second oh foreign outstanding this is one of those days where I will go in there and I'll scrub the crap out of my hands they still won't look clean they'll they'll be clean like I'll eat with them though that's not necessarily the marker you want for clean they'll be clean but I go home and my wife is like can you wash your hands when I'm like I okay here's what here's the best we can do here we go I use the Fast Orange it's got uh like pumice in there for scrubbing it's a lot of scrubbing I love the warm water my weird proclivities is I love doing dishes I really do I love the water I love cleaning things up like it's a little bit of my ostv you know like making the kitchen spotless it's not like it's always spotless but like when it's time to make it spotless I like that oh my God my poor fingernails who cleans their hands with a dirty rag there we go that's actually not that's not so bad but yeah yeah see that that's after scrubbing Clean Hands can I make you a sandwich follow along in the coming weeks as the tested team and I continue our work on these models scratch building lighting painting detailing and prepping these Miniatures for filming thanks to Bethesda game studios for partnering with us on this project and inviting us to play in their new universe Starfield Launches on Xbox series X S PC and Game Pass on September 6 2023 and is rated M for mature you can find details below or visit www.starfieldgame.com to learn more\n"