Category Rod Lowe

After a 8 year hiatus, last showing my Millennium Falcon here back in 2012, I have started model making again, this time a Revell 1/72 scale V22 Osprey.

I made some major modifications which took about 300 manhours over 15 months to complete including a detailed interior, internal and external lighting, motorized propellers and additions and changes to the exterior to more closely resemble the actual production aircraft instead of the prototype.

As a finishing touch I created a “challenge coin” out of sheet plastic to accompany the model display.

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Rod Lowe

Viewing the Millennium Falcon in “Landed” mode is rare… and this piece by Rod Lowe is beautiful! It shows the great idea of the lighting power being one of the actual landing gear legs! Fantastic!

Here is  my 1/72 Millennium !

This is mostly an OOB AMT/ERTL kit with the following modifications :-

1. Added Blue Moon resin sidewalls.
2. Scratch built cockpit and gun wells (using some graphics kindly supplied by John “Ozzy” Rohdes)
3. Fibre optics and LEDs to light the interiors, the landing lights and the engine.
4. Numerous “greeblies” and other details added to make it closer to the studio model.
5. Power supply hidden in base and connected to the model via the removable front landing gear (to eliminate any external wiring from showing).

I’ve won the following awards for this model at ...

Thanks to Rod Lowe (photographer of this model) I have been placed in contact with it’s artist… Jason Ricketts! We look forward to showing more of his works. Shown here originally on Dec. 8, 2011….. I am bumping this to the front page so that the artist may see his work there for the first time!

This monogram kit conversion into a very nice Galactica is outstanding. Those if us that know that kit are aware of how challenged it was to the actual filming model. This artist shows that it can be made into a beautiful piece!

This model actually earned Jason a “highly commended award” at the Sydney Scale Model show that was held last month in Sydney, Australia.

“It has quite a varied history...