I have always loved the 5ft Falcon, the old piece of junk. I was excited to see that the digital Millennium Falcon made for Star Wars: The Force Awakens was based on the 5ft model. Unfortunately, 5ft is quite big for a display model so I came up with the idea of building a 5ft-style Falcon in half the size – which equals 32″ (technically 30″ would be correct, but the 32″ Falcon is half the size of the 5ft model). On my Facebook-group I document ways of converting the 32″ DeAgostini model into the 5ft-look. With lots of 3D-printed donor parts, correction of saucer-shape, mandibles and jawbox. Everyone can join the experiment and decide how far one wants to go in terms of detail and authenticity.
With Tony Regidor (aka 308bits), Christian Fröhlich and Nico Möbius I have some awesome 3D-guys ...

I was combing through the site recently, coming upon this oldie, but goody from 1/1/2011… and I decided to bump it to the front page.
Kurt Kuhn

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The Colonial War Machine was stronger than ever, holding off decades of Cylon attacks and protecting it’s twelve Colonies. During an intense Cruise along the outer rim of claimed Cylon Space, a fleet of three Battlestars are suspiciously called home. They had been ramming heads with 12 different Cylon Basestars for the past 3 months. Even though they had dealt the Cylons extreme damage to most of those Basestars, and destroying at least three of them, they suddenly found themselves staring at only debris fields remaining upon the shift of the new day. The Cylons had pulled away, VANISHED!, going back into their claimed space...

Marko is amazing with his modification techniques. Top notch!

I have been working on improving the Bandai kits, especially X-wing and Y-Wing to exactly match their studio scale pendents.

For the Y-Wing-kit me and a friend from Austria made aluminum replacements for the main cannons. As you can see in the pictures, these not only look way more authentic than the kit parts, they are actually like the studio scale cannons and then scaled down for the Y-wing kit. There will be 2 versions available – one long cannon for Tie Killer, Triangles and MOM-Pyro and one short cannon for the Tiger Sprocket aka Gold Panel Y-Wing.

No modifications to the kit needed!

It’s not final yet – but they will become available on RetroSF in near future…

If anyone would like to know, I can show how to modi...

Artist Marko Osterholz always comes through with fantastic pieces to show…. and these are two that are even better than his last presentation!

In the past couple of weeks I built the 2 first starfighters in 1/3 studio scale: X-Wing blue one and Y-Wing Red Jammer.

Both are heavily modified Fine Molds kits, with 3D-printed parts, custom decals, etc. Turns out, the 1:72 Y-Wing kit is more close to 1:80, so I had to scratch bigger engine tubes and a new cockpit.

Same goes for the X-Wing; the fuselage is nowhere near correct, nor is the canopy or details like droidstrip, backplate, etc.

Long story short: I built both these models to the unique specifications of the very first X-wing and Y-Wing built by ILM in 1976.

Keep in mind – these are 1/3 studio scale 😉

Take care,
Marko

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Not only has Marko accur-ized this build, but may soon be offering the accur-ized parts for all to do so! Check it out!

Lately, I built the new Moebuis TOS Galactica and showed what areas need modification, as well as I showed how that model looks with some 3D-printed parts and a new bridge.

In case you haven’t seen the thread on RPF forums: https://www.therpf.com/f11/modifying-re-fitting-new-moebius-tos-galactica-yes-i-dare-200682/

Attached you see a WIP render of our bridge for 3D print which will replace the kit part (which is awfully inaccurate) and a buildup of my Moebius TOS Galactica.

I’ve been asked several times where people can buy our 3D-printed parts + bridge for the TOS Galactica. We (Model Forces) may offer the parts for distribution?

Regards,

Marko

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This has been a long time coming. I believe the modeling world owes a huge thank you to the artist’s at www.model-forces.com for creating the conversion parts that finally make the FM 1:48 X-Wing accurate to the original studio filming miniatures! Here is one of their builds of what they achieved….. Marko’s RED 5!

To contact the KIT PRODUCER direct, please click the CONTACT KIT PRODUCER link below.

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Marko Osterolz teams up with Stefan Hacker and Christian Fröhlich to create a new model company (Model-Forces.com) that makes it possible to have studio model accuracy in a smaller desktop model! I must say…. these gentlemen hit this right on the head with what modeler’s are wanting! Though the site is not yet ready, Marko has asked that I add this statement to tell what their new company is doing…

January 12, 2012

We are negotiating with a company here in Germany for getting the replacement parts done with styrene injection molding.

This would be another improvement of the parts...

Using teh amazing CG Renders of the actual battle damaged Galactica used in the show (SEEN HERE), famed artist Marko Osterholz matched the CG model mark for mark…making the final display something fantastic to view. Enjoy the detail that Marko placed into this piece… as well as a video showing it up close! Fantastic work as usual from this artist.

To visit Marko’s site regarding this fantastic piece, please click his banner below…

To purchase this kit, please click on the MOEBIUS banner below…

To view these photos in their large size, please click directly on them.

January 13, 2011

This fantastic piece has been sold to a very lucky Collector in Hong Kong!

December 21, 2010

Custom built to go along side the other kits of this size, professional modeler Marko Osterholz spared no detail. This piece literally looks like the 6 foot filming model! I am completely impressed with Marko’s work on this! And whomever is lucky enough to actually get this piece in their collection will be as well! This piece is as good as it gets before spending 10 to 20 thousand dollars (and up) for a Studio Scale Battlestar!

Here is what Marko has to say of this fantastic piece for sale…

Dear fellow Sci-fi-modellers & -collectors!

I have finally decided to offer a masterpiece from my collection to the public.

It is a 21...