Tutorial by John Selvia: PART VIII (Conclusion): SCRATCHBUILDING & KITBASHING  My Model Creations: Hello, as promised, I’m posting some pics of my scratchbuilt/kitbashed (don’t know exactly what term to use) spacefighter. I started with the front section of an Italeri 1/72 Mig29, and the body of an Revell 1/48 F-14, […]

Tutorial by John Selvia (June 22, 2006): Tutorial PART VII CREATING ALIEN/ANCIENT/FANTASY ALPHABETS & SYMBOLS For the sci-fi modeler, graphic designer or the interface designer, coming up with convincing runes, letters, or other alien alphabet-type concepts may be challenging. I’ve been creating alien/fantasy/ancient alphabets for years, influenced by Japanese Kanji, […]

Tutorial by John Selvia: Tutorial PART VI – BALANCE Whenever I work on a spaceship model, I view the hull as sort of a blank canvas – it’s the foundation for all the detail I’m going to put on it. The way I develop details for that ship is to […]

Tutorial by John Selvia: Tutorial PART V A Detailed Subsection and How It’s Constructed *The Chopper came in real handy in creating this section of my model. The first photo shows the piece we are going to deconstruct (break down into pieces). Here is an exploded view rendering with all […]

Tutorial by John Selvia: Tutorial PART IV Surface Detail Build-Up Okay, we have our aspirin bottle with a styrene sheet applied, we have spare model parts, and we have our styrene sheet strip cut to size with a Chopper or X-Acto knife. We’re ready to lay stuff down. You now […]

Tutorial by John Selvia: Tutorial PART II A Backbone Using the manufactured cylindrical shapes (Aspirin and Vitamin bottles) to create a form requires a backbone. The bottles are centered on and attached to a piece of plastic pipe. You carefully need to drill centered holes in the caps and bottle […]

NOTES #1: Comments on the following Tutorial “Scratchbuilding & Kitbashing” PART I to VII, compiled by Murray Elliot Breen aka surf-the-arts -artist, designer, scale model and diorama builder. A few years ago, around 2007, I came across a online website with excellent information on Scratch and Kit Building.  The link was […]