Kitbashing the Taiidan Attack Bomber from Homeworld (inspired by Space Gooose)

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Жыл бұрын

This is the full build video for my model of the Taiidan Attack Bomber from the Homeworld series of games. The original piece of art that inspired the build was drawn and animated by Space Gooose, who's drawn all sorts of cool stuff.
Link to original art: / 1519937165592961024
This was a long build, between the model of the ship, and the scenery to hold it. I'm especially happy with the magnetic attachment point that holds it all together.
Materials used:
Lots and lots and lots of styrene sheets (.040 and .020 thickness)
Tank treads from three different kits
Assorted wheels the same tank kits
5 popsicle sticks
Various mechanical bits from a model kit of a car
A couple big circles from an artillery kit
Several different kinds of wire
A big piece of balsa wood
Several smaller pieces of balsa wood
One plastic thimble
A tiny, very powerful Neodymium magnet
A small piece of tomato paste can
Basically a whole can of IPS Weld-On 3
Acrylic paints for base coats and chipping details
Oil paints for weathering
Too much masking tape

Пікірлер: 96

@scottywan82 26 күн бұрын

"A secret tool that will help us later" cracked me up. 🤣

@arkham67 26 күн бұрын

Great skills and a pleasure to see a ship from one of the greatest fleets ever designed brought into the 3D world.

@Iamvalcristvalentine Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video where you go to a used book store and check out all the absolutely sweet 70s Sci fi covers on the novels. Pick your favorite, and build it from scratch. A lot of work I know, Prototyping and all that, but still it would be cool to bring some of those under rated Cover art pieces to 3d life.

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

This is actually a great idea, I might have to try it. There's plenty of used book stores where I live so lots to pick from.

@MrShogunfish Жыл бұрын

This paint job really shows how much work the weathering does

@Deathwing2 Жыл бұрын

This was awesome! I'd love to see more Homeworld builds, maybe the Vaygr Carrier (HW2) or Hiigaran Interceptor (HW2)

@fonesrphunny7242 Жыл бұрын

There was this drawing of a Hiig interceptor. "10 years of Homeworld" or something. Looks pretty slick.

@probeulater 11 ай бұрын

I would also love to see more Homeworld ships. Homeworld is always number 1 on my favourite games of all time. Such fantastic games with great story and atmosphere.

@gameyybuilds Жыл бұрын

Nice, Homeworld is a good fit for your scratch builds, thanks for sharing!

@bearnaff9387 Ай бұрын

Amazingly pleasant work to watch. Only note I would offer is that, if you ever decide to revisit this wonderful piece, perhaps consider adding a spray of starlight or the curve of a dust cloud onto the bottom of the diorama to impart the idea that the ship is cradled above an open bay - like in the inspiration picture. Technically, I think the stars would be very unlikely to be visible from withing a properly lit launch bay - but they would be there to tell the story, not be realistic.

@theAZenf1sh Жыл бұрын

This was awesome! Please make more homeworld ships! Also you’ll have plenty more inspiration now that HW3 is coming out soon!

@johnkelley9877 Жыл бұрын

The model looks great but I have to say that the hanger really makes it look special and brings the whole model together. The weathering brings a lot of interest to the whole diorama. Thanks for sharing this.

@robertnogva Жыл бұрын

OOOOOH! hell yeah homeworld! more of this please! well, if you feel like it ofc.

@SciFiCrafts Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you use solvent as well. Weld bonds are the best. I use ethylacetate for my styrene builds. Tamiya is asking 3-5 bucks for it, for a tiny bottle. No sir!

@nigelhill74 Жыл бұрын

Nice work! Technically this is mostly scratch-building, with only a bit of kit-bashing, but I love it!!!

@pebblesthecat3625 Жыл бұрын

This model is just so cool. There is something about the whole diorama that makes it so esthetically pleasing to the eye. The space port docking pod just adds to the whole scheme and makes this diorama look like it really could exist somewhere. Have you ever considered taking the concept of using proper blueprints even further and creating something instantly recognisable ? May I suggest a rather excellent book by Graham Langridge called "Alien: The Blueprints" (approx £22-£26 depending where you get it from), which has extremely detailed complete scaled drawings in all angles of things like the "Nostromo", the Caterpiller P5000 Power Loader, the M577 Armoured Marine Troop Transporter, the "Prometheus" and other iconic machinery and spacecraft from those worlds. It may take longer than your current builds , but it's an option for you.

@philippeasselin2176 7 ай бұрын

Discovered you on reddit the other day and i've learned so much about modeling already from your content. Thank you so much

@Sublight_Drive 7 ай бұрын

Glad you like it! I feel like I perpetually think of myself as a beginner, so it’s always nice to hear that I have stuff to teach people.

@mikesmith2905 Жыл бұрын

Excellent work, well done. I make up toy soldier sets to give away so I have two issues: A) The rule of threes, one ship is a ship, two is two ships but three is a fleet (works the same with toy tanks), so I have to make three identical copies. B) Some of the sets go to 3-7 year olds, so cannot have anything they could hurt themselves with or break-off and choke on. There is a third issue as well, some things are likely to end up in the bath (although I have made some specifically for that). What I need is a glue that sticks uPVC (plumbing fittings) to styrene, no luck yet but still experimenting (for the moment drilling holes and using drawing pins.thumb tacks backed with Milliput to provide a gluable surface). Look forward to your future builds, I need ideas for sci fi sets.

@TBone-bz9mp Жыл бұрын

This channel is criminally underrated.

@K-Anator Жыл бұрын

Man I love Space Goose. Those ships based on everyday objects got me hooked on his art.

@RealAntiguaDreams Жыл бұрын

You are a master of styrene, good sir! :) I love the Home World games. It is great seeing your attention to detail and amazing talents pay appropriate tribute to a legendary franchise.

@synthetic240 Жыл бұрын

That looks really great. I can't believe this is your first exposure to it. Some of Homeworld's general aesthetic was inspired by the ships from the art-book / future history "Terran Trade Authority - Spacecraft 2000-2100AD". It's like reading a wiki-page describing the histories all sorts of civilian and military ships with beautiful full color artwork. Take a look and I'm sure you'll see some similarities.

@The-Man-On-The-Mountain Жыл бұрын

First of all, this might be one of the coolest hobbies ever. Second, your skills are impressive AF. Third, I love your editing and humor style. Makes your videos extremely entertaining. The ship is super cool too!

@MrFranklitalien Жыл бұрын

man homeworld was such a cornerstone of RTS, thank you for uploading

@DobbsyLondon Жыл бұрын

Massive win. I'm a homeworld nerd so already biased.

@skiesquiggles7319 Жыл бұрын

The relaxing energy of these videos coupled with your attention to detail at every step of the process is genuinely such a treat to see. You really went above and beyond for this build and it looks amazing!

@Frank_G_Finster Ай бұрын

I seriously need a new hobby to get my head clear... with roughly 40 years experience in 3D modeling (yeah, i built my first 3D models on my Commodore Amiga) and a couple of years working in package design - and a huge thing with anything space related - i might have just found the perfect thing... thank you very much for the video, i left a like and a subscription... i will test building a model for sure... Looks like the perfect zen stuff to me...

@tonyritchie6134 Жыл бұрын

Cool build, would like more Homeworld related builds. Would like to get my hands on the pattern for this ship

@grindsaur 11 ай бұрын

Using the uvw-map for your templates is really nifty! :D

@NOLMAD6 Жыл бұрын

This is why I would to like model kits for homeworld, very good job sublight you got the ware and tear of a homeworld setting down very well. Also make me what to take up styrene models to do more homeworld ships

@marks7502 9 ай бұрын

I love Homeworld designs. Great model and great video, thnx.

@ThePandoraGuy 3 ай бұрын

Also great color schemes.

@gaveintothedarkness 11 ай бұрын

amazing love homeworld. You can have a total niche all to yourself if you did some homeworld 2 builds.

@punchy001 Жыл бұрын

You should use Tamiya brand modeling putty, it is as white as the polystyrene and it dries up quick. You can sand it and paint it, it is great! The only thing is it smells like oil based paint. Other than that, it is awesome.

@1958pc Жыл бұрын

Absolutely superb.

@pitCest Жыл бұрын

In the process we trust! Good job man

@orangutanlibrarian Жыл бұрын

Great build. Thanks

@andrewhull7296 Жыл бұрын

Love to see you build a Vulture Mech

@Bozothcow Жыл бұрын

Recommend starting research on plasma bomb technology immediately.

@Kooozer Жыл бұрын

Amazing as always!

@wrecklesslee Жыл бұрын

these always make my day! thanks for being awesome!

@joeh954 Жыл бұрын

very relaxing to watch after work. nice job!

@studioINTEGRAND Жыл бұрын

Dude homeworld designs are a kitbasher's dream come true and you absolutely nailed this display. I bet if you do a crawler from deserts of kharak it would do big numbers for the algorithm as well

@GTRichardson7 Жыл бұрын

Best build yet!

@marcoscaba3846 Жыл бұрын

Beyond cool!

@peterjozsef448 Жыл бұрын

Really like it, good job!

@WarrenThrush Жыл бұрын

Love this! Thanks for putting this together and showing us your process. I really learned some good techniques and appreciate your generosity in sharing your knowledge. A great build.

@spinafire Жыл бұрын

Well done!

@cynicalmamc Жыл бұрын

Just stunning work as ever, more of this please

@farkelrysunhope6339 Жыл бұрын

One of best games and a great tribute to it. Great work. I built a few of the paper / card models from homeworld and plated them with styrene. But the painting nearly destroyed them.

@Squidmaster2470 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@QuackJAG Жыл бұрын

Homeworld builds always make my week. Awesome build!! I grew up playing the series. Super recommend them to you!

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

I picked up the remastered edition recently and started playing around. I’m pretty bad at it so far lmao

@QuackJAG Жыл бұрын

@@Sublight_Drive Just keep at it, and you'll get it! c: If all else fails, Salvage Corvettes are your best friends lol

@dell2man Жыл бұрын

Beautiful build, gives me the desire to try building something myself from pictures of ships I've downloaded. Great job!!!

@Shamai36 Жыл бұрын

Genius!!!

@josiahchua628 Жыл бұрын

Now that you've gone and done this, you've got to do a Kushan Interceptor.

@alessiodecarolis Жыл бұрын

Astounding job, pratically the templates for such a model could be made from a paper model such as with Pepakura designer. It's incredibile the details' level you achieved on it👍

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

Converting it to papercraft would be interesting. I have to take into account the fact that the styrene has some dimension to it when I make the templates, but I do sometimes test them in paper to make sure they line up right.

@davidstone-haigh4880 12 күн бұрын

Amazing. Your skill set does you proud. Now. Teach me how to do a Warhammer 40K Sokar Class Stormbird attack ship. (Please!!)

@mearrin69makes Жыл бұрын

This got me to subscribe. Nice build. Would love to see some more Foss-type stuff.

@maxiegrobner9018 Жыл бұрын

You make it look easy but that’s deceptive, the geometry of what you’re doing is somewhat complex. Nice work.

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

Yeah, this one was a bit of a humdinger, it’s got a lot of different shapes going on.

@stefferful Жыл бұрын

Hey just a thought here. maybe you should Collab with someone who makes Terrain pieces. you could do even bigger scenes that way, and they'd get to work with custom models.

@n3lis94 Жыл бұрын

Damn that was awesome, you actually inspire me to try this some time. Thanks for showing all the steps that's epic. I just wonder, what makes you do a Homeworld diorama if you never played the game?

@Jayy997 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see some based on the new ship designs in Homeworld 3!

@thedabblingwarlock Жыл бұрын

Any chance of us seeing some of the other ships from the franchise? The new mothership is begging for some love. Oh and have a sub. These models are fun to see built.

@CJ_the_Traveller 3 ай бұрын

If your looking for the OG inspiration for the art style of the Homeworld games, look up the artist Chris Foss.

@jasperr.2322 Жыл бұрын

Please return those scissors to my house

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

@occamsrayzor Жыл бұрын

Outstanding scratch building, man! I've not played the game, and I'm curious about something. Since it resides on the end of a docking arm, how does the crew get in and out of that thing?

@danielvy4626 Жыл бұрын

Where do you get those white plastic sheets where you build your models with from/what are they called? Also, great video!! Loved the build again.

@gameyybuilds Жыл бұрын

It is called styrene, a lot of modelers buy theirs from a company called Evergreen. But I recommend just calling your local sign printer shop and asking to go through their trash. They often thrown tons of scraps of this stuff out, and in all kinds of thicknesses.

@michaelyoung7261 Жыл бұрын

Now I’m wondering which crawler you’d pick if you did a Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak scratch build.

@andrewreilly8791 Жыл бұрын

get a nice high res image of a planet and stick it below the ship. Looks like its in low orbit about to deploy

@whateverelse4800 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful work. Is that template available anywhere?

@chazsutherland Жыл бұрын

Wonderful work! I'm curious, where do you buy your magnets?

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

K&J Magnetics all the way

@noahk7985 Жыл бұрын

This might be a stretch to ask, but can you make Archimedes? Its the ship of Nite Owl from Watchmen. I think it would be a cool build.

@NFields9489 Жыл бұрын

thoses bits of wood used to make the back boards, were those huge lollipop sticks? if so where can i fing them i have some many uses for them and projects that help me finish soooo many of my projects plus would help out on the film sets in the props dprtment, we are always looking for new products. any help is appericated.

@Forcemaster2000 Жыл бұрын

Why do you put the tape down before scoring the styrene?

@JasonGresalfi Жыл бұрын

Love your videos! I am brand new to spaceship model building and, so far, have only watched your channel, and Adam Savage over at Tested. I am really excited to get started and was wondering what app you're using to import the ship model and create your templates?

@Kooozer Жыл бұрын

It looks like Affinity on Mac, but you can do the same thing with Photoshop, Illustrator, GIMP, Inkscape etc. General process is to import an image or several images and trace the major shapes. Just make sure the images are as close to orthographic as possible (no perspective distortion). It's easier to trace them as vectors as it's easy to adjust the positions and line thicknesses afterwards and can be scaled to any size without any issues, which makes printing easier. If you have access to a 3D model file like the video, you could use Blender or some 3D model viewer to take screenshots of it at different angles for creating templates, or if you want even more accurate templates import it into 3D modelling software and unwrap the mesh into a UV map, but that's pretty advanced and is probably overkill if you don't already know how to do it!

@Sublight_Drive Жыл бұрын

This is it exactly. I don’t know anything about 3D modeling programs so I just use the default Mac picture viewer which can handle .obj files just fine. There’s a little bit of perspective distortion, but since I clean up the templates to match with each other it’s not an issue.

@JasonGresalfi Жыл бұрын

@@Sublight_Drive Thanks!

@JasonGresalfi Жыл бұрын

@@Kooozer Many thanks!

@taiyowest9495 Жыл бұрын

love ur project. Tho ii dont know if it is the case, but it seems like you use a very glossy paing, giving ur builds a plasticy look what i feel detracts from the scale, tho it might just be the camera

@MagnusMoerkoereJohannesen Жыл бұрын

Modelling putty, or, T H E F O R B I D D E N M A Y O N N A I S E

@gamerhalim4717 Жыл бұрын

Do you have guide build? Or website?

@probeulater 11 ай бұрын

Do you share your blueprints for these anywhere i would love to have a go at building this.

@Sublight_Drive 11 ай бұрын

I have templates and instructions available on my Etsy for the builds I’ve made that are my original designs. www.etsy.com/shop/SublightDrive Unless something dramatic changes, I only plan to do this for ships that are 100% original by me.