Buck Rogers - Searcher

Starship · June 11th, 2008, 06:42 PM

After some time that I promised to Taranis, here it goes the revamp of an old wip. The basic shape is there, but still there is a lot to go before I finish her. Due to the small freetime that Ihave in my hands, it will be a looooong wip.

Darrell Lawrence · June 11th, 2008, 07:26 PM

Let's race to see who finishes first: You with this or me and a Gunstar

evil_genius_180 · June 11th, 2008, 09:51 PM

Looks good so far.

gmd3d · June 12th, 2008, 01:31 AM

Looking good Starship .. you look to have the shape worked out nicely..

Warrior Gunstar should be something to see when we see it

Starship · August 13th, 2008, 03:35 PM

Remembered that I didn´t post the updates here...

So, I´m in the first place at the race, right Warrior ?

Here it goes the updates:

August 14th, 2008, 02:15 PM

Looks like you're off to a decent start with this. I don't remember the ship too well. Will have to did out my series 2 dvds and take a look.

gmd3d · August 14th, 2008, 02:35 PM

Looks very close .. there has never been a good side view .. but Starship has work it out very well

September 3rd, 2008, 10:21 AM

This needs a reimaged version. If the Galactica can get a ribcage version, then why not the Searcher?

September 3rd, 2008, 11:12 PM

Looking good Starship!

UA

Starship · January 2nd, 2011, 08:07 AM

Ok, here where I left her the last time, two years ago... Let´s see how long I can go this time.

RedEyes · January 2nd, 2011, 08:12 AM

Looking forward to it, there were some nice designs in that show.

gmd3d · January 2nd, 2011, 08:13 AM

cool ,, great to see this back up ..... how about some wireframes

Darrell Lawrence · January 2nd, 2011, 08:29 AM

Even after two years he's still ahead of me LOL

Starship · January 2nd, 2011, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Warrior

Even after two years he's still ahead of me LOL

You´ll need to run!

gmd3d · January 2nd, 2011, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Starship

You´ll need to run!

how fast

Starship · January 2nd, 2011, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Taranis

how fast

Not that much.

New "neck" is in place. And here it goes the requested wireframe too.

gmd3d · January 2nd, 2011, 01:21 PM

ah thanks very much

mikala · January 4th, 2011, 06:46 PM

Very nice Starship.
Nice to see something other than Buck's ship or Marauder's being built.

gmd3d · January 5th, 2011, 01:30 AM

yes I agree, always liked this design.

the other bird I like to see is hawkman fighter

Redfern · January 5th, 2011, 06:05 AM

Playing devil's advocate, I found this vessel, well, expedient. It was just hastily redressed from the space-liner featured in the first season.

I'm not down-playing the modeling skills presented here, oh, no. I just feel the ship itself, as well as the bridge set and other design aspects of the second season were done "on the cheap".

Sincerely,

Bill

gmd3d · January 5th, 2011, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Redfern

Playing devil's advocate, I found this vessel, well, expedient. It was just hastily redressed from the space-liner featured in the first season.

I'm not down-playing the modeling skills presented here, oh, no. I just feel the ship itself, as well as the bridge set and other design aspects of the second season were done "on the cheap".

Sincerely,

Bill

well there is truth in what you say and for the most past as far as I heard that both Gil Gerard and Erin Gray where not happy with many aspects of the production.

Gil Gerard as far as I know or read was never really happy with many aspects of the shows format.

James Bond in space type of thing for Buck(I love it all the more now)

he would have liked to do more transition stories about buck time in the 25th century.

but the effect of the second season where done cheaply as possible.

but I still like the design.

I was at one time building a hanger for this model but that also lost in a crash.

Starship · January 9th, 2011, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Taranis

yes I agree, always liked this design.

the other bird I like to see is hawkman fighter

I know 03 of them, but just one was a public release, and it´s available at Foundation3d.

The second one, is older, built by Thomas (http://tommy.elitegamer.com/www/3Dim...ers/hawk09.htm) and it´s pretty cool. I´m lucky enough to have it (private release).

The third is, in fact, the more perfect. The mesh owner said it could be released, but I never heared news from him after that. Maybe one day...

Starship · January 9th, 2011, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Taranis

I was at one time building a hanger for this model but that also lost in a crash.

Rebuilt time! I still count with you on that.

But let me finish the Searcher first.

Starship · January 9th, 2011, 04:12 PM

Forgot to metion...
Good news: I found who own the original Searcher!

Bad news: the model is packed, and the owner won´t unpack it at this time. Maybe in the future he said.

gmd3d · January 10th, 2011, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Starship

Rebuilt time! I still count with you on that.

But let me finish the Searcher first.

sure. I would like to finish that

gmd3d · January 10th, 2011, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Starship

Forgot to metion...
Good news: I found who own the original Searcher!

Bad news: the model is packed, and the owner won´t unpack it at this time. Maybe in the future he said.

that would be good if he did .... lots of photos

gmd3d · January 31st, 2011, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Starship

Forgot to metion...
Good news: I found who own the original Searcher!

Bad news: the model is packed, and the owner won´t unpack it at this time. Maybe in the future he said.

maybe we should send him a begging message to open quicker.

Starship · January 31st, 2011, 11:32 AM

You can always to try: http://www.battlebuck.com/

I sent an e-mail for him last week. Still no answer. Already asked James Small too, but he don´t have nothing about the Searcher. He just did the photos.

As a curiosity: looks like there was an exibition about sci-fi, included Buck Rogers. Don´t know the date: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jjackowski/4258147465/
http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=15906

Mark Dickson take other photos from rare scifi filming miniatures, like the Eastern Alliance Destroyer, from Galactica: http://www.modelermagic.com/?p=13924

gmd3d · January 31st, 2011, 12:35 PM

Pity ..... But I have some new Buck Rogers projects coming up.
I use that site for the Draconia refs

Tenement · January 31st, 2011, 12:57 PM

The Draconia is a model I'd really like to see. I worked in a space themed restaurant in the 80's called the 'Buck Rogers burger station'. We had the original cinema version of the film playing on the big screen in the Restaurant two or three times a day. I can still recite the whole screenplay to this day.