Much to my horror Jacob Keyes' famed shipshape ship, shape-shifted.

[alix965]

I fell in love with Autumn's unusual design at the beginning of Halo CE. That's the moment she jumped out of slipspace and into my heart. The idea that something which looked like a horizontal skyscraper could be put to orbit, much less maneuvered deftly (as piloted by Cortana) held my imagination for years. After reading Nylund's Fall Of Reach, I decided that the time was right to take Beyonce's advice and "..put a ring on it". I've jealously watched over the years as various individuals on the intersphere created their own versions of my baby.

When I finally decided to scratch build a styrene starship, I thought that she would be the perfect candidate for a semi-novice like myself. Very geometric. Her scale would allow me to gloss over minute details. Her big square caboose and rotund engines would be easy to rough out. I casted some small areas from molds I had made from a toy millennium falcon, and then finally I painted her the way she appears in the game. Semi gloss gray. The finish of the paint left me totally disgusted. Rather than repaint her and possibly destroy details like panel lines...I...I abandoned her. With only the forward comm array left to do I just put her on a shelf from which she stared at me mockingly for months (years?)

Then came REACH. I saw the cut scene to mission 10, and fell in love all over again. I'm so stupid.

[Garland]

Wow, that's a great looking model!

[alix965]

Wow, that's a great looking model!

Thanks G. I need to put the 2 antannae on bow and front and maybe some washes and a little drybrushing. I was going to try and get that glossy sheen on the hull,like MC's armor had, but I don't think I can replicate that on a 12 inch model.
I'm gonna photoshop the living bejesus out of it though, and maybe animate it floating across my living room. I need to test my chroam keying skillz. Then I can work on my nun-chuck skillz then my hacker skillz.

[project003]

is there any possible way you can mold this? it seems that we both fell in love with the same woman my friend.

[alix965]

I've never even considered molding it. She's kinda small though it shouldn't be too hard. I can't promise anything, but let me look into it. :-)
I appreciate that you think she's mold worthy though, Thank you for the honor

[GarzakAzur]

Hi man your pic really creep me, but your pillar of autumn build is just epic. Like project003 said this is really mold worthy and would probably love to have it right next to my reach legendary statue on top of my TV.

Awesome work man.

Pat

[alix965]

wow. thanks G-Azur.

I know I have a bunch of smooth on stuff in my closet somewhere but I'm afraid of having to take the place apart to find it. Let me check it out and I'll see If I can give you gents a serious answer about me attempting to make a battered old refit Halcyon class cruiser worthy of praise

Also, the funny thing about that pic is the guy's expression. you can't really see it in the avatar but trust me he looks like he just dropped a deuce in his a adult diaper.

[skylow]

I agree with everyone having a copy of this myself would be awesome it looks great, and if molding gets complicated (which i know it can) you've definitely inspired me to try one of my own, i'm no stranger to styrene. Maybe a pic for getting an idea of how big it is would be nice. But again just a truly great job.

[Garland]

I'm liking the molding idea (even though I don't have the money to buy a potential pull). I've always had this idea of little UNSC ships sitting on fancy display stands on a desk, like a modern general might have a model of an F-18 on his desk.

[Hickeydog]

That looks absolutely amazing. VERY nice work.