Summary: My goal is to update the basic design in some areas where the 31 is deficient without changing the overall look and feel of the craft I envision that is part of the draw KSE would be pushing in marketing the ship to potential customers It will be lit internally with 15 soft white LED s driven by a small 3V powerpack that I can tuck away in the nose allowing the miniature to free stand without having to be tethered to the nearest electrical socket I already have the lights juice ready to put in the hull but won t cut plastic until a few minutes from now Gotta do my stretch and flex exercises to get pumped up I ve decided my ship s Captain will be a female but haven t come up with a name to christen my miniature yet The other four will likely be a mixed race contingent Human Sullustian and Mon Cal Writing this it sounds a bit like Firefly huh I never watched the series faithfully but did watch Serenity and liked it Maybe that s where my drive is coming from I m using a photo of Andrasta source Star Wars Galaxies as my source of inspiration And I m going to use five figures from Studio StarForge s excellent 1 72 scale line to populate my Privateer Furthering the idea I m going to apply a custom paint scheme for my bootlegger s ship and I am seriously pondering the idea of applying a cheesecake pin up on the fuselage side like the dancing Twi lek on Andrasta I am not sure if I m going to do a human female or what species to select right now I m going to do what I envision the 41 my creation the reintroduced KSE Firespray Class Patrol and Attack Ship might look like as a Privateer in the hands of scoundrels I hate being hemmed in But SW Expanded Universe lore has KSE reviving the ship type in an attempt to re enter the small starship market by cashing in on the notorious Boba Fett s exploits with his 31 So that gave me an idea to take the basic kit and improve upon it for a more up to date version in the timeline shortly after the Battle for Endor There really isn t a lot more information or drawings photos to go on beyond that as Jango Fett stole one of the 31 prototypes when escaping from the prison on Oovo IV and destroyed the hanger with the remaining prototypes Frakkin Bounty Hunter scum or Ever since I bought Fine Molds Jango Fett and Boba Fett versions of the KSE Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray 31 Class Patrol and Attack Ship I ve felt a bit contrained in what how to model them With the near canon lore already written on this ship type you can really only model either So I figure what s it gonna hurt to start another one When I have a good time at a model contest even when I am asked to judge I always come home fired up to crack open another box and start something Problem with this is that I already have an embarrassing number of started projects 25 crying out to be finished I m like anyone else okay maybe worse My goal is to update the basic design in some areas where the 31 is deficient without changing the overall look and feel of the craft I envision that is part of the draw KSE would be pushing in marketing the ship to potential customers It will be lit internally with 15 soft white LED s driven by a small 3V powerpack that I can tuck away in the nose allowing the miniature to free stand without having to be tethered to the nearest electrical socket I already have the lights juice ready to put in the hull but won t cut plastic until a few minutes from now Gotta do my stretch and flex exercises to get pumped up I ve decided my ship s Captain will be a female but haven t come up with a name to christen my miniature yet The other four will likely be a mixed race contingent Human Sullustian and Mon Cal Writing this it sounds a bit like Firefly huh I never watched the series faithfully but did watch Serenity and liked it Maybe that s where my drive is coming from I m using a photo of Andrasta source Star Wars Galaxies as my source of inspiration And I m going to use five figures from Studio StarForge s excellent 1 72 scale line to populate my Privateer Furthering the idea I m going to apply a custom paint scheme for my bootlegger s ship and I am seriously pondering the idea of applying a cheesecake pin up on the fuselage side like the dancing Twi lek on Andrasta I am not sure if I m going to do a human female or what species to select right now I m going to do what I envision the 41 my creation the reintroduced KSE Firespray Class Patrol and Attack Ship might look like as a Privateer in the hands of scoundrels I hate being hemmed in But SW Expanded Universe lore has KSE reviving the ship type in an attempt to re enter the small starship market by cashing in on the notorious Boba Fett s exploits with his 31 So that gave me an idea to take the basic kit and improve upon it for a more up to date version in the timeline shortly after the Battle for Endor There really isn t a lot more information or drawings photos to go on beyond that as Jango Fett stole one of the 31 prototypes when escaping from the prison on Oovo IV and destroyed the hanger with the remaining prototypes Frakkin Bounty Hunter scum or Ever since I bought Fine Molds Jango Fett and Boba Fett versions of the KSE Kuat Systems Engineering Firespray 31 Class Patrol and Attack Ship I ve felt a bit contrained in what how to model them With the near canon lore already written on this ship type you can really only model either So I figure what s it gonna hurt to start another one When I have a good time at a model contest even when I am asked to judge I always come home fired up to crack open another box and start something Problem with this is that I already have an embarrassing number of started projects 25 crying out to be finished I m like anyone else okay maybe worse
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