I am going to make this primarily of plasticard. I can to a lot of grief constructing Lucie (My Warhound) and the Thunderhawk out of foam filled posterboard mainly because of the incompatibility with styrene plastic as far as adhesion. While a model completely fabricated of styrene will cost more the trade off is the time saved in not having to fight to get different materials to hold together. Further I plan to do a complete interior involving at least 4-5 levels each interlocking with the decks above and below; foam board just would not stand up to assembly and disassembly to display the interior detail.
It strikes me that this model is insufficiently complex.
Just kidding but over the weekend I received a query on another forum as to whether I was going to include an interior to the cockpit. I had alway intended to make the cockpit interior but it got me to thinking about my regrets when building the Lucie Warhound; namely no interior whatsoever. So...........
I threw together a front view of the compartments this weekend just so I could get a feel for how the various areas might be arranged.
Surprisingly it all fits and each compartment has about an 11 ft ceiling.
My dementia is serving me well.
Naturally the cockpit will be forward of the bridge and is not represented in this diagram.
http://i.imgur.com/eJxy0.jpg I'm toying with the idea of stacking the decks like a child's stacking toy about the center pivot post:
This should afford ease in viewing the internal detail.
There are so many interlocking armour plates that alignment should be relatively easy to maintain plus there is the added bonus of modular construction which should facilitate modification and repair not to mention adding lighting at a later date as opposed to wiring it as I build.