Building the Battlestar Pegasus 

As a longtime BSG fan (4/5ths of my 23 years on this Earth), I can gleefully say you did the Pegasus justice! That is one sexy finished product!

I can't build models anymore, but if I could, there would be some BSG love. Nice work!

Looks stunning. Love the subtle Aztec . That texture, I’ve had similar happen when painting with the model air color over some finishes. In this case I think it enhances it.

Great work as usual Sam. When you talked about masking all the panels I figured there goes around 10 years of your life with all that work. I had the original Galactica that Monogram models put out a few decades ago that was a smaller scale than the Moebius Models kit. Looking forward to your next build and maybe at some point Moebius will bring out a Base Star.

My all-time favorite series. Great video.

Awesome job.

I cannot believe how awesome is your handiwork. This is a beast of a model, and you make her awesome.

Another great build Sam. I really like the paint job you did. Once again you chilled me out dude. Look forward to your next build.

Nice to see an old battlestar being built, don't see too many of them. Well done.

Very nice build and video! Love your narration and subtle music in the background as well, very relaxing!

I just bought this on Amazon. Doubt it’s the same ship but it’s quit remarkable the time, patience, and meticulous artistry it takes to do this. Anyone that does this has to be a huge fan of the series, both old and recent. I can’t wait for mine to arrive!! I may attempt to put a light system in it!! The recent series had me hooked the first show and even though I’m a huge Star Trek fan, the BattleStar Galatica is my favorite.

Been loving your posts on Instagram. Such a fantastic model and such an amazing paint job.

Your attention to detail and hand work is fantastic as of yet, love ya bubba

OUTSTANDING!

I love the pegson

Fantastic build! I love the almost-BSG music at 38:24! So say we all!

"So! Out comes the putty." I love these words! :D

Awesome work mate.

Only just came across this channel but I enjoyed this video, so much so it makes me want to take up building models and painting them again something iv'e not done since I was a kid.

Great work,thanks.

Awesome vid man , very relaxing too

One of the best tools I ever purchased from modelling was a die cutter. Vinyl stencils are the best and you can save a ton of time cutting out shapes for masks. I hear the Crikets are really good.

That is amazingly done!

Amazing, I don’t have the patience. You are an artist.

Great work!!!

Great job with the BSG Pegasus. I am going to eventually build that one on my channel, and I will probably put lights in my model when I get it.

Thanks so much for this vid. I have one of these and I do not want to "mess" it up.

Beautiful! I loved the Pegasus Lee Adama should have attacked the Cylons at long range at New Caprica with her Vipers leaving the Fleet for a short time. They could have saved their greatest asset it makes no sense to destroy your most powerful ship.

Fantastic build thank you!

Yes mate I enjoyed the build and the video, always enjoy watching your vids :)

Looks Amazing, Dude.

Isn’t that kit just a blast to do?! Yours came out amazing.

Came out amazing. I like using Tamiya Weathering Master pastels for rust and soot

looks awesome outstanding work as always.

Amazing!! 😍❤😍

Well done! Looks greats!

Lovely kit mate. Thanks for the video. Keep up the great content. John form the Wairarapa.

Looks great! A few months ago I used a similar template techniue to paint the various panels on a Star Detroyer model. There was zero chance I was going to mask those hunderds of panels individually.

Well done. I'll have to look out for the model and pick it up if I get the chance to find one.

I actually have a model of the original BattleStar Galactica and it was one of the glue together models and I still have it.

very nice looks great

Love it.

I can't wait to see you build the new Galactica.

Excellent Chili Excellent

I have an original 1978 model of Battle Star Galactica I built when I was 18.Its still in one piece, I repainted it correctly about 10 years ago. I am now 61.😁 At the time it was a Monogram model.

Wow , that's fantastic my friend !👍👏👏👏🎩👌

Now if it only had tiny little vipers and raptors to park on that awesome deck you made! :)

Very nice

I saw the episode where they first introduced the BattleStar Pegasus on the remake of BattleStar Galactica and the same with the original series too and both were interesting and surprising for the crew of the Galactica as they all thought they were the only surviving BattleStar and like with the original series with the remake I would have thought the Pegasus was the same class as the Galactica until I saw this video called BattleStar Galactica Spacedock and in the video it said the Pegasus was what was called a Mercury Class BattleStar while the Galactica was called a Jupiter Class.

G’day mate, I really enjoy this video build. Thanks for sharing. I hope that all is well with you, over there in the Land of the White Cloud.

Subscribed, but never got an upload notification. Have you been naughty? Pegasus rocks. Love it. I just did the 1/1000 Discovery Enterprise, using the same Vallejo gunmetal, but yours came out much better, seems more metallic. I credit your channel for turning me towards Vallejo paints. I have to order them online as none are locally available, but enjoy using them much more then Model Master or even Tamiya.

Your modifications to the flight bays are nice, but you forgot something. You need to scratch build some appropriately scaled vipers to put in them. :)

Those little things that need extra attention are what I love about scale modeling. Slap on putty, cue up some Electric Light Orchestra, and sand away.

Great

Nice one Sam, looks like you're about ready to graduate to oil paints for weathering I reckon :)

I have an LED chaser circuit that would mimic the lights on the landing bay deck. 🙃

Some Resin 3D printed raptors and or vipers for the flight pods would have just been magnificent.

Great build, Sam. Have you done a video for the Nu Galactica yet pls?

Great job mate. My ex Godson got his grubby hands on mine. Had a burial by bin.

I so want a 1/18 scale version so bad

I really enjoy your model builds. What do you do with all the models you build? Do you sell them? Put them in display cases? Just curious.

Why has every BSG kit been so small. I want one 36" long...

I'd be so tempted to put small white LEDs down the inside of the flightbays, red ones for the engines and mixture of colours inside the main body.

Very nice build. What glue are you using? It looked like you glued a lot of pre-painted parts. Plastic cement wouldn't work well on paint, correct?

Very nice Work!!! Respect!!! What is with youre secound build of the Perfect Grade?? Stoped on Part 2...

Why does the Pegasus not have any railgun turrets along the upper dorsal? Even the older Galactica had at least 8. Seems like a blind zone for any cylons flying straight down from above!

Hey chili, what precision cotton swabs do you use?

Awesome! Is it just me, or are there some Russian/Soviet tank road wheels there during the sponging stage?

I know the voice of a Clone Trooper when I hear it...

One thing that never seems to work for me is using liquid cement after painting - either refuses to bond or blisters the paintwork . Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated. PS - good video, encouraging and clearly presented, with a fab finished model

Great build! Can I ask where you get your Plastic Putty from - I am in NZ too - ?

So when you doing panel lining I thought you was suppose to wait for it to dry then take it off with some thinner?

Can you make star war rebel base mpc

time 16,00 .. I going to print landing bay I mean from one peace of the landing bay from kit I will print more pieces of the original landing peace , and put my printed landing gear together and I will make all hangar with landing bay . then I will drill 0,5 mm holes on landing bay I mean I will make two lines thought hangar .and then put to holes optic Kable and make them blinking from back to the front .

I can’t find this in stock anywhere. Is this product discontinued?

サイロンも大艦隊でカッケー🌏

Pegasus is an amazing battlestar. Alway thought William Adama should have transferred his flag to her after commander fisk death and gave Galactica to Saul Tigh. Garner and Apollo was bad choices to comman Pegasus

Very nice build. However, I do not think it is for begginer modeler though - mainly because of the price - about 300 EUR is the cheapest one on EBay ;-)

Would look more badass with fibre lightning

this is the first vid Ive seen of yours and loved it EXCEPT for the ad's every min or two...... I get that you wanna make a buck but they shld of paid you hundreds for all the clicking ad's away every min or so

This kit has become a tough find 🥺

You need to calm down with this talent.... holy hell

What kind of putty did you use?

after watching this i am very confused about how gravity works on the flight deck

Lights? :(

Pegasus offered so much more to the fleet. Apollo should have been court martialed and spaced for disobeying orders, and loosing such a valuable military resource.

This turned out very well. Not a great kit, with shoddy moulding for the landing bays and use of the same gun turrets as the Galactica kit. You have made a silk purse from a sow’s ear. The Paragraffix photo etch linings tfor the inside of the flight pods are OK, but not screen accurate. What is bad about those etch parts is their launch tube strips - instead of making the tubes themselves as holes in the brass strip, they’re raised surfaces! You didn’t miss out by not buying them. I have been working on a new Galactica on and off for years. It’s is a terrible kit - they made a step between the head and neck which doesn’t exist on the CGI model (you need to slim down the decks between the “jaws” to get the top of the head to sit level), the moulding was done on the cheap so the armour plates fill the voids between the hull ribs where the armour ends along the top sections and the side plates of the head (I spent weeks carving those out and replacing all the small panels on the head with styrene sheet) , they are missing the point defence guns in many areas (styrene rod), the rear profile of the flight pods is wrong (flat sided triangle rather than barrel shaped, needing the ribs all removing, sheet bonding and rounding, then new ribs), they have single gun emplacements along the whole of the pods, when the guns are doubled up between the thicker ribs, and the inside of the pods is awful (as are the Paragraphix accessories), needing a full custom interior with sheet, ribs made from rods, the suspended corridors and docking bridges…. Then there are the Acreation decals, which shed their colouring and turned pink… not a fun build in all. Still, it is gradually turning out very well. I lit the pods, engines (greyish white, not blue like the Pegasus - watch the departure from Ragnar Anchorage to get a really good view of their tone), and the six red lights in the vids where the pods retract (looks like five lights per side in season one, but watching season two shows better angles from the side and resulted in the model having to be opened up again 🤬). It’ll be worth it. On the plus side, I’m nearing completion of Moebius’ 1:350 Discovery XD1 (2001), and that is a lovely kit. Just be careful assembling the engines - it’s easy to get the hexagonal end plates with the exhaust details in the incorrect orientation to the thin section of the engine trunks, but it’s important!

I hate decals. Soak em in water and some break apart into many pieces

Please don't use your good nippers on thick stuff like that, use cheap ones for the bulk then use the tams when near desired point, you will chip the blades on them tams for sure

You certainly don't spare the pop-up ads do you? I finally had to give up on the video because the sheer number of ads were just getting annoying. smh

Way too many commercials!