This home project, like the Battlestar Galactica Raptor project, involved making a model from scratch using card and modelling paint, along with a couple of other bits and pieces.

I decided to build a model of the Pelican Dropship from the Halo games, specifically the version seen in Halo 3, which differs from previous versions of the Pelican in a few ways: the interior is more spacious due to the slightly more retracted and segmented passenger seats, and the layout of the pilot and copilot seats in the cockpit is tandem rather than side by side, as featured in the older Pelicans.

This Pelican was also the first one to have any sort of door mechanism on the opening to the troop hold. These little touches made this Pelican seem more functional, which is why I prefer it.

Unlike the Raptor model, I was able to find an adequate selection of detailed images of the craft that helped me build the model and make it as aquarate as possible. The most helpul resource was theatre mode in Halo 3 itself, which allows you to review footage of levels and maps you've previously played in a free roaming camera. This allowed me to study the Pelican a little more closely.