BlrwestSiR Posted January 11, 2021 Share Posted January 11, 2021 3 hours ago, GusMac said: Hi Carl, no it's the 1/24 Airfix one. Actually pretty big, about the same wingspan as the 1/32 F15. Even cooler. I missed out on the bubble top when it first came out and bow all I can find are the car door versions. Probably for the better since it's such a big kit as you mentioned. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJTX Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Got the nose cone test fit and got a bit of painting on the cockpit. Lesson learned on measuring 5 times before cutting plastic to add resin. That's why the evergreen strip is on the nose! That'll be it for about 2 weeks. I hope to accomplish quite a bit on my days off in Feburary. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Wow, nice Martin !......harv 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted January 18, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 18, 2021 On 12/27/2020 at 4:28 PM, BlrwestSiR said: Ok, the area around my work bench was getting a bit out of hand. Way too many kits puked up not on shelves and I was just waiting for an avalanche of plastic to happen. So I reorganized my shelf space, got things better sorted and it's much better. In doing so, I managed to get all my Tamiya single engine prop kits into a single pile: They e all found a shelf to sit on now. And more importantly, I have some floor space back for the cats and dogs. Carl, that top pic is how I envision John's stash. NICE STASH! 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Clunkmeister Posted January 18, 2021 Administrators Share Posted January 18, 2021 On 1/16/2021 at 5:40 PM, TJTX said: Got the nose cone test fit and got a bit of painting on the cockpit. Lesson learned on measuring 5 times before cutting plastic to add resin. That's why the evergreen strip is on the nose! That'll be it for about 2 weeks. I hope to accomplish quite a bit on my days off in Feburary. Tony, I learned the "assemble the basic airframe and make all corrections ahead of time" trick from you. Doing the same thing on my Thud. It's one seriously HUGE model. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Battleship fun. I just feel this kit is gonna take me forever. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 4 hours ago, GazzaS said: Battleship fun. I just feel this kit is gonna take me forever I know what you mean my KGV is now 6 years in progress.......... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 11 hours ago, GazzaS said: Battleship fun. I just feel this kit is gonna take me forever. This piqued me to do a bit more my KGV........ 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 17 hours ago, Bomber_County said: I know what you mean my KGV is now 6 years in progress.......... There's only two things I've done for more than 6 years. My marriage and my job. I'm not sure which shits me more. 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Feeling pretty smug about an experiment I just ran with my EPAX 3D printer. I taxed its capacities to the limit, but it worked, with an incredibly smooth surface. The fin tip is broken because of my clumsy attempt to straighten it, but that’s a nothing. One area on the fuse got pretty thin, but I think it’s more to do with my design. And finally the transparent blue color is just the resin I had available. Some grey one is on its way. That means I can resume a stalled project that was sitting on my (virtual, as it was in the computer only) SOD ... Hubert 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 1/19/2021 at 6:29 AM, Bomber_County said: I know what you mean my KGV is now 6 years in progress.......... I've got a Tamiya McLaren MP4/6 I started in 1993 that I work on once in a while... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomber_County Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 5 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said: I've got a Tamiya McLaren MP4/6 I started in 1993 that I work on once in a while... Glad I’m not the only one, saying that I have the original boxing of the Airfix 1/24 P51D that I bought in 1974.........it’s started........it’s in the garage........... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumm Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I can sympathise with you Gaz... 16 hours ago, GazzaS said: There's only two things I've done for more than 6 years. My marriage and my job. I'm not sure which shits me more. This sounds like my work and domestic experience about a decade ago. One place worked me increasingly harder year upon year, as I constantly struggled away out of some misplaced sense of duty. While the other, I was just expecting to get scr#wed on a daily basis. What a pity I got the two completely mixed up. S 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_S Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 On 1/20/2021 at 3:11 AM, HubertB said: Feeling pretty smug about an experiment I just ran with my EPAX 3D printer. I taxed its capacities to the limit, but it worked, with an incredibly smooth surface. The fin tip is broken because of my clumsy attempt to straighten it, but that’s a nothing. One area on the fuse got pretty thin, but I think it’s more to do with my design. And finally the transparent blue color is just the resin I had available. Some grey one is on its way. That means I can resume a stalled project that was sitting on my (virtual, as it was in the computer only) SOD ... Hubert Enlighten me, Hubert. Why are many of the 3D printed parts designed at an angle? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Bill_S said: Enlighten me, Hubert. Why are many of the 3D printed parts designed at an angle? 3D printers all work in the same way: they add layer after layer of the part being printed. When you have straight lines on this part, either vertical or horizontal ones, the risk is great to have visible steps between layers, if the printer is not perfectly laid flat, or if it "wobbles" by the tiniest fraction of a mm on the Z (vertical) axis. Setting the part at an angle is a way to avoid steps and having the layers more visible as the human eye unconsciously sees "lines" along the part's main axes and spot discrepancies along these. We have the same approach when tensioning silk screens: if the weft and wave of the fabric are set at right angles to the screen frame, you end up with a moire effect of the straight lines being printed, sometimes to the point that the fine straight lines look wavy. Hence the fabrics are most of the time set on the screen frames at a 22.5° angle. It is also a way, when you have an overhang of the layer being printed above the one under it, to avoid having to add too many supports for this overhang. The layer is "connected" to the layer underneath by the angle of the part. Finally, for this part, this was also a way to have the part fit within the limited dimensions of my printer. By the way, the parts are designed along "normal" X,Y,Z axes. You set them at an angle on the slicing software that preprocesses the part to be printed into the hundreds of successive layers (in the case of the Mystery Ship fuselage, there are about 2900 layers). This is also when you add the supports. This is an art in itself, even though the software does the support design and placement automatically most of the time. I had the supports wrong on the left fuselage half, and stopped the printing about halfway, with an undeterminate "blob" . A printing for a part this size on my DLP printer takes about 13 hours, for your information. I hope that my explanations are clear. If not, just ask. Hubert 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 And some printed parts; just fresh of the curing station, and not even fully cleaned up of the supports' tabs. The cowling is VERY thin, about 0.7 mm. Some minor issues here and there, but nothing that can't be solved with a file and some putty or Mr Surfacer. Hubert 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harv Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Very nice work sir !......harv 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlrwestSiR Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Great explanation on the printing @HubertB. I always wondered about it myself. Carl 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Great explanation Hubert thanks. Hadn't even thought of what grain there is in silk being enough to cause moire patterns. Brings back bad memories of physics lab experiments 30+ years ago! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaireckstadt Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 On my bench: Lancaster crew and 3 mechanics for the diorama. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazzaS Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Those guys look great, Kstadt! From me... more warship. The Artwox deck gives a splash of color to the seas of gray. I'll probably tone it down with a wash later. What's with the red arrow, you ask? The ship is crooked. The red arrow denotes the curved line where I separated the the fo'c'sle from the battery deck. Otherwise, getting a decent fit would be improbable. I don;t know if the crookedness is my fault, or the kit's. Either way, I didn't want to have to suffer the consequences of having the battery deck fully installed and then have to fill and sand places on the fo'c'sle. I also began to rig the torpedo net system. If you get to see close-ups of warship with torpedo nets, you'll see it's quite busy between the torpedo net shelf and the waterline. ...but you'd need the patience of a saint to try to get everything there in this scale. For the rigging, Uschi line sold under license by MiG Ammo. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubertB Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 12 hours ago, GusMac said: Great explanation Hubert thanks. Hadn't even thought of what grain there is in silk being enough to cause moire patterns. Brings back bad memories of physics lab experiments 30+ years ago! It’s a long time since the silk in so-called silk-screens has been replaced by nylon or polyester, but the moire problem still shows up, believe me This said, moire effects in silk fabrics were sometimes sought after, and amplified by minute variations of the silk filament diameter. Hubert 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaireckstadt Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 46 minutes ago, GazzaS said: Those guys look great, Kstadt! From me... more warship. The Artwox deck gives a splash of color to the seas of gray. I'll probably tone it down with a wash later. What's with the red arrow, you ask? The ship is crooked. The red arrow denotes the curved line where I separated the the fo'c'sle from the battery deck. Otherwise, getting a decent fit would be improbable. I don;t know if the crookedness is my fault, or the kit's. Either way, I didn't want to have to suffer the consequences of having the battery deck fully installed and then have to fill and sand places on the fo'c'sle. I also began to rig the torpedo net system. If you get to see close-ups of warship with torpedo nets, you'll see it's quite busy between the torpedo net shelf and the waterline. ...but you'd need the patience of a saint to try to get everything there in this scale. For the rigging, Uschi line sold under license by MiG Ammo. Thanks Gaz, Which ship is it? Looks great and also as if a lot of work is required to get it right. I only have one ship in my stash: Revell 1/350 Bismarck... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark31 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 the beginning off a Australian T610 SAR truck will open a topic later Mark 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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