Author Topic: Last flight of the Battle Carrier Shinigami (Read 39988 times)

taiidantomcat · « **Reply #25 on:** November 13, 2013, 10:56:55 PM »

These modifications are top notch!! As someone who hopes to make similar large space vessels I'm taking notes!

Brian da Basher · « **Reply #26 on:** November 14, 2013, 04:48:33 AM »

I am, of course, watching with great interest.

And stealing with my eyes. Yes I am.

I think your mods may give me good ideas for airships, yes I do.

Brian da Basher

Madhatter · « **Reply #27 on:** November 18, 2013, 09:00:48 PM »

thank you very much fellas - glad you like what you see so far

Very quick update to prove I am still working on this. Most of my time has been cutting, chopping and cutting some more just to make room for the electronics. It is such a tight fit as it is without my clumsy work trying to be packed in there. I have been asking myself why I bother to light things up sometimes when OOB with some external details would have sufficed. I am a glutton for punishment

the cuts in the midships area:

Opens up quite nicely and this area will house the main power inlet:

I am now waiting for my pink LEDS to come in the mail, so one they're in that should be about it. I am trying to make it so the carrier deck can it on last, so hopefully, it'll work

I have all the components individually wired up to plugs and all will plug into a modified ribbon cable clamp.

Also as a first for me, I have just bought myself a flasher board from a nice fellow over at BM. Never used one before, but he has programmed it for me so that's one less things I need to worry about - and it's small!!

Anyway, that's all I've done, but hopefully, things will pick up soon

Till then

MH

PR19_Kit · « **Reply #28 on:** November 18, 2013, 11:22:56 PM »

That's amazing, totally amazing. :)

I just took a look back through the thread and one of the sprues looks as if it's moulded in dark grey AND yellow and red as well! How do they do that?

Frank3k · « **Reply #29 on:** November 19, 2013, 01:08:43 AM »

Quote from: PR19_Kit on November 18, 2013, 11:22:56 PM

That's amazing, totally amazing. :)

I just took a look back through the thread and one of the sprues looks as if it's moulded in dark grey AND yellow and red as well! How do they do that?

It's a multi-shot injection molding process with two (or more) feeders for the plastic. They can inject the plastics at the same time through different ports or use a gate in the mold control which part of the mold gets the plastic. They inject one color, open the gate and inject the next one. Trumpeter does this with some of their 1/350 planes, with the clear canopy parts on the same sprue as the opaque airplane bits.

PR19_Kit · « **Reply #30 on:** November 19, 2013, 03:15:59 AM »

Pretty darned impressive, thanks for the explanation.

Can you imagine what Matchbox would have done had they had the same technology? EVERY part would have been a different colour!!!

father ennis · « **Reply #31 on:** November 19, 2013, 10:48:46 AM »

Bandi has used this for years on its Gundum kits. And yes, some of the sprues do look like that. LOL !!!

finsrin · « **Reply #32 on:** November 19, 2013, 02:49:29 PM »

Impressive indeed.

So fine - over the top - too good - etc....

More power to you. Keep posting progress pictures.

Madhatter · « **Reply #33 on:** November 19, 2013, 08:51:11 PM »

thanks fellas
The multi colored plastic is ok but reminds me of old Airfix kits - and some of those are not good memories.
Just tidying up the electronics int he front section and will hopefully begin to assemble the main hull soon and then onto the best part - detailing :)
Pics once I have something to show you

MH

Madhatter · « **Reply #34 on:** November 21, 2013, 05:18:29 PM »

I did a quick lighting test and it seems my concerns about illuminating the sides is unfounded. It looks good to me. Lots of digging and cutting was performed to get the LED's in there. Might prove to be a challenge getting everything else to go together though....

I took the opportunity to snap some pics while I thought of it:

Cheers

MH

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #35 on:** November 21, 2013, 05:36:34 PM »

Looks damn fine to me.

Madhatter · « **Reply #36 on:** November 24, 2013, 01:45:20 PM »

quick update - have made the smaller hangar bay - or what ever it's meant to be. Nothing glued in yet as I'm still putting together the electronic parts, but I should be finished that soon

Cheers

MH

finsrin · « **Reply #37 on:** November 24, 2013, 03:00:33 PM »

Impressive

The more pictures you post the more I'm inclined to switch to OOB, prepainted, snap together kits, and call it good !

Madhatter · « **Reply #38 on:** November 25, 2013, 07:26:55 PM »

thanks bro - although what I am doing isn't anything anyone else can do

Time for yet another update

I have got the forward section finished and ready to paint.

Everything is wired up and ready to plug 'n go. I finished wiring up the power socket and will begin making a stand for it tonight.
Normally, these kinds of things are attached permanently to a stand, but this time I took a different route. I've done it so I can just simply unplug it and it's ready for transport.
The power supply will be a 9V underneath the base

As you can see, all the sections will be plugged into that modified ribbon connector which makes life so much easier.

I was asked recently by someone if I could take some pics of it with something recognisable for scale effect, so as asked:

And lastly, the rear nav lights are in place:

Well, that's all for now. Please feel free to comment - good, bad or indifferent.

MH

Cliffy B · « **Reply #39 on:** November 26, 2013, 04:07:23 AM »

And I thought I was nuts for wanting to detail 1/700 ship hangars! Some seriously fine detail work sir, keep it up!

Frank3k · « **Reply #40 on:** November 26, 2013, 05:32:16 AM »

Your clean soldering, wire routing and use of connectors tells me you're an engineer or have a lot of experience with real world electronics...

The hangar bays look fantastic.

Buzzbomb · « **Reply #41 on:** November 26, 2013, 06:28:31 AM »

Another killer project and was really taken aback at how small the hull really is compared with the detail you are jamming in there... terrific work.
Really looking forward to this.
Have taken a few of your wiring tips onboard as well for future projects, using the modded ribbon cable connector is inspired.

Do you get your LED's from locally here in Aus ?
I use http://www.ledsales.com.au who appear to have a nice array of stuff.
Is the Galactica Finished ?
Brian T

Madhatter · « **Reply #42 on:** November 26, 2013, 07:07:22 AM »

hey thanks for your kind posts guys - very much appreciated. I am posting the same WIP on another couple of forums but none of them are as engaging as this one, which makes it all the more worth while when people actually respond.

Frank, no I'm not an engineer of any kind. I'm actually a fraud investigator for a bank. I'm just applying some practice - that's all :)

Brian, I have bought LED's from Jaycar, and I recently purchased another 5 from them but choked at their prices. I mean, aside from me, who would pay $5.95 for a single 5 MM LED?!?!? I deserve the title of "perfect consumer - I'll pay what ever". When I got home that arvo, I went onto eBay to find my pink LED's and bought 10 of them for $1.80 and no postage coats from China - which is where they're all made anyway.
I also buy my pre-wired SMD's from the same store to for dirt cheap (20 SMD's for $15.27 & free postage). I have found another store that sells SMD's that isn't on eBay: http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/smd-chip-leds.html
The ribbon connector is an easy mod to do - I just laid down and soldered a section of LED leg across each side of the connections so that the electricity would run down the entire side of each polarity (-/+)

As for the Galactica - no, no where near finished. I haven't touched that for about 9 months now. I really should get my A into G and get it done, but I have just lost interest in it. I might get some mojo back to finish it after this. However, I am very excited about building the BR-52 loco after this, so maybe it'll have to wait until after that's done

I hope to have this done for Expo next year. I won't get to work on this much over the Xmas break as I'll be up north in NSW for 5 weeks but it should be do-able. Painting is going to be the greatest challenge as I am not 100% sure on what the correct colors for this are. I'm just going to wing it and see how it goes.

I'll update this again soon. I think I'll start detailing the front section now and decide on whether or not I close the 2 rear sections up now or wait until I have the pink LED's in hand first. I think I'll be able to get away with closing them up now and work within the tight confines of the section.

MH

ChernayaAkula · « **Reply #43 on:** November 26, 2013, 09:53:07 AM »

The greeblification totally looks the business!

Madhatter · « **Reply #44 on:** November 26, 2013, 01:56:43 PM »

thanks mate :)

Here's what I did this morning:

Will tackle more once I get home tonight

Cheers
MH

father ennis · « **Reply #45 on:** November 27, 2013, 08:27:36 AM »

I'm just amazed at what you have done here. I've built several of those kit back when they first came out. They were wonderful kits but what you have done here is just overwhelming ! I confess,I had forgotten about how small a kit that is,myself. I'm very impressed with the tiny surface details you have added. That was something I never thought to do,myself. It just makes it that muck better. As for paint, I remember these ships being overall red,just like the boxart. The artwork was simple and solid colors prevailed for capital ships. The fighter craft were colorful however. I can't wait to see more on this you are doing an outstanding job.

Madhatter · « **Reply #46 on:** November 27, 2013, 06:14:02 PM »

Hey thanks for the kind post Ennis

This is my fourth ship that I have detailed like this and this one is so far the 'cleanest' one I've done. By clean, I mean no visible glue marks. My first attempt was a Republic Venator, then the Cordoba from the Crusher Joe Anime series, then the Galactica (unfinished mind you) and now this. If you want to have a look at those, visit my photobucket account - they are all there :)
Well, I think that's quite enough self promotion for one thread....

Madhatter · « **Reply #47 on:** December 09, 2013, 09:20:46 AM »

OK, time for an update - it's been a while. My pink LED's arrived on Friday night, so I spent some time last night installing them. I couldn't do anything else until they arrived, but now things are moving along again.
The vents at the back there are actually painted Tamiya dark iron - not that you can really tell:

The carrier deck is now finished and painted. Hopefully, it;'s close enough to the correct color., I have sprayed some random replacement tiles around to break up the monotonous colour. And, even though it's hard to see, there are subtle variations to the base colour to add effect

You can just see the lights on here:

believe it or not, this side light (and a couple more up front) is actually green - but hard to tell in these pics. I will try shooting some pics tonight to give a better idea:

Anyway, that's all for now. I'm going to start externally detailing the hull shortly but may wait until the bridge has been cast in clear resin and constructed before I continue.

As always, thanks for stopping in

MH

Buzzbomb · « **Reply #48 on:** December 10, 2013, 06:03:36 AM »

...and back to normal programming.

Great update Simon. Love your work with fibre optics, something I am still yet to try.

Queeg · « **Reply #49 on:** December 10, 2013, 06:49:06 AM »

Yeah this thread is full of great things ............

Any chance of a wiring diagram for dummies ?

No, real dummies. I mean I know that electrical cables and stuff are like pipes, bigger cables mean more sparky stuff comes out.
And that extension cords have two different end so that you can't plug the wrong end in.
So a simple diagram would be a wonderous thing of sciencey goodness .... and theres so much I'd love to try this on


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