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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #75 on: April 03, 2012, 02:52:28 AM »
Coming up with that one really takes some imagination and vision, Mr Tomcat!

Have you considered calling it the "CrewFlanker"?

I'll get my coat...

Great stuff!

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Offline taiidantomcat

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #76 on: May 21, 2012, 02:52:16 AM »


What the...?



Oh.


Cool!  :)
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #77 on: May 21, 2012, 03:10:37 AM »
Making up wings out of sheet stock, I see. Something Tailless maybe?

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #78 on: May 27, 2012, 10:27:28 PM »
Wow! vThat new bird looks like it will be a stunner!!  8)
He really DID lose his marbles!

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #79 on: May 29, 2012, 07:20:54 AM »
More gold medal stuff.

Love what you are doing here.. all of em

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #80 on: May 29, 2012, 08:07:43 PM »
Just catching up with these - they all look great: well done!  :D
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Offline taiidantomcat

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #81 on: October 19, 2012, 07:14:48 AM »




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Offline Queeg

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #82 on: October 19, 2012, 07:30:31 AM »
That's starting to look really good ..... almost Gundam like (in a good way).

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #83 on: October 19, 2012, 09:05:43 AM »
Those are some amazing and very gutsy mods!

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #84 on: October 19, 2012, 09:20:38 AM »
Is this one of those simpler builds you were talking about?  ;D   lots going into this one, looking forward to seeing where it leads. :)
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #85 on: October 21, 2012, 01:38:08 AM »
Is this one of those simpler builds you were talking about?  ;D 


LOL no but this is what got me thinking "I need to do more simple stuff!!"  >:D

Refurb:







Its new fins in the making. ^

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #86 on: October 21, 2012, 03:48:28 AM »
I have just been looking through all this stuff and it really is truely amazing scratch building, I wish I had half the ability you have to be able to build stuff like this.
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Offline taiidantomcat

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #87 on: February 11, 2013, 04:22:55 AM »
Moved from the Bench Clearing GB



My original Taiidan Tomcat being refurbished. Its been the Paint job that has been slowing this one down... I need to find one I like.



Fins finally fitted!!



My sci Fi British hornet that was "killed" by a falling picture frame hung above it!!  :o





Fins removed, along with intakes and new spacey fairings added to cover them.You can barely see in the above pic too that one of the Leading edges has been cut off (more on that later)

 :icon_music:



Cut off the old spine. See that bulkhead there? I had no clue that was there so I had cut around the edges and could not figure out why it wasn't coming off!



The new spine I made! (before clean up)



Inside the spine. I reinforced it because when I am sanding I don't want it twisting and warping.



A piece of 1 inch wooden block that will serve as the intake being laminated in plastic.



and with panel lines cut in.



Lastly the lip I made from strip styrene, along with the front grate-style intake cover

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Offline taiidantomcat

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #88 on: February 17, 2013, 03:12:06 AM »


Experimenting with Salt masking and "Rust" I had the idea that with science fiction you could have different colors of rust. Thus Purple! I might try blue as well. I think green would look too "slimy" and yellow too acidic.
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #89 on: February 17, 2013, 03:56:18 AM »
I really like that idea you have for different colors of Sci-Fi rust, Mr Tomcat!

That's a really neat way to further spice up a project.

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #90 on: February 17, 2013, 03:56:39 AM »
Cool!
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #91 on: February 17, 2013, 04:09:58 AM »
Maybe say there is some Bismuth in the armour:

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Offline arkon

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #92 on: February 17, 2013, 10:28:52 AM »
neat colors and nice use of "scrap plastic" for paint testeing!
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #93 on: February 19, 2013, 06:47:03 AM »
You Sir, are a trend setter. Your work is cutting edge and I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish I had your powers of imagination. I'm enjoying every progression post you put up. 8)
He really DID lose his marbles!

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #94 on: February 25, 2013, 03:52:09 AM »
Maybe say there is some Bismuth in the armour:



That is brilliant!! ... Got the wheels turning. could be as simple as creating a mulitcolored undercoat and then doing the salt masks with various "rust streaks" added to match the color.  :)

neat colors and nice use of "scrap plastic" for paint testeing!


Gift cards are a gold mine  :)


You Sir, are a trend setter. Your work is cutting edge and I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish I had your powers of imagination. I'm enjoying every progression post you put up. 8)


That means a lot! The feeling is mutual Eddie!



I made these a couple summers ago but it was finally time to construct them. The problem? Well its a flexible 3D object so I needed a way to make them uniform so I hustled to make some impromptu braces after a failed glue attempt revealed they would need it to keep them uniform.





Success! And it made those fiddly bits at the top come together much easier as well!



The Gun in progress. Styrene laminating some very user friendly and easily carved wood (wish I knew the type, but it was like carving a No. 2 pencil)



The aesthetically critical wing boxes in progress. I am using scrap sprue to reinforce the flimsy joints (never throw anything away!)



The outside of the wing boxes next to the gun. You can see here why I prefer the laminated wood method: NO SEAMS! The problem with the plastic origami method is there are seams a plenty! I am going to refine the origami method to get some better results in the future.



I noticed on Star Wars The Clone Wars on CN that the consoles are colored! Doh! Why didn't I think of that?! So I tried with Yellow:



The black lines are not perfect but I was not worried about perfection here, and most them won't be visible save for a few. A lot of what you are seeing are "practice swings" I do like it though, opens up even more possibilities





It was scary easy to create a EF Typhoon look with the Tomcat. Just playing around, a little side project for the Taiidan Empire

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #95 on: March 02, 2013, 05:30:28 AM »


I can do drawings, me!  :icon_surprised:



This went well!



This was really good news, because If I had cut more off the teeth of the wing gears would catch on the hole, luckily that didn't happen so no fix needed there.



The spine





Big engine.  ;) I have to decide how much more I want to cut off...
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #96 on: March 02, 2013, 07:24:03 AM »
We'll have you designing the next 6+Gen fighter in no time ... ;)
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #97 on: March 02, 2013, 12:46:10 PM »
I'm in awe of your work !!!!!!  Fantastic !!!
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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #98 on: March 02, 2013, 01:20:45 PM »
Great work! 'makes me feel like a little boy with my avoiding difficulties...

Offline finsrin

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Re: Taiidan
« Reply #99 on: March 02, 2013, 02:40:27 PM »
Genuine bashaneering going on here.    8)
Such planning, patience, and scratch build finesse (a quality shared by many at BTS, though not me).
Will be checking for updates.
« Last Edit: March 02, 2013, 03:10:02 PM by finsrin »