Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Scifi and Fantasy => Topic started by: turtle on May 11, 2019, 06:17:25 PM
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Hi all,
Well I've been away from the modelling bench for a few years now (loss of motivation/enjoyment) and decided I'd have another bash at some modelling :o .
Another website is currently having a SciFi type GB and this allowed me to avoid rivet counting/reference overload and just do some nice simple plastic manipulation ;) .
So enough blah blah blah and onto the project (click on the photo for the full size):
First the original Orthographic projection,
(https://i.ibb.co/wCjzHfM/Captain-Proton.jpg) (https://ibb.co/HY3Hvjn)
and my vision,
(https://i.ibb.co/y6Ffr1h/captainprotonchibi-002.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wSh0fXJ)
and onto the the build,
(https://i.ibb.co/MP5tDKk/captainprotonchibi-001.jpg) (https://ibb.co/5sxSWCh)
(https://i.ibb.co/Jpyv78s/captainprotonchibi-003.jpg) (https://ibb.co/bv2sBYK)
and where I'm at, at the the moment,
(https://i.ibb.co/8xpDFTt/captainprotonchibi-004.jpg) (https://ibb.co/xg0SVPd)
Roger's handy tip for the day: do not try to get back into modelling by building something with multiple compound curves ;) .
Anywho just pondering how best to tackle the nose cone riblets and covering :-\ .
Feel free to poke a stick at any scruffy build areas etc era. Always good to see things from another point of view :smiley: .
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Looks really good to me!
The ribs you mentioned look like rod or tubing cut in half.
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Looks great.
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The ship is beautiful,
I don't understand where are the ribs you're talking about...
Antonio
EDIT: Oh yes I understand now, I think the most difficult part is to shape those cheeks from which the ribs come out. As Kerick wrote the "ribs" could be half tubes with the back edge sanded to a round shape.
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Looks good so far. I would agree with Kerick on the riblets, though you might also be able to use suitably trimmed sections of round sprue; that might make rounding the ends easier.
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Looking good. :smiley:
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Looking great :smiley:
For those ribs: Maybe styrene rod heat-shaped over forms ... then fill in the centres with scrap material and PSP ?
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I love these old SF designs. Your version looks like the Dr. Zarkov's rocketship from the old Buck Rogers serials (it was also used in a 1930 SF musical called "Just Imagine").
For the side ribs, you can stretch thick sprue over a flame, and instead of using the stretched sprue use the ends, and sand them round. You can vacuform them for the ribs.
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Wouldn't that be Dr. Zarkov's ship from Flash Gordon serials?
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Great theme choice!
Did you create the base styrene sections by vacforming?
It is coming along beautifully!
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Wouldn't that be Dr. Zarkov's ship from Flash Gordon serials?
That's right. Flash Gordon
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Thanks to all for the encouraging words and suggestions on the nose cone area. That area is sill under evaluation so just pottering along making the main wing and blending the nose cone area into the main fuselage.
Just to clear up some confusion with the 1930's era movie rocketships:
Dr Zarkov's/Flash Gordon ship is identifiable by the ring of tubes around the nose cone + the landing wheels as per:
(https://i.ibb.co/25HtTzy/Flash-Gordon.gif) (https://imgbb.com/)
Ming the Merciless's bomber, identifiable by its somewhat phallic shape + the V6 exhaust manifold and long exhaust tubes as per:
(https://i.ibb.co/1sbDLn6/Ming-Bomber.jpg) (https://ibb.co/rbvCmts)
Captain Proton was a slightly later serial than the original Flash Gordon serial and obviously took their cues on rocketship design from Dr Zarkov :)) .
Depending on how this little one turns out (103mm overall length) I might do the Flash Gordon and Ming's bomber in the same style & size ;) .
Antonio Sobral :Yep, nose cone and main body are vac-formed.
Cheers to all for looking in, best I get back to the hack'n'slash >:( .
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Respect on the vac forming skills, this is looking very cool
Mog
>^-.-^<
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Respect on the vac forming skills, this is looking very cool
Mog
>^-.-^<
Concur this one looks like great fun!
My solution would be to blend in the parts with Tamiya putty and acetone (nail polish) and go with it as is, tubes be damned. Maybe stick a burner can on the back.
Your answer is bound to be light-years more elegant.
Brian da Basher
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very cool
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Hi to all,
had an attempt at the nose cone riblet area :-[ , only did the one side as I wasn't sure if it would work. However the process seems to have produced a reasonable result so onto the other side now :)) . Will do the final filing, sanding, shaping once both sides are glued up.
I ended up using 1.5mm sheet rough shaped to the nose cone contour with a .5mm spacer between each piece.
The door scribe lines look ugly in the photo but on the model they don't look too bad (we''ll see once a primer goes on).
Definitely a bit more of a complex model than I had anticipated but it's an enjoyable and fun little thing to ease me back into modelling :smiley: .
Hope everyone's projects are coming along nicely ;) .
(https://i.ibb.co/nBw6C59/captainprotonchibi-005.jpg) (https://ibb.co/jz8bR1m)
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Hell of a way to "ease me back into modelling"! :icon_surprised:
Most of us re-start with baby steps, you've gone straight for the jugular with a pure scratch build! :o
:smiley:
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8)
Brian da Basher
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Looking really good.
Oh, and all the craft that have been pictured here are more aesthetically attractive than any of the craft seen in the 1933 Buck Rogers serial (got the DVD as a freebie to a recent DVD order). I would dearly love to see someone do a modern effort at adapting the original novel that inspired Buck Rogers, Armageddon: 2419 A.D. by Phillip Francis Nolan. One odd bit, in the original novel, the main character was Anthony "Tony" Rogers.
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Not sure if is from 1930s or early 1950s. Either way looks period correct with its own kind of cool. :smiley:
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Cheers guy's.
Must pull finger and get this finished before I lose interest and start something else :-[ .