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Other / Re: 1/35 Prospector
« Last post by Jeffry Fontaine on Yesterday at 11:15:50 PM »A good ass is hard to find. The donkey certainly needs to be appreciated.
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Scifi and Fantasy / Re: Hammerhead - Space Above and Beyond
« Last post by Jeffry Fontaine on Yesterday at 11:12:49 PM »Yes indeed! Looking very good. A shame that SAAB only ran for the one season. It was a good show with much potential.
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Scifi and Fantasy / Re: Hammerhead - Space Above and Beyond
« Last post by Old Wombat on Yesterday at 10:55:20 PM »Looking good, BT! 
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Aero-space / Re: FW-189A-2 - (Heeres)/31 - ICM 1:72
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Aero-space / Re: FW-189A-2 - (Heeres)/31 - ICM 1:72
« Last post by Rod The Fixer on Yesterday at 09:05:19 PM »
by Rodolfo Masti, on Flickr
by Rodolfo Masti, on Flickr
by Rodolfo Masti, on Flickr
by Rodolfo Masti, on Flickr
by Rodolfo Masti, on Flickr
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Scifi and Fantasy / Hammerhead - Space Above and Beyond
« Last post by Buzzbomb on Yesterday at 08:08:30 PM »Remember Space Above and Beyond... reasonably good Sci Fi show.. canned after one season, the marines were ground pounders one week and the next in the SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet or the Hammerhead.
Some of it filmed in Australia where the full sized mockup lived for a while. Apparently there is an interesting story about some Russian sailors seeing the the full size mockup getting shipped to the US which lead to a flurry of frantic picture taking.
So one of my Resin 3D buddies printed out a Hammerhead from Thingiverse, we went largish, around 1/48, but that meant it had to be cut up a bit to fit on the print plate.
So fuselage in half and two wings complete with stores. The print came out ok, the stores were very average.
Somewhere I have a picture of the parts... cannot find it though. Image this in 4 bits
Things did not start out well, the join of the fuselage halves moved during the epoxy glue setting phase. Bin it.. start again, new fuselage halves
Warp forward 6-8 months later (around now
) with replacement fuselage bits.. have another crack. Lots of Apoxy Sculpt to fill in gaps at the joins as trying to get the joins flush with
this resin is pretty hard. The stuff is rock hard and sometimes can shatter on you when drilling and sawing.
Better this time (see first picture). Using some 1/48 and 1/72 Aircraft missiles for stores and a bit of 3D created gubbins for sensor pods
Ok that went well so into the paint shop, this is the preliminary work with post shading. The Canopy is still masked off as that was painted first in gloss. It is solid so nothing to see inside.
Some of it filmed in Australia where the full sized mockup lived for a while. Apparently there is an interesting story about some Russian sailors seeing the the full size mockup getting shipped to the US which lead to a flurry of frantic picture taking.
So one of my Resin 3D buddies printed out a Hammerhead from Thingiverse, we went largish, around 1/48, but that meant it had to be cut up a bit to fit on the print plate.
So fuselage in half and two wings complete with stores. The print came out ok, the stores were very average.
Somewhere I have a picture of the parts... cannot find it though. Image this in 4 bits
Things did not start out well, the join of the fuselage halves moved during the epoxy glue setting phase. Bin it.. start again, new fuselage halves
Warp forward 6-8 months later (around now
) with replacement fuselage bits.. have another crack. Lots of Apoxy Sculpt to fill in gaps at the joins as trying to get the joins flush with this resin is pretty hard. The stuff is rock hard and sometimes can shatter on you when drilling and sawing.
Better this time (see first picture). Using some 1/48 and 1/72 Aircraft missiles for stores and a bit of 3D created gubbins for sensor pods
Ok that went well so into the paint shop, this is the preliminary work with post shading. The Canopy is still masked off as that was painted first in gloss. It is solid so nothing to see inside.
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Aero-space / Re: SR-90 = Testors F-19 + Monogram SR-71 (What-If Kit-Bash)
« Last post by finsrin on Yesterday at 06:53:44 PM »Thanks. So good to have SR-90 in final steps. Had one more (lessor) encounter with paint demons, got it resolved.
Tried what the hey different color scheme. Did digging in rattle cans and bottles stash and ended up with this. Decals will probably depart from standard practice too.
Hope to take pictures soon.
Tried what the hey different color scheme. Did digging in rattle cans and bottles stash and ended up with this. Decals will probably depart from standard practice too.
Hope to take pictures soon.
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Other / Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Last post by finsrin on Yesterday at 02:17:53 PM »Relying on ground effect lift 
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Other / Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Last post by perttime on Yesterday at 01:31:19 PM »The tail is scary close to the runway ...
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Group and Themed Builds / Re: Ideas and Suggestions for GBs/Themed Builds
« Last post by finsrin on Yesterday at 01:28:45 PM »OK we've done swords into ploughshares, now turn it on its head..... ploughshares into swords. Basically take a civilian vehicle/object and weaponise it
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