spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 Now that is the best modelling update I've seen today! Fantastic stuff, Vaughn. Kev Thanks Kev ! Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 Wow, Vaughn, that's some really super modelling. Well done mate! Jim Thanks Much !! Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 Amazing detail and scratch building there Vaughan! Are you going to cast copies for the other three that you need or are you building them all from scratch as well? Carl Thanks Carl... they are too complex for casting I think... and the expense for doing it I can't justify... so 3 more will be scratch built. Cheers Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 Sweet! Cutting those fins would have driven me batty. Love the light! Thanks... as for batty ?... already there !! Cheers Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 Wonderful stuff! Torben Thanks Much !! Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 That is some damn nice modeling, Vaugn. Cutting that thick sheet is hard core. Great work. Sincerely, Mark Thanks Mark, The sheet cuts do wear out the blades quickly I must say... but for a lot of it I just make a couple of passes with the blade, flex/ oil can the plastic and it sheers pretty clean... saves a lot of time and effort. Cheers Vaughn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 (edited) Happy HO HO everyone !! I hope you all have a great, safe, and happy season ! Update time... one step forward, two steps back on this one... Here we go ! With the VEN done ( I thought) it was time to start on the engine bodies. My evil friend Donald helped me transport a 4 X 8 foot sheet of .060 and with my trusty vacume cleaner, the stove top element and my home made vacu former we were off ! The first pull was pretty good... A slice down the front allowed the master to drop free.. BUT... I discovered that 4 years ago when I made the master I got the tapered ends wrong... so, more work to do ! Edited December 24, 2017 by spacewolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 A center keel was cut and disc's cut for the front and rear faces... I was much happier with these... one problem with the vacu forming I do is it gives one soft edges.. this way they are crisp. The forward VEN lines up and looks good ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 I had planned to just have strips off the keel fit over the inner sheet of the wing... but of course that would be too easy right ?.. Fitted on it looked very good... from the top... But, looking at the plans it seems those WONDERFUl chaps who made the ship decided for some reason to drop the centerline below that of the wing... So... with a bit of grumbling and head scratching I glued strips of plastic to the mounts I'd made and lowered the mounting point by 1/8th in. Looking it over it looked very good... makes the 'Fury look really like it's coming together ! But trouble was brewing... storm clouds gathering... LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted December 24, 2017 Author Share Posted December 24, 2017 (edited) Some thing had been bothering me... and in fitting the rear VEN it came crashing home.... Somehow I had screwed up.... I had made the widest point on the VEN too small.... easy to miss unless one is looking for it... It just so happened just as this came to light, one of the guys who worked on the show shared some pics and meshes he had... So... for my next magic trick, I will attempt to rescue/ rebuild the VEN... once I recover from Christmas !! Thankfully a new friend arrived from smoky California to cheer me on !! So, Merry HO HO everyone... see you all in the New Year !! Vaughn Edited December 24, 2017 by spacewolf LSP_Kevin and TorbenD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) Greetings for the New Year all !! It's been a while sense I posted on this thread... work, life, the deep freeze most of us are experiencing... but I have not been cuddling Opus and staying warm under the covers ! Hang on... It's UPDATE time !! When last we saw our intrepid modeler he was faced with rebuilding a finished part... ..... so, when it's wrong, it's wrong... nothing for it but to get nasty... .... cutters, blades and determination.. (stupidity ?).... and within a few min I was looking at this.... Cleaning up the edges took a few more min, then a ring was made... too big but I didn't realize it at the time... Glued on.. and planking was restarted.. I was smart though this time... after doing just a bit I sized it on the engine body and realized it was too big, so took off the planking and trimmed the ring down by 50%. Planking redone... This looks MUCH better !! Edited January 12, 2018 by spacewolf BloorwestSiR, Hubert Boillot and LSP_Kevin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 12, 2018 Share Posted January 12, 2018 Great recovery, Vaughn! Masterful, in fact. Kev spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 (edited) Holes were drilled in the joining faces and bits of sprue were used as aligning pins.. On to the front of the engine... in sanding down the angle I got it to where I wanted it... But the rings I'd made to support the skin I'd not extended far enough back so gaps showed up... what to do, what to do ?... .. scrap wedges were made and glued in.. Sanded down and the forward thruster fitted... looks good ! Edited January 12, 2018 by spacewolf BloorwestSiR and Hubert Boillot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 But... we need detail !!... the area of the engine body behind the forward thruster is plated... sooooo... a tube was glued onto the forward face to slide the thruster onto... and then lines drawn... And angled strips glued on... Long hours of fiddly detail... but it looks good ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 Of COURSE I had to fit it onto the wingtip to see how it looked ... It looked good from the top but the weight of the rear thruster caused the part to sag at the rear... so a bit of sprue was glued into the rear of the wingtip.. A hole drilled into the engine body... And she sits at the right angle !! Hubert Boillot and BloorwestSiR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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