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  1. Uilleann
    Could you split the difference, and hide say, a TIE wing, or X wing gun down in the greeblies somewhere?
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    Milan, I don't know if you've closed up the FLIR/DLIR completely just yet, but I did find a very good source for scale mesh for those openings. They also offer small sample sizes for just a few dollars. I believe this was the scale I opted for. I haven't gotten anything installed just yet, but thought I'd pass along the info in case it was helpful. The sample sizes they offer are just the thing! https://www.twpinc.com/wire-mesh-material/stainless-steel/50-mesh-t316-stainless-high-transparency-0012-wire-dia
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    Looks GREAT!
  4. Uilleann
    Looks like the old Senior Spud program tried out on Nighthawks back in the late 80's early 90's if memory serves...
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    Excellent!!!
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    Hi Milan - any progress on this epic build friend?
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    Hey Kev and crew! It's been a hot minute since I've poked around these parts. But recently I've been inspired to pick up my old build and see if i can make a reasonable push to get the darn thing done once and for all. Though, looking at my old thread, it appears none of my photos are linking properly anymore. Has a protocol changed on the site here that I should know about? It would be quite an undertaking, but I can reformat everything image by image if needed. Just not sure what's happened. I'm using yahoo web hosting if that makes any difference, and linking directly from my image files to the respective posts in my thread. For example, my initial post has 7 images linked, but they all show as broken now (they used to work). The direct link to the first image is this for example: http://uilleann.org/117/kit-mainwheels.jpg So far as I know, Yahoo hasn't done anything to turn off image hosting/sharing like this...but is there anything I should check on here on my end as well? Confused! Hope you guys are all excellent!! Brian~
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    Hey Milan - just wanted to check in. Any further progress on your '117? I was just up at our local museum, and visited ours on display here. #799 is still undergoing a lot of restoration work, and it isn't all 100% to my liking if I'm being perfectly honest. But regardless it's cool to see her up close and real! Got a peek in the cockpit today in fact. Hope all is well in your world! Brian~
  9. Uilleann
    That is one area that every kit gets wrong (likely due to mold limitations I guess?) is the sharpness of the facet edges. They're never as crisp as the prototype. Well done, looks great!
  10. Uilleann
    Can you do the two pieces, thin each by about 25%, and use one on top, and one on bottom, so as not to thicken the bottom plate and lip too much?
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    My biggest issues to date have just been life, and time, followed by CAD modeling skills (or the utter lack thereof). And of course, finding a printer capable of the resolution and fidelity needed to pull off the parts. Due to their depth, I actually think the printed parts would be plenty sturdy enough for our purposes...I just need to sort out the final design, and fine someone insane enough to make them for me. Long story short, I just haven't had a chance to really sit down and focus on that here since the latest move. Been busy dealing with work, the Covid, earthquakes, and any other number of life's little surprises. Love following along here as you go though! Keeps that flame of motivation burning in my mind...even if faintly for a while yet. B~
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    One trick I use in my optician day job that might help to deepen the "dark" effect of the acrylic, is to paint the edges black as well, before gluing in place. I don't suggest scuffing them first as it will possibly give the paint more surface to "bite" into, it also gives the edges a frosted look that may be visible when they're in place. I do understand that painting the edges makes gluing them in place much trickier. But if you can pull off a nice black edge coat, I think it may help to deepen the effect even more. This is assuming you haven't already glued the acrylic in place of course! Cheers *Edited to add: it looks like perhaps you have already done the above, in your previous post, and I'm just slow to realize it! Also, the interior of F-117A intakes was a sort of dirty off white on the actual jets. Not that it matters terribly of course. I know these screens gave me no end of headaches myself - even after I figured out more about the actual mechanics and shapes of the vanes. I still hope to one day get them 3D reprinted, or perhaps done with stereo lithography to recreate them in better fidelity at scale... Brian~
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    HOLY. CRAP. That is all.
  14. Uilleann
    Looking great!
  15. Uilleann
    Still around - just quiet. Life's curve balls keep coming. Love the progress thus far of course!
  16. Uilleann
    OK, that looks spectacular!
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    Wow. It's been more than a year since I checked in last. Sadly, I'm still waiting for life's dust to settle a bit, and then will look into resuming work on the 117. I'm not honestly sure if I'll ever quite get it finished the way I had hoped, but it certainly has been a fun time building it as I went! Thanks for popping in to say hello. Bri~
  18. Uilleann
    Damn. That is all.
  19. Uilleann
    Epic!
  20. Uilleann
    Woooooooooooooooow. That is all.
  21. Uilleann
    Just...WOW!
  22. Uilleann
    Wow!!!
  23. Uilleann
    Have you given thought to (or tried) an actual tea bag? The silken material used by some companies might be just the thing. I've been searching for the exact right micro mesh myself for years, and even at 1/32 everything is too big/coarse/wrong shape etc. I looked at aerospace engineering companies galore, and super highly specialized micro screen manufacturers, even looked into trying to design a screen myself and having it custom etched. Nothing seemed to work out right. The tea bag fabric stuff was actually the closest match I could find. A spray with a nice mist of dark metalizer paint and it certainly looked the part. Getting it to attach in a secure, taught fashion proved...difficult for me anyway however. Just a thought. Brian~
  24. Uilleann
    Nice work!!
  25. Uilleann
    Steve, wow - thanks for the kind words! I'm still kicking around, though the past year has been a bit of a knock down - drag out sort of fight for me. Suffice it to say (without getting into too many boring details) that I'm up, I'm more or less ok, and I have every intention of finishing this kit at my first opportunity. I've found another - far crazier than I - who's done even more impressive work to update and correct the numerous small, but important inaccuracies of the Trumpeter kit. John Wolstenholme has an absolutely stunning WIP going on over at ARC. Absolutely worth a click through and a few minutes to see the art he's created as well. Many of the fixes were almost identical to my own, but many many more were pure genius in how he solved a number of issues. At any rate, thanks again for checking in. I hope to be back in the modeling saddle again sometime this year. Cheers! Brian~
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