JamesHatch Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Utterly fantastic! You made a great job of that plasticard skeleton. I have lessons to learn here.... [bOOMARKED] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Shaping up very nicely Pete (I know just how much time it takes to mix and fill each individual area of such a model - and just how much effort is required to sand and shape the stuff, let alone the huge amount of dust it produces!) Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve C Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Watching this one with great interest. Loving the work so far. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 Hello everyone! Thanks to all for the encouragement and support-I appreciate it! I've been sanding like crazy and there is not much skin left on my fingers More to follow! Pete David66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icari Progene Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Outstanding! You must be an engeneer! Crazy work! I really like it! I've to do something similar to do my F-8 Supercritical Wing in 1/48. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladder4boy Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Outstanding work so far! This is what i love about this site.. learning how other people do amazing things so i can put a few more tricks in the tool box! Keep the updates coming.. can't wait to see how this turns out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Pete that looks good so far! Have you ever though of starting up your own plastic model company? All the subject that you scratch build would go over good in the modeling community IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 Hello again! Once more-Thanks for all the encouragement! Icari...No, just a pilot...Timmy! too-but his brain is wired tighter than mine, so he's able to do stuff us mere mortals can't! Wanted to show you a bit more of the shaping process. The T-38 has a ridge that runs along the canopy sill, back along the shoulders of the jet, and tapers into the top of the intake approaching the trailing edge of the wing. Tough shape to nail. The bulkheads got me really close, but the last bit of taper needed to be layed in with handwork. I tacked my full-size (1/16th scale) profile view on the wall, and used tracing paper to transfer the shape from the drawing to the model. I've localted the bulkheads on the detail drawing, and used them as a reference to accurately place the "shape" on the model: Here's the curve area I need to sand back to reveal: Using a flexible straight edge, I'm able to follow the curve precisely: Shape transfered to tracing paper with bulkheads located for reference on the model: Place the tracing on the model using the bulkhead locations: I used my scribing needle in a pin vise to mark the location of the curve through the paper onto the model: After about an hour of careful sanding got to here: More to follow.... Pete sandokan, Greg W, Seversky and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 Here's a few other views. On to the left side now... Thanks for looking- Pete sandokan, Greg W and David66 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve C Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Pete, What drawings were those 3D models based on? Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted March 10, 2010 Author Share Posted March 10, 2010 Pete, What drawings were those 3D models based on? Steve Hey Steve- Timmy! used multiple sources to come up with the final drawings..some I provided that I got from Northrop, and some others I had that needed work. I'm willing to bet that what Timmy! finally output are the most accurate T-38 drawings out there. As talented as Willy Peters is, we found a lot of errors in his drawings in his otherwise outstanding T-38 book. The shapes are tough-There is not a kit manufacturer yet who has got it right. Timmy! is able to orient his drawings in the computer to match photographs, etc...If you need this kind of work done, he is the guy. His attention to detail and his critical eye is really impressive, to say the least..plus he's a helluva guy. The challenge for me is to build to a level commensurate with the quality work that Timmy! has done for me! HTH Pete Greg W and David66 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 WOW! Really stunning work here..........now THIS is modeling. I fancy myself a decent modeler, but there is no way I could pull something like this off........hats off Pete!!! Cheers, Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Very, very impressive.....i often say that things are inspiring to me, but this one surely is, the way your model is created, sequenced in stages, makes me learn so much on how to tackle this kind of scratch building. I hope you'll be letting us share more progress in due time, regards, jack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 This is all quite amazing Pete - We seem to model and build in exactly the same manner! (It's all a little spooky ). Timmys! 3-d graphics are also simply awesome (I would love to have a set of drawings from them in 1/32 scale, as I am already fully convinced that they are the best on the planet already!). Keep up the (very hard) work Pete, it is really shaping up now. Regards Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve C Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 This is all quite amazing Pete - We seem to model and build in exactly the same manner! (It's all a little spooky ). Timmys! 3-d graphics are also simply awesome (I would love to have a set of drawings from them in 1/32 scale, as I am already fully convinced that they are the best on the planet already!). Keep up the (very hard) work Pete, it is really shaping up now. Regards Derek I'd like to get a set of those cross-sections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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