TorbenD Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Very cool me thinks! Torben spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Just catching up on this Vaughan, and it's great as always. Did you ever see the Space Battleship Yamato versions of the Spitfire and Mustang? Your build is reminding me of them or the Caprica Viper. http://lighthousezen.up.n.seesaa.net/lighthousezen/image/SF51Ps.jpg?d=a11 Carl spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thud_Ally Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Really loving every update on this build. Such inspirational stuff shown, Shall be bookmarking this thread for future refferance for when I get round to some sci-fi scratch building. Keep up the great work man. Have you started thinking about colour schemes etc? spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 I just love it buddy!....Harv Thanks Harv !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Very cool me thinks! Torben Methinks so too !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Just catching up on this Vaughan, and it's great as always. Did you ever see the Space Battleship Yamato versions of the Spitfire and Mustang? Your build is reminding me of them or the Caprica Viper. http://lighthousezen.up.n.seesaa.net/lighthousezen/image/SF51Ps.jpg?d=a11 Carl Hey Carl, never saw those... Love the 'Japanimation' of various subjects, much like my Spacewolf build. So many things to build.. so little time ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Really loving every update on this build. Such inspirational stuff shown, Shall be bookmarking this thread for future refferance for when I get round to some sci-fi scratch building. Keep up the great work man. Have you started thinking about colour schemes etc? Thanks much ! It's great to know folks out there like this. As for color schemes ?... I was thinking late war German camo but I'm not decided yet... the color of the original drawing lends itself to late 30's American or even Japanese ( the pilot fig in front looks Japanese and I have a leftover canopy from a Zero....)... Could go Russian... I'm open to thoughts/ suggestions from you all... chime in and give me idea's !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 So... here we go again... it's that time again !! As always, work slows me down, and this long, drawn out winter we are trying to call spring has everyone in a lousy mood... but there is glue to sniff, plastic to cut and we are cookin' right along ! Working on the fuselage sides had me eyeing that intake and mid fuse area... I was NOT happy with it ! Time to get nasty ! I got out my chisel blade and started cutting... Strips of plastic were added to take out the 'coke bottle waist. A new rib was added and the planking glued on and sanded to shape. An intake ramp was made from scrap bits and tube. LSP_Kevin and F`s are my favs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 Facing framing was made from scrap bits as was the fairing in above the intake.. The intake and tube were sanded smooth.. This look I was MUCH happier with !! TorbenD, Shawn M and LSP_Kevin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 But before I tackle the other side of the fuse I wanted to figure out those big things below the Fuse... so I started cutting plastic... Framing up, adding doublers on the edges and building insert detail.. grooved Evergreen sheet for front and rear openings... Shawn M, LSP_Kevin and BiggTim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted April 7, 2018 Author Share Posted April 7, 2018 And with some sanding, some tubing cut to size, I think this came out pretty good... Propped up at the right height it looks close to the drawing... think I'm happy with this.... Now I just gotta do it all again on the other side.... wish me luck and we'll see what happens next week !! Shawn M, LSP_Kevin, F`s are my favs and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 AWESOMESAUCE !!.........Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Crikey! That's fabulous, Vaughn. Kev spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Lots of fantastic work going on here, Vaughn. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nessus Posted April 7, 2018 Share Posted April 7, 2018 Incredibly creative Vaughn. Scratch building is something I should try more of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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