Out2gtcha Posted August 13, 2018 Share Posted August 13, 2018 Good news Peter! Glad to have you back airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 glad to hear the cartels didn't capture you Peter can't wait to see some more wizardry! airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 Peter. Don’t drink the water over there. Can’t count all the people I’ve witnessed getting sick over there! Careful. Ice cubes, salads. No-no. Good luck. We all want to see you healthy and back to work on this glorious -51B. Cheers, Troy. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Paxton Posted August 15, 2018 Share Posted August 15, 2018 I'm teaching myself CAD using Fusion360 and love your renderings. are you drawing them yourself or is there some magical place that does those? Eventually I plan on scratch building a 1/20 scale aircraft......doing the AirCorps library blueprints and scaling them to 1/20......its a big project, but it keeps me occupied. how do you get the individual pictures of your drawings? You are an artisan Cheers, Dan airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtwpsom2 Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 (edited) IsA Edited July 20, 2019 by rtwpsom2 KiwiZac and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 'I work for Aircorps doing CAD, these are the models we used to build Lope's Hope.' Quietly understated. Along the lines of: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Sincerely, Mark daHeld, airscale and Troy Molitor 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerhard Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 "Along the lines of: That's one small step for man, A giant leap for mankind." The recording was not clear, and he actually said "A" giant leap. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 Woohoo! Can't wait to see you back to work on the Mustang. Was starting to get a bit antsy without an update on it Matt airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted August 16, 2018 Share Posted August 16, 2018 14 hours ago, rtwpsom2 said: I work for Aircorps doing CAD, these are the models we used to build Lope's Hope. Welcome and Great to have you on board! There are a couple of us round here that rebuild aircraft! Aircorps sets the bar for us all! Keep up the great work! KiwiZac and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted August 17, 2018 Share Posted August 17, 2018 airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Hey, Peter, once you finish this one and maybe the Tigercat, have you had any thoughts on the HobbyBoss Fw190? I just got mine and while it has really nice surface detail, the cockpit and wheel wells could really use the Peter/Airscale touch. Especially the IP. Please? daHeld and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trak-Tor Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 On 8/1/2018 at 6:35 PM, rtwpsom2 said: Dug through my image folder to see if I could come up with some references to help. Those renders look awesome! What software do you use? Thanks. Juraj airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtwpsom2 Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 (edited) SolidWorks, it has a built in rendering engine. Some of those images posted are rendered images and some are just screen grabs. Edited August 25, 2018 by rtwpsom2 airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 On 8/16/2018 at 7:31 AM, rtwpsom2 said: I work for Aircorps doing CAD, these are the models we used to build Lope's Hope. Wow - I am honoured to have you and Denzil along for the ride congrats on the win! your CAD is going to be exceptionally useful in the coming weeks... On 8/23/2018 at 7:35 AM, LSP_Ray said: Hey, Peter, once you finish this one and maybe the Tigercat, have you had any thoughts on the HobbyBoss Fw190? I just got mine and while it has really nice surface detail, the cockpit and wheel wells could really use the Peter/Airscale touch. Especially the IP. Please? Hi Ray - I toyed with the 190 as it's one of my favourite aircraft, but I am hooked on metal skinning and I have not quite come to terms with painting over it - despite looking i don't think any were ever natural metal! So, an actual update is needed as some actual modelling has occured... As I said before, I was expecting the decals from Ray at Fantasy Printshop and a few days ago these arrived - as you can see I have quite a few... I laid it out with only one of each decal as any duplicates can be taken from another sheet.. ..the quality is up to Ray's usual standard - ie exceptional... lets take a quick tour from right to left... beautiful instruments ..there are a bunch of airframe stencils too - all studiously copied from the original drawings.. As far as selling / making in 1/32 or 1/24 I think that is unlikely before you ask Now my bench is reassembled, the decal's arrival spurred me on to actually get started again after a long hot summer - I thought I would dress up the Throttle quadrant first.. ..simply sprayed it black, added the decals and a quick shot of varnish to seal them in and it was done... more... daHeld, Hubert Boillot, KiwiZac and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted August 25, 2018 Author Share Posted August 25, 2018 ..now I had bust my cherry, I wanted a fairly simple but nice to work on mini project so I settled on the MN-26 Radio Compass – it’s the grey unit seen here.. ..to make the body of the unit I used a PE blank to score the size I needed from a sheet of Perspex acrylic.. ..I started to make all the knobs, buttons & switches – here I used a Dremel to spin up a bolt and a file to shape that into one of the larger tuning knobs.. ..I had a PE blank of the front panel of the unit and used this to reference where to drill holes in the perspex to take all the knobs.. ..the knobs are an assortment of bits fashioned from old watch parts (I bought a little tub on ebay for £5 ages ago – super useful stuff) – the most challenging was the tuner handle in the middle – this has a shaft, crank & handle – the handle was scored with a fine saw blade to try and give the impression of the tiny ridges that give grip… ..here are the watch bits – lots of tiny metal shapes of infinite precision, brilliant for repurposing.. ..then the handles were all painted black, the Perspex unit grey, and I prepared the face decal that carries the colour & markings.. ..the decal was stuck to the PE face & varnished, some ‘glass’ was sourced from ultra thin sheet and the decal for the dial face prepared.. ..the first stage of assembly saw the face added to the unit as a laminate with some glass and the dial decal.. ..and all the gubbins added.. ..so thats it. Back in the chair and enjoying myself again.. next up I am thinking of the cockpit 'A' frame and the longerons that link all the bulkheads together.. TTFN Peter Uilleann, CATCplSlade, Starfighter and 18 others 20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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