LSP_Ray Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Incredible! This is going to look incredible! LucasArts would be knocking on your door if they weren't totally digital now - and if you could replicate it in a weeks time. Really look forward to seeing it all painted up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted August 21, 2019 Author Share Posted August 21, 2019 yeah me too, but that will be a long long way away yet Uilleann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robthepom Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 its just beautiful, every update makes me smile, thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 Thanks for your kind comments Rob - your welcome. And thanks for looking! hey guys I've started the roof panels now and added some details onto the body to try and blend it al in a bit better. It's slow work but quite rewarding (well, to me it is) I'll start making my way forward now and finish off this side and then mentally prep myself to start all over again for the other side! Joy I only took 5 pictures before the light ran out, so that's it till next time. Which incidentally won't likely be until I have finished most of the other side, so another few weeks away. I'm also going to take the plunge and teach myself how to use Arduino boards, which ought to be interesting. There's heaps of forums about how to do it, so I reckon I'll pick it up easy enough. (famous last words) Thanks as always for looking. Feel free to comment - good or bad. You don't need too though - the view count tells me if your interested enough. Cheers Si LSP_Kevin, Christoffer Lindelav, TorbenD and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 This is insane and I love it. The Madhatter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted August 29, 2019 Share Posted August 29, 2019 I love this! A shame to paint over all of that wonderful detail. Sincerely, Mark The Madhatter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted September 4, 2019 Author Share Posted September 4, 2019 yeah I'm wondering how much of this detail will be lost to paint. Once it goes on, I think it'll be pretty hard to see most of it or at least be able to distinguish it unless you knew what was on it before the paint. Out2gtcha and Uilleann 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 hi fellas Time for a quick update. The wife is heading away for a week with the boy, so I shall have lots of spare time to invest in getting some serious work done on this - provided World of Warships doesn't interfere too much. I promise nothing.... I've started work on the "nose" as you'll see. I steered clear of cutting it off and dropping it like others before me. Fair enough if I was replicating the studio build but it's not necessary here. I realised I had cut out the backing board where the front roof sits thinking there would be something sitting in front of it - there is, but it's not what I thought. A quick sheet of styrene fixed that and I shall add some detail to it in due course. My intention is to have some pipes running back over the edge up into the cavity above it. Time will tell if that will be something that could work as the roofs will be the last thing to be glued on after the fibers have gone in. Still lots of detail to add to the rest of the surface but I am getting there slowly but surely The rear side roofs are also completed and ready to go on. They were a nice quick and easy job - well, in consideration of everything else they were Well, that's all I have for now, but hopefully the next update will be better As always, thanks for stopping by and having a look Si Gazzas, Uilleann, Out2gtcha and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Brilliant work as usual from you. Guessing the nose was something not present on the studio model and added....for fun? Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 13 minutes ago, Brett M said: Guessing the nose was something not present on the studio model and added....for fun? You should look back over the thread and see similar treatment over the whole model! Pretty amazing work IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett M Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 Just now, Out2gtcha said: You should look back over the thread and see similar treatment over the whole model! Pretty amazing work IMHO Yep, I'd been following it on ARC.....I keep running into Si all over the web lol Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 27 minutes ago, Brett M said: Yep, I'd been following it on ARC.....I keep running into Si all over the web lol Haha, I'm a shut in on LSP and dont usually venture out much. Uilleann and Brett M 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted September 16, 2019 Author Share Posted September 16, 2019 5 hours ago, Brett M said: Brilliant work as usual from you. Guessing the nose was something not present on the studio model and added....for fun? oh, the nose is there alright, but it's supposedly not as high on the studio one as it is on the Zvezda kit. I can live with it quite happily though Uilleann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpastern Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 On 8/20/2019 at 8:20 PM, The Madhatter said: Hi guys It's that time of the fortnight again - yup: update time! I've been plugging away at yet more side walls and naturally, there is still a heap more to do yet. I did say this will be a loooooong build (ticked over the one year mark already with so much more to do). I sometimes wonder why I do this to myself but for the rest of the time, I love it I have to remind myself that I still have the other side to do yet as well as the bottom and then the sidewalls. Maybe by 2021 it'll be done..... As you can see, I still need to add some details to the hull to tie in the sidewalls but that'll happen soon enough. Anyway, that's all I have for now but I will be back again once I have done something worth showing Thanks for looking and if you have any suggestions for details etc, I'm open to them Cheers Si wow that is super detailed! I don't know how you get the motivation to ultra detail kits!!!! Tnarg, chukw and Vandy 1 VX 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Thanks mate! I'll be honest, sometimes I ask myself the exact same thing, but I am determined to finish it and to an extent, I do enjoy detailing it. I have almost finished detailing the front roof section and will be starting the rest of the superstructure side walls in the next couple of days. The roof section has taken me a lot longer to do than I thought. World of Warships hasn't helped either..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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