dutik Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 Looks a bit heavy. If the real thing has a less "pushed in" look I'd suggest thinner styrene strips (i. e. less hight) underneath. Nevertheless outstanding modelling work! Regards - dutik Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Dog Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 This is going to be another masterpiece display See you in December I'm sure !! Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 What's in December, except Xmas? Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red Dog Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 A great contest/expo in Belgium where usually we all meet ... and compete Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted October 12, 2022 Share Posted October 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, red Dog said: A great contest/expo in Belgium where usually we all meet ... and compete Which and where? Last time I've attended an expo in Belgium was when it still was in the Army museum at Bruxelles. But Belgium not has been forever written off from my table. Regards - duitk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted October 12, 2022 Author Share Posted October 12, 2022 3 hours ago, dutik said: Looks a bit heavy. If the real thing has a less "pushed in" look I'd suggest thinner styrene strips (i. e. less hight) underneath. Nevertheless outstanding modelling work! Regards - dutik I don't think the height is the issue, but the width of the strips. The stressed skin looks very prominent on LCS-3 IMO. Landrotten Highlander, dutik, Greg W and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted October 14, 2022 Author Share Posted October 14, 2022 More canning. I am quite happy with the overall effect, but I will use thin plastic sheet over a skeleton next time. Fiddling around with superglue in such large areas is super annoying and causes unwanted bulges when thicker spots of it dry below the foil. This requires filling and sanding... I hope it won't look too bad under a coat of primer. The welding lines were made of round 0,5mm diameter styrene profiles and stretched sprue. johncrow, Rockie Yarwood, red Dog and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted October 14, 2022 Share Posted October 14, 2022 The LCS are serious undermanned by design, causing anticorrosion and repainting falling short in service. Just look for that patchy paintjob and the faded hull number. So a less than stellar surface IS high end modelling regarding the LCS Not to mention the option for a patchy and uneven paintjob at your model too. You will just catch the real deal Keep rolling! - dutik Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted October 18, 2022 Author Share Posted October 18, 2022 After some additional sanding, it doesn't look too bad I'd say. A tiny bit more of sanding and I'll be ready to fit the nets and start painting. Fanes, Greg W, A-10LOADER and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 I think under primer it looks pretty darn good. Maybe it was the reflections off the metal that made the caning look a little more extreme than it really is. This is going to be such a cool display A-10LOADER and Starfighter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted November 2, 2022 Author Share Posted November 2, 2022 Progress has slowed down significantly - as has the photo quality! Anyway, I am currently trying to spend every available minute working on the model and the only possibility is to work in the kitchen whilst the kids are playing in the living room. So, without any further explanation, here comes the progress. This has to be in my personal top three of the most annoying tasks in scale modeling - building the nets. The curved parts are 3D printed, the golden parts are obviously brass tubes (2mm diameter). The initial idea was to print the entire frames, but 1) they are not *that* easy to print and 2) my experience with 3D printed parts tells me that long, thin parts tend to deform over time. Let's hope that won't happen with the ones I have printed this time. Some of the finished frames. The wider ones are slightly less high than the ones at the bottom as they aren't fitted to the hull at the same height (see reference pics a few post earlier). And in situ. The frames will be held in place by a 1mm axis. Landrotten Highlander, Greg W, patricksparks and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Fleischmann Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 This is outstanding Ben!! Keep going!! P Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted November 11, 2022 Author Share Posted November 11, 2022 Thanks a lot Maru and Pete! Well, building the frames was already super annoying, but it's easily topped by webbing the nets onto the frames. It's super tedious, boring and takes way longer than it look. I have spent the whole evening doing it while watching a replay of this year's Le Mans 24 hour race (which I was not able to finish either :D) and I only manage to finish five of them. That's less than half of the nets I have to build. And I am not even taking into account the nets I need for my two elevators and the diorama for the AH-1Z... anyway. The nets are actually bags containing onions my good friend Fred aka @stusbke has discovered and was kind enough to provide me with. Thanks a lot, mate! stusbke, BiggTim, patricksparks and 13 others 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I love that. I simply hope that they do not smell yet... Such a diorama could smell iodine but not onion! stusbke, Anthony in NZ and Starfighter 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-10LOADER Posted November 11, 2022 Share Posted November 11, 2022 Thinking outside the box, love it. Steve Anthony in NZ and Starfighter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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