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Very nice, looking forward to the plasticard version.

tah!

Started on the fighta properly now.

What you can see is the fuselage and both wings.
Once they are constructed and skinned, I'm going to start panelling it with 10/1000" plasticard.

The above picture is made from 10/1000" plasticard, it's quite pliable and bends without snapping... to get the shape right.

I've now skinned it with 30/1000" plasticard for rigidity and added the canopy, fin and intake grill.

I'm dead pleased how this is panning out... just centre fuselage, tailplane and engine block to do

im liking the design and everything but i would have loved to see a ork pilot in the cockpit.
Also cant really tell scale.

looks sweeeeet though

so would I but it's taking enough time and effort with just the canopy XD

Just thought I'd leave today's offering,

I've built the right hand centre fuselage out and fitted the right hand main plane.

aslo fitted the nose mounted twinlinked big shoota, slapped on some panels and started to rivet the nose.

the orc is there for scale... hope you likey

Great Blog. I really like the fighta bomma.

Detail work is looking great! May I have a close up?

Arakasi wrote:Detail work is looking great! May I have a close up?

cheers dud, sure thing... it doesnt help that the whole thing is brilliant white, finding it hard to get decent phots.

The rivets are a bit rough, gonna wait till they're all 100% dry then touch them all up with a scalpel and some wet'n'dry paper

Thanks! Very nice work up close too!

Yeah that detail looks flipping awsome, great armour plates

A fighta from scratch, this is an interesting project.

Excellent work! I have acquired a handful of bits and some plasticard to scratchbuild a thunderbolt, but I have yet to find the courage to start cutting things up.

Any helful hints for us amaturs? I haven't been able to find a tutorial on it, though I checked in the articles. Is that even the right place to look?

Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Rawson

That is looking fantastic, excellent job. And I shouldn't worry too much about the rivets being a little rough around the edges, this is orky engineering we're looking at here.


edited for spelling

Rawson wrote:Any helful hints for us amaturs?

Always make yourself a card/paper mock up first. try to make the mock up of equal gauge material.
it may take time but it wil save you heart ache in the long run.

Measure twice, cut once!
Double check your measurements and angles and get the right cut first time.

No guts no glory! go for it!

monkeytroll wrote:this is orky engineering we're looking at here.

YES!... I need to write that on my fridge XD so I dont forget. I'm so used to working with +/- 0.25mm limits at work that I get really anal about shizzle like thizzle

Thank for that.

I find cut once, patch excessively also works for Orks

Wow that fighta bomba is coming along great. Excellent work .

fantastic looking orcs.

subscribed!

Pure awesomeness
the disign is kinda like the fordgeworld ones am I right?
Looking forward to paint already

Davidian wrote:

Rawson wrote:Any helful hints for us amaturs?

Always make yourself a card/paper mock up first. try to make the mock up of equal gauge material.
it may take time but it wil save you heart ache in the long run.

Measure twice, cut once!
Double check your measurements and angles and get the right cut first time.

No guts no glory! go for it!

Thanks for that!

I had heard the mock up think before and was hoping to avoid it, but it seems to be the wisest thing.

How did you do the interior structural supports? Did you build a frame of sorts?

-Rawson

Rawson wrote:

How did you do the interior structural supports? Did you build a frame of sorts?

-Rawson

If you go back to the first picture I posted, it was first made of scored, folded 10/1000" or 0.25mm plasticard.

It had little structural integrity but at that stage I could push and shove it into shape.

Then the 0.75mm plasticard skin gve it it's rigidity, no internal frame what so ever and it's very sturdy.

Here's how I'm progressing;



The wing has been fitted with a leading edge and been panelled. The other wing and wing support are built but I wont fit them until I've built the trailing and leading edge root extension (LERX)



and the nose cone has been completely riveted

Frikkin Awesome!

The Fighter looks awesome, are you planing on making a whole fleet of them? How do you do your rivets?

Bangbangboom wrote:The Fighter looks awesome, are you planing on making a whole fleet of them? How do you do your rivets?

I really want to... but I'll probably retire first XD

Had a few people wondering how I do my rivets but it's nothing spesh. just use 0.75mm plasticard rod chop tiny bits off and glue. I do rub them down with a fine grade wet'n'dry paper after they're dry to get an even height and round the edges a little.

Anywho, I've built the LH centre fueslage and fixed the LH mainplane

Now just the tailplane and engine

BOOSH, tail plane on.. just the engine block... it's gonna be fidgety

Looking good

Cheers dude. Got the engine block built with a thrust nozzle and some cooling veins.

Thats the aircraft structurally finished. Just detail and riveting to go. Woop woop

bigfish wrote:Looking good

Why does everyone loot my line?!

anyway...

LOOKIN' GOOD!

That is absolutely stunning!

How much plasticard have you used for all of this?

Great stuff! Keep up the great work! You have a paint scheme in mind already?

-Rawson