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Measure twice, cut once as my dad is forever reminding me I feel the pain Klaus, I'm often guilty of falling foul to this as well...

I love the vents you make, I used a similar technique on my T-Hawk and it's a sure fire winner every time.

Agreed with others, keep up the tutorials, so many gems of wisdom to be gleaned from your explanations and processes

Thank you guys!
After the last little disaster I rebuild the ammo drum, now in the proper width
And while the PC around the drum cured I added rivets and ornaments to the rest of the gun.


Next up was the ammo feed. For this I cut a 1cm wide strip of 0.5mm PC and wrapped it around a pencil (to give it a round shape)


For the "ammo" I cut 3mm wide stips of 1.5mm thic PC


I glued these onto the strip with slight gaps between them.



Once the ammo drum was cured, I added two small stips of .25 PC for the ornaments. When the ornament strips cured I finally mounted the drum to the main axle.
One thing I realized is that the axle I used this time was rather thin (compared to the rod in the original gun) and it has a tendency to bend....


While the drum cured on the axle I prepared the connection to the ammo feed.


In between these steps is always time for some rivets
Another needed ornament is the Fleur-de-lys for the front of the ammo drum.


Finally I mounted the ammo feed to the gun body and the ammo drum.
And with this the NEMESIS twins are completed


Yeehah!

But I'm not 100% happy with the position on the deck....

I will have to wait until I have the 4 manouver engines and rotors on the central stubby wings before I can decide where I will position those two babies.
I hope you enjoyed this little build
Cheers

Klaus

I hope you enjoyed this little build

absolutly^^

as for the amo feeds... i have experimented in a diffent manner... i take a cut to size piece of PC and just score the needed amount of parts and then bend the whole piece... putting a thin fitting pice of PC underneath adds of course to the sturdiness...overall the same effect but it gets you there in a quicker time frame...

Excellent Klaus! What if you simply build two small turret decks jutting out from the sides for each gun?

As written in the last post, I'm not so sure about the final position of the two CIWS', so I decided to finally go for the 4 engines and rotors on the short stubby central wings.
A while back, I had build 1 engine that I tried to duplicate via casting.
Unfortunately I had quite some issues with it, and I finally gave up casting the 4 engines. Pondering what else to do, I remembered the CHARON's rotors and decided to give it a try.

For this I cut 8 disks out of an A4 sheet of PC and then out of these another disk.


Out of the cut disks I cut the actual rotor blades. For this I drew the lines on a sheet of paper and then it was relatively easy to draw these lines on the PC disk.


Next step was to cut the actual blades and round them off nicely.


Then they were mounted onto a central axle.


The rotor was then glued onto one of the outer rings.


Then some spacers (about 2cm high) glued to the lower of the two rings.
Please also note the larger spacer on the left, that already has the axle to mount the engine glued in place.


Then I glued the upper ring in position, and wrapped it with .5mm plastic card.


Then I had to drill a hole into the stubby wing and rudder.


Into which I can now mount the engine-rotor combo


The combo is rotatable, so it can be used for lift as well as propulsion.


I think it looks rather good on the ATHENA, don't you think?
Cheers

Klaus

I want one!

*taking notes furiously*

I think it looks rather good on the ATHENA, don't you think?

er...yes...er....yes!

working with plastic card sure has sometimes a great advantage over cardboard... seeing the angled propellers it is right there...i probably could have done my own with thicker cardboard and a wooden rod and cut some grooves, but this will serve me one day on a future all plastic airship

Nice motive power there Klaus!

That 's some nice scratch building, didn't know they have goalkeepers in 40k

That is absolutely fantastic, Klaus! I find your work both inspiring and intimidating!

The rotor is PERFECT! (I'll skip admiring all the other stuff if you'll excuse me )

And You did It again...
I'm amazed and thankful !

Perfect, looks brilliant.

The rotors looks like a great idea and suits just perfectly for the ATHENA, indeed. Helicarriers are awesome!

 storag wrote:
... (I'll skip admiring all the other stuff if you'll excuse me )

oh well.....Ooooookaaaaayyyyy


Thanks guys!

While I do like the general apearance of the duct fans, I realized I need some more decorations or steampunk elements to make them work with the overall style of the ATHENA.
So I reworked the initial duct fan, built a slightly larger rotor, added a driveshaft, and a rear ornament.


The front also got an ornament - in hindsight I realize it looks a bit Batman stylish....


Pleased with the apearance of the test rotor I build the remaining 3 rotors (they are now larger than the actual opening) and positioned the spacers.


While these cured I used my famous rivet scale and marked the rivet positions for the first fan.


I really like the look on the ATHENA.



While only the lower left one is complete, the other 3 ducted fans got their ornaments in place and now "only" need the outside cover and rivets.


Yeah!
Another item off my list.

Cheers

Klaus

Really nice fans Klaus. Very cool and fit the build well.

Amazing fans Klaus!

Thanks guys!

While the list of to-do's IS shrinking, there are still many items to do


The first thing was to complete the covers around the duct fans. And even though they were not 100% finished I couldn't resist to take some nice shoots with the 4 duct fans in position...


Also it was time to do another weight check.


I'm really proud of my little Queen, she hardly gained weight. Despite all the nice curves and add-ons she's only 2,42 Kg ( 4.8 pounds) - including two block batteries!


Well, on to the rear....
This is the "balcony" I had originally build and painted for this rear area, with an observation periscope and another plotting table.


But since I now need a good position for the two NEMESIS CIWS, I decided to rather build a new structure.


Rounded and "steampunked"


it will give the two CIWS a nice field of fire.
But to really fit the ATHENA it needs some ornaments.


I can tell you it was some tough cutting !


But I think it was worth the effort


What do you guys think?
Cheers

Klaus


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Here are two Photoshop goodies for you




looks like Santa's been early

I simply do not know what to say Klaus.

Truly A.W.E.S.O.M.E

It is beyond words! It certainly is a one-of-a-kind ship!

Looks amazing.

If you're going to have the CIWS at the back there, you'll want 1-2 more to cover the front.

OR

Have those there, then an 8 tube Missile CIWS to cover the rest of the ship. Somewhere on the Bow maybe?

She's beautiful, Klaus! Truly a wonder to behold!

I'm going to be a bad man.

1) I think the beautiful but unsupported fleur-de-lis trim you made will break off easily.

2) I think I'm going to attack the Athena from the front, to be utterly safe from the CIWS guns.

THANKS GUYS!

@biancj - maybe you missed the forward quad-lasers of the twin auto-cannons on the front

Qucik questiuon:
Last night I had the absolutely crazy idea to add wooden planking to the ATHENA deck.
Like this:


Do you think this could work?


Thanks
Klaus

Oh, and there you go and make my Sprue-wood look rubbish...

Yes, do it. Very steampunk.

did you carve all that with a scriber?

I like the idea of the wooden deck those engines are looking sweet as well, I think they'll look less batmanish if you layer them one additional level of ornament though.

Each post makes me love that ATHENA more and more.

Dayum.

I saw them, but I think the CIWS need a better arc of fire.