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i would start from scratch again and use the smaller foils for a new project... a small escorting flyer...!

cormadepanda wrote:Simply cut a larger tube in half to wrap around it? and hide the weedy one? It seems the right size, but the hinge does seem small.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i would start from scratch again and use the smaller foils for a new project... a small escorting flyer...!

Yeah, think I'll go the 'fix' route rather than redo... More out of feeling lazy than anything else...

Oh and my laptop is down again! Dell repaired it last week but the new gpu they fitted has broken after 4 days! They offered another repair, but I have no confidence in this working so going to go for a refund or replacement system after having been on this forum www.nvidiadefect.com. if you have a system with the defective nvidia chips I urge you to have a read, some really useful advice...

Back to stealing the wifes Tab or the kids laptop!!!

ah...shucks.... this is something that sounds like bad kharma... no mercy for us peeps that need to live with a functioning set of com set ups....

No, not bad karma Vik, shoddy workmanship is to blame. The NVIDIA GPU is inherently defective and was always likely to go wrong - was just a matter of time really - from everything I've been reading on the subject I have been lucky to get the life out of it that I have (nearly 5 years...)

So now I have to play the waiting game, but it seriously reduces my web time, which usually means I lose a bit of hobby inspiration as perusing other's blogs always spurs me on... ho-hum, c'est la vie...

wow amazing stuff, wish i had half your skill with the plasticard!

subbed!

Despite the minor setback..this is still fething amazing Rug!!!

well...my first laptop died on me... and it was during my diploma thesis ... so you can imagine how p....d off i was.... thankfully it got refunded one day....half a year later truth to be told...

i am hoping this gets quicker for you this time!

I had the university's central server AND backup crash on me at the end of first year of my thesis. I feel your pain bro.

well... all info and stuff i could salvage... so i could work from there... but it costed a ton of money and time... not even telling you what it costed me in nerves and sweat...

yours sounds way more brutal than mine...how could that happen at all???

Uni building fire. Long time ago now though, ultimately a good thing, but certainly didn't feel like it at the time.

At least I was lucky enough to back up my HDD a few weeks ago - just before the HDD in the laptop died in fact! So nothing lost apart from my comprehensive website favourites... Still it'll be fun surfing the web to rebuild the list

Just waiting on the engineers report to come back then I'll post it to Dell with a letter demanding resolution in 7 days or I'll take them to the small claims court. Hopefully won't need to go that far but I do have the Sales of Goods Act (1979) on my side...

uni fire....whoa...

and yep... backups... upsi... i think that would be a good idea....*wanders off...*

Quick update for ya... Reworked the hinge on the attack foil wing thingy (technical terminology...) to get a chunkier look - it's the old hinge with thin strips of 0,25mm plasticard wrapped round to bulk it up, then a couple of wider strips stuck on top to cover the full width (50mm). Apologies for picture quality - some odd interference on the camera - could be another piece of technology that's about to go on the blink in my household...

nono...not the cam...

and...you´re on the right track now i think...

Yup, that's the ticket

For some reason I've felt the urge to take this blog in a different direction. It's no longer a Space Marine oriented blog, but is now a 40K scratchbuild and conversion blog...

After a day of heavy rain I had a strange compulsion to start work on a Thunderbolt Heavy Fighter based on the wonderful Eli Patoroch template. Running low on plasticard so making this out of my remaining stock of 0.50mm plasticard. So far the main fuselage is the focus of the build...

oh cool! soon you will have a giant flier navy deal.

Aircraft are always fun to build as you can whoosh them through the air with proper dakka dakka sound effects... Promised my lad that this one (when finished) will be in his room, maybe even suspended from the ceiling

Took some time out to study images of other builds, both scratch and Forge World, when I stumbled over this on youtube. If anyone is considering either route then I would definitely reccomend watching this series of videos...

PART ONE:



For Parts two to six got to http://www.youtube.com/user/TemplarsCrusade01?feature=watch

what a brave project... I am eager to see where this leads to... as I would love to build such a flyer someday too....

Ahh The T-Bolt is one SEXY fighter!

Viktor von Domm wrote:what a brave project... I am eager to see where this leads to... as I would love to build such a flyer someday too....

You're not wrong, this flyer is a lot harder to scratch than it first looks. All sorts of tricky angles going on.

dsteingass wrote:Ahh The T-Bolt is one SEXY fighter!

Oh yes, it's always been my favourite FW model, maybe one day I'll fork out for one, although have heard many times that it's an awful kit to put together...

I'm having issues though, the plasticard I'm using is a touch too thin and I there are warpage issues... Time for a rethink on the build process and maybe even back to the drawing board... hmmmm...

I had good luck with my first, but I still have a second unopened in my treasure horde

by the way... you could always make a ruglud pattern one and make it as you go along

Had an urge to do some scratchbuilding this afternoon / evening and thought where better to start than a Thunderbolt Heavy Fighter... So, with Eli Patoroch's template in hand, I started with a card version. Printed the template onto some Avery labels, then stuck onto cereal card. Did this so I could see the size and break the structure of the model for ease of making out of plasticard. This is what I have so far (you can see the card version in the background...





Really enjoyed doing this, it's my favourite part of the hobby

Good start.

Will be following with interest.

You're a brave chap Going to enjoy watching this!

Glad to see you back on the workbench!

I'll follow progress eagerly, just keep it coming.

card one looks already pretty neat, and the PC one is coming along great...that way if you move on this way you end up with two thunderbolts^^

Sorry only just discovered this thread, looking great, have done some of the paperwork myself in the past. Liking the bird a lot. Watching from now on.

Looks like. Great start, between you and graven there seems to be an escalation of air power happening.