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This is the most amazing scratchbuild I have ever seen, rock on!

You know some of us aspire to greatness even though we are not qualified and some of us have greatness thrust upon us although we are not qualified. I would rather seek my level of competence and not transcend it and enjoy the accolades of my peers.

Damn it worked and I am fit to burst with unbounded joy that this portion is done. I have been avoiding this for weeks because I knew the problems entailed but it seems to have come out okay. The tail faceted section works and less than a fraction of a mm off.





E. Blackadder

Looks seamless! Really nice angles you've got going on there.

Very nice work there.

Whoa, looking good there Blackadder! You have a great eye for detail, keep it up!

Cain

This project just keeps getting better, your skills continue to amaze me!

Thunderhawk Chapters, I have no idea. I was thinking beige and jungle green camo with pale blue tinted under belly What chapter would that be?

Or perhaps this scheme on a transport that zipped by my trench the other day:



At any rate DAMN this beastie is long,



26 inches without the exhaust nacelle of the middle engine or 66.04 cm for those of you who have not come to appreciate the utility of the Imperial measuring system. And I loped off a few CM because it looked too long to me.

Wow, that is bigger than my Marauder Destroyer 16 inches from nose to ass on that beast. Looking great man! Do you buy your styrene in bulk? or at train shops and such?

Train shops and such. This thing is so much bigger that the FW model which claims to be 19 inches long I really hope I haven't made a mistake.

The_Blackadder wrote:

Where on earth is that picture from???? That scheme would look great

Over here at Pox's thread, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391965.page I learned that you can buy styrene in bulk at www.iplasticsupply.com The savings are enormous for $40 shipped, I just ordered 32 sheets of- 12"x12" 0.40 thick styrene!

D.Smith wrote:

The_Blackadder wrote:

Where on earth is that picture from???? That scheme would look great

Yeah it is pretty amazing; so you're not buying it flew over my house????????? It's a fine state of affairs when people doubt your veracity. Well I found it on google: The Lord Inquisitor's website in his gallery.

http://www.thelordinquisitor.com/

Some lovely pictures there and a T'hawk landing video that would make Spielberg take notice.

dsteingass wrote:Over here at Pox's thread, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/391965.page I learned that you can buy styrene in bulk at www.iplasticsupply.com The savings are enormous for $40 shipped, I just ordered 32 sheets of- 12"x12" 0.40 thick styrene!

You paid $40 bucks shipped, not bad, I'll Have to check it out. Thx,

Ooh, i love that Lord Inq site, hope they dont get shut down by GW IP.

On a side note, why does that LR have Hurricane bolter and flamestorm cannon sponsons?


Its looking great Blackadder, as usual

Vitruvian XVII wrote:............why does that LR have Hurricane bolter and flamestorm cannon sponsons?

I'd say artistic license, better than a couple of side doors, because it can, and because it's cool.

I looked at the image at least a dozen times and saw nothing out of the ordinary. You guys are too caught up in the minutiae; go out and s--g some babes.

Ya know the problem with Land Raiders is, "They ain't got no big cannons."

Granted!

Department of one step forward and two back. Discovered an error in my building of the air brake panel recess. Had to tear it out and redo it. Two days and I'm back to where I was two days ago. but the cavity looks a lot better and that's what counts.

The slightly insane Blackadder



Note that the recess is now lined with 0.10 x 0.250 inch strips and the inner wall echoes the outer shape of the superstructure. You don't? well no one else would have either and I just pissed away my time rebuilding that which no one would have noticed anyway.
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E. Blackadder

Correct, but you are pleased, and we can't have more until you are pleased!

Another peek into the skunk works. Out of this hodge podge of scribbles I hope to extract a semblance of order and replicate the internal plumbing.





I hope I have enough scrap tubing.
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E. Blackadder

Wow, this just keeps getting better and better, can't wait to see this finished.

The plumbing installed, a lot of pipes for such a small area. I suppose fuel lines and tubes for air conditioning and pressurization. Too high for lavatory waste pipes.

The right side:

And the left side:


E. Blackadder

Holy Crap! plastruct catalog much? lol Makes my pipework look like gak!

dsteingass wrote:Holy Crap! plastruct catalog much? lol Makes my pipework look like gak!

The thin pipe is actually made from old plastic flower pot hangers. you know the kind that have the hook moulded into them. I saved a bunch of them years ago and I'm soon going to be running out.

The rest were scrap rods and tubing from the 'Lucie' build.

The amount of detail in here always scares me... Lovely work!

Enough resting on my laurels; there's nothing scary about this detailing.

Here's a short tutorial on pipe fitting.

The simplest is to just cut rings in the next size larger of the Evergreen telescoping tubing. Slide the ring onto the smaller rod or tube and glue in place with ProWeld thin cement. No need for pictures of this process, But.......

But sometimes you want a really thin sleeve on your tubing.

First file or sand the smaller dia. tube to a tapered end:


Then with a thin pointed Xacto blade ream out the larger dia. tube:


to receive the previously tapered rod or tube:


Join the two tubes and cement and set aside to dry on a flat surface:


Next; Really thin bands on the tubing.
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E. Blackadder

Great tut! I have already done these on the Munitorum Laundry building in my buildings blog, but you've got sweet bends too!

Looking potentially awesome! Might take a while before we get to see some paint tho!

love the pipes.

I know why there are so many pipes Blackadder! it's because they are used to transport all the WIN around your model! :-)

Nerdfest09

I cannot come up with a way to make a store bought hinge work in the manner displayed on the 3D model. I also seriously doubt that the hinge as shown can be made without some sort of hydraulic repositioning. I have come up with a plan that if my thought experiment bears fruit will approximate the shown image. It necessitates cutting drastically into the hull.

Pictures to follow

...That takes balls my friend...