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Your work really does make a mockery of FW stuff, truly inspiring and very precise work.

Man there is a song about every color! and your detail work is very impressive. it truly blown my mind well done!

"I see a white thunderhawk gunship and I want it painted black"? As the old Stones song goes?

Incredible work anyhow, it looks amazing!

Viktor von Domm wrote:i bet it will be red... as in lady in red

good looking!

Nope, not red... No Blood Angels here...

cjharrisman wrote:Your work really does make a mockery of FW stuff, truly inspiring and very precise work.

Thanks, that's really nice of you to say so

cormadepanda wrote:Man there is a song about every color! and your detail work is very impressive. it truly blown my mind well done!

True, although it's not actually a reference to the actual colour in the song, more a reference to what (or who) the colour is associated with... (It's also 2 colours that will be used) Thank-you for your continued kind words and support Panda

c0un7_z3r0 wrote:"I see a white thunderhawk gunship and I want it painted black"? As the old Stones song goes?

Incredible work anyhow, it looks amazing!

Not black, but a great song none the less... Thanks for the compliment

Well Christmas has been a bad time for any hobby related work, i.e, I've done nothing...

Got the Vallejo Model paints and airbrush thinner that I needed for Christmas though so hopefully some paint may be making an appearance soon(ish). Most likely on the Rhino, Predator and Stormraven. Just gotta watch some more Youtube vids on how to use an airbrush...

welcome back from beneath all those mistletoes and wrapping paper and sweet stuff

and indeed christmas has prooven here to be as much of a hobby hamper as all over the world...

TBH, I find that it's any of the kids school holidays which delay hobby-time, but i'd not have it any other way

lol... straight to the point^^

but to be fair... we recently built a lego quinjet AND an x-wing...for the kids...*coughs*

but i have set my scincere eye up for some hobby work tomorrow... there is always so much that i want to do...

Ah yes, the Lego hobby - I too have had my fair share of plastic brick crack this festive season... Alas not of the Star Wars universe but Technic... Hoping for some Marvel lego next birthday (son's birthday, not mine - honest...)

hehe... lego tech... we sure have some but the kids are still too young to fully apreciate them... tho... nowadays...everything is littered with stuff of lego tech... mind you it get a fair bit more sturdy than back in my days this way...

also for a scratchbuilder you find always some parts of good value^^

amazing scratch building skills!

Andy_T wrote:
amazing scratch building skills!

Thanks mate

Alrighty then, I've been playing today and made a mess trying to sort out a mess... I stuck on the rear hatch with a hinge but it didn't work, I simply wasn't paying attention to what I was doing... so had to strip it off and dig out some plasticard. N|ow it's fixed but I've got a lot of making good to do.




Moved on to the side hatches, again these will be hinged but I've approached them the way i should have dont the rear hatch. These are work in progress, will look to complete them later this week. Once these hatches are done I'll start to work on the undercarraige and add the front landing skid, then move on the rear of the gunship and add some detailing panels similar to the front...

awesome work... but remember.. your heros not going to paint themselves, now do they

also... those treads on the hatches look mighty cool!

That is one mighty fine looking scratchbuild.

That's some amazing work and great attention to detail very well done. I do a lot of scratch build work myself and was wondering where you order you plastic card from, as I buy mine individually from my local model shop, but doing that is quite expensive if i need a lot of it.

Once again awesome work and look forward to seeing more.

 hk1x1 wrote:
That's some amazing work and great attention to detail very well done. I do a lot of scratch build work myself and was wondering where you order you plastic card from, as I buy mine individually from my local model shop, but doing that is quite expensive if i need a lot of it.

Once again awesome work and look forward to seeing more.

Thanks mate, it's been a fun build so far, do need to get back in the swing now, been too long since i did any work (got sidetracked by a couple of contests here on Dakka...)

As for the plasticard, got the sheet material from this seller - http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Hurlbat-Games/Sheet-Materials-/_i.html?_fsub=4323402014&_sid=6060254&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322 and the plasticard strips / tubes from here http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/little_toy_models/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686. Prices do seem to vary at times, so I always do a search on eBay and then calculate the indidviual prices (taking into account P&P)


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Got some work done today on the side doors, but my fething laptop is on the blink again - this time it appears to be either a simple case of dodgy driver or (and I think this is the issue) a fried motherboard / graphics chip... So, i'm back to using the wife's Tab but not able to upload photos :(


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So after hours of research it would appear that the 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT graphics card that is in my XPS has a fatal flaw and it was only a matter of time until it went belly up... However, as NVIDIA have publicly accepted there is an issue with the chip I may be able to get it repaired for free even though I bought it back in 2008... Time to ring DELL and see what they say and back to stealing the kids homework laptop (luckily we bought this a couple of weeks ago when the HDD died on the XPS)...

man work continues! well done on the hatch, nice and detailed.

I'm still down one laptop, but 'borrowed' the kids homework computer to get some snaps up on t-hawk progress...

Finished up the hatches and moved on to super detailing...






Plenty more to do

Super detailing is super awesome! Almost makes me want to get back into heavy-duty scratchbuilding.

gotta agree... your detailing is top shelf mister...

it is sometimes that you see a scratchbuild WIP and think to yourself... i wouldn´t complain if it just stayed all white PC

Cheers guys - hopefully one day I will get to paint it as the clean plasticard is now looking grotty and grey in places (mix of pencil lines and smudged glue...)

So, after spending much of the week repairing my true scale castle tower (as featured in my random blog - will have to take some updated snaps soon... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/348188.page ), I did some more detailing - added some ore vents and various other bits and bobs...

i think to fully grasp this beauty you need to make a vid when finished!!!

I agree with Vic, a vid would be a great idea, as the detail on this is truly excellent, I cant wait to see this painted.

Sure, I can do a video when I'm near the end of the build...

So, next update, working on the attack foils (if that's what they are called?). Scratchbuilt the lascannons as wanted them larger than those found on Marine tanks (picture has a Predator Lascannon as reference...)


Also, got my laptop repaired this morning (for free - even though it's 5 years old) so I'm happy again

at first glance i was quite shocked to see all the plastic card rubble alla round the foils... thought you smashed the t-hawk...

then perspective "droped" in^^

good looking lascanons!

and congratz for to be whole again^^

LOL, nope, not the t-hawk, but I probably have enough scraps to make another one - albeit an orkified version

hehe^^ for plastic card eye candy i am unbiased as to what species it may be for^^

Very epic.

excellent thunderhawk! and tanks also awesome.

Thanks guys

Righty, time to admit an error. I got carried away with the attack foils wing thingys (really must find out the technical name for them...) and after several hours of work I test fitted them then realised my error - the damn hinge is too small, way too weedy looking. To prove my stupidity i offer the evidence up for all to see and laugh at my sheer idiocy.





So now I need to work out how to either alter what I've done or start again from scratch...

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.