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Your Scratch Built models / Li'l Orion Part 4
« Last post by Eliot Brown on June 20, 2019, 05:51:23 am »
On to windows. I thought scribing and then clearing out would be easy. Maybe if I'd done it before I trimmed off the fuse from the entire sheet, it would'a. But no-- the vac-formed plastic was too thin and it got beaten away. So! On to second vac-form fuse. The second time I drilled and connected. Much better.
I decided I wanted the rear APUs to not give me so much trouble so instead of fussing to fit everything, I sat it on a blob of ApoxySculpt. I think being more prominent looks better.
By the time Steve mentioned he had closed up the internal wiring, I had built the interior and *should* have left it out. It caused nothing but trouble later and there are parts rattling around inside the finished model...
But I made it and in it went.
You can see the interior-- which would have been smashing with a couple of lights in there! -- and also the little blob of A-Sculpt which restrains a small piece of brass tube that telescopes on 1/16" rod. I like to make a paint stand and a display base at the same time so that everything fits later. In this case, it's a simple rod; no big deal. But that strategy pays off when it's two mounts or something really fancy like a square tube (WHICH is something I should have done with this model-- I did not think far enough ahead and did not consider how the ship could be mounted at the exit of the Space Station. A piece of square -- soldered at the ends of a support rod (who wants to bend square stock?) would prevent the model from spinning... )
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Your Scratch Built models / Re: Superman: The Movie Kryptonite and stand
« Last post by Eliot Brown on June 20, 2019, 05:37:15 am »
Love the chain work. How did you sculpt the perfectly bumpy clear shape? Very smooth.
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Props / Re: A simple blaster
« Last post by Zaticon1 on June 19, 2019, 11:52:56 pm »
I understand the mechanism! 
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General Discussion / Re: Welcome aboard!
« Last post by Zaticon1 on June 19, 2019, 11:50:53 pm »
Thanks.  One of the guys in the EC Facebook group has challenged me to do a follow up; a 1/8 scale representation of the EC offices, with the staff going on about their work.  I've accepted, though it's going to be a long term project.  Since it's a personal project, I'm free to show my progress.  I'll keep everybody posted.

Norm
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Your Scratch Built models / Superman: The Movie Kryptonite and stand
« Last post by toymaker5567 on June 19, 2019, 10:20:33 pm »
No one has this prop for sale, so, I decided to sculpt it myself. The green portion is clear resin with green pigment, and the meteorite body is solid black resin. A 9 volt battery comprises the power pack to light the white LEDs internally. The stand looks like superman's kryptonian symbol carved into the meteorite. All sculpted in silicone clay, and cast in resin including the chain. All built by hand.
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Props / Re: A simple blaster
« Last post by toymaker5567 on June 19, 2019, 10:02:32 pm »
Always wanted one of those. Bought a kit on an ebay auction, and it was terrible. Still have it. Its a recast of a recast. Bubbles everywhere. Its not even round in back. Looks like the mold  was deformed, and the casting was rushed. I'll just have to sculpt it and cast it myself. 
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Model Builds by Steve Neill / I built a B???
« Last post by SteveNeill on June 19, 2019, 09:32:57 pm »








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Model Builds by Steve Neill / Two models in one picture
« Last post by SteveNeill on June 19, 2019, 09:27:55 pm »
One is my Voyager the other a clear D that was built for a client who also gave me one of the highly coveted AMT clear cast model kits I still have and really should build one day.



The Spock ears are originals from my STMP molds I made in 1978.
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General Discussion / Re: Welcome aboard!
« Last post by SteveNeill on June 19, 2019, 05:01:54 pm »
Wow!!! Outstanding!! Thanks so much Norm!I once has dinner with Jack in the 70's!
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Your Scratch Built models / Li'l Orion Pt 3
« Last post by Eliot Brown on June 19, 2019, 03:13:24 pm »
I made a couple quickie vac-form pulls so that i could do some accurate measurements for some etched brass. The ribbing on the ship seems to be parallel so I felt little worries when I figured all that out. The holes that are associated with the forward facing scoops would at least allow one to place the scoop shapes. Once I'd figured out how to make them.
For now, spacing 11 of the things was the easy part. (Ahem, there's 9 on the bottom, facing to the rear.)
So I took one of the sacrificial fuselages and cut them where I hoped the cabin would be. I should point out that at this point I wanted to include lighting. Steve had lit up his monster Station, I had no idea whether anyone could see the Orion lighting or not-- but what the hey! Better to have it and not need it-- etc.
Part of the brass was an interior of ceiling lights and the angled part of the ceiling that has only two lights lit-- where Dr. Floyd naps. This was a most arrogant assumption on my part, the little ship windows are teeny tiny. Not itsy bitsy-- very small. Seeing any of it would be sheer luck. And as it turned out, luck was out the window!
I made several vent shapes-- just like the intake vents on jet aircraft-- but I could not quite see a way to hide them on the surface with a LOT of work.
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