Strode
Sr Member
Nice to see someone tackling this project.
I have 2 of these in pep files. I enjoy your detail work.
Thanks man. hope it works out
cheers mym8,i think it would be ashame if you go to all the work and dont bling up the cockpit!but thats just me....top marks so far cheers peza
mate i will try but i'm not so good yet lets see how it goes and i shall tackle it when i get there :thumbsup
BOLD #1: Yeah, it would be kewl, to say the least. To be perfectly honest though, after tackling the rear compartment I don't know if I'd want to do the cockpit as well, lol. But, it's definitely something for me to consider earlier on in the design process. Only problem is finding useable reference pics showing the cockpit, of which there aren't many.
agreed. but as i just said to peza, i will see when i get there. long way to go yet thanks for all the kind words man
haven't done anything of significance. just started some plating work. i was wondering how to tackle this bit and i found a method but it is kinda messy and clumsy. i don't want to scribe the thing since the material i am working with is not really scribing friendly so i have to do the tedious task of cutting individual plates out of a thinner sheet and stick them on. it's taking a while but on the whole i think it is a better way to go about this.
also i must again apologise for the picture quality. my workspace has really bad lighting and i only have my camera phone. the best i can do is increase the brightness and so on but that comes with it's own set of issues :facepalm
plates of different thicknesses...
i used tracing paper. yeah.
really professional stuff. you can see the blue pen marks i used to mark out where the plates will go. i'm fairly confident a spot of primer will solve that instantly but since i don't have some on me right now i'll leave it as it is and get back to it later.
more plating details
temporarily in place
this is it so far. the above two images are what faces the outside but i have no idea what the parts that face the inside look like in terms of plating and accents. anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Eric? i can't seem to find any reference pictures. i don't mind leaving it blank since it won't be seen anyway but i'll just feel...weird. so any input welcome.
thanks all.