Great update SK! Just think of how productive you'll be when the weather breaks 
What an update! Lots to digestFirst: love the way the risers are making those buttons pop-out of that panel. The dark acrylic facing those buttons is the bomb and finally, I must say that your paint skills have grown exponentially since the beginning of this build. Just looking at those lights with that transparent glass finish is a beautiful sight to see:cool
Great update SK! Just think of how productive you'll be when the weather breaks![]()
Ah, cool. Smoked perspex and chrome silver paint - as 70s as Cinzano Bianco and Santana. A nice detail there.
Great update, the latches came out fantastic!
Latches are A+ for sure! Eager to see the door come together also...heck, I would love to see that cockpit coming together![]()
Them latches are great!!! Much easier to fix than drilling through the alloy versions.
Thank you,Well, I for one (and, perhaps on behalf of all the regular visitors to this thread) would like to thank you for all your hard work, Jessie. Your contributions to this project have allowed it to grow and expand in ways that I'm sure even SK himself hadn't anticipated, and we're all the beneficiaries. So from all of us who enjoy every update that includes some of your labor, thank you.
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WOW!! You folks are certifiably crazy! The amount of time, effort and detail you are putting into this is just insane. Can't wait until it is finished and once more whipping through the galaxy. Doesn't even have to be one far, far away. Ours will do just nicely.
SK, you need to assemble a greeblie book, "You Say Junk, I Say Treasure . . . A Greeblie Tale" Sounds like a perfect title to me. Seriously though, this thread is a great record, but you really should think of documenting this as a book. The hunt, and work for all these items you are re-creating and finding is outstanding!
Hey Fuzz,
Thanks so much! As you know greeblies are both a joy and a pain! A joy to see when it's finally finished, painted up and in place... a PAIN having to design and execute - with limited ref images. And every now and then a new photo pops up and forces me to go back and redo "something". I'm keeping a detailed list of people who keep posting new images - they'll pay!
Daniel and I have been tossing around a similar idea but centered more around the actual build. I've saved almost all the sketches I've done over the years - it's literally a pile of paper. Focusing on the greeblies would be 3/4s of the book! I LIKE IT!![]()
Of course you would have to write a forward to Chuck Norris... because without his inspiration (or fear of dying from his intimidation) none of it would be possible!![]()
Hi Gang,
Quick Update: All the panels have been removed down just past the shelves. I discovered some serious bowing the other morning and wanted to get those panels off and away from the build. The weight from the upper panels and shelves have caused the lower panels to bow out from the center by more than an inch. I have figured out a temp to perm solution by creating a vertical support brace that extends the entire width of the cockpit thus connecting the lower panels together, at their weakest point, where the nose panels meet. And, the way I'm designing it, there will be ZERO modification to the overall look and feel to the cockpit. As a result, the center console platform will be heavily mod'd (if not scraped all together) in favor of the new cross brace.
Stay Tuned!