1/12th Viper - Done!! Final pics...
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Ghadrack
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Re: 1/12th Viper
Man that is a brilliant idea, how awesome is that going to look in the cockpit!!! :love
Man that is a brilliant idea, how awesome is that going to look in the cockpit!!! :love
MooCriket
Master Member
nightrider
Sr Member
Re: 1/12th Viper
That's going to look awesome. I love the idea of the Dradis screen!
Chris
That's going to look awesome. I love the idea of the Dradis screen!
Chris
Re: 1/12th Viper
Is this what you used?
http://www.amazon.com/VR3-Monitor-Chain-Hassle-Packaging/dp/B001N24FS2
thomas
Is this what you used?
http://www.amazon.com/VR3-Monitor-Chain-Hassle-Packaging/dp/B001N24FS2
thomas
DS Operative
Sr Member
Re: 1/12th Viper
You've piqued a lot of interest with your dradis screen-- rightly so because it's a great idea and it looks awesome!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious, so would you mind writing up a "how to" on how you plan on implementing this from start to finish?
You've piqued a lot of interest with your dradis screen-- rightly so because it's a great idea and it looks awesome!
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious, so would you mind writing up a "how to" on how you plan on implementing this from start to finish?
Re: 1/12th Viper
I keep getting asked this question here, on other boards, and via PM/email. Please don't take this the wrong way (because I don't mean this to sound snotty), but honestly it's not hard to figure out. Open the thing, load graphics, insert in model as best you can, build "around it".... I can't really offer a recipe for this kind of thing guys - it's more art and a critical eye than it is mindless following of directions. This is partly why I love this kind of thing. Not knocking a project where you recreate a prop or model in such exactingness that would fool an expert, but that's not terribly creative or even fun sometimes - it's just aping someone else's work. Hell, I do it too, and love it - but it's usually basically a jigsaw puzzle, and this kind of mod (adding an LCD screen) is not.
More importantly for me, I'm making a model, not teaching a class, you know? It'd be a TON of extra work to painstakingly do a step by step tutorial.
But I'll take pics and you can follow along, if you can't come up with something yourselves. Again - apologies if this sounds harsh - I'm just trying to be blunt and preserve the enjoyment of this project for myself, with the limited time I have nowadays.
I keep getting asked this question here, on other boards, and via PM/email. Please don't take this the wrong way (because I don't mean this to sound snotty), but honestly it's not hard to figure out. Open the thing, load graphics, insert in model as best you can, build "around it".... I can't really offer a recipe for this kind of thing guys - it's more art and a critical eye than it is mindless following of directions. This is partly why I love this kind of thing. Not knocking a project where you recreate a prop or model in such exactingness that would fool an expert, but that's not terribly creative or even fun sometimes - it's just aping someone else's work. Hell, I do it too, and love it - but it's usually basically a jigsaw puzzle, and this kind of mod (adding an LCD screen) is not.
More importantly for me, I'm making a model, not teaching a class, you know? It'd be a TON of extra work to painstakingly do a step by step tutorial.
But I'll take pics and you can follow along, if you can't come up with something yourselves. Again - apologies if this sounds harsh - I'm just trying to be blunt and preserve the enjoyment of this project for myself, with the limited time I have nowadays.
Re: 1/12th Viper
Ryan called me this evening and opened my eyes to how busy the engine bay was becoming. Too much Ma.K. we think
So I went back to the drawing board - Ryan, hope you think it's more appropriate! I keep chopping expensive stuff! :cry
I'll add a few pipes and things in-line that look like they'd fail (so the deck chief can have something to complain about).
Ryan called me this evening and opened my eyes to how busy the engine bay was becoming. Too much Ma.K. we think
So I went back to the drawing board - Ryan, hope you think it's more appropriate! I keep chopping expensive stuff! :cry
I'll add a few pipes and things in-line that look like they'd fail (so the deck chief can have something to complain about).
belleauwood
Sr Member
Re: 1/12th Viper
Way better my friend, MUCH more with the "look" of the Viper, either MK 1 or Mk 2.
Can't WAIT to see her painted purty white and that detail just barely popping with a nice steel drybrush and some washes . . .
Ryan
Way better my friend, MUCH more with the "look" of the Viper, either MK 1 or Mk 2.
Can't WAIT to see her painted purty white and that detail just barely popping with a nice steel drybrush and some washes . . .
Ryan
DS Operative
Sr Member
Re: 1/12th Viper
I hear where you're coming from and completely understand. Keep having fun and keep posting pics!
I hear where you're coming from and completely understand. Keep having fun and keep posting pics!
Re: 1/12th Viper
Thanks, truly!! Honestly, as I post pics, you'll be able to see where I'm going (that, and I make it up as I go along). I am pretty inelegant most of the time with these sorts of things... it's usually at the very end when I slap some pretty paint on the surface that it looks cool to me, heh.
Thanks, truly!! Honestly, as I post pics, you'll be able to see where I'm going (that, and I make it up as I go along). I am pretty inelegant most of the time with these sorts of things... it's usually at the very end when I slap some pretty paint on the surface that it looks cool to me, heh.
little draco
New Member
Re: 1/12th Viper
Now that is a cool Dradis, I so am going to have to get my hands on one.
Now that is a cool Dradis, I so am going to have to get my hands on one.
Coffee Addict
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Re: 1/12th Viper
CVS Pharmacy has those little LCD key chains. I also saw them at Long's.
CVS Pharmacy has those little LCD key chains. I also saw them at Long's.
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Re: 1/12th Viper
How freaking big is this thing, looks awesome so far, cant wait to see it finished!
How freaking big is this thing, looks awesome so far, cant wait to see it finished!
