1/350 K'Tinga

Thanks. Painting on the markings now.

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I cannot wait for my kit after seeing your pics! Are you going to include a paint color scheme chart for the instructions, or are you going to leave that up to the builder to come up with there own colors? Colors seam to be subjective, what you see in the movie and what you see on the Studio model pictures "behind the scenes" is a subjective matter! Is there definitive colors known for the K’Tinga studio model? :confused
 
Ok it's finally finished, I'll be publishing the instructions in the next day or so including my paint choices, which I pretty much winged it, so you don't have to use the same as mine.

Thanks for looking.
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rider certainly did amazing work with those Blue Screen photos! I love em'!

Richard, I truly am amazed at this build! Scott Alexander came by with his associate Jim just to see it! I was just finishing up with the shots above so he was able to see what I did for those. He was BLOWN AWAY at your fine detail work on this bird! And when I told him your time line of less than three months from nothing to the now half SS K'Tinga?!!! HE WAS FLOORED! And so am I still! :D

Thank you so much for making a 29 year dream come true. It is now fulfilled.

I didn't get time to do in-line images yet, but you all may see more of this beautiful build of Richards with my blue screen photos as click-able thumbnails here:
http://www.resinilluminati.com/showthread.php?t=1244

PLUS more of rider's fantastic renders from them! :D

Now on to the 4 foot Avenger after the D!!! (y)love:thumbsup
 
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Incredible work as always REL. One thing I would do a little different is the size of the red bridge light. In the film, it is clearly a small window and I think yours is a little too big. Otherwise, perfect.
 
Thanks to a wonderful suggestion by someone that's worked in the movie industry and has knowledge of how some of the studio models were made, I'm now sending these out with pre-primered parts. Basically I will put a coat of primer directly in the mold, with the primer being the surface of the cast part, then lay the FG in on top of the primer. So the primer acts like a gelcoat.

The beauty of this is now the parts have an extremely durable coat of primer that is bonded to the FG itself. Since the K'tinga's windows are round, to make the windows all one has to do is take a small drill, and drill just through the primer layer for the lights to shine through.

Now no one has to worry about primer sticking to the ship.


Here's an example on a bad mold, I primered the mold first, then laid up the clear fiberglass.

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Actually I meant the last one I make totally by myself. I'm not going to be producing the kits themselves anymore, just make the patterns.
 
A small announcement on this. I switched to a clear polyester fiberglass from the epoxy, the good news is it sets up faster than the epoxy, the bad news is it's kind of stinky until you get it painted. But other than that it behaves pretty much the same as the epoxy.

So those that are still waiting on orders will get the polyester stuff, and since it's a faster set, I can start shipping them out sooner.

Of course I had to build one to see how it behaves, so here it is in the poly fg.

Thanks


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