SmilingOtter
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I have little doubt that you could make something awesome from just twigs and mud.
AAV Drop Ship
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yuumi2891103
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Of course I can...
Thank you, Tom-san!
Thank you Analyzer-san,
If I have to make riveting on a rounded or complicated surface, I hardly can make it looking good. My hands are not so dexterous. As I looking at your works, I guess you guys have a better hands for sure. Because of using an aluminum sheet, I can scribe those panel lines or riveting (I'm just using a cog wheel for sewing) on a flat surface before shaping. You can't do this with a sheet styrene. The nose fuselage I made this time was done in only 2 hours including panel lines and riveting. This is one of the reason I often use this material.
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gedmac66
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Absolutely Fantastic Katsu-san ! ...., but if I may, the front is looking a ‘ little heavy ‘ - compared to where the forward ‘ fans ‘ are situated in the last pic.
Any chance of bringing them forward or making them bigger ?
Of course I’m playing ‘ devils advocate ‘ regarding the above statement , but you’re a perfectionist too ! Just saying !
Any chance of bringing them forward or making them bigger ?
Of course I’m playing ‘ devils advocate ‘ regarding the above statement , but you’re a perfectionist too ! Just saying !
yuumi2891103
Master Member
I've been visiting to my sisters apartment in Tokyo with my wife and my daughters Yesterday. We drunk a fine wines and had a very fine food. Talked about many funny things and really enjoyed.
Thanks, Ged-san.
OK, here's one of the figure of the plan I have been using for this model build to see the proportion balances and arrangement of fixture.
It's usually in my PC and I haven't disclosed it till now but, well, let me convert to GIF images and put them up here.
Fig.1 is the original plan of the arrangement.
Fig.1
As you know, I added the tilting function for the cockpit recently.
So I extended the front main fuselage about a little more than 2 inches. The red part of the fig.2 is the extended part.
Look, the nose section is looking obviously too long as compare to the total proportion.
Fig. 2
Fig.3 is the adjusted arrangement. Move the wing toward the nose about 2 inches. I think it's fair enough. As I wanted to make this model taste like a bit aardvark or anteater, I think this portion is fit for that. However, I'm not gonna fix this soon. The green part of each figure show the possible volume of attached attack vehicle. I want to see the total proportion when I actually build and fit the vehicle beneath the fuselage. Then I will be able to find the final arrangement.... I hope.
Fig.3
I'm not a trained professional industrial designer at all. Every time I build the model, I do the things like this. I mean, drawing some sketches, knead the clay or something. There is no final plan or assemble instruction in a fancy box. Crawling inch by inch in the darkness. Looks awkward and maybe just a time consumption. It's very masochistic....I like that. That's why I can continue to live with one single woman for more than 30 years.
Oh!..Last week, we celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary. I bought 31 roses and gave them with a message of love and swore for everlasting love. What a sincere husband am I ! My wife completely forgot that the wedding anniversary was on that day.
katsu
Absolutely Fantastic Katsu-san ! ...., but if I may, the front is looking a ‘ little heavy ‘ - compared to where the forward ‘ fans ‘ are situated in the last pic.
Any chance of bringing them forward or making them bigger ?
Of course I’m playing ‘ devils advocate ‘ regarding the above statement , but you’re a perfectionist too ! Just saying !
Thanks, Ged-san.
OK, here's one of the figure of the plan I have been using for this model build to see the proportion balances and arrangement of fixture.
It's usually in my PC and I haven't disclosed it till now but, well, let me convert to GIF images and put them up here.
Fig.1 is the original plan of the arrangement.
Fig.1
As you know, I added the tilting function for the cockpit recently.
So I extended the front main fuselage about a little more than 2 inches. The red part of the fig.2 is the extended part.
Look, the nose section is looking obviously too long as compare to the total proportion.
Fig. 2
Fig.3 is the adjusted arrangement. Move the wing toward the nose about 2 inches. I think it's fair enough. As I wanted to make this model taste like a bit aardvark or anteater, I think this portion is fit for that. However, I'm not gonna fix this soon. The green part of each figure show the possible volume of attached attack vehicle. I want to see the total proportion when I actually build and fit the vehicle beneath the fuselage. Then I will be able to find the final arrangement.... I hope.
Fig.3
I'm not a trained professional industrial designer at all. Every time I build the model, I do the things like this. I mean, drawing some sketches, knead the clay or something. There is no final plan or assemble instruction in a fancy box. Crawling inch by inch in the darkness. Looks awkward and maybe just a time consumption. It's very masochistic....I like that. That's why I can continue to live with one single woman for more than 30 years.
Oh!..Last week, we celebrated our 31st wedding anniversary. I bought 31 roses and gave them with a message of love and swore for everlasting love. What a sincere husband am I ! My wife completely forgot that the wedding anniversary was on that day.
katsu
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SmilingOtter
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I would think the long nose is disproportional due to the absence of the attack vehicle. With it in place, I'd imagine that the mass would be a lot more balanced.
Also: very smooth with the roses! I'm sure she was impressed.
Also: very smooth with the roses! I'm sure she was impressed.
gedmac66
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Masochistic !? ....
Loving the plans running around and evolving in your head Katsu-san !.
I totally agree - any scratch/original build is full of ‘ developmental ‘ alterations - and as you say “ crawling inch by inch in the dark “ , without a clear instruction sheet is half the ( at times frustrating ) fun !.
Congrats on you & your lovely wife’s 31st Anniversary too !.....
..., if she totally forgot the date..., and you ( romantic you! ) didn’t ..., dare I ask ..., is she planning to make it up to you, and if so how..., hmmm !?
....Loving the plans running around and evolving in your head Katsu-san !.
I totally agree - any scratch/original build is full of ‘ developmental ‘ alterations - and as you say “ crawling inch by inch in the dark “ , without a clear instruction sheet is half the ( at times frustrating ) fun !
.Congrats on you & your lovely wife’s 31st Anniversary too !.....
..., if she totally forgot the date..., and you ( romantic you
! ) didn’t ..., dare I ask ..., is she planning to make it up to you, and if so how..., hmmm !?
31 years together. Congrats. My parents will be hitting 47 in July. That's a long time together.
yuumi2891103
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Thanks, Tom-san!
As you say, even for myself, can't tell what will it be, so far.
That is also one of the fun thing!
Masochistic !?
Loving the plans running around and evolving in your head Katsu-san !.
I totally agree - any scratch/original build is full of ‘ developmental ‘ alterations - and as you say “ crawling inch by inch in the dark “ , without a clear instruction sheet is half the ( at times frustrating ) fun !
Thank you, Ged-san. Please keep watching me with your hawk eye.
Congrats on you & your lovely wife’s 31st Anniversary too !.....
..., if she totally forgot the date..., and you ( romantic you
Following is based on an actual event.
Viewers discretion is advised.
Wife: Heey, I'm home!
Me : Oh! welcome back! Yuumi-chan.
Wife: Sorry I'm late! That Mr.xxxxx messed the job again and I had to make it up for him. xxxx! What's for the dinner?
Me: Oh, it was a usual tough day, wasn't it? OK, ahh, here's for you.
Wife: Woow, what a beautiful roses.......what did you buy?
Me: What!? Noo!
Wife: OK, tell me, what do you want to buy?
Me: Oh, no, it's not like that. Today is our wedding anniversary.
Wife: Ohhhhhh! I forgot! Thaaank yooou!
The reason of this confused conversation was caused by another events happened in about 7 months before. I bought the 'Blade Runner Blaster' in a drunk way without submitting a purchase permission application to my wife. I was punished badly.
And here's a historical story
Many many years ago, I came home from my work and was watching the TV and play hilarious with my little daughters.
She suddenly came up to me and said 'Do you know what day today is?
I fearfully asked, 'What day?'
She said, 'It's February 29!!'
'What?'
My little twin daughters gazed at us in a tension of sudden crisis situation.
'The day we married!'
' What?! ....Ohhh, I forgot, oh, I'm so sorry........wait a minutes, that was January 29 wasn't it?.
'.....Really? .....Oh, OK, it's alright, never mind.
We've learned each other about these cases and we have been progressing year by year.
Anyway, this year, she shed a tear a bit and gave me a big kiss.
That's a big progress for us and it's OK to me.
Thank you, Michael-san!
What a happy couple.
47 years makes us feel like we've only just begun.
All the best things happen to you parents.
katsu
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gedmac66
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Katsu-san , my dear friend - I’m hoping for your continued good health , peace of mind and overall ‘ well being ‘....., and that your good wife never takes too much interest in your hobby or reading your build thread posts.
On the other hand, I totally support and even encourage your living life ‘ recklessly ‘ and to it’s juicy fullest - & any consequences ‘ be damned ‘ !!!
On the other hand, I totally support and even encourage your living life ‘ recklessly ‘ and to it’s juicy fullest - & any consequences ‘ be damned ‘ !!!
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yuumi2891103
Master Member
Katsu-san , my dear friend - I’m hoping for your continued good health , peace of mind and overall ‘ well being ‘....., and that your good wife never takes too much interest in your hobby or reading your build thread posts.
On the other hand, I totally support and even encourage your living life ‘ recklessly ‘ and to it’s juicy fullest - & any consequences ‘ be damned ‘ !!!
Sheeee! That's one of her dark history.
All the best things happen to you too, Ged-san!
Thank you Analyzer-san.
We've been together for 35 years.
She was 19...... Ahhhh..!
It always makes me feel happy to know somebody stay long together in love side by side.
Analyzer-san, Let me give you a poem I always love I learned at the college.
“If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together, In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or grey grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Wish you spent a joyful life together with your soul partner, my friend.
We feel secured!
Incharge of home security.
katsu
yuumi2891103
Master Member
Ken-san,
You are magnificent, too.
36 years... so long and maybe so short for you two.
We are all the same, maybe. When I go to bed every night, I feel a real happyness. I can sleep wirh this woman tonight, as always.
All the best, my friend.
Send my best to your partner.
I couldn,t take my wife to Howai ever.
Katsu
yuumi2891103
Master Member
Making a nose radar dome.
There was a several idea for the nose end design.
1. complicated one. Like it of a AH 64 Apache or Huey cobra.
Or something like a nose cowling of recent motorcycles.
2. Usual pointed nose.
3. Round nose.
I drew several sketches for the complicated nose but didn't look any good to me. The pointed nose was not bad but it's not that wild look and raises an another issue. Nose section will be stretched again.
So that, I chose round nose. Very short big radar dome. Like the one of A-7 Corsair or A-6 Intruder. I love both aircraft so much.
If I had to make a pointed corn, I did vacuum forming though. But I thought I can make it with hammering again.
Using a 0.8 mm thick aluminum sheet.
Last time I did this was almost 2 and half years ago and was a smaller one.
I already forgot to cut the sheet in a circle at the first place.
Ahh..
Cut off the excess and hammering again.
Then, sanding.
I put it on a turntable (Actually it's a diamond disk sharpener) and stick it with a hot glue.
Looks OK to me.
Test fitting.
Fixed it on a collar.
The cross section of the tip of the nose was slightly elliptical, so some adjustments were needed.
Looks like rather a nose of Japanese older Shin-kan-sen bullet train than A-7.
How do you like it? I think I like it. It looks wild and violent.
Thanks for looking!
katsu
There was a several idea for the nose end design.
1. complicated one. Like it of a AH 64 Apache or Huey cobra.
Or something like a nose cowling of recent motorcycles.
2. Usual pointed nose.
3. Round nose.
I drew several sketches for the complicated nose but didn't look any good to me. The pointed nose was not bad but it's not that wild look and raises an another issue. Nose section will be stretched again.
So that, I chose round nose. Very short big radar dome. Like the one of A-7 Corsair or A-6 Intruder. I love both aircraft so much.
If I had to make a pointed corn, I did vacuum forming though. But I thought I can make it with hammering again.
Using a 0.8 mm thick aluminum sheet.
Last time I did this was almost 2 and half years ago and was a smaller one.
I already forgot to cut the sheet in a circle at the first place.
Ahh..
Cut off the excess and hammering again.
Then, sanding.
I put it on a turntable (Actually it's a diamond disk sharpener) and stick it with a hot glue.
Looks OK to me.
Test fitting.
Fixed it on a collar.
The cross section of the tip of the nose was slightly elliptical, so some adjustments were needed.
Looks like rather a nose of Japanese older Shin-kan-sen bullet train than A-7.
How do you like it? I think I like it. It looks wild and violent.
Thanks for looking!
katsu
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Interesting how it went from all bumpy to perfectly smooth. Looks like it fits really well.
yuumi2891103
Master Member
Thanks, it's not difficult than what you see.
yuumi2891103
Master Member
Nice to hear that, thank you!
