The black triangle decal store???? :lol, Simon, paint them, go on, mask them up, i did on Red Leader for the squares, makes a man of you :behave.
lee
My Red Y (aka lazybones build) - some tips for the slack modeler
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The black triangle decal store???? :lol, Simon, paint them, go on, mask them up, i did on Red Leader for the squares, makes a man of you :behave.
lee
jedimaster
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I'm so glad I have you guys to fall back on for advice. ILM used decals so i'm gonna use decals dammit! I'll try the black triangle decal store. You got a link?
jedimaster
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Yeah been looking. I have a BAZILLIAN red ones left over from the snowspeeder but no black. I got some blank decal paper so I may just have to try and make my own. Only need 8 of the damn tiny buggers.
Edit. Good idea mike , I"ll look into that, thanks.
Edit. Good idea mike , I"ll look into that, thanks.
Colin Droidmilk
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Exactly. Port too, but not so much. It must be the donor as Mike says, rather than hot washing, as the problem is in that interior bulkhead wall too. Well, on mine at least. Can't see how that piece could've changed from circle to ellipse through heat. That's why I gave up on heating, and just shoved shims in between those two walls and the sidewalls. This shimming of the starboard cylinder resulted in gaps at the tail of 3.5mm on the starboard side and 1.5mm on the port. Didn't need to shim the front at all. Luckily the nature of the detailing on the cylinder sides and the happy presence of the mount hatches pretty much disguises the irregularities you might expect from shimming only one end. The L'Eggs went on flush on both cylinders without shimming or sanding with at worst a .25 mm lip in a couple of places. Jason 'd probably give the whole cylinder 5 out of 10 for looking a bit of a pig's arse, but I'm pretty chuffed with it now. Seeing those L'eggs on there with a true straight cylinder projecting out behind and the totally perfect relationship between it and the fuselage has me just grinning from ear to ear, gotta say. Man, what a kit!
Only thing with going cockpitless is we have to reinforce that floor, right? Don't want that support block underneath busting through that fragile styrene film....
Some pics. Finally got my zoom working again so now I can take some decent un-wide angle shots to check out the form against classic ILM pics. Pretty stunning match... The last pic shows one of the shims roughly in place in the starboard cylinder rear. And the first shows the gap resulting from the finished shim on the port side of the starboard cylinder.
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Steve, agreed on the rear inner blukhead, i think the diameter was off in the pattern, not 100%, but it does seem to cause a flaring.
Something for guys following us in the build to get there heads around for sure.
Ill look into what shimming i need once i get them ready to slip onto the wing, itll come good.
Love the new pics, yeah, think ill want to get to that stage and just sit and admire, looks so sexy, ya know, im not even bothered on finishing it, just getting it build clean, and gawping, the team did one hell of a job.
Those Tee's not shown up yet Steve? Hmm, thats slow.
lee
Something for guys following us in the build to get there heads around for sure.
Ill look into what shimming i need once i get them ready to slip onto the wing, itll come good.
Love the new pics, yeah, think ill want to get to that stage and just sit and admire, looks so sexy, ya know, im not even bothered on finishing it, just getting it build clean, and gawping, the team did one hell of a job.
Those Tee's not shown up yet Steve? Hmm, thats slow.
lee
Colin Droidmilk
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Not yet, no... but I live in hope! Anyway cheers a million for sending 'em! Glad you like the pics - I dedicate them to you!
Yeah, you can get so much of this kit tacked together, it's amazing. The only glue on what you see there is on the engines and a few greeblies I couldn't resist prematurely sticking on the fuse...
Yeah, you can get so much of this kit tacked together, it's amazing. The only glue on what you see there is on the engines and a few greeblies I couldn't resist prematurely sticking on the fuse...
Well, hopefully there soon buddy, i tend to find Euro post takes just as long as shipping to the US at times.
Just wanna see new pics with them tacked on lol.
Anyway, thank you for the pics you posted, really love them, taken at all those sexy angles, your a man after my own heart, as i tend to look at my own models from some mad angles at home, its like im playing Twister at times lol, and the greyscale pics, love it!
lee
Just wanna see new pics with them tacked on lol.
Anyway, thank you for the pics you posted, really love them, taken at all those sexy angles, your a man after my own heart, as i tend to look at my own models from some mad angles at home, its like im playing Twister at times lol, and the greyscale pics, love it!
lee
Yeah, it's there but it's minor, I shimmed only the rear part of the outer seam on both my cans.
I did too...thanks Steve...I thought "aha...FSoF&F replica pics!" instantly, LOL!
Ditto! Dang me, I've had mine tacked together for two weeks now. It's just so damn cool to look at in that pristine state, also my 4yo LOVES to assemble and disassemble it, heh.
Colin Droidmilk
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Twister, yeah, lol! It must be worse without a Panavise... While Panavises do prevent some of the more ludicrous Twister antics, I do want to get a plain mount in the correct mount point too at some point though - the Panavise knuckle looks a bit hefty next to the fuselage, and it's ruining my front underside views!! LOl....
Martyn, yeah, it's almost a shame to glue her up finally... because then you'd have to stop playing with her. When I've run out of plant-ons to glue on, I'm actually going to be a bit sad, I think... I ration myself to one plant-on a night, and take an hour over it, savouring every delicious moment, timing the applicationgasm to a soaring crescendo on the John Williams score...
Colin Droidmilk
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Hey Lee man, the GF just handed me a delivery note from the Post Office! The tees are in town!
Ahhh, cool beans, i was getting worried, now we get more pics, its a win, win lol.
lee
Colin Droidmilk
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No, seriously, the time between watching Star Wars in '77 and acquiring these SS models is just non-time. Non-life. Three and a half decades of basically meaningless events. I can see that now.
Lee, I now have the tees - after the usual sorry farrago of obstruction, rudeness and incompetence from the vicious harridans at the post office - and have managed not to touch them all day and do some work! Ok, I put one on, and would've posted a pic, but again I have this power drain problem on my camera. I'll see what I can do over the next days. Meanwhile here's another couple you guys might like from the previous set. And again, Lee, my man, you're an absolute prince of a fellow! THANKS. And now.... I'm away to tee off, lol!
Lee, I now have the tees - after the usual sorry farrago of obstruction, rudeness and incompetence from the vicious harridans at the post office - and have managed not to touch them all day and do some work! Ok, I put one on, and would've posted a pic, but again I have this power drain problem on my camera. I'll see what I can do over the next days. Meanwhile here's another couple you guys might like from the previous set. And again, Lee, my man, you're an absolute prince of a fellow! THANKS. And now.... I'm away to tee off, lol!
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On the triangles subject, I realized it was just Letraset registration marks - dry transfer, not decals:
http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/20100917SAWG_fg12a.jpg
http://www.creativepro.com/files/story_images/20100917SAWG_fg12a.jpg
Colin Droidmilk
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Cool. Pics just as soon as I can scrounge another 3 euros off the GF for some batteries...(I get about 15 shots for one set - bloody thing).
Tees are going on nicely. Apart from one little snag which I've been expecting - not with the tees but the steering vane housings. These are 3 or 4 mm wider than the Saturn cylinders. Looks OK in profile but from other angles you can see a mild splaying of the tees as they move out of line to reach their point on the ring... anyone else getting this? It's not a disaster, and is indeed the kind of anomaly one sees in ILM. Maybe this happens on the actual model, and has been faithfully recreated, lol...
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