Amish Trooper
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Geesh I wonder why my store has them at $30. Maybe I should grab the rest for the folks here.
These things seem to be a store-by-store, case-by-case thing. The Wal-Mart closest to my office has never had a single one of these on the sales floor. The one closer to home, about 16 miles away from the other, had them and still did a few days ago. But here's a case in point; my wife bought some ice cream bowls on clearance at the one closer to home -- they were 25 cents each. The store closer to my office had the same bowls on one of the clearance aisles, but there they were $1 each.Geesh I wonder why my store has them at $30. Maybe I should grab the rest for the folks here.
Some tips with cutting this plastic, favourite tip on this thread was heat to plastic as it cuts easier, I can vouch for this method, prior to heating it was hard to control the blade, after heating you can keep control of the cut , nice and gentle.Meanwhile, Walmart Canada doesn't believe in clearance - they're apparently going to stubbornly stick it out at seventy bucks for the Falcon. Sigh. In other news, I'm feeling wwwwwaaaaaaaaay too self satisfied this morning, having cast my very first resin piece ever, and am starting to churn out some engine vents from the Legacy Falcon. I was hoping to just drop very thin casts in on top of the HS vents as I do not at ALL like how this polypropylene stuff files and sands and I'm concerned about cutting nice, clean circles out of the engine deck, but it looks like the BMF vents are ever so slightly too big so there's not much option.
Looking good , remind us of the colour mix you used hereCrappy cell phone pic of my paint progress....still a long way to go. Waiting on some Boxcar Red acrylic to arive from Amazon.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp163/bigvade/Progress_zps94d09591.jpg
Robert
Crappy cell phone pic of my paint progress....still a long way to go. Waiting on some Boxcar Red acrylic to arive from Amazon.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp163/bigvade/Progress_zps94d09591.jpg
Robert
Looking good , remind us of the colour mix you used here
Some tips with cutting this plastic, favourite tip on this thread was heat to plastic as it cuts easier, I can vouch for this method, prior to heating it was hard to control the blade, after heating you can keep control of the cut , nice and gentle.
I tried dremel , resulting surface described aptly as Swiss cheese texture , again another tip here that I found has better results and control.....micro chisels, whether sharpened screwdrivers or micro chisels , very good finish compared with anything else. Sharp and slow controlled paring has the best results.
Crappy cell phone pic of my paint progress....still a long way to go. Waiting on some Boxcar Red acrylic to arive from Amazon.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp163/bigvade/Progress_zps94d09591.jpg
Robert
thank you Robert, looks brilliant, makes me want to stop cutting and start paintingThanksThe primer coat is Krylon Fusion Satin White # 2420, then preshading the panel lines in Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black. The final shade in a loose copy of Lear60man's mix. I used three 10ml bottles of Tamiya XF-2 Flat White, added two drops of XF-1 Flat Black, then about 6 or 7 drops of Tamiya XF-55 Deck Tan. Where Lear60man started in the center of each panel and worked his way out to the panel lines, I just misted over the entire model until the lines gradually faded to where you see it now. Either way works fine
Like I said, there's still a ton of weathering left...all the little splatters and streaks and so on. For the streaks , I intend to use pastel chalks ground to a powder on a piece of sandpaper and applied with a fine pointed brush. NOT looking forward to that:lol
Robert
Hey y'all. I just received Tony's Long Cockpit Cone from Shapeways.. It looks great! However, in their zeal to protect the part during shipping, Shapeways over stuffed the box with bubble pack causing the cone shape to become distorted to an oval shape. It was not broken, just distorted. To fix it, I pushed the cone into the docking port that had been removed from the Falcon, then heated it up with a hair dryer. A couple of minutes in the freezer for a quick cool down, and it is back in the round. Hope this helps if anyone else has this problem.
Crappy cell phone pic of my paint progress....still a long way to go. Waiting on some Boxcar Red acrylic to arive from Amazon.
[URL]http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp163/bigvade/Progress_zps94d09591.jpg[/URL]
Robert
Fantastic work there, love seeing these painted up and that looks brilliant alreadyCrappy cell phone pic of my paint progress....still a long way to go. Waiting on some Boxcar Red acrylic to arive from Amazon.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp163/bigvade/Progress_zps94d09591.jpg
Robert
Looking good so far...
Stock canopy or Shapeways?
Fantastic work there, love seeing these painted up and that looks brilliant already![]()
Thanks!
That would be the stock one
Robert
Crappy cell phone pic of my paint progress....still a long way to go. Waiting on some Boxcar Red acrylic to arive from Amazon.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp163/bigvade/Progress_zps94d09591.jpg
Robert
Tony, the shape was probably fine after it was printed. I think it was probably due to being over stuffed with packing material in the box. Just to clarify, I inserted the aft end of the cockpit into the inside of the docking port.
Thanks for all the great parts Tony! Any plans for Jaw Box details?
-Woody