Hi everyone,
I've just received a commission from collector Wayne Middleton, to update his Studio scale BOP into a wing up, landing configuration from "The Search For Spock".
The landing gear bay doors have been cut out, and the wiring loom has been stripped back ready for some mods as well, maybe lights inside the gear bays. No easy task as the Steve Neisen model is well cast and very thick, which means I will need to "slim down" the doors so they don't have a six foot scale thickness to them !.
Ill post images of this transformation in the next day or so.
I have a question to anyone out there who may know or think they know the origin of the landing gear parts. I am thinking the main feet of the bird were made from some kind of half track or scout car body parts, maybe the M3 scout car or a variant of.
I don't know if the front detailing on the feet (the round parts) are part of the original moulding (which would identify the part easily) or something added for detail during construction. I am now about to trawl the kit scan pages.
The landing gear will not be load bearing as the bird will be posed in an almost touched down pose on a stand. I am guessing I will scratch build the feet mechanics out of brass and ally to match these images as much as possible, unless someone knows different. I
mage 1 is from the modeller magic site reference images.
I'm not sure where I got image of a smaller scale model from (apologies if it's someone on here, please let me know who you are if it is, as I would love to get some more angles on it), but it seems to show a "fairly accurate" close up of the main assembly and landing gear door configuration.
Any input would be gratefully received.
Thanks guys
I've just received a commission from collector Wayne Middleton, to update his Studio scale BOP into a wing up, landing configuration from "The Search For Spock".
The landing gear bay doors have been cut out, and the wiring loom has been stripped back ready for some mods as well, maybe lights inside the gear bays. No easy task as the Steve Neisen model is well cast and very thick, which means I will need to "slim down" the doors so they don't have a six foot scale thickness to them !.
Ill post images of this transformation in the next day or so.
I have a question to anyone out there who may know or think they know the origin of the landing gear parts. I am thinking the main feet of the bird were made from some kind of half track or scout car body parts, maybe the M3 scout car or a variant of.
I don't know if the front detailing on the feet (the round parts) are part of the original moulding (which would identify the part easily) or something added for detail during construction. I am now about to trawl the kit scan pages.
The landing gear will not be load bearing as the bird will be posed in an almost touched down pose on a stand. I am guessing I will scratch build the feet mechanics out of brass and ally to match these images as much as possible, unless someone knows different. I
mage 1 is from the modeller magic site reference images.
I'm not sure where I got image of a smaller scale model from (apologies if it's someone on here, please let me know who you are if it is, as I would love to get some more angles on it), but it seems to show a "fairly accurate" close up of the main assembly and landing gear door configuration.
Any input would be gratefully received.
Thanks guys