The Nylon Gag MK2 F1 Magneto Skimmer

struschie · Aug 15, 2014

Go big or go home? I like that

Beautiful progress. I want to lick it now - lol

wbobafett · Aug 16, 2014

Just WOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW:

Scratchbulit at its best!!! Beautiful!!! :cool

PS: Thanks for the tips on fillers and so on! I will see what I get here in Germany from that stuff!!!

struschie · Aug 16, 2014

...sach ma Beschoid

Will Vale · Aug 16, 2014

Not sure what to say other than that this is really inspiring stuff - your last build has certainly been on my mind as I get towards the engines on what I'm doing!

And this one looks amazing - all the fairing and smoothing work is so tidy. It seems almost a shame to hide the splitter plate on the bottom under that wing/duct part seen in white on the last pics!

One question - how much of it is permanently together? It seems like something that would be difficult to paint in one piece with all the undercuts and details.

Cheers,

Will

TheNylonGag · Sep 11, 2014

Thank you my friends for the comments

Will Vale said:
One question - how much of it is permanently together? It seems like something that would be difficult to paint in one piece with all the undercuts and details.

Cheers,

Will

Thanks Will,

The whole cockpit assemblie is removable, the rear section is also not yet fixed.

That is one of the challenges with scratching your own design, what to permenantly fix and when, what to paint and when, sometimes i have to accept that thinking will take an entire evening and nothing is really visually accomplished but everything has to be thought ahead of time

thanks for the question

Thanks for being with me friends

Lost my Mojo, big time. This thing is really beginning to **** me off.
It's one of those times when you really would appreciate an instruction book.
No such luck
The main issue was the transition between the cockpit cowel opening and hiding everything when closed, One night i just sat and cut card board, taped it on and then threw it in the bin after 10 minutes because it was "OFF".

Gave up, for the time being, and gave the cockpit assemblies a base coat of Tamiya matt black, XF1

Also did a bit of pre-shading on the engines

And hit the detail in the floor

All of these areas will get hit with a silver/gun metal/crome conbination to add some additional depth

Then moved back to the body work, side pod transition and cockpit canopy transition/blend,

removed clamps

sanded flush

Filled, with additional cockpit cowel in position

Added nose base plate

Was so pissed with this i even thought of selling it on e-bay but for now it seems i'm on it again unless of course someone has some free money to throw my way, no........ok, i'll try and finish it myself then.

I love scratch building
Gag

Cadeus · Sep 11, 2014

Perfect timing on the update. I was having withdrawals!!!!

progress is awesome, as usual. I hope you will see this one thrue. It's a really neat concept.

wbobafett · Sep 12, 2014

It is always frustrating to redo things. I can feel you.... but you did a tremendous job...again! Looks great!!

Keep on going!!

SofaKing01 · Sep 12, 2014

TheNylonGag said:
... This thing is really beginning to **** me off... It's one of those times when you really would appreciate an instruction book... No such luck... One night i just sat and cut card board, taped it on and then threw it in the bin after 10 minutes because it was "OFF"... ok, i'll try and finish it myself then.

Hey Gag,

I had to chuckle reading this post. I'm sure we've ALL been in that exact position several times over. I can't tell you how many times I've sat back, looked at the cockpit I'm building and just wanted to toss my hands in the air and go to bed! And yet... we all keep going back...

EXCELLENT work!

Mike J. · Sep 12, 2014

Don't give up, Tony!

TheNylonGag · Oct 12, 2014

Afternoon everyone,
Thanks for the kind words guys
　
Well after a few weeks away from the MK2 Skimmer i decided to do some painting and a few more body mods on the nose.
I'm not sure if the detail will be seen or not as i am having difficulty making the transition between open and closed cockpit invisible, so i had a design rethink,
First i started with some upper nose surface detail

　
　
I removed the front part of the cockpit frame so it will now be open
　
　

　
I then painted one of the cockpit detail assembly's
　
　

　
　
I dry brushed the under floor detail in the main body
　

　
　
I assembled the 5 point seat belts from my Tamiya 1/12th Williams FW14B
　
　

　
　
I then painted the main cockpit tub
　
　

　
　
Did a little bit of dry brushing
　
　

　
I then fitted the belts

　
　
Then i gave the dash and steering wheel a coat of matt black (XF-1) ready for the detail paint
　

　
Thats all i've done so far
A bit more excited to finish this now i have sorted the cockpit issues out
Still a long way to go but i'm getting there
Stay tuned
Take care
Gag

IEDBOUNTYHUNTER · Oct 12, 2014

Looking good. Love the harness.

Al

Soulinertia · Oct 12, 2014

The gold goes great with the red harness. Looking forward to more!

yuumi2891103 · Oct 12, 2014

The cockpit detail is looking fantastic.
Nice idea to add red seat belt on it.
Makes it so real.

katsu

Mike J. · Oct 12, 2014

It's great to see the cockpit painted

wbobafett · Oct 13, 2014

Awesome!!!

The tiny details are second to none!! The belt is very neat!!...oh boy...just look at all the perfect tiny details!!!

Any lightning planed?? I hope not...this would blow my mind!!

Wolff

kruleworld · Oct 13, 2014

Well, this was fun to see your hard work coming together. (although i did just get to see 1 years work in one go). awesome, can't wait to see how it turns out.