Tripper
Sr Member
I've been working on a John Long p1 kit for another member here and while I wait for glue to dry I decided to put the finishing touches on a p1 project of my own. One I've been working on since summer of 2008 when I first started shaping the shells. This was originally a pair of fiberglass shells from a member at another board, but it wasn't accurate enough. I took the Master Replicas scans of Greg Jein's original hero p1 and made my own set of plans. I cut both p1 shells in half lengthwise and corrected the angles and width. I added styrene strips along the edges of the shell to build up height and length. I also used bondo over a styrene skeleton for a new emitter hump. I slathered bondo and styrene on the top front to build up the height and thickness as well. The emitter window was built using some tips from Robn1 which did the trick quite well, thanks! I then painted the shells with zynolyte dark grey and cleared it with kyrlon satin. Over the past year I've been slowly collecting hero parts like the grain of rice bulb, the brass wheel, custom made hollow emitters, crispy, custom cut acrylic, velcro etc.... I want to thank Pielock, Robn1, and Stapleton for helping me out with the various parts I needed! This being a backburner project, she's been sitting mostly complete for the past 6 months, so all I needed to do was solder the brass switch, file down the side rail, glue in place and attach the velcro. I was going to make both side rails but after 5 hours of hand filing I said screw it, looks like I'm going all out and including the velcro. I tried my best to match every bit of wonkiness found in the GJ phaser so all the goopyness and general crookedness is intentional! And yes, the p2 is coming together as well. Anyone have a ten turn for sale?
And some comparisons with the John Long p1:
And some comparisons with the John Long p1:
