Battle starship

Yum Yum, Nigiri with salmon is my favorite..
Getting hungry here.. :) :) Please post the movie.. I'd love to see you make sushi.. :popcorn

Ship looks amazing Katsu-san..

Jim
 
Yum Yum, Nigiri with salmon is my favorite..
Getting hungry here.. :) :) Please post the movie.. I'd love to see you make sushi.. :popcorn

Ship looks amazing Katsu-san..

Jim

I like my Sushi....COOKED ! :lol

Thanks for teaching us a few things about the brazier...


Thank you very much my friends!

On the other hands,
Real Texas style BBQ is what I dream of all the time.

I want to try that before I die!:rolleyes
 
Here is a little progress.

Built the port side aft section.

May be I wrote before but here's a little tips to bend an sheet aluminum.
I mainly use the couple of ] [ shape aluminum beams.
As you see the pics below. Set the beams and clamp them together and bend.
If you want a round edge, you should bend with a hand.
And if you need a sharp edge, scribe a shallow groove with Exacto on the inside of the angle and bend. Pretty simple.



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Adjust the both aft parts to fit the mid section and glue them together.

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OK, here's another tips for gluing the sheet aluminum.

I tried several kinds of glues. Super glue was not good for the aluminum.
Organic solvent based adhesive was merely OK but sometime inconvenience.
The best choice for me was -you may feel it curious but - hot glue.
It seems there is a specified hot glue for metal things but I use a ordinary one.
Apply the glue on the surface of the sheet aluminum and put then together.
Heat them up with a handy gas burner and press it hard.

Very strongly bonded. If you want to peel them off, just reheat and detach.


You'll find the handy gas burner on the upper right side of the pic below.
Not the green bottle. That's the beer bottle to warm me up.
The can of G300 is the one.




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Well, the all over outer shell has been almost done now.
I can proceed for the detailing.

Thanks for looking.

Katsu
 
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Thank you, Tom-san.

Thanks to your support, I am able to come up to the first milestone.
For the next step, I will put off all the exterior parts and conceal some lighting wires and add many detail.
 
Thank you very much for the kind care for us, Tom-san

We are alright.
Just then, I was waiting for the morning train at the platform. That was a rather large shaking. The train was about to came in to the platform but was stopped for the safety check. Only 10 minutes waiting. We have been having a several small quakes these days and I thought there might be a big one sooner or later. Some of those people in Fukushima and Miyagi have been injured but seems not so serious.

Don't you ever have a quake on your place?
 
I'm glad it was relatively minor.

Fortunately, we don't get earthquakes in my part of the country. A rare tornado every once in a while, and we're close enough to the Atlantic ocean that a hurricane on the coast will get us some heavy rain, but that's about it for natural disasters. Though last week there were some wildfires in northern Georgia that made the air here a bit smoky. It didn't last too long, luckily.
 
Here in Portland we rarely have earthquakes. Only a handful stand out in my memory since I was a little kid in the 80s. And none of them ever caused any appreciable damage.

That said, we're evidently due for a big Cascadia Subduction Zone quake that might be big enough to liquefy downtown Portland and kill thousands of people, so we have that to look forward to. Shouldn't get too complacent I suppose.

--Alex
 
I'm glad it was relatively minor.

Fortunately, we don't get earthquakes in my part of the country. A rare tornado every once in a while, and we're close enough to the Atlantic ocean that a hurricane on the coast will get us some heavy rain, but that's about it for natural disasters. Though last week there were some wildfires in northern Georgia that made the air here a bit smoky. It didn't last too long, luckily.

It's good to stand on a stable ground, Tom-san.
Here we have a tornado every once in a year.
A few years ago I lost the part of the roof of our house.
So far we could cover it by the fire insurance which also covers a typhoon damage.
We never experienced a wildfire here.
That must be fearful.
Oh, last night, the water tube for the toilet bowl has been pulled off and there were a little flood.
Looks like the valve in the toilet bowl was jammed or something.
We may be lucky because that was not a flushed water.
A few hundred bucks will gone for that.
Hey, whenever we managed to save a little money, it's supposed to gone regularly.:facepalm


Here in Portland we rarely have earthquakes. Only a handful stand out in my memory since I was a little kid in the 80s. And none of them ever caused any appreciable damage.

That said, we're evidently due for a big Cascadia Subduction Zone quake that might be big enough to liquefy downtown Portland and kill thousands of people, so we have that to look forward to. Shouldn't get too complacent I suppose.

--Alex
Wow, you are lucky so far.
We are now estimating a catastrophic earthquake along the shore of west half of main island Japan facing the pacific ocean .
It definitely happens next instant or next month or 10 years later. It's only a matter of time.
Several million people would be suffered we guess.

I am really in awe of the work you do, Truly a fantastic build, I'll definitely keep checking in.

//Henrik

Thank you very much for your comment.Henrik-san.
Now, looks like I could have another strong supporter.
Please enjoy my build and any question is welcome.

Katsu-bou
 
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Hi,
Here are some progress.

I've stripped all the parts outside and did some wiring for the LEDs. Then I started to build the detailing parts

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It took 4 hours to design and make a couple of this.
Maybe it's the same time elapses when I look for the kit parts in the junk parts box.
Looking for the kit parts is the another kind of fun but this was also fun for sure.

This is it.

Oh I went to see the movie with my daughter yesterday.
That was an anime drama depicting the war time.
Usually I rarely go to see the anime movie.
However, although this work has not been publicly advertised, it was a terrible pre-reputation on the net, and all the critics were acclaimed.
It was not a melodramatic movie to make people forcing to cry. It was rather a comedy.
After several minutes after the beginning of the movie, Both I and my daughter found yourself crying.
All through the movie, we were crying and also we were laughing out loud many times.

Hey, I'm a 59 years old guy and have been watching a thousand of movies.
But I've never had a experience like this before.
The movie is,
"Kono sekai no katasumi mi"
"In this corner of the world" will be in English.

This movie has been made by the cloud-funding.
They say it will be distributed to the foreign country soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_This_Corner_of_the_World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8FvaLoGeY
 
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I very much like those little assemblies - that and watching you develop new ways of making things.

That anime looks interesting. I'll be on the lookout for it here.
 
Hi, Tom-san.

Maybe I have to start thinking about the color scheme.
Especially, these detailing parts should be better to paint earlier than the large external hull. I will going to paint these with rather dark tone.
Maybe dark grey or shaded brownish color.


I hope you can see that movie sooner.
 
Continuing making detailing parts.
Here's introducing how I make a parts with complicated shape.

When you use a aluminum sheet and to try to make a parts which has some bumps or
complicated curves, it may raise any wrinkle or twisting on the surface.
To avoid such trouble, you can use the annealing technique.


The key is the temperature.
Well, how do you know the appropriate temperature?
Here's the most simple way to know it.
-- Do I talk like Martha Stewart?.

This is a 0.5mm aluminum sheet.
I will make a hump on it.

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Mark anything where you want to annealing with magic marker. It doesn't matter if it's a spot or all over the surface.
It depends on what you want to do with it.
This time I like to make a little hump on a small spot on the parts, So I just mark the small dot on it.

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Then heat it up with a burner a several seconds.
When it reach the appropriate temperature, the marking is disappeared. Leave it for several seconds to let it cool down. That's it.

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When it's cool down, the material turns out to be like a sheet of clay. Still hard but very flexible.

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These are just 1/10 of what I need.
I will continue to sketch and build of the detailing parts.

Thank you very much for looking.
Any question is welcomed.

Katsu
 
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... gasping for air....
Katsu-san.. It looks amazing.
Sorry , but I don't know what else to say.

Jim.

Thank you, Jim-san!

I am loving this! Keep up the great work! We're all looking forward to primer! :)

Thank you, Sofaking-san

I've seen that technique (over here called repousse) used on armor and such, but never before in modeling. Nice!

Thankyou,Tom-san

Thanks to your support, I'm getting used to this metal work and it makes me able to make almost any parts I could imagine.
Still, I may have to think about the design around the engine and thruster though I'm enjoying now..

Tom-san, you just gave me a nice tip for the next build.
I have been thinking about building some kind of Mech or droid for long time.
Maybe I can use these metal work for that.
Now, only three month got left to my retirement day.
After that I could speed up the build for this even though I may have to take over the most of all the housekeeping things.

Maybe I should start to draw some sketchs for that.:rolleyes

Katsu
 
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