T-16 Skyhopper
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We usually fly into Narita, and stay at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. It's Western friendly/easy, you can get a bus from the airport where they take care of your luggage (it's about an hour bus ride) and it is literally across the street from the JR Rail/Yamanote Line. From the Yamanote you can get just about everywhere you need to (it's like the beltway!).
Model shops - you can, from the Yamanote, stop off in Akihabara. Hit the "Radio Tower" right outside the train entrance. I have gotten Karls and Leopolds there for $8 a pop. No horse****, Jack? No horse****, Wang.
Also look for "Leonardo" in Akihabara - it's near "Miniature Park" if I am remembering correctly. KILLER multi story out of production kits.
No, you will need to walk a little more for the next place, and it's not in Akihabara, but in Nakano (or Nakano-Sakaue). It's in the "Nakano Broadway" building, and the shop is called "Mandarake". Got 1/12th Tamiya F1 donors for $32 there one time.
HAVE FUN!
We usually fly into Narita, and stay at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel. It's Western friendly/easy, you can get a bus from the airport where they take care of your luggage (it's about an hour bus ride) and it is literally across the street from the JR Rail/Yamanote Line. From the Yamanote you can get just about everywhere you need to (it's like the beltway!).
Model shops - you can, from the Yamanote, stop off in Akihabara. Hit the "Radio Tower" right outside the train entrance. I have gotten Karls and Leopolds there for $8 a pop. No horse****, Jack? No horse****, Wang.
Also look for "Leonardo" in Akihabara - it's near "Miniature Park" if I am remembering correctly. KILLER multi story out of production kits.
No, you will need to walk a little more for the next place, and it's not in Akihabara, but in Nakano (or Nakano-Sakaue). It's in the "Nakano Broadway" building, and the shop is called "Mandarake". Got 1/12th Tamiya F1 donors for $32 there one time.
HAVE FUN!
The three pronged thing? Get ready to enter into the exciting world of lamps.
http://thevictorialampshadeshop.com/lampshadelingo.asp
Everything is readily available... EXCEPT the central hub, from what I can tell. If you can find a three pronged faceted hub, let me know!
http://thevictorialampshadeshop.com/lampshadelingo.asp
Everything is readily available... EXCEPT the central hub, from what I can tell. If you can find a three pronged faceted hub, let me know!
Tape reel has been glued!!
Wonderful project.
Wonderful project.
Pretty close! This is the fifth time I have built it - once in card stock, once in foam core... and then I got the accurate measurements and had a good laugh about how off I was on some of them: the main sail I was bang-on in one dimension and crazy-off on another. The side "Griffon Panels" I nailed, and the back triangular base was not changed much from what Ed Minto drafted first. I was close on the two side wings at the tops and then it was guesswork on length of course. So armed with measurements, we set to work.
Craig drafted things in 3d to see how it all worked together, and I made parts in lasercut acrylic - built two of these that I wasn't happy with for one reason or another. Third one (this one) has a few SUPER minor quibbles but it's DARN close to the real one! Got the little pilots into position now!
Craig drafted things in 3d to see how it all worked together, and I made parts in lasercut acrylic - built two of these that I wasn't happy with for one reason or another. Third one (this one) has a few SUPER minor quibbles but it's DARN close to the real one! Got the little pilots into position now!
nicholassagan
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Looking sharp. Will it be done in 2 weeks??
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