As usual.. WOW
I'd love to have 5 to 6 hours a day for modeling. I guess that is one of the perks of retirement
Thanks for the comment and honestly, you are right, blakeh1-san.
I've always thought that the days after retirement would be so full filled and joyful.
And was true. 24 hours flies like an arrow.
You should look forward to the day to come.
Katsu-San, I’ve loved every minute of your build, with all the finer details you are adding it is turning more and more into a truly amazing piece of hand crafted art , it will be a sad day when you finish this star ship:cry but it will also be a truly happy happy day when you start on another
Ben
Thank you very much, Ben-san.
I'll tell you about the next model below.
I was wondering, while this model is metal of course, when you do use styrene, when making the outside of the ship (or whatever you are making), what thinkness do you use?
For my battlecruiser, I'm going with 2mm, which is pretty tough to cut, but figured it would make it stronger.
Michael-san, Thank you very much.
When I built last few model made of styrene, I mainly used 0.5 to 1.0 mm sheet.
2.0 mm sheet was even able to cut with scribe and snap method but I think it's too much thick unless you gonna use it for vacuum forming.
If you model would be over 1 foot long big, you should think about the stiff base structure. If your model would be over 6 foot or more, you may need the steel pipe armature. When I built a 2 foot model, I made a simple structure made of an acrylic plate of 3 to 5 mm thickness. If you don't have an appropiate circle saw, you should use a smaller acrylic plate and build up the base structure. If you use a proper acrylic glue, it's gonna be a very strong base structure.
Here are some pics of my previous work.
This is the basement structure of the model I am building now.
I've used 5 mm thick acrylic plates.
And this was for the 2 foot long star ship I built several years ago.
I've used 3 mm thick acrylic plates.
And this was for the ground vehicle.
I've used 2 mm thick styrene sheet for the upper structure and
3 mm acrylic plates for the lower structure.
Yes, I completely agree with "wow." That's probably the word I use most often every time I scroll through this amazing thread.
Katsu-san, have you thought about what material you might use for your next build? Metal again or something else?
May be I mainly use metal again.
I'm now designing the new mech but as I go into it it look after AMEE. That was really A great design.
Here are some sketch for that. Promise me you don't laugh!!
:facepalm
Ok,
As I salvaging those old pics above, I realized that the many pics in those thread of previous models are lost now.
So, let me salvage them again to recall the memory of your kind support and friendship.
Please be my guest for a while.
This is the first original model I built. Fully kit bashing model. 'Tempest' That was almost 10 years ago.
Using a 1/350 Tamiya Enterprise, 1/32 AH64 Apache, F-104, German 88 mm Flak gun and many more.
3 foot long. took one year to be finished.
Inside of the aft hanger deck.
On-board crafts.
This is the star ship I built by full scratch.
2 feet long. 6 years ago.
Passenger ship. 'Hyperion'
Small beach with palm trees.
Park, woods.
Shopping street.
Theater hall.
Nose hanger deck.
Small landing ship.
And the Planet Explorer 'Taiowa'
20 inches long. full scratch model.
Meeting lounge
Labo, Medical.
Cockpit