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Urashiman

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  1. Hey, nice work! What's the 3D program you use?
  2. I thought about having a bit fun, so I digged up this kit my older brother gave me a while ago: He got that one of the bargain bin from one of the many hobby stores years ago. A whopping € 2.99! Please be aware, that a simple kebap is more expensive than this. Anyway. The kit is really simple, based upon a mold that was created by revell somewhen in the 1970s. This kit is terrible. It has rised and engraved panel lines and the detail in general is horrible. BUT! it kinda fits well. On a scale from 1 to 10 the whole kit would be a 2/10. What's the plan? - Get a somewhat proper cockpit into this kit, as the original cockpit detail consists of only two simple pilot seats (see below pictures) - Rescribe the rised panel lines - Fix the canopy - Fix the exhaust - Fix whatever comes up during building to make it look somehow acceptable. I am not going for a 100% scale build here, just something that won't give you eye cancer while looking at it. Cockpit work: This is what the manual says. Glue the two seats and done. I am going to recycle an old F-14 cockpit for this one. It's from the 1977 Hasegawa F-14 mold (the one that comes with the Macross Zero F-14). Awesome fit, right? Looks like this one needs a lot of sanding. After casting some pilots with resin and a lot of sanding, I was able to go from basically no cockpit at all, to this. It still needs fixing. The F-5B head rests are rounded, so I going to sand them down a bit. The piece in the middle of the cockpit needs to be cutted away as well. It seems to be some kind of rudimentary console for the guy in the back, but it is not looking like anything the F-5B would have. Here's another issue. The canopy doesn't fit. It has huge gaps in the front and the back. It's also pushed up a bit due to the backseat. That'll be adjusted by sanding. Now to the exhausts: Just a simple part. No detail at all, so I just went all the way to drill holes into the exhausts. So that's the current process on that. The plan is to build some exhaust detail and finish the cockpit. Then I am redoing the rised panel lines on the main body.
  3. I haven't seen anything, only the plamax updates. But in the original announcement pictures it says "2021", so there might be news around the year.
  4. okay .... not going to buy this set then haha
  5. I did some experimenting today on casting. With all the stuff I have at home - how can I use that to clone pilot figures. Here is my first attempt at making a mold and producing a recast. For the mold, I used FIMO. For the cast, I used some Ponal dual component putty. Step one: Produce the mold Step two: bake the mold Step three: casting (no picture available). Step four: trying to free the cast from the mold and accidently breaking the mold. It kinda worked, but the mold is lost. Thinking about how much power it takes to bake FIMO in the oven, this is probably not the best approach for cloning. The putty is also really gum like when dry, so probably not the best material to use for casting, except you would like to have something rubber like.
  6. Ah ... good advise. Will get some as well.
  7. Thanks a lot man! Time to make some clones edit: just checked the trollfactory site: https://trollfactory.de/anwendungen/modellbau/tabletop-spiele/7042/tfc-troll-factory-silikon-kautschuk-typ-2-abformsilikon-mittelhart-1-1-rtv-nv?number= Their products are much cheaper compared to amazon. 22,90€ compared to 28,90€.
  8. Whoa! Awesome! I need one of those for my newest member on my modelkit stack of shame. I will probably take the Hasegawa F-14 pilots as well. Thanks for the idea! PS: What do you use for the molds and what kind of resin are you using for casting?
  9. You're welcome.
  10. currently finishing the more accurate line arts if you can wait for a bit.
  11. Those views are based upon my papercraft and unfortunately are not acurate. Well, they are the most acurate you can find at the moment, but they are not 100% correct. Here is the original from the papercraft model: and my bad line art for the VF-14: There was a lot of tweaking and changing done from line art to the 3D model. Hope that helps.
  12. Looks good! Keep us updated
  13. Urashiman

    Fun with KSP

    Hey everyone, I was a bit bored today and had some fun in KSP. Everything was done without mods. Doesn't transform, flight model only VF-1 VF-9
  14. @MechTech jep, thats the 1/48 VF-1A/S Strike
  15. Got new stuff ... and that VF-1S/A Hasegawa box is just huge, man! Even bigger than the 1/48 YF-19 box.
  16. So - May stash moved from the living room into the basement. The VF-0S and the SV-51 Nora Type box on the left are "empty". Well actually, full of sprues from other kits. The stash will be extended by a VF-1S Strike 1/48, VF-0D, VF-25 Super and a SV-262 as soon as the HLJ holiday sale package arrives Update: The stuff is here:
  17. Yeah - I just saw this build on FB as well! NIce one
  18. @MechTechI don't think I will start selling it. Too much trouble with business taxes in Germany. I was thinking of releasing it under GPL, so anyone can print it. @Thomthanks! Only 3D printing, no casting
  19. @MechTechThat's the plan. The whole 3D model is designed to work as 1/72 kit.
  20. At the moment, whenever I have a 5 minutes of free time, I am working on this. Slowly getting the VF-9 were I want it to be (quality wise).
  21. I was thinking about buying one of those old bandai molds as well - how does it build? The old ARII kits were not fitting well, and the old VF-2ss needed much sanding, so how are the old Bandai kits?
  22. Woohoo the 262 - and you even use proper Umlaute
  23. An XBOX360 exclusive space shooter. The planes in that game were actually designed by Shoji Kawamori. The game was kinda fun, but the story was mediocre.
  24. Mhmm - Reminds me of Project Sylpheed
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