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A huge explosion and they don't even look back...

Working on a mad side project for a mini diorama using a GiMIX Gerwalk...the basics should be down and dry by tomorrow assuming I don't melt it all in the oven and I'll post up a pic OR it will be a total flop and I'll burn it

The buildings have been out a little while, their is a rubble set to go with them. I have one of the small ones and 2 of the tall ones.

I was getting at the point landing and storage in Gerwalk mode wasn't a good idea on a sea going vessel. And at the end of the day I want to do a nice practical looking dynamic carrier landing diorama so I'm going this route.

That same pilot also got to do the tower flyby.

So you'll be doing a VF-4 on an Elevator with its Aircraft handlers (Blue Shirts) and Ordnance crews (Red Jackets) lounging around as it raises to the flight deck?

Haha guess you know what to do then.

Blue handle Flush cuts after you guys recommended them to me. Never use anything else now!

I'm guessing you remember these two then... http://dioramas-and-models.com/cutlass%20ramp%20strike%20(1955).html

we... I've made 8 of these so far and they work perfectly...

The pinouts wouldnt need to be pinsockets, just solder the wire direct to the board. If you need plugs to disconnect components, add them down the line closer to each item (turret servo/LED/what ever) that was your Trinket profile stays slim and may still fit in. Sounds HAVE to be in the base as you'll want decent speakers and an amp to avoid it sounding tinny. I'm using Logitech Z333 speakers and sub for mine hidden in the cabinet holding the display.

How would you get from Gerwalk to Fighter once its on the deck and stationary? Its not a Harrier Jump Jet. Makes moving it round a tight hanger deck a pain the ass for maintenance crews. In fighter it can be towed. In Gerwalk a qual'd operator has to walk it. Assuming its not battle damaged and can still walk. Gerwalk is harder for crew egress as its higher, its got a higher C/G on a pitching deck of a ship, anchoring it to a deck would be harder, engine maintenance would be harder and weapon hard points are now a few meters off the deck. Stripping parts out of it would make it impossible to move if it couldn't be operated. In Fighter mode the gutted airframe still has wheels and can be pushed or towed. The Fighters dont have reverse jets, the have small verniers. They wont stop it in atmosphere. The Fighter was never shown to be able to hover so the arrestor system is needed to carrier landings. Were a Valk to have to land on a destroyers deck like the one below... Imagine how it would do that. Gerwalk mode. Now how does it get into the low hanger... it cant. So its stuck in Gerwalk mode on the deck. In Fighter mode on that deck it could never take off again either. Yeah... it needs to land in fighter mode on a carrier.

Lay a plain colour tea towel down. Stops parts bouncing. Use quality snips like Xuron cutters. Parts dont go flying when you cut with them (seriously, these things are awesome!) and the cut really cleanly. To trim the left over material I use a box cutter with a fresh blade. You, surprisingly, have more control over the large blade for trimming the nibs off than with an Exacto knife. I hold it like you do a knife when peeling an apple or potato. Even though these are prepainted I've had more success with Tamiya cement ( I mix half a bottle of Thin with half a bottle or Regular) than with Cyano. For seam welding try the Tamiya thin applied through wicking on the joint using a syringe and needle. Run the needle point over a sander to remove the point if you are prone to stabbing yourself. Once you use cement DO NOT touch the paint. If there is excess cement, leave it. Touching it will smudge the paint. Leaving it will allow it to evaporate and the paint settles down again. Remember its cement... it doesnt glue, it chemically melts the plastics and allows them to "weld" or blend together. It then evaporates leaving nothing behind but the hardened melted plastic. Send them to me, I'll make them for you.

its that sound files carry a lot of info to decode and play back. You could load each sound file onto a separate small adafruit card and set to trigger from the Arduino boards outputs.

Ahhh, that's different from mine, mine plays a soundtrack of events when its triggered. Radio comms then foot falls of the glaug, then the ambush, gun fire, explosions, the glaug falling though metalwork, the fuel burning, the valks walking away. My show car had a primitive version of the soundboard that played short sounds on 8 different trigger states tied into the ECU for things like shift light, red line, low fuel, temp, seat belt etc.

To cool to even look back...

DAMN you made 1/72 missiles??? YUS!!!

haha working on one.

All you that have bought and built your 2 Mode sets into Gerwalks... Care to sell your left over decals? I'm building a carrier deck... a long one... so need as many decals for any of the alternate squadrons as I can get.

http://www.robotoid.com/sound/soundingoff-sounds.html http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1324853 For a simple gun sound use... https://www.adafruit.com/product/2133 And of course for big sound files like I'm building... https://www.adafruit.com/products/94

Mostly engineer types, Ammo techs and fliers, the people I hang out with... Single wont work on the Tomytec, the guns just too damn big Damn this is a frustrating one... Agrhh the VF31s have the same issue! The hook would be out of the gun. Might have to be a VF31 CF or Freya trapping

Well THAT will never pass scrutiny in a display! Especially when I add the arrestor line into the display. What a mad idea. No pilot lands dead flat on a pitching deck. Think it will need to be a compromise and have them deploy from the legs BUT meet in the middle under and behind the gun pod at a SINGLE hook point..

Liking that weathering!

Another argument for having it in the arms and not the underside of the tail plate is on a VF-1 that puts the hook attachment point at the rear and above the C/G which would cause the nose to come off the ground when the hook pulled the cable. ON the Arms it would be further forward (not the hook but the attachment point on the plane) and well below the C/G.

All of them have rear hooks BUT the VF-1 seems to have dual hooks from the engines which is just plain dumb. The VF-0 series has a black and white hook behind the gun pod up under the tail plate. But where to put this on the VF-1...