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This mornings haul that turned up on the Couriers to work... NICE!!
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Deadpool would...
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SWBF? If so you'll be loving the Jakku Ground war! There is SOOOOOO much going on in the skies above that fight! Graphics are 10/10
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Thats come up good for a quick job! Just because I'm an idiot and like loading on the work, I had an idea after seeing one of the boys from the unit dual wielding airsoft carbines during the Xmas function shootout at the local Ex Mental Institute Paintball place, Asylum. He was with his back to a wall on a corridor corner, both rifles held upright pointing up at the ceiling grinning like an idiot while the OP force team were hammering rounds down the hallway... Reminded me of the scene from the old activision game Heavy Gear... link below, go to 0.41 to see the moment. I'm working on a dual wielding Fighter mode VF-1 and had the idiotic idea of building a scene with a Battroid version of my Dual wielding VF hugging a street corner wall of a building thats getting shot up. The building will have beam cannon damage and feature flickering room lighting a partially collapsed wall facing. I may include a discarded ruined Super pack in the street likes its been dumped in a hurry by the VF, with exposed wiring and internals and maybe if I can do it, a lighting effect to look like an internal fire or sparking. Xmas project... Link for a diorama building lighting project. Liking the lens angle on the LEDs they use! http://www.instructables.com/id/Creative-diorama-lighting-with-the-Arduino-and-TLC/
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Can anyone advise on the Purpose or Role of the Strike Pack Beam Cannons? Anti Fighter, Anti Capital Ship? Guessing reaction Missles are for Capital ships, Micro missiles in the Super Packs are for Fighter screens?
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Try Induction charging for a battery setup. You'll never need to swap out a battery then. The model just has to be placed on an induction charger to recharge the cells.
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They arent in the files. As a soldier and a Contractor I'm used to the variants on standard weapons. Carbine versions of the main assault rifles for Armoured crew and Transport Drivers, PDWs for Pilots and aircrew etc. Figured and twin cannon Valk would look reasonably SAS/Spec Forces. Just trying to sketch up an ammo bin/clip for the side of the Carbine as the shortened barrel would mean the ammo would be external now. The carbines could ride in the stowed position on the OUTSIDE cutouts of the arms, so side by side in Fighter mode, as those cutouts are already molded into the arms. In the meantime todays project was working on finishing up the wiring on the two Strike cannon packs and working out how the wiring will all join up in the airframe body AND to the socket for the Launch Arm to plug into. I DID come across a reference to the Quad Beam Cannon Strike pack in the VF manual
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Building the Beam Cannons on a Strike pack last night, fitting up an LED into the targetter above the barrels and thought... why doesnt the VF-1 have twin cannons on both sides? Now it does! As well as 6 Reaction Warheads. You can never have too much overwhelming firepower.
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Carrier Catapult hook?
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The joys of kids... damned Elmo and Minions everywhere!
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Carrier Deck time... So... these are the resin lenses for the Neopixels in the deck. This is the daisy chain underneath... Next up is the JBD... Down position And raised... And from underneath... Ramp Micro servo Servo controller, translates my on/off inputs into ramp raising with the ability to set the start and end movement ranges and the speed of movement (the most important part to have it SLOWLY raise up realistically). Linkage - Ramp down Linkage - Ramp up The Heart and soul of the project, the Adafruit Trinket board The whole Prototyping board aka THE MESS WITH A VAGUE PURPOSE Lights on...
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Sorry its been so slow. Still renovating the house, building an MTB/Trials track in the huge backyard, racing MotoX, Kite surfing and work! Pretty busy summer so far!
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I'll sort videos soon. They flicker randomly through a range of similar colour and go from a slow burn to full afterburner and back.
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haha dont join the Army then, they pull them just for kicks! had 4 done under orders when I first joined... so much fun. Codeine... embrace it. naa its still a pretty violent and brutal act. Especially if you have ones that arent fully exposed.
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Here is a Super pack nozzle with a shinier Alclad finish. Next to it is a Neopixel Mini LED unit. The lens in the bottom of the nozzle is made with drops of clear Araldite clear 5min epoxy resin. So... the neopixel is a 4K LED, built in microprocessor to handle the commands from the Adruino board, resistors and the circuit board. All in one tiny package. They are also blindingly bright! Some shots of a Nozzle lit up
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The Neopixels are brilliant to work with as they come mounted on the board ready to go. The board gets trimmed on a dremel slightly so it fits tightly into the nozzle holders on the Hasegawa kits and you get zero light bleed as they are directional LEDs. So all the light is focused forwards and not out to the sides like a conventional 5mm round LED. You also get access to 4K colour so any colour can be displayed. Just type in the RGB codes same as you would in Photoshop and away you go. Next VF will get polished mirrored surfaces on the insides of the jet exhausts to throw more light and more reflections. The one in the photos has an Alclad II matt black finish which was a mistake.
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http://smg.photobucket.com/user/slydesigns/slideshow/THEPC Di electric Enamel coated wires for the LED system. Red for 5V, Black for GND and Blue for Data In. They will run down the landing gear legs as "brakelines" and be painted over. They will terminate as pins that will fit into sockets in the Carrier deck.
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I've sorted getting the part. Thanks all. Was messing round with the tinting as I have already tried a version of the tinted Future method with great success. I used a mix of yellow and red food grade colouring and a few drops of Modelmaster Gold Acryl in a bottle of Future to tint a canopy in the Gold F16 HARM style. Worked really well. I assumed I'd be able to do even better with the Alclad 2 Tint... I was wrong. yeah... I guess if I had a mold I could poor the Thinners in and hope it evaporated to leave a nice shiny new canopy but... .. well you got to have dreams I guess. It makes for a great magic trick though
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Had a mishap last night dissolving a VF-1D canopy in thinners... will work on the decals tonight Want this design on one of the Valkyries
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Experimenting with gold tinting canopies last night and I made a mistake... ...kind of funny, kind of stupid, kind of moronic even... yeah a mistake. I wanted to remove the tint to redo and as I was using ALCLAD II Laquers it dried fast and hard. So after trying to get it off with testors thinners and airbrush cleaner I had an idea... a stupid one looking back. I dropped the canopy into some Tamiya Thinners... Came back later to get it and... ...its gone. More accurately its no longer a solid and has 100% dissolved into solution! SO... is it possible to source replacement VF-1D canopies? Yeah... thats the worse part... its a rare 2 seater! You'd think a qualified Bomb Tech would know better... you'd think...
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About to find out tonight. Have a few different papers to try and also my Hydrographics media for doing Gun wraps. Will try them all.
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You can get a brilliant printer for Decal printing cheap from Canon. Most Inkjets for home are between 600 x 2400 dpi and 4800 x 1200... the Canon PIXMA MX922 we just picked up for $95NZD has a 5 colour cartridge print resolution of 9600 x 2400 dpi!! So thats crispy tiny writing without visible dots, blurring and fading.
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Macross Δ (Delta) - announcement thread
NZEOD replied to renegadeleader1's topic in Movies and TV Series
More Yukikaze/Stealth/Top Gun, less Gundam/Power Rangers please Knifing a tank like they do in Heavy Gear is one thing... Dancing duelists with Power Ranger swords is just too far into the Lameside of the force. -
Where do you get your decals made?