MechTech Posted December 31, 2020 Posted December 31, 2020 @electric indigo More coolness on your workbench! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! May this next year be a brighter one! Here is something FINALLY completed to help light up the new year (pun TOTALLY intended). It's not going to win any awards, but will still look cool next to our club Godzilla build display. This is an iron, Victorian style lighthouse. So I got generous with the rust (real rust). Side notes: Pushing the roof down on the small outside plant building is the main on/off button. The final GIF is hard to see because of frame rate, but pushing the finial on the roof triggers the flashing F-86 machine guns. Thanks for checking in everyone! - MT Quote
pengbuzz Posted December 31, 2020 Posted December 31, 2020 42 minutes ago, MechTech said: @electric indigo More coolness on your workbench! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! May this next year be a brighter one! Here is something FINALLY completed to help light up the new year (pun TOTALLY intended). It's not going to win any awards, but will still look cool next to our club Godzilla build display. This is an iron, Victorian style lighthouse. So I got generous with the rust (real rust). Side notes: Pushing the roof down on the small outside plant building is the main on/off button. The final GIF is hard to see because of frame rate, but pushing the finial on the roof triggers the flashing F-86 machine guns. Thanks for checking in everyone! - MT ROFL!!! That is just AWESOME!!! Quote
Gabe Q Posted December 31, 2020 Posted December 31, 2020 Mechtech, I'm astounded by your level of technical ability. You always scratchbuild the coolest stuff! Great work, as always. Loved the pun! When I read it, my face lit up. Quote
arbit Posted January 1, 2021 Posted January 1, 2021 Beautiful work Mechtech. It is lovelyto my eyes. Why shouldnt it win awards? It has such a nice concept and unique gimmicks that it made me smile. Quote
Gabe Q Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 Not much to report. I have various builds on the bench. A 1S Gerwalk, f14 tomcat, fighter valk 1A Max, sandrock, and a Legioss fighter. Quote
Thom Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 @MechTech Lovely looking rusty lighthouse, and all topped off by an F-86 pilot with an obvious lighthouse fetish! Quote
MechTech Posted January 2, 2021 Posted January 2, 2021 @pengbuzz Thanks Pengbuzz! @arbit Thanks Arbit. Some of my paint isn't the cleanest, especially the door and F-86. The wash kept washing out of the door instead of sticking in the recesses. I should have sealed it first. @Gabe Q Thanks Gabe! You are Soooo punny! Your paint is looking good! @Thom Thanks Thom! Lighthouse fetish is a funny way of putting it! I forgot to say the Testors window maker/glue worked great! It just has to be used in low humidity. - MT Quote
Urashiman Posted January 3, 2021 Author Posted January 3, 2021 Got new stuff ... and that VF-1S/A Hasegawa box is just huge, man! Even bigger than the 1/48 YF-19 box. Quote
MechTech Posted January 3, 2021 Posted January 3, 2021 @Urashiman Nice catch! Is that the 1/48th VF-1S (the box top doesn't say). This weekend I tackled the task I feared most of all on my ship build, cutting the holes out for the waterjet intakes. Taking a perfectly good boat hull and cutting holes into it is counter-intuitive, but necessary. The waterjets are only sitting in the rails I made for them, they are not sealed and mounted yet. Thank God it's done now! The plastic is fairly thin, but there is a bit of a ramp running into the intakes to help guide the water flow. The trailing edges were smoothed to reduce vortex drag. I am completely redoing the flight deck. It is cracking in places on the slide rails because of how thin it is. Also something else I overlooked. When I punched out all those tie-downs into the deck plate, it was the same as flattening dough when making a tortilla. The deck expanded making it bow up and add further stress to the thin plastic rail problem. This time around I'm doing the rails THEN punching the deck and THEN cutting it to fit onto the rails. So this weekend I started new beefier rails which are now drying. I used Plastruct "C" channel. One side of the channel is too long because of the slope of the hull side, so it had to be trimmed. How do you trim 2 feet of channel and make it look professional? You get jiggy with it! So I modified a jig for cutting square tubing I made and used that to make several passes and cut it (before and after below). The photo below shows the side slope of the ship, the "I" beam the rails slide on and an un-trimmed view of the cut "C" channel with a smaller "C" channel glued into it as a rail. All of this is to make a splash-proof seal on the rear of the ship and make it easy to just slide it off. Thanks for checking in! - MT Quote
derex3592 Posted January 3, 2021 Posted January 3, 2021 Great stuff guys! I've been under the weather with the crud for a few days, (not the Rona) so haven't gotten to much done around here. Today I had to splice 28 guage wire, which I didn't wanna do, but so be it. Got to try out my new $12 deep dark China heat gun though! Works great! I don't do models anymore, apparently just electronics if you didn't know any better looking at my work bench.. LOL Quote
pengbuzz Posted January 3, 2021 Posted January 3, 2021 5 hours ago, derex3592 said: Great stuff guys! I've been under the weather with the crud for a few days, (not the Rona) so haven't gotten to much done around here. Today I had to splice 28 guage wire, which I didn't wanna do, but so be it. Got to try out my new $12 deep dark China heat gun though! Works great! I don't do models anymore, apparently just electronics if you didn't know any better looking at my work bench.. LOL Some real nice solder work, derex! Opening your own electronics store? lol UPDATE: nothing to see here. Going to be taking a leave for a bit, as some issues have come up. Enjoy the holidays... Quote
Urashiman Posted January 4, 2021 Author Posted January 4, 2021 @MechTech jep, thats the 1/48 VF-1A/S Strike Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 4, 2021 Posted January 4, 2021 Yeah, those boxes are huge. I believe I have four or five complete 1/48 VF-1 kits in one of those, with all the associated missiles and super/strike packs packed into a second one. Quote
neptunesurvey Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 Update to the 1/100000 SSD. Found some hollow 1/100000 SDs on the shapeways and had to light them. Each one holds 1 pico led and is powered with a 3 volt battery. Quote
neptunesurvey Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 Nice lighthouse MT. How is the heat gun derex? Does it work on a small area? I have one but mine is meant to heat a large area. Quote
Convectuoso Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 Almost there, but I'm hating the included stickers. I just can't understand why the went with those instead of waterslide decals? Quote
arbit Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 On 1/3/2021 at 9:57 PM, derex3592 said: I don't do models anymore, apparently just electronics if you didn't know any better looking at my work bench.. LOL So has the electronics bug gotcha? (But I wouldn't solder on that cutting matt, or solder drops will melt holes in it.) 14 hours ago, Convectuoso said: Almost there, but I'm hating the included stickers. I just can't understand why the went with those instead of waterslide decals? Yeah stickers suck! Is that Bandai or Hasegawa? Maybe there are waterslides on Ebay. Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 15 hours ago, Convectuoso said: Almost there, but I'm hating the included stickers. I just can't understand why the went with those instead of waterslide decals? 58 minutes ago, arbit said: Yeah stickers suck! Is that Bandai or Hasegawa? Maybe there are waterslides on Ebay. Definitely the 1/100 Bandai kit, and yes, the stickers for those little suckers are miserable... but keep in mind, the waterslides Bandai included on their 1/72 VF-25s weren't really any better. Being entirely honest, I bought a bunch of those 1/100 VF-25 and YF-29 kits (they were about $6 at the time, don't know what they are now), but I have absolutely zero intention of using any of the included stickers for any of them. Those kits are all going to get alternate paint schemes, either real life squadrons, or possibly customs based on stuff from the Master File. Quote
MechTech Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 @derex3592 Nooo, don't go to the dark side! Cool work all the same! @neptunesurvey Thanks! Those look cool with your SSD and help put it in scale. @Convectuoso That's looking great! I never could understand the stickers thing either except that what they do with Gundam for the amateur builders. They're probably cheaper to produce too - MT Quote
Convectuoso Posted January 6, 2021 Posted January 6, 2021 I just may try to use a lot of masking tape and just paint the details Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Convectuoso said: I just may try to use a lot of masking tape and just paint the details That's what I wound up doing for my 1/72 VF-25F, though I did it all by hand because I'm crazy that way. Red paint was a bit of a pain, but the stripes weren't too hard to mask off. Quote
Thom Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 22 hours ago, Convectuoso said: Almost there, but I'm hating the included stickers. I just can't understand why the went with those instead of waterslide decals? Don't know how good your printer is, but perhaps you can scan some 1/72 scale decals, down-size and print them on clear decal paper? Quote
Convectuoso Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Thom said: Don't know how good your printer is, but perhaps you can scan some 1/72 scale decals, down-size and print them on clear decal paper? Is there a 1/72 version of this kit? Edited January 7, 2021 by Convectuoso Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Convectuoso said: Is there a 1/72 version of this kit? Not of that one, but I think the majority of the YF-29 markings are just stock SMS logos or other generic markings, so you could probably use VF-25 decals. If given the option, I'd try and grab a set of Hasegawa decals, rather than anything made by Bandai. Quote
joscasle Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) Well working on my 1/48 YF-19: Edited January 7, 2021 by joscasle Quote
joscasle Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) Continue: Edited January 7, 2021 by joscasle Quote
Chronocidal Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 Boy do I ever wish Hasegawa would get on with it, and make a matching YF-21. Quote
joscasle Posted January 7, 2021 Posted January 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Chronocidal said: Boy do I ever wish Hasegawa would get on with it, and make a matching YF-21. still wainting since 2009 Quote
Thom Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 11 hours ago, joscasle said: Continue: Wow, great looking VF-19! Quote
derex3592 Posted January 8, 2021 Posted January 8, 2021 Well...came down with the Rona over New Years Weekend. Uhhgg. Nothing bad at all, I've had sinus infections that are waaaay worse, but anywhoo, since I'll be cooling my heels at home for two weeks from work, (thankfully getting paid), I needed a break from the Runabout, so I opened up the 1/350 USS Fort Worth and decided to start in on some assembly. Now this is my first non sci-fi model in a looong time and my first Trumpeter kit, which I've heard are very good, so far a couple of small complaints, but all in all everything is going fairly well so far. It's not a Bandai model, parts don't lock together, it's all glue and patience here! This morning I started on some photoetch that is supplied with the kit. Very impressed with the quality of it so far! Here's my first few microscopic parts fitted! Quote
Thom Posted January 9, 2021 Posted January 9, 2021 6 hours ago, derex3592 said: Well...came down with the Rona over New Years Weekend. Uhhgg. Nothing bad at all, I've had sinus infections that are waaaay worse, but anywhoo, since I'll be cooling my heels at home for two weeks from work, (thankfully getting paid), I needed a break from the Runabout, so I opened up the 1/350 USS Fort Worth and decided to start in on some assembly. Now this is my first non sci-fi model in a looong time and my first Trumpeter kit, which I've heard are very good, so far a couple of small complaints, but all in all everything is going fairly well so far. It's not a Bandai model, parts don't lock together, it's all glue and patience here! This morning I started on some photoetch that is supplied with the kit. Very impressed with the quality of it so far! Here's my first few microscopic parts fitted! Good start. I'd lean on that railing! Quote
MechTech Posted January 9, 2021 Posted January 9, 2021 @derex3592 That sucks about the Rona, but good it's only minor and that you get a paid "vacation." I built the LCS-2 and it just needed soaked joints and when dried, needed a slight sand and no putty. Hopefully yours is the same. The kit looks good! - MT Quote
Urashiman Posted January 9, 2021 Author Posted January 9, 2021 On 1/7/2021 at 4:44 PM, joscasle said: Continue: Looks good! Keep us updated Quote
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