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Hi, Dec! Good to hear from you again. If you don't have any solid plans for your hover tank - and if you do I might try this one - you could always base it on a Land Rover. I can still hear you saying "Nobody messes with a Landy!"

Sorry guys I just had a death in the family so my thinking is not the best. thanks for all your help I just going to try plastic around 1/8 I was going to cut the thicker plastic so I would have different levels and also cut small to large cut outs for the ships docks,supplies and an area for new s...

The man-doors inset into the cargo bay doors have been giving me fits. Shape, size, colour - there is no facet of these things that I have not second- and triple-guessed. I must have made at least three different versions of these things before settling on a final one, mostly because enough is enoug...

I'm getting down to the last few greeblies to add to the Phaeton. I'm starting to get that "almost done with this thing" jitters.

'Bout time, I know.

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Now that the main painting is complete, smaller, detail pieces - like the main battery - can be emplaced. (The turrets, though capable in their own right, are only 2cm powerguns (idea shamelessly stolen from Mr. Drake's Hammer's Slammers .) The main battery tubes are fixed, forward firing multi-muni...

After long hiatus, I have more work to display. I'm determined to finish the seemingly endless project - if only to clear my work bench for other projects I have in mind.

These pics are just to show my paint scheme.

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I've been at a loss as to a "good" paint scheme. Grays have been done and done to death; yet I want something not-gaudy, something business-like, because Traveler is all about the business of running one's own starship (at least, the way I play it). So one wants a memorable paint combo, on...

Well, I feel dumb. For some reason I had it in my mind that 30 Sept was the deadline, not 1 Sept. :oops: :oops: So, in common with a lot of folks in this challenge, I'm not done. Painting to do, and all that. You know what happens when you rush a paint job? Fingers become salamis; "dexterity&qu...

Last weekend I got no work done due to attending a wedding in Newfield, NY just outside Ithaca. We stayed at a great B&B - Enfield Manor - less than a mile from the venue, the Treman Centre - an old barn converted to a party venue with a honeymoon/wedding night suite in the former hay loft. I mu...

Work to date.

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And yes - more putty application and (of course) sanding,

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I was really hoping to have something to show for this weekend. However, there are other things happening. My dear friend SiaoMouse is back in the hospital for the fourth time with a recurrent brain tumour that affects his optic nerve, among other things. His girlfriend, Nikita - also a dear friend ...

Two steps forward, three steps back ...

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Looking good, Doc!

As the deadline rushes down upon me, I'm upping my build tempo a bit.

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Thank-you, ptitrainrouge. I'm just having fun with it. :) Yes, that's a turret. It was for another build, originally, but it fit well here, so ... parts is parts, n'est pas? southwestforests, in my mind the word "Inimical" is kinda defined as "something bad, a thing we do not want.&qu...

More cargo-bay door-age

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More landing legs and a wee bit on the cargo doors.

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More work on the Phaeton's landing legs

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Whilst awaiting a package from MicroMark, I thought to work on the Phaeton's landing legs. Pic 60 I realized that with the ventral turret in place, the Phaeton will need landing legs with which to sit upon my display shelf - so legs we must devise. This is a first attempt. Depending on how these tur...

Well, it's been a good day. I have finished the two Fae builds. Now I can concentrate on the Phaeton.
Here are the final pictures.

Fae Mk I

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Fae Mk II

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The Fae Mk II is moving right along - I feel that I'm close to done.

(Again, sorry for the quality of the pictures - I am a ham-handed photog at best, despite the best efforts of digital camera technology.)

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The nice thing about holidays is the added modeling time, especially if the invited family members bail on their invitations, thus reducing the barbeque time to a minimum.

I worked on the Phaeton

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and the Fae Mk II.

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I'm not sure what happened. I somehow lost the post with the Fae Mk II pictures #15-21 ... Since they're of a now-abandoned direction, no problem, really - just perplexing. Moderators, if you can find that post I'd kinda like to have it up here again. :) If you can't find it, no worries, I guess, ot...

New direction, part duh. I realized that I'd kinda lost the focus of the build, but I think I'm back to facing front again. The Fae Mk I is the troop-ship, with the Fae Mk II being the gun-ship of the pair - I kinda lost sight of that. So back into the parts bin with the fans, and on with figuring o...

Father's Day - the middle of June ... which means, there's only three & a half months left to the end of September. This is the published record of the state of progress for the 16 registered entrants plus one late entrant, Kerick. 0. John Lester - no word 1. Blappy - work in progress 2. John O ...

After a few days contemplating the orange additions to the Fae II, I decided I don't like them. Away with them! New direction, as seen here: Pic 10 Pic 11 Pic 12 Pic 13 Pic 14 This is an "edit-insert" - the following pictures were posted in their own post, but ... Somehow, when that post w...

Still on the Fae Mk II

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As promised, more on the Fae Mk II

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and on the Phaeton

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