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srspicer wrote:Great minds.............^^^^

Lol. Then i find myself in great company.

Buy a pack of Bionicle parts. They have very tight ball joints for figures. I have a bucket full of them.

DaveVan wrote:The car body in my other post took about 7 minutes to cut.

So all the sections in total were seven minutes?
Sounds good!

Not sure what the going commercial rate today is....a few years ago it was $1 a minute. Should be about that today....plus material. I work on a per project estimates. Ahhhh. And what kind of time does it take to cut each shape out? Imagine THIS was on a sheet of A4 paper(The boundary is scaled for...

Is there a significant cost to this?
I have a set of templates of the MKII viper sliced into sections...
It would be great to get them laser cut in 1/18 so i could string them together, putty over them and make a Gi Joe scaled MKII!!!!

Kylwell wrote:I've got to ask... just how many bottles of styrene cement have you gone through?

I hear he orders it in 50 gallon drums.
And he has used two already on this build...

Mark Yungblut wrote:They are on my to build list...

Lol. Post pics of them!

Mark Yungblut wrote:When I worked there I found the original plug for the Awing preprod study model and pulled myself two hulls
Mark

You still got them? Did you build them?

If you are looking to make a lot of pulls yourself, your own machine will be invaluable, but will entail a bit of waste as you get to grips. A "cheaper" method is to get your plug made and then take it to a company that specialises in vacforming. They will be experts, will guide you on wha...

lakespeed wrote:I agree. I've watched them do a salt mask to perfection so now I'm looking to build something I can try that on.

Totally.
If you do try it, send me a link to your pics.

No no no......the shock was a wow factor for me. I think it looks great.....how did you do the weathering? It looks like bare aluminum to me. It was a Games Workshop colour(Mithril Silver), painted on with a VERY fine brush. I tried to line each panel with it, showing the wear along all the edges. ...

Thanks Marco.
Every now and then, i feel great after i finish a model that i started...

No no no......the shock was a wow factor for me. I think it looks great.....how did you do the weathering? It looks like bare aluminum to me. It was a Games Workshop colour(Mithril Silver), painted on with a VERY fine brush. I tried to line each panel with it, showing the wear along all the edges. ...

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock::shock::shock::shock: good [/i] or :shock::shock::shock::shock: bad ???? It's :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: *THUD* :D Really cool looking. Now that I know how you did that it doesn't seem as hard as I thought it might be. I really like how you masked the str...

lakespeed wrote:

:shock::shock::shock: good or :shock::shock::shock: bad????

Ahhh....I get it now. I thought you were making a Tornado but you're actually just using the scheme on something else. Sounds cool.....can't wait to see what you come up with. :D I am 22 hours from the project starting(With about five hours of actual work in it, including the building of the kit), ...

I'll do the build tomorrow, and with any luck, the paint will be started on thursday.

What scale are you doing this in? I have no advice to give (I have a set of decals in 1/144 to do this bird 'cause I'm a cheater :D ) but I can't wait to see how you pull this off. I've seen your work so I know you can do it! 1/20. Should be a breeze based on Robb's insight with the stripes. Which ...

Kylwell wrote:Stripes (what ever color) first. Makes masking soooo much easier.

Right.
That makes sense.
So, if i read that correctly, a thorough coat of black, and then latex to mask off the stripes, then the yellow/orange on top, then mask that off for the grey, then the torn grey over the top of that?

Thanks. I think my personal problem is that i have no idea what will look coolest in terms of where the torn parts should be on this particular model. So i might need to paint the entire thing in the tiger stripes first, THEN work out the perfect areas to leave with the stripes... But these ideas ar...

Thanks a lot for the ideas guys. It's all great food for thought!
I love it when a plan comes together!

Johnnycrash wrote:Well, since most of the it is grey, and it's the lightest colour... I would start with it.

Okay. One vote for the grey first.
Have you ever done a Tigermeet paintjob yourself at all?

Hey guys. There's a lot going on in my life right now, but i need to build and paint a model. I'll just be grabbing a suitable one from the pile, glueing it together and painting it up. But i fancy doing a Tigermeet colour scheme. So, my question to all the great painters reading this is what order ...

raser13 wrote: maybe your pilot snuck in a cigarette while you weren't looking??

I have no idea still...
But it's not the end of the world....

If the CA gets broken off, try epoxy next time. It'll never come off...

I recall the same thing happened when Resin Illuminati started up. The "preferred" title was something that was too close to Skunkworks, and the domain name was shut down within days...
It happens with tightly controlled copyright...

Oh, always amazing how people or companies take a name and then the word comes up somewhere else in a totally unrelated matter and they sue like they own parts of the english language. Like Spike Lee sueing Spike TV like he owns the word Spike. Does Ian have an account hear? Here... :D He DID, but ...

Is it possible the blue tac itself contributed to it or maybe a combination of the blue tac, heat from the drilling and resin residue? I assume you've used blu tac before to hold parts in place, but how long was it on the part? I am not sure what the answer is to that question. The blu-tack will be...

Interesting!
It makes as much sense as any other explanation!
I just wanted to try and get to the bottom of it so i didn't repeat the same mistakes again!
I don't want to have to waste another Scorpion Canopy! those things are like gold now!

Is it possible there were some kind of chemical vapors near the canopy while you were out in the garage? Ken No uncovered materials in my garage... The only thing in the air was dust from the drilling of the resin. What material is the canopy? Clear styrene? It's the canopy from the Polar Lights Sc...