Scratchbuilding article

PjF · Post by **PjF** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:38 am

I wrote an Instructable about scratchbuilding that folks here might find interesting:

https://www.instructables.com/id/Sci-Fi ... el-Making/

Its a general overview that covers basic styrene fabrication, vacuum-forming, kit bashing, and 3D printing, and uses a spaceship model that I built last year as the example.

-Peter

southwestforests · Post by **southwestforests** » Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:22 pm

Hey, pretty cool. Interesting about scaling the whole deal to work with that one part. Expect that is fairly common in this sort of thing.

Wug · Post by **Wug** » Fri Jul 05, 2019 5:03 pm

Thanks for posting.

I remember your build from therpf.

Pod1610 · Post by **Pod1610** » Mon Aug 31, 2020 2:50 pm

Nice. Bookmarked.

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:26 pm

Thank you for doing this and for sharing it.

Ramsayman · Post by **Ramsayman** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:20 pm

Awesome! Nice job on that vessel too! Bizarre looking thing...

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Sun Feb 14, 2021 11:54 am

The right-angle gluing jig is something I need to make right away.

elend · Post by **elend** » Fri Feb 19, 2021 11:10 am

I hope it's not "hijacking", but I think that thread serves well to post more articles or in my case videos about interesting scratchbuilding ideas. Found this CTG guy on YouTube and he certainly has some interesting tips and tricks for scratchbuilding. Well worth to check out some of his vids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V4cu1DstJ8

Zubie · Post by **Zubie** » Tue Apr 13, 2021 10:58 pm

I was going to start a new thread, but I think this link would fit quite nicely under this thread

The blogger "mung" (who is listed as a member, but not a poster) has an extensive set of kitbash projects documented on his site - RC Sci Fi. He has also posted a "Model Kit Part Detailing Guide" where he documents some good rules of thumbs for SF kitbash detailing.

The site is also fairly replete with several inventive kitbashes which can be very inspirational (or inspire one to hoard too much junk such as a dead vacuum cleaner on the off chance it might make a neat star battlecruiser

)

publiusr · Post by **publiusr** » Sat Apr 24, 2021 11:22 am

He is running out of plastic spoons there--as per the RPF. I love his TTA work--and he has turned Barbie into a smuggler with one of his ships based on a toy. I put a spoon on the flat underside of a computer mouse and it pops to life...

zaphod · Post by **zaphod** » Thu Jul 20, 2023 5:25 pm

The instructable from PjF is still up and the link to McMaster Carr is still intact.
What an excellent article!

PjF · Post by **PjF** » Mon Jul 31, 2023 1:57 pm

Thanks!
Why did you think it was down?

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