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The Eagle has Landed!
Just made this yesterday afternoon / early evening. A bit fiddlely to quite a nice little opject once finished
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FOR AN IDEAL OF SIZE AND SCALE
679ADE83-BE7F-4031-88A3-32AEEFB6450F by oddball13131313, on Flickr
Just made this yesterday afternoon / early evening. A bit fiddlely to quite a nice little opject once finished
2C025BAF-F914-401A-BF3B-98A1E1A8BD4E by oddball13131313, on Flickr252ABC86-012E-42BA-9802-CE088FBB940C by oddball13131313, on Flickr2F87E228-4B38-4ADA-91BD-E75EB540D37E by oddball13131313, on Flickr8F0BC799-78F8-47C2-93B9-BF35627DD8A2 by oddball13131313, on FlickrFOR AN IDEAL OF SIZE AND SCALE
679ADE83-BE7F-4031-88A3-32AEEFB6450F by oddball13131313, on FlickrEdited by oddball1313 on Saturday 4th January 15:30
It’s been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I’d share my weekend project and entry for the first club competition of 2020.
The subject s leftovers, so a scratch build / kit bash was on the cards (my first since I was a kid)
We had some Christmas tree baubles that you can fill with whatever you want, so I stole one of those and the rest kind of fell into place.
So for your consideration my “Martian expedition scout vehicle”
Shoddy compared with a lot of the work on display, but acceptable for a couple of days and a blank sheet of paper.
The subject s leftovers, so a scratch build / kit bash was on the cards (my first since I was a kid)
We had some Christmas tree baubles that you can fill with whatever you want, so I stole one of those and the rest kind of fell into place.
So for your consideration my “Martian expedition scout vehicle”
Shoddy compared with a lot of the work on display, but acceptable for a couple of days and a blank sheet of paper.
robemcdonald said:
It’s been a while since I posted anything, so I thought I’d share my weekend project and entry for the first club competition of 2020.
The subject s leftovers, so a scratch build / kit bash was on the cards (my first since I was a kid)
We had some Christmas tree baubles that you can fill with whatever you want, so I stole one of those and the rest kind of fell into place.
So for your consideration my “Martian expedition scout vehicle”
Shoddy compared with a lot of the work on display, but acceptable for a couple of days and a blank sheet of paper.
Great....im sure I can see some safari spec WRC parts in there :-)The subject s leftovers, so a scratch build / kit bash was on the cards (my first since I was a kid)
We had some Christmas tree baubles that you can fill with whatever you want, so I stole one of those and the rest kind of fell into place.
So for your consideration my “Martian expedition scout vehicle”
Shoddy compared with a lot of the work on display, but acceptable for a couple of days and a blank sheet of paper.
Just discovered this old thing, Boeing P-26 'Peashooter' by Revell. No I haven't suddenly got into weathering, it got that way by sitting in a corner of my kitchen for heaven knows how long.
It's one of their 'Cadet' series of which I had several in the 60s; Spitfire, Mustang, FW190 and ME 262 - although my records show I built this one in 2007. It's not one of my best efforts - I seem to remember running out of olive green and having to mix a new batch, with the result that the top half of the fuselage is a different colour from the bottom half.
The rigging wires really are wires - I went into a music shop and bought the thinnest guitar string they had, which is still about half an inch thick in 1/72 scale. It looks better now than it did then, as it has dulled down over the years thus doesn't look chrome plated any more.
As it's pretty horrible, I'll probably just clean it up and use it for painting practice ... if I ever get the new compressor, aibrush and spraybooth up and running.
It's one of their 'Cadet' series of which I had several in the 60s; Spitfire, Mustang, FW190 and ME 262 - although my records show I built this one in 2007. It's not one of my best efforts - I seem to remember running out of olive green and having to mix a new batch, with the result that the top half of the fuselage is a different colour from the bottom half.
The rigging wires really are wires - I went into a music shop and bought the thinnest guitar string they had, which is still about half an inch thick in 1/72 scale. It looks better now than it did then, as it has dulled down over the years thus doesn't look chrome plated any more.
As it's pretty horrible, I'll probably just clean it up and use it for painting practice ... if I ever get the new compressor, aibrush and spraybooth up and running.
yoshisdad said:
It looks fantastic.
What is it?
It's a Stirling engine. It runs based on heat differential, so sitting it on a cup of tea is enough to get it going. That particular model is also designed to run on direct sunlight heating the top surface. In that scenario it will run in the opposite direction to the cup of tea underneath. It will also work if you sit it on a bunch of ice cubes. There just needs to be a 10 degree temperature difference between the top and the bottom.What is it?
DIW35 said:
yoshisdad said:
It looks fantastic.
What is it?
It's a Stirling engine. It runs based on heat differential, so sitting it on a cup of tea is enough to get it going. That particular model is also designed to run on direct sunlight heating the top surface. In that scenario it will run in the opposite direction to the cup of tea underneath. It will also work if you sit it on a bunch of ice cubes. There just needs to be a 10 degree temperature difference between the top and the bottom.What is it?
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