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yes, soldering wire. sorry i used wrong word. 😅

I've always wanted to make a futuristic boat design, thats why i liked your others so much and will be following this one Pete. Off to a great start!

https://flic.kr/p/2rex1oo

Thanks for all your comments people, have now started on finishing the Sevans Dalek that I couldnt face the task of masking up 56 Hemis on .

The Sci fi scratch building machine has been switched on again and It's dialed back to redo an old subject. A year or so ago @Alex Gordon passed on a couple of unwanted Airfix Sailing ships. Victory and Golden Hind. Parts had been painted or put together. It stirred the inkling of an idea. Many thanks again, Alex. Then recently I was given a half built mojo failure 1/144 Revell Flower class model ship by a brother in law. I've always liked the work of artist Ian McQue. I've previously built two anti gravity boats; Misfit 1 & 2 So why not have another go? Links to the previous builds below. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234963278-misfit-is-done/&do=findComment&comment=1668744 https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235052278-misfit-2-is-finished/&do=findComment&comment=3293519 I've been tinkering with what I've got (Ooer!) for a week or two, trying to configure the superstructure, and I may just have it sorted. The scale will be 1/48th. I've put a figure on board here for clarity. First job was to dissemble the Flower. TET did that. So I made a hole in the bottom and built a card structure to hold the clear plastic pole. The paint is how I got the model. Not my work. I've cobbled together some superstructure. Boxed in a couple of holds and added masts from the Sailing ships. The smokestack is the original. The big black contraption is the thruster unit. It was a large scale motorbike engine part. The yellow parts were ludo counters and the green bits are from a toy. So this lot provides up/down/fore and aft thrust. And the other side. The McQue ships in his drawings don't have thrusters that I can see. but I liked the idea. They also don't have any visible anti gravity generators either. They're probably buried in the hull somewhere. These are just quick shots that I took today. I'll take better ones soon. You can find Ian McQue ship pics on line. What you've seen here may not be the final layout for the deck etc. I'm making this up as I go along! Thanks for looking. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. Cheers, Pete

Or should that be soldering wire? Probably a translation error. 😊

Thanks, Yes I got the numbers of the lift off date the wrong way around. Landed on 20th July and lifted off on 21st July after spending just 21hrs 36min and 20sec on the Moon. I've corrected it now by making another base on the laser cutter - the old one got used as a test piece for a colour matched splash back for my 1:1 scale bathroom I'm "scratch building" for my wife at the moment 😉 FB

Did any Aliens manage to break into the hatch? ! Looks like you are having a great time - what a tool

He looks really great - that Flory wash has added a nice touch. Job well done

Thank you! It’s from the print. First time using clear resin and I don’t think I was aggressive enough with my sanding.

Well done! Are the lines on the clear winshield from printing or bush-stokes (clear laquer)?

Amazing build! How did you solve the problem with the clear resin from the head/dome that went opaque after curring? Just by polishing?? And have you found a gloss clear laquer that you can put on clear resin parts without impacting the clariry??

Italic or standard font? for as many photos I can find of Stingray with an italic No 3, there seem to be just as many showing her with a non-italic number, so I opted for the non-italic option

close up, those are welding wire. 😉

Nice PE! 1/144 steering rockets are tiny! 20 landing, 12 lift off should presumably be 22? Regards, Adrian

Its finished now so here is the RFI thread:

Yeah those were very very fiddly and slow. On top of which you knew when you finished one cone there were another three to go on this RCS thruster block and another three other blocks to make. I nearly cried when the cone fell off the fourth of four cones on the first block I built due to metal fatique. Fortunately they include several spares for this part which is nice of the designers. FB

That looks fantastic! Takes me back to the 80s...

Good on yer for trying something different! I'm still conditioned by the plastic model that my brother built in 1969 (I think it was the Revell one because it had the command module and the last booster stage*) to think of that as the definitive version. Although a fair proportion of the builds I've seen since have been covered in gold foil (from fag packets?) (although Bourneville Plain wrapper would have worked), so you can't actually see the structure.** And I can't even imagine taking a tiny flat piece of metal and forming it into a collection of four tinier cones! Regards, Adrian * now that I think about it ISTR that there was an upright from the lunar crater base so you could model the CM in low moon orbit, like about 30 feet above the surface! (edit)** it turns out that the 2019 re-release of this kit (thank you scalemates) includes a chunk of gold paper, with neither plain chocolate or cigarettes to go with it!

Dry fitted and some seam work still to do but she's had a coat of primer. John

Yep, like that wiring. Very neat and as per Kreiger lore.

Thanks, need to look at that some more

Putting this together... Mistakes were made. Lessons learned. And on the forth attempt I actually manged to properly mask the canopy!

A very fine Cyberman he is too. I can almost hear David Banks voice... James

A neat little scene - good posing of the AT-ST too, looks very inquisitive!