eng Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Evening, Have had this lurking on the shelf for a while with the aircraft pretty much complete but struggling to get the base finished off, well today gave me an opportunity to get it wrapped up. The kit is beautiful and I had no trouble whatsoever with this one, the rockets were a bit fiddly for my fat fingers but the rest of it was spot on. I wanted to try something a bit different and had an idea to portray the aircraft just airborne off a strip somewhere in SE Asia, with the main gear almost fully in the wheel wells. This bit was quite straight forward, but something was niggling away at me about the whole thing, the stationary prop just didn't sit well with me. I just happened to have a cheap old mobile that had died stashed away, it's amazing the things you keep, anyway pulling this apart revealed a tiny motor for the vibrate function....could I motorise the prop? A plasticard support structure in the nose, some carefully routed wiring and a battery holder and switch on the base and......I'll let the pics do the talking. All comments and criticism welcome, hope you like it. Eng 38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitz23 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I love that, great job, the new prop looks miles better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Brilliant,......great model, great diorama and I love the spinning prop! Cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Love it,great idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight_Flyer Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Looks pretty cool and a nice dio setup too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Brilliant idea, superbly executed! Double cool. Kind regards, Joachim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 That is absolutely superb. Looks so much better with the prop spinning. Lovely base too! Brilliant on every level! Well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 I Agree with Pastix, AWESOME diorama with a GORGEOUS, STUNNING model of F-51D.. Good Job... KUDOS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcode Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 looks great. nice work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne 0 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Fantastic work. When I saw the spinning prop pics my grin was as big as the one on the F-51. The best use of a mobile phone yet !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GREG DESTEC Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Awesome!! Love what you've done with the base, and the motorised prop is pure genius well done that man!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eng Posted September 4, 2015 Author Share Posted September 4, 2015 Thanks for all the superb comments folks, very kind. Sorry the pics werent quite up to scratch, but ironically I have to rely on my iPhone and Photobucket, so the quality drops off a bit. Kind Regards, Eng 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Cool !, Really nice work there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Fantastic model! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stosh65 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 That looks great. Brilliant job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BerndM Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Great idea, that running prop is awesome, along with that nice P-51 and base. Well done ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airjiml2 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Brilliant. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Great prop effect. I use my daughter to get the same effect, but she runs out of puff if I need more than one photo! Nice modelling too, and I like the pile of junk by the fence. Regards, Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka1878 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEMPESTMK5 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonl Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Great work and motorised too!! Excellent..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Just had to have another peek. Blooming AWESOME 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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