ollieholmes

Kirk, Thats a lovely build and i am very pleased to hear some praises about my decals. I always aim to please my customers with my products and i am a firm believer in the printer i use being the best in the buisness. Ive dropped you a PM about the photos as well.

Ive just seen this photo posted on a thread about the restoration of the B-17 at Duxford and i feel it illustrates the light effect on one colour on one aeroplane: This should illustrate how hard it can be to interpret B&W photos. For those who are interested this is the thread where the photo is posted origionaly, if your looking for referance photos there are literaly hundreds of good photos: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpB...=26&t=40406

Im glad to see im not the only nutter building one here. All i will say is watch the engine mounts carefully. O and have fun rigging it.

I did once consider doing something like this but then gave up on the idea. This thread is seriously tempting me to start work on my own. O and please do a Gargant to go with it.

Problem is these figures have been on the go even longer than the Gotha and im trying to finish things off before starting any more.

My problem is at the moment im distracted building and painting wargaming figures.

This does make for an interesting comparison. As you may have seen i am building the beast in 1:32, i wonder who will finish theirs first? Im going to sit down tonight and drill out all the rigging holes.

A bit more progress on this beast was made today, it makes a handy distraction from christmas: Please excuse the intuder into the photo, it is a 1:144th Tornado to give you some idea of the scale of this model.

You get very drunk, forget what instructions are for and think sticking 1:72 pilots into a 1:32 Hawk is a good idea. On a serious note good luck.

Im not sure what im going to do about storage, i was thinking of making the wings removable but ive decidded against that idea.

Badger, Thank you for that detailed feedback. Its nice to actualy hear from someone who uses them day to day. I have seen the sorts of costs before and im sure the costs will come down in time, a bit like 3d printers and things. I often wonder when and who would be the first to use it for kits though. Is there a way once you have a scan of an ebject filtering out the noise and minute differences in measurements? Obviously wed want to still see panel lines but nothing smaller than that. Also could you compensate once its in the software with the thickness of edges etc? As for a copy of the kit i would be interested for sure.

Koen, Its no rush, i will wait for him to return.

Your mad, this is most definatly old fashioned modelling but it looks good so far.

Ive been a bit lapse taking photos recantly but i thought people might be interested in this beast so ive taken some photos as she stands tonight. Next job is to start painting her: And to give you some idea of the size of it:

This sounds very good. I look forward to seing the finished product. Ive just sent you a PM though.

i thought Two Bobs where doing all the schemes on decal sheets?

This looks very nice and i am tempted to do the same myself.

Could it be an update of the Academy kit? This is handy timing as ive just released my 'Papyrus' Hunter decals in 1:48.

Send me a PM with your email and i shall dig out my Frog Whitley and scan them tomorrow.

Paul Parkes is printing white somehow.

Beautifull. Ive got 11 1:48 Hawks im doing in special schemes at the moment but i keep forgetting to take some photos.

I would actualy be very interested to see if they could be used to scan an entire aircraft including the cocpit etc and what level of detail you can get from them. I could certainly see it coming in usefull for getting the larger parts correct, things like Spitfire gull wings are rather difficult to draw. I was under the impression Wingnut Wings are already using something like this to produce their kits.

Im going to follow this one with interest. I have often wonderd as the price of these machines come down and the quality goes up whos going to be the first to use the commercialy for models. Who knows where we will be 5/10 years down the line. I am definatly interested in the possibilites of using it for getting the larger shapes of planes before adding detail, it certainly looks like with some sanding work it could be done. I still think the next step will be combining 3d scanners to produce the CAD files. Why wont my lottery numbers come up? Id love to have a play and see what could be done.

I am tempted to do another with all the bells and whistles but i wont be using Paragon flaps again, they are a pain to use. Keep up the good work.

Ive just finished the Kinetic kit in 1:48 and ive got this kit to do as well. The decals are definatly a challenge but they make for a stunning scheme.