Moggy
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Excellent modelling.
Which grey did you use?
Cheers, Moggy
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An Argentine toymaker (Hughes-Crovetto) bought a number of Heller moulds in the 2000's; Draken was one of them.
There were other SAAB aircraft kits too. Being that imported kits are very expensive (and modellers get little respect - modelling is usually barely tolerated by spouses) the Hughes-Crovetto ex-Heller kits are popular.
There's a implausible number of Argentine modellers on a steady diet of SAAB's best 😜
Cheers, Moggy
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Let's go crazy:
Nord N.262 Fregate
Second the Morane-Saulnier MS.760 Paris (backing Dennis_C)
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beautiful modelling!
I am full of admiration.
Cheers, Moggy
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we had a solid week of -c degrees with the warmest being -4
worst was last monday with -12 at 09:00 getting warmer 13:00 at -9
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Iḿ currently building a Miranda-class USS Saratoga (see Above the Karman Line group)
Checking the existing aztec decals i found them to be too dark and obtrusive.
The masks are a much better solution - provided you choose the right colours. The original studio models had the Aztec painted on to break the monotony of all-white model in camera.
If you look at the ships in the movies and series there's no obtrusive pattern painted on the ship; subtility is the watchword for the aztec pattern.
With the help of Carlos Zangrando's freely available Aztec patterns I'm endeavoring to cut masks - a time consuming operation. Carlos Zangrando's patterns are actually scale-perfect decals - to be printed by the modeller. I've checked the pattern on the actual model; they fit perfectly 😜
So you see it's as usual - ye pays yer money and make yer choice 😇
Cheers, Moggy (Starfleet enthusiast)
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Man, your build is out of this world!
Cheers, Moggy (wannabe astronaut)
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1 hour ago, bianfuxia said:
Welcome back @Moggy I hope you're feeling better!
I'm now slated for an operation next monday 🙃 We'll see.
Now for something completely different!
The kit has no real stand instead it has these:
It's completely ridiculous... even if one succeeded in balancing the model on these any touching or even a hard look will tip the model into ruin 😝
So I decided to make a proper stand using this:
I need a really strong anchoring point to avoid risking breaking the model every time I lift it ...
I built a "tower" made of 2mm plasticard bits inside the main hull:
Then I drilled a hole very slightly smaller diameter that the pipe...
It was not easy to drill through all this styrene 😉
It ended up looking like this:
The "foot" is going to be made of wood sawed to the shape of Starfleet's symbol
Since I haven't done any woodwork for years it's going to be interesting to see how many I have to make before one is acceptable 😜
That's all for now!
BTW if I should drop a clanger on Monday my daughter will be entertaining any and all serious offers for my 1000+ stash. Stingy offerers will be pelted with old KP kits 🤣
Cheers, Moggy
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unfortunately no... in the christmas preparations rush and the rush to finish the model in time I completely forgot
Cheers, Moggy
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Here I am again! Unforseen health issues made my life more, err... interesting for the last six weeks
Now I'm back to the real important thing in life - modelling
Next is the main hull:
I begin with the fantail
This - like everything else in this project - doesn't fit particularly well.
However I am a modeller - bad fit comes with the territory 😇
And now the saucer correction set:
These are truly crappy - next time I'm using plasticard
Here's what I'm talking about:
Since the saucer's sides are beveled, sanding down the oversize resin overhang is a bit messy if not done carefully.
Cheers, Moggy
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Some brilliant modelling in here!
Cheers, Moggy
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On 18/09/2023 at 19:46, PeterB said:
You are probably right Steve - it seems that the Chematic Javelin was based on a "new tool" from ZTS Plastyk which may not have used the old Frog/Novo etc moulds contrary to some reports .
Pete
There are two different FROG Javelin kits: the early one with its original release in the late '50s and the far newer one released for the first time in 1975. I have owned both
The FROG Gannet is likewise a product of the '50s - no openongs for landing gear, no cockpit openings either - just a "pilot head" 🤣
Cheers, Moggy
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JT Graphics - made in the US.
I'm not sure they're still around - but I think so
Cheers, Moggy
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Originally I was going to do USS Reliant with lights for this GB.
While checking the project I decided to do a build of the same kit as a kind of prototype for the Reliant buildSince I had an extra Reliant kit with all the Saratoga trimmings then this build will teach me the kit and correction bits' idiosyncrasies - thus the Saratoga conversion now rather than later
Here are the bridge and decks B & C as compared to the kit's shapes. As you can see I've already started to saw the kit's B&C decks off.
Here's what it looks like when finished. There has to be a "shelf" left to attach the resin bridge on
...and the B&C decks that have been excised
Finally the new resin bridge & b&C decks attached to the saucer. The dark smears are thick grey paint used as filler.
That's all for today!
Cheers, Moggy
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Here comes my contribution to the group build: Benjamin Sisko's USS Saratoga.
The Saratoga is a refit/conversion of a Miranda-class frigate. The (better known) USS Reliant - prominently featured in the ST The Wrath of Khan - is represented in modelling by a 1/537 kit by AMT/ERTL.
The kit:
It's a typical AMT kit: somewhat dodgy fit, few parts... and since I have the original boxing from the 90's the decals are shot.
Nevertheless it's an eminently buildable kit! and a sizable one too. Somehow I feel that small scale representations of ships do not have the real feel of the originals as being gigantic beasts that completely dwarf its human operators - or anything else not the size of a mountain.I bought some extras:
A correction set for the saucer section - it is two mm too shallow and it includes a new, vastly improved fantail.
A correction replacement for bridge, B and C decks
Here you can see both the bridge /B and C decks in resin resin and the new fantail
New decals - really impressive sheet
This is going to be really fun
Cheers, Moggy
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Desperately searching as above
I've searched for them online but it seems to be the only Star Trek kit with no instructions online - that is the 1/537 kit 😡
Thanks in advance, Moggy
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Most of my modelling involves sawing off chunks of the kit(s) - so I'm in
Cheers, Moggy the Saw
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OOPS! repeated info already in the thread....
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1 hour ago, JohnT said:
“To every rule there is an exception”
Thinks. That’s a rule so there must be an exception if it’s true. That means there existed a rule to which there is no exception to make the first rule valid. So there exists a rule to which there is no exception thereby self proving the first iteration to be nonsense.
I see you had the same teacher in Theory of Knowledge as I had at the Uni... His classes: come for the laughs, stay for the unending debates - with the Beer Philosophy bash as dessert 😁
Cheers, Moggy (confuse-a-cat graduate)
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What happened to the pictures?
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Personally - "loose" instead of "lose" 😡
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Brilliant modelling!
The high definition of your 1/72 models are an inspiration to all 1/72 modellers. 🤩
It puts the "72 scale is not as detailed as 1/48" crowd on notice 😆
Cheers, Moggy (planning a Swedish Air Force Hkp1 - yes the Bananen)
Brilliant modelling!
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SAAB 1/72 aircraft
in Aircraft Cold War
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I think all of the SAAB kits emigrated including the Viggen.
So if you want one you either get a second hand or buy it in Argentina.
The availability of Swedish Air Force subjects is fortuitous - it improves the modeller's taste on subject matter! 😜
Any model of a Swedish Air Force subject is automatically high art 😜
Cheers, Moggy (into Swedish Air Force since 1985)