Noah Greggs Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Just awesome :0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 Unbelievable, just looks like a real panel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 I've seen worse on real aircraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted February 28, 2015 Author Share Posted February 28, 2015 evening folks & thank you.. a little bit more done today - I moved on to the lower panel.. ..first I primed the PE with Mr Metal primer... ..then shot some Tamiya silver out of a rattle can... ..I blobbed a few bits of maskol along the lower edges and airbrushed the black finish... ..then got some placards and added them where needed along with a couple of dials... ..added two starter buttons and the two red handles for emergency lowering the undercarriage... ..I still need to add some switches and two very distinctive 'ring' handles that are fuel controls, but I haven't figured out how to make them yet.. ..here it is with the panel.. ..I am enjoying myself - this is my favourite part of any build I do... ..thats it for now... TTFN Peter 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 More stunning attention to detail that IP is really starting to pop Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Can you shrink all that stuff to 1:72 so I can use it in my Revell build? Amazing! Cheers, Bill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 evening ladies thanks for your kind words - every one inspires me to try harder.. so today is not mission impossible - just mission difficult.. before I self destruct, we need to build this... ..alright I cheated and had some PE made, so I scratched off the paint to show the detail underneath - it's just sprayed with a silver rattle can and then tamiya semi gloss black.. ..next I made a paper template to work out how to best cut the brass sheet and make up the structure of the switch panel.. ..drilled & punched holes where needed to allow for fixings & pipework.. ..a bit of concentration with the folding tool - i.e bend the face that is not being looked at - here everything is bent away from the top face..also some scale hardware rivets have been added.. ..added the cable conduits and due to bad planning had to chop out part of the top section to allow for the glass etc where there are dials.. ..sprayed it silver, then black and added the side indicator panel.. ..picked off the maskol stippled at the bottom.. ..added lots of bits of sprue for switches and detailed what I could see - still more to do but then this is two days at the bench for what most peeps say 'you can't see anyway'... ..love every minute I build cockpit stuff back soon TTFN Peter 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regulus Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Very nice, fine work. Are you turning the connectors on this? Lee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomjw Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 incredible. Everytime I visit, I am left in awe. I love what you are doing here. Like you I enjoy the cockpit work the most. I just wish I could get mine to look like yours. Cheers, Tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace From Outer Space Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Incroyable! Superbe! Magnifique! All the English superlatives have already been used up so I thought I'd make a start om the French ones! This is just stunning! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 This is unbelievable! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Well we can see it! And I think I can safely say... Repeat please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Amazing stuff Peter. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Love the detail you're going into! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philip1958 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Okay, I have to ask where did you find a 4 foot long plastic head dressmaking pin! Fantastic skills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted March 9, 2015 Author Share Posted March 9, 2015 Very nice, fine work. Are you turning the connectors on this? Lee thanks all - I am thrilled to hear you like what you see Lee - I cheated on those - they are model car parts from RB Motion - expensive if you need lots of them but perfect for the job ..so, not much of an update as I have been busy, but I guess this is about building a Tigercat even if it is one piece at a time! The part in question is a canopy winding handle, this is what the pilot uses to crank it backwards & forwards.. I assembled the PE parts I had made by laminating them to make thicker parts... ..the re-stock of scale hardware nuts & bolts included these - they even have threads - unbelievable given they are less than half a millimetre in diameter.. ..shot silver on another side console part that is up next... ..the winding crank actually has a wooden handle so I turned a cocktail stick in my dremel - i figure nothing looks more like wood than wood itself.. ..painted it and did a bit of chipping - my new favourite way of weathering.. ..so to make up for my rather weak efforts at progress on the bench, I have also been spending some late nights trying to get the engines up to scratch - Tim has been really helpful (thanks Tim) - I still have loads to do but in the long run I hope it saves me a few months scratchbuilding them (twice)... ..also gave the fuselage another primer coat and am still trying to get rid of some rather persistant seams around the nose join which I really hope isn't caused by flexing between the very heavy resin/lead nose and the card structure.. more soon hopefully... TTFN Peter 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev67 Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 The engine looks good Peter, our 3D printer is down at the moment (£900 call out charge for the engineer to look at it, gulp!!), otherwise I would redo the wheels for you. if you don't mind waiting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Utterly amazing. Terrific modelling! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 The engine looks good Peter, our 3D printer is down at the moment (£900 call out charge for the engineer to look at it, gulp!!), otherwise I would redo the wheels for you. if you don't mind waiting evening folks - hope all are well thanks Kev - you are a true gent - I would say the time it will take me to get this bird on it's wheels means we have..oh...about 2 years.... so, a few bits done in the last few days.. I wanted to get the rear part of the cockpit switch console finished.. ..this bit on the right behind the main switchbox... it has some detail and a bunch of wiring & pipework beneath it ..I made up some of the parts including pipe unions and the mounting for the big handle which is for dropping the landing gear in an emergency.. ..used a spare PE console to make the base this all sits on as it needs to be dropped into the cockpit as one, I can't just mount it onto the floor... ..a shot of interior green... ..added the pipework - it all looks a bit wee weed (as we say in the UK) now I look at it closely... ..added some wiring bundles to the switchbox - these were stripped out of an old laptop - I just battered it with a hammer & took some bits I thought might be useful one day - it turns out the bundle that connects the screen to the keyboard is full of ultra small scale wires ..still need to finish it, but this is where I am at.. ..back soon... TTFN Peter 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Good grief! That's just excellent! Absolutely amazing work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Come on Peter, this is really 1:1 scale isn't it? Just amazing stuff! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomjw Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I love the switch box and panel. Superb. Its impossible to get bored with this build. Cheers, Tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 This is 1/24 scale Peter not 1/1? Detail is amazing sir. Simon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbeach84 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Keeps getting better & better! Regards, Robert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Chuffing heck Trevor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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