eng 1,401 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 post Share on other sites
Blitz23 1,066 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 I love that, great job, the new prop looks miles better! Link to post Share on other sites
tonyot 33,668 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Brilliant,......great model, great diorama and I love the spinning prop! Cheers Tony Link to post Share on other sites
stevej60 37,686 Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 Love it,great idea! Link to post Share on other sites
Knight_Flyer 1,805 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Looks pretty cool and a nice dio setup too. Link to post Share on other sites
Spitfire31 2,431 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Brilliant idea, superbly executed! Double cool. Kind regards, Joachim Link to post Share on other sites
PlaStix 22,190 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 post Share on other sites
HOUSTON 2,618 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 post Share on other sites
batcode 3,536 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 looks great. nice work Link to post Share on other sites
wayne 0 348 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 post Share on other sites
GREG DESTEC 5,309 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 post Share on other sites
eng 1,401 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 post Share on other sites
russ c 10,384 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Cool !, Really nice work there Link to post Share on other sites
Val 2,537 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Fantastic model! Link to post Share on other sites
Stosh65 597 Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 That looks great. Brilliant job. Link to post Share on other sites
BerndM 3,179 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 post Share on other sites
airjiml2 221 Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Brilliant. Jim Link to post Share on other sites
AdrianMF 19,441 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 post Share on other sites
aka1878 49 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Brilliant Link to post Share on other sites
TEMPESTMK5 8,286 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites
Leonl 1,427 Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 Great work and motorised too!! Excellent..... Link to post Share on other sites
HOUSTON 2,618 Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Just had to have another peek. Blooming AWESOME 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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