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    Project Dropship 1:24 / Aliens

    Thanks, Alien99's Dropship is far superior to mine. I've uploaded youtube clip
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    Project Dropship 1:24 / Aliens

    Congrats on the baby. I know the first 12 months are hard, but it does get easier! :) I've been slowly working on my dropship and made some limited progress on the cockpit and improved the cargo/APC area : I also did realised how much of a Vulcan Bomber they has utilised. The forward...
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    Desktopsimmer Introduction

    Thanks for the Welcome :) I'm using Wings3D for most of my 3D Modelling and Pepakura for the Paper model creation. I've used in the past Blender, Rhino3D and AutoCAD. However, I find Wings3D the best application to use at the moment because of two features, it's free and simple to use! and...
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    Desktopsimmer Introduction

    Hi, Just a quick intro from me. I'm an amateur 3D Modeller which I've a had couple of published 3D models in two Space Shuttle Simulators. As a child I used to build both paper and plastic models. In my early adult life this was stopped by beer and women. Now in my thirties (married with...
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    Project Dropship 1:24 / Aliens

    Watching the film. when there are parts of the Dropship (must be at least zillion times!) I think the seat on the starboard side this must be a folding seat (the one that Riley and Newt sit on). It's apparently a seat for a 3rd crew member. The other two seat on the Port side (Hicks sits in one...
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    Project Dropship 1:24 / Aliens

    Wow, this blows my project out of the water and thanks for visiting my Blog. Also I'm glad to see someone else is having the same 'headaches' as me :) I've based my Dropship on the 1:72 scale diecast model from Aoshima. Several things that have plagued me since I started the project myself...
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