Thanks nosports! Overstepped ? certainly not, any ideas are welcome, and your suggestion is a good one. Its probably what quite a few builders will probably do anyway ( create their own internal bracing ) although I won't be recommending it, as the refinery's base will need to be robust, and I'm fairly certain the boxes + white glue will provide that. Also, I have to offer some type of bracing with the model for ppl that won't have access to juicy materials. The Box bracing was easy to develop and should prove easy to position. ( a test build will have to confirm all of that of course) Thank you for the offer. Your idea of building additional refinery hardware is very interesting, it opens up all sorts of possibilities, and raises some interesting questions. * How did they transfer the refined cargo from orbit to the surface.? * What would a orbital transfer vessel look like etc etc
Yeeah to true, ajmadison. Unfortunately its all to common in the genre ~ *Captain leaves ship for risky away mission, or some similar retarded S.O.P. Sadly you don't have to look to hard at most SF flicks to find holes you could drive a truck through. I normally turn a blind to most of them If the story is entertaining enough.. A suicidal Dallas may have been bad, but the one that really rained on my parade in the Alien's saga, was when the Colonial Marines went down to LV426 and left the Sulaco in orbit... UNMANNED..!!! *Sigh* Oh well...
OT. For those of you that frequently say 'HEY.. WAIT A MINUTE!" while watching a movie, this site will be right up your ally.. ( I love it :mrgreen
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CJTK. .wow.. Taking a first date to see Alien ! You may have never seen her again, but I'd bet she'll never forget that date!
Update..
Dome1 + 2.. I did a quick and 'very' dirty test build for one of the main domes. I don't have enough experience to know if this style is use on other models..? Its a little fiddly with the alignment of the petals to start off, and the bottom edges ends up a little rough. On the up side they look more ummm.... Dome -ish, than the standard ring type of dome.. well IMHO anyway. The card I used was to thick, so with better texturing and thinner card they should build up ~ goodly ~
TEXtest (re-scaled) A small section of test texture for the refinery's platform sides. I'm still mining for nose gold over that aspect of it. I'd like to re-produce something that looks refinery -ish, but I don't want to lock builders into detail placement, by making them to defined.
Another thought on the construction. I'll do my best to provide most of the detail, however, I'd say builders may wish to use.. errr... 'alternate materials' for some of the smaller domes ++ , so I'm still debating whether to go to the effort of developing stuff may be discarded. I guess Its a decision to be made WAY further on anyway.
Oh maan.. what am I doing wrong with these attachments. I load them in the order I'd like them to appear, but they just pop up in different order.???