Search results

Part three of the Tripods build. Silver Tripod on the right was not being painted silver, but Rub n Buffed instead - had good results on Twiki, and as the Tripods were not a shiny silver I thought this would look just right. The other Tripod was to be red, so I have given the those parts a pink...

One for me, one for the resistance! There were a lot of flying spiders about that day, the parts came back indoors 'webbed' - I do have a airbrush, but its early days for me to get a good spray at low pressure indoors. Yes, they may look symmetrical, but not as you rightly say all have small...

I also left the can in the sun in-between coats, spraying in the Autumn months is not really ideal, but the result from the Tamiya spray was very good.

Many congratulations on a model well done

PART 2 of the Tripod builds. Moving on from the filamented Tripod, it was time to move onto preparing the resin parts, which still had a little clean up needed, tiny support nubs here and there. A few underneath to take care of too. The leg tolerances on the legs joins were incredibly...

Yes, one will be red and the other silver, stay tuned... Loved your synopsis on the general overview of production, couldn't have said it better myself!

nah, can't be bothered with all that interwebbage nonsense, and when I have it on the shelf already, there's no need ;)

I can almost taste the finish, slurp, slurp!

veery 'shiny'

Cheers bud, @zathros supplied the links - I hope you get to watch the series and maybe find a copy of the books to read

Unfortunately your videos are ironically copyrighted in my country where I have a tv license!!! Glad I have the dvds... I do have industrial sized elastic bands, but this was super glue and I only had to hold it for 30 seconds.

An excellent result how many multiples of the parts do you print to get your laminated appearance?

The Tripods which firstly was a series of three books by writer Christopher penfold in 1968. With a prequel which followed much later. Those books being as follows:- The White Mountains (1967) The City of Gold and Lead (1968) The Pool of Fire (1968) When the Tripods Came (1988), the prequel to...

progressing really nicely

It better do... now get on with it! :rolllaughing: only joking, really is a stunner so far

Healing, retirement and back modelling... great to hear

Awesome... just catching up after a weekend away. stunning details. Its all about the details ;)

How about some of the Polish papercraft shops, I have been able to source some kits I can't find from them

Sell one of your kidneys... ;)

Brilliant, bravo and some other superlative beginning with 'B' What printer did you end up getting in the end???