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Thanks barry, got the email. :thumb: just a quick pic of the start I've made on the props... paper purists might want to shield your eyes about now, I used brass sheet. :o The blades came out fine, I drew the shape by eye then traced around it 6 times on some brass sheet I picked up from a...

Oh this will be fun to watch... I've been hoping for a new sailing build thread in here ever since gippolot finished his terrestrial voyager... I'm looking forward to seeing how you go with the rigging, not to mention all the little details leading up to that... good luck with it.

This weeks Picture of the week is the Clerget Rotary Engine as modeled by forum member bclemens. Congratulations Bruce, an awesome model and a nice little scratch built display stand. More pictures can be found here: http://forum.zealot.com/t156365/

Thanks Lex, I have noticed a small problem today while sizing up my props... the whole thing is just a bit too long. I was assuming it was the same size as my printed plans and didn't check up until now, and it appears to be about 3 or 4cm too long. I could cut the stern shorter, but then...

Thanks barry, I'm pretty happy with it so far. There's nothing like a coat of gloss to show you all the bumps and ripples though :D These first two shots were taken after the first coat of red. Before this there were about 3 coats of matt black, each coat was sanded back with 240 grit wet...

Wow, that's really coming together nicely Barry, the countless hours spent on little details is really paying off bigtime!

Awesome stuff!! I'm a TFC player from way back when... haven't played TF2 yet but i'm definately gonna have to build some of these, they look great... thanks for sharing. :thumb:

Seeing as I'm doing my first scratchbuild, it's a bit annoying that I don't have a decent camera to document the progress... so I've borrowed one off a friend, hopefully they won't want it back in a hurry so I can get pics of as much of my trial and error as possible. :D The hull is now...

If I'm not mistaken, this is a commercial kit and you are offering people copies on the forum. We do not condone piracy on this forum, any member handing out free copies of a commercial kit is in danger of having their account banned... consider this a warning.

Hmm, tht's weird... It's most likely been re-released in all it's original glory by now, but I'm guessing you're old enough to have been around for the original (If I recall, BSG TOS was on tv over here about the same time Mad Max came out) :D All I'd ever heard about the badly dubbed version...

barry, I'm not sure I understand what you mean... but if I do, I will be allowing for the thickness of the card when cutting, I plan to cut a good 1-2mm outside the lines on the top and bottom of each plate then trim them back if I need to... I'll post again later today to show how it's going...

You know, it's funny you mention that cos I was just thinking about this the other day. The original movie "Mad Max" was re-released in the U.S as "The Road Warrior" with some very badly over-dubbed American accents to hide the very dodgy Aussie accents from the original. Ok, so the Aussie...

Hi barry and thanks again! You're right, 250gsm (it's actually 220 I just noticed) would probably be enough, but I just seem to like working with the thicker stuff, not to mention, I ran out of the 220gsm matte card halfway through printing the skins. So I decided to print the hull sides on...

Looking great so far... after seeing the impressive job you did on julescrafter's scorpion, I can't wait to see what you do with this one. :thumb:

That Samaritan gun would make a nice model indeed, especially sitting next to the bust... Congratulations for finally completing it, and thanks for sharing it with us.

Thanks for the comments guys... Roger, as much as I would love to release this as a kit for others to build, I somehow doubt at this point that I will be able to do so. I'm going to be designing and building parts the old fashioned way, using the plans and pencil and paper, probably borrowing...

This is looking great airbob, I have to agree, all that extra detail under the flight deck is looking very nice indeed, keep up the good work!

Nice pic, and yes it's been posted before. This forum "Picture of the Week" is for pictures posted on this forum by our members, selected and voted for by forum Admins and Mods, but thanks for your contribution... ...and yeah, I've been a bit busy lately, with real life stuff and internet...

LOL, when I first read that I swore you said you were going to add some "merkins" to the model. I'm not going to explain what a Merkin is... google it. :D Tell me you didn't mean Merkins :p As for the model, it's looking great Skip, Gundams aren't my thing but I'm definately impressed by a...

The hull skin has also been designed by barry in a seperate PDO, I've printed it all out, 18 pages, I've run out of spray glue for now so I can't laminate the skins yet. Once the hull is skinned i'll scratchbuild all the props, rudders and shafts etc, after that I'm on my own with no idea what...