In a effort to help out fellow builder @seraphim - I shall be building the Shuttle craft, or Orion Clipper fro the film 2001 A Space Odyssey.
A plastic model of this ship sat in my brothers display case for many years, before I actually saw it at the cinema, gracefully spinning into action so to speak.
I have planned to build the Orion for my brother for Christmas, so in a strange twist and a call for assistance from @seraphim to help. I thought I'd bang the Pilsworth model out, before tackling the UHU at a later date.
Its a bit of a basic looking model and the instructions are not very clear, but we'll have a stab at it and see what the build brings. I just hope this of some help.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS MAINLY AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE TO HELP A FELLOW MEMBER - QUALITY AND CARE WILL NOT BE ADRESSED.
First sheet covers the main front fuselage
First set of parts have been cut out and rudimentarily formed over a plastic pipe
Cockpit widows have been creased on all available angles including the widow supports - tiny top two tabs have been attached to the upper hull
Rear of front cockpit window, arrows showing glued tabs, sorry poor pic!
Next section of the nose - forward of the cockpit windows with the black anti-glare panel was added next, Tabs glued either side of the cockpit windows, then the windows glued to the section
The front nose section needs to be creased across the line indicated
As I had not quite formed a tight enough curve on my hull, I glued a tab one at a time on the port, then the starboard side first, then the next tab up.
Red arrows are the first glued tabs, then the blue arrowed tabs were bent backwards and glued up.
Front half of the ship should look something like this
With all hull sections stuck together froward of 'PAN AMER' it was onto the 'ICAN' and head backwards...
There's nothing really to note on construction of the rear hull, as tabs very much guide you through alignment.
CIRCLED EXTREME REAR OF HULL LEFT OFF UNTIL LATER
Blue circled, same as red above
THIS COMPLETES UPPER HULL SECTIONS - NEXT INSLALLMENT INTERNAL FORMERS AND WING CONNECTORS (probably?)
Any questions please do ask away!
A plastic model of this ship sat in my brothers display case for many years, before I actually saw it at the cinema, gracefully spinning into action so to speak.
I have planned to build the Orion for my brother for Christmas, so in a strange twist and a call for assistance from @seraphim to help. I thought I'd bang the Pilsworth model out, before tackling the UHU at a later date.
Its a bit of a basic looking model and the instructions are not very clear, but we'll have a stab at it and see what the build brings. I just hope this of some help.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS MAINLY AN INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE TO HELP A FELLOW MEMBER - QUALITY AND CARE WILL NOT BE ADRESSED.
First sheet covers the main front fuselage
First set of parts have been cut out and rudimentarily formed over a plastic pipe
Cockpit widows have been creased on all available angles including the widow supports - tiny top two tabs have been attached to the upper hull
Rear of front cockpit window, arrows showing glued tabs, sorry poor pic!
Next section of the nose - forward of the cockpit windows with the black anti-glare panel was added next, Tabs glued either side of the cockpit windows, then the windows glued to the section
The front nose section needs to be creased across the line indicated
As I had not quite formed a tight enough curve on my hull, I glued a tab one at a time on the port, then the starboard side first, then the next tab up.
Red arrows are the first glued tabs, then the blue arrowed tabs were bent backwards and glued up.
Front half of the ship should look something like this
With all hull sections stuck together froward of 'PAN AMER' it was onto the 'ICAN' and head backwards...
There's nothing really to note on construction of the rear hull, as tabs very much guide you through alignment.
CIRCLED EXTREME REAR OF HULL LEFT OFF UNTIL LATER
Blue circled, same as red above
THIS COMPLETES UPPER HULL SECTIONS - NEXT INSLALLMENT INTERNAL FORMERS AND WING CONNECTORS (probably?)
Any questions please do ask away!
