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At least it wasn't set on fire and the video posted to youtube!

Now, what to do? Just playing with part placement, maybe some putty and sanding. Will dig in tomorrow night. If you guys can get the bulk of the Putty and smoothing done it would save me a lot of time come my part of the job. I just want to be able to spend all of my time doing a cool paint scheme ...

Mottom wrote:Sounds good, one civvi, one mil. One flashy paint job and one dull.

I can't wait to paint them!

Nice design. Are you going to scratch build it or have it 3D printed from your files?

When you said "I can go vertical" you weren't kidding. I found some wings in the parts bin and set them aside, but nothing even close to that. I did find lots of weapons to try out. Guess I will look at them and have them ready for my turn. Up up and away!! :P I don't see this as military...

raser13 wrote:how on earth would you ever land that thing?!

On a giant Zeppelin carrier with custom made docking apparatus of course! Geesh...

Beauty, eh!

That's really starting to take shape! I wasn't sold on the tip tanks but they give it a real 1950's feel. The age of the bare metal jets!

I really like what you have done with the cockpit set up. I had no idea where you were going with it. Most excellent!

Blap, my thoughts on colours, as of now, is gloss red with black/white pin stripes. But who knows what it will look like by the time it gets to you. :shock: Maybe Mottom will concentrate on the second kit in this set. :?: Oh I have colour ideas. For me modeling is ALL about the painting these days....

TimeScape wrote:

Johnnycrash wrote:Oops! Sorry. I'll post some later tonight. Hopefully.

Hey John where are the pics? It is Sunday morning here in Adelaide...😈😈😈😈😈

It's Sunday morning her in Canada now too!

Whats happening?!?!!? Any pics yet?

So, one of the things the panelists said one should consider is understanding the full operating costs of using a specific brand of printer. It was said that in some cases of the low end printers, the manufacturers where really looking at the feedstock as their profit center, not the printer. Fasci...

And the package has arrived. :D And a surprise - Dual build. I was expecting one, but got two instead. I thought the second one was a parallel build for yourself Bill?? If they are both to be part of the challenge... That poses an interesting quandary; Build the same with slight variances as an A m...

I know John has an abundant parts stash... He'll do us proud!

Since I'm the last guy in line it will be interesting to see how this ends up before I get it for finishing. I do think it needs some seriously vertical element to it though. It's too flat right now. Possible, but I will leave that to the next in line... No worries. I'm just throwing it out there s...

Since I'm the last guy in line it will be interesting to see how this ends up before I get it for finishing.

I do think it needs some seriously vertical element to it though. It's too flat right now.

I'm cool with a team adding another.

And another comment...

DO NO PRIME ANYTHING! It will just need to be scraped off to make parts stick. I'll deal with final clean up and finishing when it gets to me.

I'm not too comfortable with the X-Wing in the mix but the rest looks great.

So whats the donor kit gonna be?

We need someone to take the lead on this boys. I do not have the time to.

OK fellow Canadians... This one's for us!

Moved....

Now each group can start their own topic.

raser13 wrote:Can we get this stickied?

I have put in a request to the top man about getting us a sub forum for this little endeavour.

I've done it. I sanded the surface with 400 grit wet dry paper and made sure I washed it so it was absolutely dust free. The styrene dust is probably not good for the print head.