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Quick Sunday update on the MU/TH/UR 6000 Chamber - completed the sculpt to the overhead section of the entrance way using Aves FIXIT. It's a solid block...was thinking of building a styrene frame to sculpt over but I had some older FIXIT I had to use up so what the heck...it worked out just fine. Still have padding to complete - hope to get an hour or so to complete that tonight. Threw the chair (still a work in progress) in there for the second shot. More to come! #alien #nostromo #MUTHUR6000 #weylandyutani #scratchbuild #model #diorama #avesstudio #FIXIT #sculpting
I needed a Cummins engine for one of my planned truck projects, but having been caught by import duties on my last Cummins kit from Australian resin kit maker Auslowe, the risk of having to pay these again on a second order made the cost of the kit a little harder to justify.
So I decided to build the engine from scratch using scrap Plasticard and Plastruct sections and taking the Auslowe kit as a guide.
This is the result - a fit-for-purpose engine which should slot neatly into the intended Atkinson Borderer model.
The rear of the truck is a complete scratchbuild from chassis to the wooden deck which is constructed from 6mm walnut veneer strip. A couple of coats of varnish give it a fairly realistic finish - although in life, it was never quite this clean!
Today was supposed to be my day off, but 6 hours later and I've ended up with this.
Just a quick little scratchbuild in 1/72nd of the Hoth AT-ST variant
1/76 Airfix/Scratchbuild Bedford QLC Cockatrice Flame thrower truck by Sean Hooper
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All photos in this set are pictures I've acquired through a lot of searching and researching for a model scratchbuild. I want to get these out to anyone who may be interested, and I take no credit for taking any of these pictures, nor building the models seen here.
I've been playing with this a little for the past week. A friend sent me a resin Neuspotter head from a 1/35 Oscar, and I though the Neuspotter or Krachenvogel would be pretty cool in 1/35 scale. I know a 1/35 Neuspotter was available at this past Winter WF 2007, but it was only available on Yahoo! Japan auctions.
This model actually has a long way to go. It is just the begining of the project, and I need to scratchbuild a lot more of it.
To get semi-accurate measurements of the 1/35 scale version I measured an unbuilt Wave 1/20 Neuspotter, put those measurements into MS Excel spreadsheet, and used formulas to easily appromize the correct lengths and dimensions for other scale. I even put a column in to see how big a 1:1 scale would be... Huge!! XD
The chest is styrene and part of a 1/24 engine (chrome) with other misc bits right now. I have to build that up quite a bit yet. The arms are very thin metal wire (Christmas ornament hangers), round plastic sprue, styrene, and aluminum tubing.
The memory unit (ball at the bottom) is a 97cent fishing bobber from Walmart (came in pack of 6).
Very simple, the head of course weighs the most, so I re-enforced the body with a long piece of brass rod (and plastic sprue) down the center of it to the head.
I may decide to convert this into a Krachenvogel, or make it possible to be both (with interchangeable limbs, antenna, rocket tubes, etc).
Fun little project, and if you can find a 1/35 head, I recommend trying to scratchbuild one yourself! ;o)
Build update to the MU/TH/UR 6000 chamber or "Mother" to the Nostromo crew - ALIEN 79 - 1:18 scale scratch build. Frame is primarily complete, with some additional structural pieces to be added, I'm ready to begin detail...panel by panel, square by tiny square. Also need some sculpting details to the portal. Talk about a test of patience.....oh well, I made this bed so I might as well sleep in it! LOL! - I'm actually going to begin work on the chair first, then a few panels...the I'm back at working on figures...I got some new ideas I will be sharing shortly as well as returning to some other, unfinished pieces that require my attention. Need to shuffle the deck every once in awhile. #alien #nostromo #MUTHUR6000 #diorama #scratchbuild #aliens #weylandyutani
TT modeler Alex Hristov is using Shapeways to create parts for this General Electric U30B. Alex was our guest on Episode 26.
Shot to illustrate some of the minor progress made over the weekend. All the flats are scratchbuilt. Ground cover in the level area is mostly various grades and colors of tile grout. I am waiting for styrene angles to use for trim on the tops of the two flats representing metal buildings, hobby shop let me down this weekend.
I wish I knew for sure what scale this was. This is different than the 1/76 resin kit that was available.
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SoroSuub Corporation Front Loader MOC
This is a second iteration on the original 'Space Tug' scratch build by Adam Alpern aka @monsterpartywars. This Front Loader is developed to load a Barge which is pushed by the Space Tug.
The front section is partly inspired by the Front Loader concept design by Eduard Pronin, and the Hover Loader design of Hanzhong Wang. Last but not least, I chose yellow to give it a bit of an Alien P-5000 Power Loader feeling 😊.
I am very happy with the result and named it the ‘SoroSuub Front Loader’. SoroSuub Corporation was a Sullust-based company which developed and manufactured a great variety of technological goods, from droids and sensors to weapons and vehicles.
I decided this would be the perfect, fictitious and non Canon, manufacturer of the Front Loader 😉.
Go and check out Adam's designs here on Flickr or on Instagram. His models in 1:144 scale are amazing!
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SoroSuub Corporation Space Tug MOC
It started with inspiration from a scratch build by Adam Alpern aka @monsterpartywars, and I decided to take a shot at building his amazing Space Tug in Lego.
Adam was a great help, by sending me some different angles of his design, so I could build it properly 🙏.
I am very satisfied with the result and named it the ‘SoroSuub Corporation Space Tug’.
SoroSuub Corporation was a Sullust-based company which developed and manufactured a great variety of technological goods, from droids and sensors to weapons and vehicles.
I decided this would be the perfect, fictitious and non Canon, manufacturer of the Space Tug 😉.
Go and check out Adam's designs here on Flickr or on Instagram. His models in 1:144 scale are amazing!
Wishing you all a great weekend 👍!
A little progress on the HO fertilizer plant I'm working on. Still much to be done and too little time to do it. Need to add a motor to the elevator leg along with a belt guard and a feed conveyer from the tracks, then continue on the blender tower and accompanying elevator leg for it.
Base Folk are the newest paper toy personal project to come from Macula in 2011. This paper toy project is a take on how simple you can make the human form and still recognize it. I have always been fascinated with the human form and early art forms representation of it such as Polynesian tiki.
I have tried to make this model simpler and easier to put together. The only complications that come into this paper toy are the accessories depending on the style of character you choose to build. Feel free to create a design yourself or print one of the many pre-designed templates I have created. The figures would stand on there own if you weighted the legs, but I like the fact that they have bases. It makes them more like sculpture or game pieces.
In this paper craft series I am focusing more on fleshing out each character and being more story driven.
Yes it has been awhile but I am back!
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I was approached by 5 Wits Attractions to design and build a custom version 3 dimensional model of the classic nautilus submarine featured in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the sea, to be displayed in the museum of their interactive attraction. The design would incorporate interactive lighting and would be approximately 4 feet long.
I wanted to keep with a more organic and streamlined shape though with a bit more grounded in reality design for a submarine. In the original story Verne's description of the sub was more like a Narwhal whale, as such I had always envisioned it to be more like a whale shark. I believed this design would be able to better camouflage into the ocean, while being a perfect design for ramming ships with it's dorsal fin.
My only limitations with this design were the placement of the windows, diving bell and latches which had to mimic the placement in the already built attraction at 5 Wits. The model was scratch built using foam, Worbla, resin, wood, and plastic and is lit by LEDs.
CREDITS:
Design and lead fabrication: Joey Marsocci
Assistant fabricators: Brendan Wilson & Steve Ziolkowski
Photo Credit:
**© 2014 Mauricio A. Cordero.
All images Copyright 2013 Dr. Grymm Laboratories and my not be used without written permission.
Some Photoshop Tomfoolery .. The thread on RMWeb that I post to about 'Caledonia Basin' involved a discussion on backscenes and whether a moody sky might work on my little diorama.
We swapped ideas (via the medium of Photoshop) and here's my latest contribution. Smoke and sky are additions - the rest is 'real'.
The Claw. The pivots are Lego Bionicle. The claws are partly made from heater vent slats from my old Subaru Legacy.
Here's where we get to the good stuff. Increasing the size of the store interior (by about 3/4" all around) really has improved things considerably, now that the figures don't have their heads scraping the ceiling. I transferred all the furniture from the old store to the new, so the main differences are the wallpaper, skylight and new spaciousness.
The Annex was scratch-built from similar materials, such as MDF hardboard, a clipboard and basswood for the cabinets. Some of the record covers (which exist in real life) are scanned from album covers.
Others are actually enlarged scans of the old Columbia House Record Club stamps. Some background: back in the 70's, we used to get offers in the mail to join the Columbia House Record Club. These offers included several sheets of full-color stamps, each looking like an oddly cropped version of the real album covers. Comic books of that period had advertisements with similar graphics, but not in full color.
The various magazines are scanned from my own music magazine collection.
Identification of the various records and decor:
Top Row:
Carole King- Tapestry; Three Dog Night-Golden Biscuits; Jethro Tull- Aqualung; The Beatles- Meet the Beatles; Rolling Stone magazine- The Cars
2nd from the Top:
Dimensional Sound- The Top 50 (bad/hilarous cover versions of late 70's hits); Goldmine magazines- The Monkees, Neil Diamond, Queen, The Beatles
3rd from the Top:
Tom Jones- Live in Las Vegas; Engelbert Humperdinck- A Man Without Love; Engelbert Humperdinck- Release Me; Rolling Stone magazine- Cheap Trick; Trouser Press magazine- The Who
Bottom Row:
Led Zeppelin- IV; Partridge Family- Sound Magazine; Engelbert Humperdinck- Just For You; Hit Parader magazine- Kiss, Creem magazine- David Bowie
Fine Scale Annuals publisher and editor Russ Reinberg developed his own drawings and scratch-built this shack in 1:32.
Russ was our guest on Episode 15.
Something of a change of plan here with the recommended Italeri Volvo FH chassis used rather than doing the scratchbuild - it did seem to be the better option, but in hindsight, the scratchbuild could have been the more practical choice.
Engine is the Auslowe Detroit Diesel V8 resin kit and the rest is a combination of both Italeri Volvo and KFS resin parts.
The virtually completed chassis almost came a cropper when after painting, I dropped it 4ft onto a concrete surface! Fortunately, the only damage was to the nearside wing and air cleaner tank and stack, the latter being repaired after significant reconstruction surgery.
Command Unit of the Großdeutschland Panzer Battalion during the 1947 Warsaw counterattack.
This variant, also known as "Jagdgunther", is equipped with two massive 128mm Pak 44 guns. What kind of inertial dampeners uses to fire such oversized weapons remains a mistery.
Recovery of an operational Jadggunther is top priority for all Allied Forces.
I am a civic activist interested in urban planning and an urban planner for my N scale towns. After my new layout was up and running 1 September 2012, I pulled two or three dozen scale buildings from my storage boxes where they have been sitting since 1995. I built all of them from about 1979 into the 1990's. My structures range from simple kits to intermediate level kitbashing and scratchbuilding. The tan stucco Southwestern style house closest to me is scratchbuilt. So is the green garage with upper story apartment behind the green house and the two little garages behind the white houses on your left. The other four houses are simple kits with some modifications. The Spanish looking church with twin bell towers is a kitbash of a couple of Swiss churches originally with tall steeples.
What I am doing here is organizing them into a neighborhood that will be realistic for a mid-20th Century small town in the Southwest and will fit into the space on my layout. I am NOT building a housing pod of a sub-urban sprawl subdivision with its excessive lot size, excessive lawns, and lack of sidewalks and street trees. As a New Urbanist, I hate sprawl and seek to ban all new sprawl in the real world. Here I have 13 to 14 inches to use between the highway that parallels the railroad tracks and the future photo background of the Rocky Mountains. Right now you see the houses just sitting on a Woodland Scenics grass mat.
After I layed out and measured the neighborhood, I cut bases from 0.040" sheet styrene from Evergreen Scale Models. Then I cemented front sidewalks from styrene "tile" sheet, driveways from plain sheet styrene, and patios from smaller square "tile" sheet styrene. I do NOT glue my buildings down, but the driveways, walkways, patios, etc. formed alignment keys that "trapped" each building into place on each lot but allow me to remove the buildings from their flat bases for future storage as well as modification. Then I cut the grass mat into various sizes for front, side, and rear lawns and glued them into place. That was a time-consuming experiment that I will not repeat once I've used up all of the grass mat. In a few days I'll add some of the trees I made from a Woodland Scenics kit, but I'll hold off on adding flowers, people, and animals until later.
You can see cardboard templates (cut from cereal boxes) that I used for laying out and cutting the sheet styrene on my Duplicutter. I'm using cardboard strips cut to a scale 24 foot width as temporary roads. There is no use in building permanent roads until I've done some major track work that involves building long grades. Once the grades are in (next year?), I can starting building some terrain including hills with lots of trees, some creeks with bridges, relatively level areas for buildings, and then roads.
Shot to illustrate some of the minor progress made over the weekend. All the flats are scratchbuilt. Ground cover in the level area is mostly various grades and colors of tile grout. I am waiting for styrene angles to use for trim on the tops of the two flats representing metal buildings, hobby shop let me down this weekend.
This is Gerry Leone's favorite town on his HO scale Bona Vista Railroad. He feels it captures the look of a typical midwestern town.
The antique store and bakery were built as part of Gerry's "Master Builder - Structures" certificate in the NMRA Achievement Program, as were the bridges in the foreground.
Gerry is our guest on Episode 32.
A. Vervolgens versterk ik de dieptewerking van de houtstructuur door zeer spaarzaam verdunde zwarte waterverf aan te brengen. Deze behandeling accentueert de houtnerven. Het is niet de bedoeling om een volledige washing te geven, maar selectief de textuur te benadrukken (zoals aan de knoesten, diepe groeven en de uiteinden van de planken).
B. Hout dat langdurig aan zonlicht is blootgesteld wordt bleker. Om dit na te bootsen wordt de buitenzijde van de houten planken opgelicht met behulp van verdunde witte waterverf. Voor recent hout kan je deze stap overslaan.
C. Hiermee is de basiskleuring van het hout afgerond. Vooraleer ik met het schilderen van de planken start, breng ik met haarlak een beschermingslaag aan. Het is namelijk de bedoeling om een oude, afgebladerde verflaag te imiteren. Gebruik hiervoor voldoende haarlak.
D. Als de haarlak droog is, schilder ik de planken in een gele kleur. Deze verflaag dient niet te dekkend te zijn, anders verdwijnen er te veel details.
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A. I enhance the depth of the coloring with a small amount of diluted black watercolor paint. This is not similar to a general wash. It is only meant to emphasize the grain, knots and damaged parts.
B. Wood that has been exposed to direct light for a long time, becomes grey. To simulate the influence of the sun, I lighten the color with some diluted white colored water paint.
C. At this stage the coloring of the wood itself has come to an end. To protect this base coat, I use some hair spray to create a protective layer. This technique will allow to create a peeling paint effect. Make sure to use an adequate amount of hair spray.
D. When the hair spray has dried, I paint the boards in a yellow color. Don’t use too much paint, in order to keep the details intact.
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SoroSuub Corporation Front Loader MOC
This is a second iteration on the original 'Space Tug' scratch build by Adam Alpern aka @monsterpartywars. This Front Loader is developed to load a Barge which is pushed by the Space Tug.
The front section is partly inspired by the Front Loader concept design by Eduard Pronin, and the Hover Loader design of Hanzhong Wang. Last but not least, I chose yellow to give it a bit of an Alien P-5000 Power Loader feeling 😊.
I am very happy with the result and named it the ‘SoroSuub Front Loader’. SoroSuub Corporation was a Sullust-based company which developed and manufactured a great variety of technological goods, from droids and sensors to weapons and vehicles.
I decided this would be the perfect, fictitious and non Canon, manufacturer of the Front Loader 😉.
Go and check out Adam's designs here on Flickr or on Instagram. His models in 1:144 scale are amazing!
Setting the prop shaft into the fuselage with Milliput. The spinner rests on a lump of blu-tac to allow micro adjustement as it set overnight. Cockpit top half in place to provide location. I had to make a plug out of car body filler to heat form the canopy parts. Took many attempts to get 2 to match.
Prop spinner is turned aluminium in 3 parts. Spindly undercarriage gives it an insect like look. Necessary to allow those huge props to clear the ground. U/C legs are all metal enhanced with tiny metal parts recycled from computer plugs and circuit boards.