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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
just used some filler on the roof, interior needs sorted on this not sure what to do as its quite an old coach, and i'm trying to keep my coach fleet slightly newer,possibly scratchbuild an interior for this
or upseat to 70 seater not sure
A scratchbuild of the Nostromo pilot chair frame - inspired by the conceptual designs of Ron Cobb and the production work seen in the 1979 motion picture ALIEN. 1:18 scale. The finished frame will be molded then cast several times, adding a variance of worn upholstery and detailing to each using aves FIXIT. The chairs railing, which allows the pilot to move forward to engange the control panels and back to secure for launches and landings, will be created seperately and mount on metal rods. The safety belts will be added later.
The book illustration shows only 2 MG151s in the dorsal tray but the drawing says MG151 Drilling versenkbar. So 3 it is on my model. Pilot and gunner figures are modified Preiser.
Some artistic license was allowed. Hence the supercharger intakes, exhaust placement, u/c door shapes and extra guns in the wings.
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.
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)
TT modeler Alex Hristov is using Shapeways to create parts for this General Electric U30B. Alex was our guest on Episode 26.
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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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.
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.
Highlighting the wood of the cab I built for my Grover Tribute Ruby this shot shows the individual boards that have been shellacked as well as the custom decal I designed and printed.
I wish I knew for sure what scale this was. This is different than the 1/76 resin kit that was available.
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.
Branksdowne Park is my new OO scale layout set in the Bournemouth area around 1967. As an overflow shed for Bournemouth itself it features a small coaling stage. It's been built from old Airfix kits - mostly their Station Platform kit and Platform Canopy kit, but also features parts from their Engine Shed and Girder Bridge kits - all from my scrap box (But all still available from Dapol in their Kitmaster range). The cladding is Slater's plasticard and the the whole thing has now been bedded in to the scenery and fitted with a grab shovel on the hoist from an old Langley Models kit.
Although it's a freelance design, it borrows much from similar constructions at Basingstoke and Guildford that were well-photographed at the time.
The Claw. The pivots are Lego Bionicle. The claws are partly made from heater vent slats from my old Subaru Legacy.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
WH40K Space marine "Chuck" battle armour.
Conversion based on the very old 1988 Chuck Class dreadnought from the old Rogue Trader edition.
So much nostalgia...
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Instructions on Rebrickable.
Lego Star Wars Inquisitor Transport Scythe
This is my version of the Inquisitor Shuttle featured in the Obi Wan Kenobi A Star Wars story TV-series on Disney+. Main features:
- Minifig scale, modular build
- Seating 4 minifigs and 1 pilot
- Movable wings (flight/landing)
- Roof/rear section can be removed
- Front ramp can be opened
- Parts: 2'152
- Steps: 481
- Instructions: EUR 14.99
- Cost to build: ca. USD 250
These pics are for the Scythe in flight mode atop of the UCS Imperial Shuttle set stand in DBG (not part of instructions).
Shout outs:
First and foremost, Ron McPhatty for the instructions 🙏. He has put a lot of time in not only the instructions itself, but also to optimize the build, as to make it affordable.
Of course, a shout out to @benjamin_last who did the original artwork, and to @monsterpartywars who did some digital sketches for his amazing scratch build 1/144 models.
Love to hear what you think 👍
The final bit of the build will be the rear lights which will be added once I can find ANY reference to what arrangement these would have been. In spite of months of trying, getting hold of reference photos both on- and off-line has proved almost impossible, so it may yet end up with something not quite accurate.
But it suits my purpose.