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I further hollowed out the balsa wood body, as the vacuformed mold may not work well for this project.
C/Kostoff/14
Title: “Home Video 1983”
Size: 11X14X6”
Date: 2009
Materials: Constructed plywood box, Acrylic window pane, Constructed venetian style blinds out of styrene, Ipod video playing a converted beta video from 198, Carved Foam couch and figure (obscured)
Description: I constructed a miniature replica of a condo unit in downtown Toronto where I lived for one (lonely) year in 2008. The viewer can peer into the window through a set of blinds to see a lone figure watching their TV on a couch. What they can partially see and hear is footage of a home video from 1983. The figure is myself watching my family vacation in Vancouver, B.C., where I was born.
I wanted to share the experience of moving into a newly built home (box), and feeling annexed from any sense of personal history. I invite the viewer to peer into my unit watching me, peering into a TV screen, longing for a sense of home. The voyeur watches the voyeur.
Doomsday cannon detail on 40k scale Leviathan scratch build, PCV fitting, laser cut styrene and a plastic easter egg
I further hollowed out the balsa wood body, as the vacuformed mold may not work well for this project.
1/144 resin kit.
Kit completed 2005.
1/144 styrene plastic kit.
Kit completed 2005.
Kit scratch-built by Jim Kelsey.
Decals by Mark Tutton www.starfighter-decals.com/
This was my first plane to cast in resin and the second casting of this plane. The first casting of the XF-92 did not have panel lines scribed into it. The master was made from balsa, which was very difficult to scribe lines into, so I had to make a resin template to accomplish this goal.
C-channel styrene strip. I'm using the counter next to the bathroom sink because my usual working surface (beat-up particle board desk from the '80s) is kind of uneven.
1/144 acrylic/styrene plastic kit.
Kit completed 2008.
Kit scratch-built by Jim Kelsey/ wings taken from an F-86 by Greg Anderson of OzMods.
Decals by Mark Tutton www.starfighter-decals.com/
1/144 styrene plastic kit.
Kit completed 2005. Kit made by DML.
Decals by Mark Tutton www.starfighter-decals.com/
I covered, more or less, the holes in the bike helmet with duct tape. The dent is accurate, but the helmet is gonna be pretty wrinkly.
Paul made extensive modifications to the model to improve its accuracy. As hewanted to make a realistic photographic representation of Alpha, the kits vac formed lunar surface was replaced because of its small size. Styrene sheet was glued to a 2 ft square sheet of hardboard to act as the base for my model. The Alpha buildings were carefully mapped on to the surface and then glued to the surface using liquid solvent.
The kits supplied launch pads ( 3 in number ) were too large in relation to the rest of the model so he scratchbuilt some replacements again using styrene sheet. One of the easier tasks according to Paul was the construction of the numerous travel tubes that connect the pads to the buildings. He used pre-formed Evergreen styrene strips for these.
About the lunar surface...
This was constructed using air drying modelling clay. It was rolled flat, cut into strips and laboriously modelled in and around the Alpha buildings. The surrounding mountains were built using plaster. Finally the completed model was finished using airbrushed enamel paints.
Awesome job Paul! 😉
MSA uses models to build, explore and test the brief; to increase our understanding of the project; and to offer a tactile design concept to clients, something concrete to grasp hold of in a meaningful way.
The styrene strips will be trimmed to length and glued to the inside surface of the contact strips using CA. This shifts the brake rigging inward approximately 1/16". It doesn't sound like much but it is noticeable.
Since the door parts are fiddly, .005 and .015 square styrene and some more scribed sidng, I glued up several at once
1/144 acrylic/styrene plastic kit.
Completed December 31, 2009.
Kit scratch-built by Jim Kelsey.
This kit was the last of the U.S. jet fighter series to be built - a 26+-year project saw it's completion!
1/144 styrene plastic kit.
Completed May, 2011.
Kit manufactured by Minicraft
This kit required some modification. The XP-72 was really an advanced P-47. I created a new nose out of acrylic and a ventral scoop that was a challenge to make flush with the fuselage. I used QuikSteel to fill in the major gaps and, though it did it's job there, it didn't sand well at all and required a lot of puttying.
1/144 styrene plastic kit.
Kit completed 2005.
Kit made by OzMods of Australia users.bigpond.net.au/ozmodsscales/main.html
I further hollowed out the balsa wood body, as the vacuformed mold may not work well for this project.
Art Trip and the Static Sound at the Victoria, Dalston. They played at the punk fundraiser to raise money for the documentary, I am a cliche', about the punk artist Poly Styrene.
Trial-fitting a Scale Sound Systems speaker in a Broadway Limited GG1. I added a strip of styrene to support the low end as the original BLI tinny speakers were offset in height.