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Post by rocketeer on Feb 24, 2010 19:20:15 GMT -6
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Post by erwin on Feb 25, 2010 11:40:01 GMT -6
The "visitor" looks like he means business!
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Post by rocketeer on Feb 25, 2010 18:03:44 GMT -6
Yeah, he's definitely determined.   My wife calls him a flying armored slug and says he's kind of cute; I call him "Irving" (well, I had to call him something!). |
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Post by TheMadModeler on Feb 25, 2010 19:02:09 GMT -6
Lookin' Cool...  Very intresting work you've got going on.. BiLL.. |
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Post by rocketeer on Feb 25, 2010 21:47:51 GMT -6
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Post by mykturk on Feb 26, 2010 18:54:31 GMT -6
Wild looking! Is this based on 'something' or is it just something you dreamed up? It's incredibly well thought out! How many little whirlie-gigs will the finished version have?
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Post by rocketeer on Feb 26, 2010 21:06:22 GMT -6
The genesis of the idea was the Albatross, the airship in Verne's Robur the Conqueror, but the addition of Irving was my own idea. The backstory is that the airship is part of an expedition, circa 1898, to one of H. P. Lovecraft's mysterious and horrible lost cities, and has run into a bit of trouble. Here's a link to some illustrations from Robur: www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imageGalaxy_MoreImages.cfm?book_id=SIL28-091It'll have 18 rotors total. Most will be whirling, and made of clear plastic disks, but at least one will be stopped, as will the propellor which drives the thing along--which means I had to build a whole carload of propellor blades. A good pastime for a rainy morning |
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Post by erwin on Feb 27, 2010 7:24:50 GMT -6
Irving rocks! You say he was a McDonalds premium? He looks like the cousin of the Cloverfield beastie. This very interesting...
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Post by fredmellini on Feb 27, 2010 15:45:42 GMT -6
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Post by rustybill1960 on Mar 1, 2010 18:32:22 GMT -6
;D SWEETNESS MAN!!! TOO COOL !!!  |
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Post by Tim Nolan on Mar 3, 2010 16:18:15 GMT -6
Irving kind of looks like a "gooberfish" from Star Wars. I have a huge toy of one of them in my son's collection! Beastie!
I like what you've got going on with this, lot's of good imagination and by golly IT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT!!! YAH!
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 3, 2010 23:00:51 GMT -6
I'm now in the painting stage, at least on the upper hull. Tonight I broke out my oils and painted decks. I don't care if I never see another deck. And Irving is ready for paint, too--I think I'll keep him orange; the color kinda grew on me--or will that make his origin too obvious? Tim N already sussed it out... |
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Post by Brandon on Mar 4, 2010 18:48:22 GMT -6
That's awesome...
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 10, 2010 20:59:43 GMT -6
So now I'm in the midst of painting things--and when I'm not painting, I'm fiddling with photoetch; this is a searchlight platform and the pilothouse, both built from scratch. The photoetched railings and ladders really perk them up:  And Irving just needs a bit of detail painting, and he'll be done (although I'm thinking about giving him eyes on stalks):  The "dinghy" is painted, but I still need to add its engine:  ... and the decks are painted. Unfortunately, while trying to lay a wash in around the doors, I screwed up the white walls, so I have to mask and repaint once everything is good and dry   |
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Post by mykturk on Mar 10, 2010 22:27:44 GMT -6
Man, that is so stinking cool looking! I guess you'll be adding a tiny crew to the ship? I like the eye stalk idea too. Really, really well thought out stuff there, I'm impressed to no end!
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 10, 2010 22:56:10 GMT -6
I have some 1/350 photoetched crew figures--they're flat, true, but I can bulk them out a bit with paint. Man, they're tiny. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2010 16:03:33 GMT -6
Has kinda a Rodger Dean look to it!
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Post by modelcitizen on Mar 11, 2010 19:27:28 GMT -6
This is a SUPER COOL project!!! I'm really diggin' it!!! ;D ;D ;D  "Paulie" |
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 12, 2010 21:21:39 GMT -6
Tonight I masked and repainted the white walls, and, despite the usual airbrush fiascoes it looks pretty good. Whew! Tamiya tape is the greatest masking tape in the world. The paint on Irving is taking its sweet time drying, so Project Eyestalks is on hold. And so, to fill in the empty, idle hours, I'm trimming and bending photoetched ladders and railings for the main decks. It's actually a lot of fun--which is good, 'cuz that's why I'm doing it. ;D |
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Post by fredmellini on Mar 12, 2010 22:32:13 GMT -6
OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D
P.S.............I think Tim N. is a closet jedi!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D
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Post by ramone on Mar 13, 2010 1:35:42 GMT -6
Wish i had your skills and imagination. AWESOME work!!!
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Post by snakeplissken81 on Mar 14, 2010 8:40:48 GMT -6
Man that is freakin' awesome so far. Oh, Irving looks more like a Norman.
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Post by barten on Mar 14, 2010 9:29:22 GMT -6
Very wild. . .are the claws going to be piercing the metal of the boat? . . . this is soooooooo cool!
Great work!
GB
barten
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Post by davea on Mar 14, 2010 10:19:21 GMT -6
Wow, this is very cool! I read a lot of Verne, Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft; this is just right in there!
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 14, 2010 12:21:42 GMT -6
Claws piercing the metal of the boat? I was originally going to do that, but I needed to be able to take Irving ("Norman"? hmmmm ) on and off and on and off during the fitting process, and having his claws fit into the holes would have complicated that more than I wanted. Still bending, painting, and attaching photoetch. Geez, there's a lot of photoetch to be added. But it certainly makes a big difference in getting the thing to look real!  |
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Post by RatRod on Mar 14, 2010 13:19:31 GMT -6
This is very cool stuff Steve!!! I'm glad you having fun doing it, 'cause were having fun watching it!!!
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Post by rocketeer on Mar 21, 2010 18:52:13 GMT -6
A brief progress report: I've been painting and painting and painting--and gluing more blasted photoetch ;D The photoetch is a pain, but it really perks up the model. This is how the project stands right now. The airship is about 80% done; all the masts are in place and rigged except for three at the aft end that "interact" with Irving (those three are just kinda set into place in the photos). All the railings are in place (finally; now if I can just keep from mooshing them with my big fat fingers ). I'm building little bits of clutter for the decks-winches, lockers, turntables to hold the dinghies. Irving now has eyes on stalks, huzzah. I've fit him into place on the airship and it's going to work just fine. Still to go: Some kind of base; the crewmen; some detail painting on Irving; perhaps a couple more cranes; a rudder actuator. Not too much, really; I'm getting there, slowly but surely. ;D ;D ;D Oh, yeah, the pictures:   |
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Post by RatRod on Mar 21, 2010 19:26:21 GMT -6
Holy crap, look at that propeller system.... One wouln't want to fall off that boat.... ;D
This thing is gonna be good when she's done Steve!!!
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Very intresting work you've got going on..
Here's a pic of Irving and another of him with his nemesis:
"Paulie" 
