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Post by rocketeer on May 20, 2008 7:11:31 GMT -6
(Dave, you may delete this thread if you like without hurting my feelings--I realize it's a bit off-topic.) Here are a few pictures of a figure model I just finished. I've been plugging away on it since January, and let me tell you, it's a relief to be done. First a couple in-progress photos: This is the head--I made a cast copy of a Solarwind figure's face, built the rest of her head from Milliput, then poured a mold and made this resin head: Here's the body in work--the ToyBiz Storm kit I started with had an asymmetrical torso, so I corrected that and made another casting: Here I'm building hands: And here are the shots of the completed model:
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Post by rocketeer on Jan 1, 2008 14:06:37 GMT -6
I scored one of the matching show trailers on eBay a bit ago, and I'm going to fix it up a bit so I'll have a companion for the truck. Shouldn't take much; the paint is nice. All it really needs is some Bare-Metal foil work and to have (urgh) the whitewalls repainted.
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Post by rocketeer on Dec 30, 2007 14:46:46 GMT -6
Here are pics of a oldie that I just finished: The Aurora 1/32nd scale custom 1962 Chevy pickup. I bought this as a gluebomb off eBay, blew it apart as much as I could, and rebuilt it, improvising where the kit parts were unusable. The paint is a Tamiya color. I looooooovvvve Tamiya spray paints. Fortunately the windshield was salvageable; I wasn't looking forward to trying to make another. My experiences with vacuum-forming have been, um, unsatisfactory. I ended up casting my old headlight lenses from clear epoxy resin. The worst part was painting those darned wide whitewalls. I finally painted the tires completely white, then glued a washer onto the tire using white glue, then airbrushed the face of the tire with Testors' Aircraft Interior Grey, spraying as straight down as I could, using light coats to prevent the paint from creeping under the washer. Turned out okay. I painted the tread areas with a tannish-grey color using oils. Tried Bare-metal Foil on the moon discs, but bubbles kept appearing underneath, so eventually I pulled off the foil and painted them with Tamiya Gloss Aluminum. The steering wheel is from a Pyro '50 Chevy--there aren't that many parts donors out there in 1/32nd! The underside is not much, but I did a bit of painting to make it look reasonably okay. Of course I had to lower the front suspension.
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Post by rocketeer on Jan 23, 2008 7:50:43 GMT -6
Plastruct offers twisted clear acrylic rod, but the smallest size is 3/8 inch.
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Post by rocketeer on Jan 4, 2008 0:11:17 GMT -6
Use the second, but recess it about 1/8 inch....
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