Viceland Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Yes I do!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mslz22 Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Cool, if all goes well i should be able to start sneaking in some scratching over the next couple of weeks....... mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
promethuem5 Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 Hopefully this will er... take a while to make so I can almsot scrounge up money for it.... I might be bugging out of Cap's Regult anyways.... so maybe.... just don't count me as a garanteed person for now please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Q Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 I might be bugging out of Cap's Regult anyways.... That's just wrong. You gotta stay comitted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
promethuem5 Posted March 22, 2005 Share Posted March 22, 2005 I wish mate....I wish... I can't get every expenxive shiny kit that comes out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mslz22 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Ok, i got into a situation where i am completly out of supplies for other projects until thursday so last night i played around a bit with the forward part of the cannon, this by no means is this part done, just a start. As you can see the cannon will be largely hollow, with 2 halves, the routed out part of the outside of the cannon will get some guts and a panel to cover it if you do not want to paint the guts. the front of the arm cannon will get a "cap" with the detail of the 3 barrels. all the seprating parts are designed so that you should not need to do any filling, all the parting lines should appear as panel lines. the panel lines are pretty light, as i imaging they would be, any scale wizzards can chime in about that..... mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mslz22 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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HWR MKII Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Ok now you owe me a new pair of underwear man. Its better than the other 1/72 kit already. PANEL LINES ! Yeah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myersjessee Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Looking sweet there Mike!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaHX Posted March 23, 2005 Author Share Posted March 23, 2005 HOOOOOLY... GIMME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jardann Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I can't believe how much excitement those pics can create! It looks awesome already! Keep up the great work! (not too fast though, as others have said, I've got to save up for this one!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayson72 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Wow that looks really good man! Sent you a PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less than Super Ostrich Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Shaaaaaa-weeeeeet! That looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 yea. I like it. This thing is going to ne HUGE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeo-mare Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 wow that thing is going to be friggin big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabe Q Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I didn't realize how big it was gonna be. Where am I gonna put that thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myersjessee Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 I'm going to use mine to scare away crows in the garden! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrhino Posted March 24, 2005 Share Posted March 24, 2005 Crows nothin'. I'm going to use mine to scare kids at Halloween! Imagine the potential of making light, smoke and sound generators for it... Now I'm just dreaming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94medition Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Sweet! It looks huge! Mike, can you take a picture with a scale or something so that we can see roughly how big it is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mslz22 Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 (edited) Here you go, we should all have an idea of how big a jetfire booster is , keep in mind that this is only the forward half of the arm cannon. off to the side you can see the start of the foot, that part is only upper part of the foot, so if it does not look quite right size wise, don't worry. I will not get to work on this much this week as my supplies for some other projects are in, but I will try to get some little stuff done here and there..in fact this is the project i can work on after my daughter goes to bed.....it does not require any loud aircompressor Edited March 26, 2005 by mslz22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myersjessee Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 This is going to be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THOR Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 Is this the golden age for Macross some 20 years after it's beginnings or what... Life is good! -THOR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94medition Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 Oh my... (let me pick up my jaw) And that is ONLY the forward part (I guess about 3/5 of the total length) of the arm cannon???!!! This is definitely going to be a master piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azrhino Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 The geeky engi-nerd in me is curious about something. How much is the arm going to weigh? I am assuming it is going to be made hollow somehow to reduce weight, but how is the arm going to be supported? I realize this is something you worked out long ago, I'm just curious. If the rest of the project looks as good as the arm, this is going to be one kick-ass model. Keep up the great work, and I am eagerly looking forward to more progress pictures. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mslz22 Posted March 27, 2005 Share Posted March 27, 2005 It will be largely hollow, so the weight will not be anywhere near as the other 1/72, once i get to casting i plan on doing a photo guide on how to build, for parts that will have any real weight on them the parts will be made so that it will be easy to use brass pins to strengthen up the joint. I am also trying to cast the parts in a way that the different color parts are seperate, to minimize the masking, the only real exception will be the white on the cannon, but the light green and the dark green will be seperate parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWR MKII Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 That was a quick scratch build on the arm man. I have faith is all i can say on this. WOW mmmmmmm Monster (drool) My wife will kill me for getting it not because of price but the fact that it till make the neighbors mini cooper look even smaller he he . I have no idea where i would put it but i do know i will make mine so i can dis assemble it and move it around in a foot locker or 2. (thoughts in head ) now how to make it walk. Put a servo here combined to a gear drive there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less than Super Ostrich Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 HWR MKII, That's why I have been getting my model purchases sent to work. Can't let my wife see more styrene or resin come through the mail box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayson72 Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 So how do you hide them when you build them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myersjessee Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 That trick worked for me until after the Anthrax scare when work started randomly irradiating mail. All my clear window mailers came like shrinkydinks! Personally, I find it's better to level with my wife...and grovel a lot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Less than Super Ostrich Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 So how do you hide them when you build them? I should take a picture of my basement sometime. We just bought a new house. And the unfinished basement is MINE! She gets what she wants upstairs... but th downstairs is my man cave. Most of my stuff is in cardboard boxes. But I have about a dozen already started kits in a shelving unit bought from Target. I have my main workbench, a table for my spray booth, and a table for the really messy stuff like when I'm building structures from foam and Durham's Water Putty... god, i love that stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grayson72 Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 Sounds awesome share some pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasonc Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 OK, after seeing those latest pics, put me down for one of these bad boys. The arm cannon it looks like the size of a keyboard. Please put me down for one (1). Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gundamhead Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 That's looking really awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HWR MKII Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 She knows i order them and even picks them up at the post office for me. In the next 3 weeks she will be picking up a 1/16 T34/85 and Leopard 2A6 from Tamiya. The only thing my wife is concerned with is space i have no shelf room as it is and had to allocate room fot these 2 incoming tanks so the monster would have to hide in the garage unassembled until i got it back to the states. not that theres a room big enough in the house to fit the thing into as is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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