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Thank you to all those that participated in our 31 Days Challenge in the forum. Congratulations to the winners! Below are the entries, their respective places, and number of votes out of the 45 votes cast: First Place (15 votes) 1/7 (Kotobukiya recast) Kinoshita Takako (Chinese Dress ver) Second Place…
Finally I’ve gotten the hull to a point where I can begin to add detail. First up is the heat radiators and the plate-armor. The armor is .020″ styrene sheet. One of the first items I ever purchased when modeling was a pack of frisket film. It turned out to…
Hooray! It’s working as I hoped it would! What is working you may or may not ask? The jute twine I used for the smallest dangling roots is what. In all of the images I have seen, the larger roots are covered in a lot of small vine-type roots and…
I’ve been slacking on the photography lately, but here are the images of my completed ScopeDog. While I love how the ScopeDog turned out, I’m not too happy with the base and figure. The figure appears to be leaning forward in all the pics and in real life even though…
Yesterday I began laminating the outside of the bondo with styrene sheet. I also forgot to mention WHY I did the balls/bondo thing and didn’t just add the styrene over the ribs. Simply enough I’m clumsy and heavy-handed and would had crushed the shell without the underneath support. Plus it…
Hrmm… Maybe my pilot’s name will be Lando’s not-well-known bastard brother Bondo Calrissian in honor of the amount of Bondo I’ve applied today. Maybe not… bad joke. Anyway, this thing is coming along fairly quickly as far as the hull goes. The hard part will be later with the details…
So a few weeks ago, a friend and I were chatting via AIM and he asked me about Celluclay as he’d never used it before. The conversation ended up being worth my saving to write a tutorial on but I figured the conversation itself is as much of a tutorial…
Here’s the Dagobah progress to this point which might not look like much from last time. At this point the basswood sides have been cut and applied to the base with 5-minute epoxy. They were then stained with Minwax Ebony wood stain. Very nice stuff. It’s a black stain, but…
