U guys love to use kits!! I wonder where can I get some of those here in Arg... all those pieces are sold separately or you bought a truck kit an used it in this project? XD
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U guys love to use kits!! I wonder where can I get some of those here in Arg... all those pieces are sold separately or you bought a truck kit an used it in this project? XD
Actually, couple of sources. First is that I've been building models since I was 10 (so for about 23 years), and I had somewhere around 200 models at one point. Most of these were built, but a bunch were unbuilt kits I bought years ago from a local model shop that was going out of business. I have gone through the collection many times, they're all boxed up and take up a lot of room, and I've thrown away a lot. But more recently, the last time I decided to toss models, I took them apart and kept the useable bits for use on the sandcrawler.
A few days ago, rather than go out and buy more model kits to scavenge parts, I went on ebay and discovered sellers selling "junkyard" models: old, broken models and model parts. I bought and am waiting for a box of car engine model parts.
If you're looking for spare parts to use and don't have a large model collection to pull from (I've already dumped or destroyed all the ones from my collection that I was willing to sacrifice) I'd recommend looking on ebay for junkyard kits.
If you find somebody who ships to the US, but not Argentina, I can forward the item to you, assuming that you cover the shipping costs and fees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
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thanks nevermind for the offer, It's a great idea to go and ask in the hobby stores for cheap broken models :D I'll go to some of those near my house and ask...Quote:
Originally Posted by nevermind1534
well guys, my box of car parts arrived on Friday. It measures 9" x 6" x 3.5". And it was STUFFED. Not just full. We're talking packed-to-the-brim-and-spilling-as-soon-as-I-opened-the-outer-shipping-box full! I'm hoping there's enough in there to last me not just this model, but the large scale Y-wing I want to build someday...anyway, I sorted the contents of most of the box, based on similarities between parts. Took about an hour to do 2/3 of the box, and I'm not gonna do the rest unless I use all that I've sorted so far.
Before the addition of the extra parts:
After the addition of the extra parts:
oh yeah, and I stopped by Michael's and got some popsicle sticks, figured they'd be good for some interior panelling and such:
There was some weird stuff in the parts box:
I have no idea what that sphere was. No clue. Most of the parts, including the Big Daddy Roth painted hood interior (though jarring to find and a little creepy-looking) I could at least figure out what they used to be. But not that sphere. My first thought was Sputnik....oh....hell...that'd be awesome. There may be a junked sputnik in the sandcrawler at some point....
I have the 2 outside Asus fans wired up now; this shot is with the central roof removed so you can see how I ran the wires (the whitish plugs for the fans are visible just under each fan):
My girlfriend is in the middle of painting this. It's her first oil painting. Heck, she only started taking art classes a few months ago. If only we were all that talented, no?
Now as far as what else I accomplished so far, I've finished all the recessed bays, 6 total, 3 on each side of the model. Took awhile - I don't have a lot of room to work, and I kept having to go 'round the other side of the table, try and remember what i'd just done, and duplicate it roughly symmetrically. First, a photo of it before I did the front 2 bays on the left:
And after, followed by some detail shots. Incidentally, the red ladder was from an X-wing model; the silver ladder is a handmade duplicate of the red ladder cuz i didn't have 2 red ladders. Also, the thick pink and yellow tubes in the central bays are.....bendy straws. :D
Finally, I got one of the last 2 resin cast pieces on the back of the model:
But, the 2nd cast didn't come out very well. I was impatient and pulled the first cast out of the mold too early (I thought 30 hours was enough time, but it wasn't :( ) and while the first cast came out decently, it left enough residue in the mold that the second cast looked like a slightly melted ice sculpture:
This simply wouldn't do, so I've started making another mold of the original clay part, and I'm gonna do the replacement cast in epoxy: cures faster, and harder, and is less prone to picking up fingerprints and indentations. It also doesn't make the apartment smell like a chemical manufacturing plant.
For tomorrow, sunday, I'm hoping to get that mold done and get the epoxy poured in (to be removed Tuesday night), I'm hoping to get the roof of the model and other small details done, and then if there's still time I'll work a bit on the base: the tank treads, boarding ramps, etc.
I doubt I'll have time to get to the interior before the Rods n Mods show in SF, I'll be lucky if I can get the thing painted properly before then. But eventually, I'm planning on having the interior all detailed, and to have some sculpted jawas and droids kickin' around in it. Ambitious? Me? naaaah.........
looking really cool now. cant wait to see this one finished!
wow... you just dont realize how massive this thing is until you see it on the table like that. lol awesome work man... epic. :)
Great painting for a first oil painting, I lost my creative drawing ability years ago, I can draw things that are in front of me no problem, but to create & pull something from my imagination like a character or a scene from scratch I've totally lost the ability and just end up doodling like a child lol.
The kit bashing is going well and imagine it will look awesome once painted, I didn't realise the molds were so small, it's only now that I can see it next to the pencil I see how small it is, at least you have the mold ready to do it with an alternative cast. The lighting is looking great from earlier posts too, keep it up mate it's going great. :up:
Thanks! yeah, the piece pictured next to the pencil is about 9 ounces; the cylindrical piece up top is about 6 ounces. It's funny, they seem rather large in person, I think despite the pencil it looks smaller in the photo. Especially the 9-ounce piece - they're easily the biggest single pieces on the whole model. As for the kit-bashing...man it takes a long time! Figuring out where to put stuff, trying so hard to resist the temptation to just glue stuff on willy-nilly....anyways. If you look at Paul Capello's Doom case worklog, there's a photo in there somewhere of some kitbashing he did for a window frame I think. He took shots before and after primer painting, and it's AMAZING how much better it looks after being painted. It doesn't look like much prior...so I'm thinking the same will apply to my model. Only times like 100 (since there's so much more on there). :PQuote:
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I can't wait to see this in person!
