These girders make me see double…
Tamiya 1-12 Ferrari 312B Engine assembly
Sometimes, when modeling donor kits, I realize that the parts I’m digitizing actually make something other than a Millennium Falcon… Most of the engine parts from Ferrari 312B are used. Assembling them digitally was a cool way of cross-checking that my parts are accurate. All the little gaps and misalignments in the original plastic parts are a good test of accuracy…
Airfix 1-72 Lockheed Hudson
Bandai 1-15 Panzer IV
Radar Dish
Some studies on the radar dish assemblies
Tamiya Ferrari 312B bits
more to come – but these are some of the big ones…
Cockpit Canopy Greebles
Master Model Update
Those gun platforms and docking rings will need to attach to something. Our master model is still in flux. More than a year after Andre and I published our version 1.0 draft, we’re still discovering new things. Not ready to start cutting plastic yet, still some details to work out. Thank goodness digital prototyping in Fusion 360 allows us to make all sorts of mistakes for free…
Gun Platforms
Some in-progress work on my gun platforms. Machined bases with acrylic tops. 3D printed window frame.
In-progress gun mount pyramid too. Acrylic, styrene, donor parts, some printing…
The quad gun will be eventually have a cast cradle made from printed bits and donor parts. The barrels are printed and slipped over a brass tube core with the donor bits added to the back third.
Printed parts, brass parts and donors primed and ready…
Docking Ring
I reached enough of a critical mass in the digital kit bash library to digitally assemble the docking ring inserts. I have most of these kits in real-life (except the SeaLab), but the virtual assembly has greatly informed how the parts align and where to cut stuff…
Here is one of my machined docking rings with a laser etched donor plate insert set in place and a paper plating template wrapped around the circumference.
