Small Scale Military Headquarters

I hate to add work for you, but I'd like the end caps.

I can definitely see 1/18 versions of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as "practical" in 1/18, as well as spacecraft from the Russian program and the "New SPace" vehicles like SpaceX's Dragon. The largest of these would be about the same size as a large 1/18 ground vehicle. A big issue woul...

snake wrote:Perhaps a V-2 in this scale.

What a ridiculous idea . . .

mmmmm so the ideal setup would be to have a warm print bed area, but have the actual print hardware/electronics kept cool? Yes. It turns out the thermal balance between keeping the things you want hot hot and keeping the things you want cool cool is a bear. For instance, when Makerbot went to a ste...

That will be lots of sanding :shock: It's the nature of the beast. There's going to be sanding with this fabrication process. Doing it this way with a heavy coat of putty up front just gets most of it over with early in the finishing process, or so it's been with the small parts I've been using thi...

Putty-ing around (notes after the pics): http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111107-00189.jpg http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111107-00193.jpg A weekend of long and frustrating experimentation has gotten me to a level where I have a set of parts I'm willing to invest the time in finishing. The first pic shows the...

I looked at a plane of mine that had the problem. I added a few drops of CA glue around the hinge and kept moving while it dried so it would not lock it in place. It made the control surface stiff and seamed to work! Careful though! I've done that, and also especially for the floppy elevators on P-...

supersonicfifi wrote:maybe a super hornet 2 seater ? it would be nice alongside the TOMCAT !

I doubt it would be a Superhornet -- that's such a different airplane that it would require completely new molds.

Progress . . . slow progress (notes after the pics): http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111103-00182.jpg http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111104-00183.jpg http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111104-00188.jpg Pic 1: The most recently-completed upper engine section in the printer, a few seconds from the last plastic being l...

Here's a link to a program I've mentioned before. It' moving along and would be a great F-104 custom/repaint. One of these days (when I get time ) I'll do it myself:

http://starlab-suborbital.com/Secondary ... _news.html

Having just finished the first of two "surges" in my real-world work, I've been able to devote a few hours to getting back to the V-2 revisions documented above. Hopefully I'll post some pics tomorrow or the next day. For now, the complete redesign of the fins and engine section continue to proceed ...

I found this thread as I was searching the net for ANY japanese bombers/torpedo aircraft in 1/32 scale...I don't know why because I know they aren't out there....except... G Burch, When you started this thread you asked about interest in a Val in 1/32 as well as 1/18. What scale are you currently w...

So . . . it's the last day of October and I just checked Tower Hobbies' site to see if Tamiya spray lacquers had come back into stock . . . no joy. I was hoping to delay doing an order for other things I need until I could get the paint I'm now getting pretty desperate for. I guess not . . . .

AMERICAN_GRENADIER wrote:we will be offering the 1/72 Saturn V for a much better price to forum members
they are selling fast in presale

... Let us know when you're ready (and don't let my wife know) . . . .

Love that Dogfight episode. Too bad Dogfights got the markings wrong. It's 1942, Battle of the Coral Sea, star, red dot, candy cane rudder, one shade of blue, not late 1943 on, stars and bars, tri-color blue. The general pubics don't know the difference, but we do. Makes you wonder why they'd go to...

Here's a little Dauntless inspiration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjqj1e8t1BE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk94v5kZ ... re=related

A truly amazing story ... this plane would make a great S2

CessnaDriver wrote:1/72 Saturn V for 200 bucks.
Dragon is giving Apollo some serious love.
Go Dragon!!!

Your note made me go look this up -- supposed to be released in December. I'm afraid I'm going to have to get it . . .

wow ... I go away to work for a week and ... this! I'm pretty jazzed. No . . . VERY jazzed.

I'm thinking $175 - $200.

Don't all space suits look the same? Not at all. Just in the main line of the the US space program you've got: X-15 - 1 Mercury - 1 Gemini - 3 (basic, EVA, and GT7 long-duration suit) Apollo - 6 (shirtsleeves, launch/recovery, orbital EVA, 1st lunar, 2d lunar, Skylab EVA) Shuttle - 5 (shirtsleeves,...

hmmm . . . I'm as much a "space nut" as I am a "militaria nut." I've actually been thinking about 1/18 real-space stuff as potential 3D printer projects . . . hmhmhmmmm ...

If I had to bet, I'd say it was the S27/J11.

Very nice work. But these KG200 planes always give me the creeps . . . Especially this one, as the Jug is my favorite USAAF fighter. Funny you say that, I have always thought the jug was interesting because this "Razor Back" version always looked so funky to me it almost looks like an Axis fighter,...

Very nice work. But these KG200 planes always give me the creeps . . . Especially this one, as the Jug is my favorite USAAF fighter.

Experiment Number 75 bazzilion and 2: Partial failure. Notes below the pics: http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111016-00164.jpg http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111016-00166.jpg http://gregburch.net/IMG-20111017-00170.jpg Pic 1: About 30 minutes into the top engine section mega-print, I heard the bad cracking so...

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD: With the time I've got available now (which is not much, with real-world work heating up a lot from now until mid-December), I've taken the opportunity of having 2-3 months until my self-imposed deadline to start selling kits to explore a radical redesign of the entire en...