The mother of all 1/18th home build A/C
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The mother of all 1/18th home build A/C
http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166646
It may not be all that detailed and pretty but it is huge!!!!!!!!
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
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Are you thinking 1/18th U-Boat???????aferguson wrote:he used a scaled up paper model. Interesting choice of material using pop cans. Never thought of that.
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
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a uboat would look too patchy. If i could get pop can material in larger sheets that might work better but there would be problems with shaping it, dents, which would be hard to get out once they happen etc.
A 1/18 full hull uboat is very difficult to make; unless skilled at woodworking or fibrglassing and molds, which i'm not, there isn't really any good way to make it. Waterline submarines aren't too bad to make...using paper models. I've got one partially built and it looks pretty good. It's the compound curves of the hull and just the bulk of a full hull that causes problems.
So i've come up with another idea that i quite like and it's pretty simple. Last year i made a 12 foot long uboat by enlarging a sideview picture on a colour photocopier and piecing it together on poster board. Turned out pretty nice and with a green backround i put on the wall, looked like it was emersed in water but there were some minor problems with its durability over time, which i have now solved.
So i'm going to remake it at some point but i'm also going to try a new idea. Instead of doing it in colour, i'm going to photocopy it in black and white on green paper. This should give a nice simulation of how it would look under the water, where there is virtually no colour perception at all. The grainy black and white photocopy will also give a nice murky feel to it. I'm going to glue it on poster board as before and then back that with foam board, which should prevent warping in humid times, which was a problem with the first one.
If all goes well i have plans to use the same technique to make much larger submarines. I think they will look both cool and a bit artistic.
A 1/18 full hull uboat is very difficult to make; unless skilled at woodworking or fibrglassing and molds, which i'm not, there isn't really any good way to make it. Waterline submarines aren't too bad to make...using paper models. I've got one partially built and it looks pretty good. It's the compound curves of the hull and just the bulk of a full hull that causes problems.
So i've come up with another idea that i quite like and it's pretty simple. Last year i made a 12 foot long uboat by enlarging a sideview picture on a colour photocopier and piecing it together on poster board. Turned out pretty nice and with a green backround i put on the wall, looked like it was emersed in water but there were some minor problems with its durability over time, which i have now solved.
So i'm going to remake it at some point but i'm also going to try a new idea. Instead of doing it in colour, i'm going to photocopy it in black and white on green paper. This should give a nice simulation of how it would look under the water, where there is virtually no colour perception at all. The grainy black and white photocopy will also give a nice murky feel to it. I'm going to glue it on poster board as before and then back that with foam board, which should prevent warping in humid times, which was a problem with the first one.
If all goes well i have plans to use the same technique to make much larger submarines. I think they will look both cool and a bit artistic.
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The world NEEDS A FULL HULL U BOAT with a detailed interior that is sick with features in 1/18th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Btw we need something for our Atlantic avengers to hunt and when AT does do a their coastal mosquito it will need something to blow up....
"the theme of mission impossible playing in the background"
pickelhaube you have two weeks to make it happen.....
ok j/k how about 9 weeks........LOL
I don't care how long it takes.......as long as it gets done.......LOL
Btw we need something for our Atlantic avengers to hunt and when AT does do a their coastal mosquito it will need something to blow up....
"the theme of mission impossible playing in the background"
pickelhaube you have two weeks to make it happen.....
ok j/k how about 9 weeks........LOL
I don't care how long it takes.......as long as it gets done.......LOL
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!
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Practically all the airlines have logo's and advertising on some of their planes nowadays, this is the battle of the Cola's plane, Pepsi versus Coke..LOL I'm all for recycling, but this is taking it to a whole new level....Why would you go through all that trouble and have the cola can labels all facing out?
Gen. George S. Patton Jr., 28th Regimental Colonel, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army, "Blood and Steel"
He really missed the mark on the nose. It looks like a 747 nose rather than a MD-80.
http://www.concordesst.com/history/events/pepsi.htmlostketten wrote: Practically all the airlines have logo's and advertising on some of their planes nowadays, this is the battle of the Cola's plane, Pepsi versus Coke..LOL I'm all for recycling, but this is taking it to a whole new level....