The mother of all 1/18th home build A/C

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:33 pm

http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166646

It may not be all that detailed and pretty but it is huge!!!!!!!!

DocTodd · Post by **DocTodd** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:54 pm

Yes amazingly large. Took a lot of time to make.
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immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:03 pm

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Post by **aferguson** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:28 am

he used a scaled up paper model. Interesting choice of material using pop cans. Never thought of that.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:31 am

aferguson wrote:he used a scaled up paper model. Interesting choice of material using pop cans. Never thought of that.

Are you thinking 1/18th U-Boat???????

Post by **aferguson** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:35 am

no, i don't think that model looks very good. The cans are hard to shape and too thick. It's just interesting is all.

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:25 am

That was the fisrt thing I thought oif as well . Your U-boat.

Cool project.

Panther F · Post by **Panther F** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 6:48 am

Someone likes diet soft drinks!

Post by **aferguson** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:09 am

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.

VMF115 · Post by **VMF115** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:45 am

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

pickelhaube · Post by **pickelhaube** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:39 am

This started out about an airplane. How did it change to subs ?

I actually threw out the idea of making a conning tower in 1/18 scale.

The idea died on the vine because lack of interest.

nooker21 · Post by **nooker21** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:03 am

Why would you go through all that trouble and have the cola can labels all facing out?

Post by **aferguson** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:22 pm

lol....that's a good point, the silvery inside of the pop cans would have looked nicer. Perhaps it was because the cans were already curved the way he needed them to be and didn't want to have to totally reverse the curvature of each can.

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:55 pm

Looks ok but the back is kinda big and sags.

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:00 pm

Why would you go through all that trouble and have the cola can labels all facing out?

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....

DropTank · Post by **DropTank** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:17 am

He really missed the mark on the nose. It looks like a 747 nose rather than a MD-80.

ostketten 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....

http://www.concordesst.com/history/events/pepsi.html