Bommer nearly complete!
2,400+ rivets, and a couple hundred more left to do. Wrapped up the tail section underside and all of the secondary plating and riveting. About 4 hours worth. Here’s where the beastie stands. THe only things left to do is…
2,400+ rivets, and a couple hundred more left to do. Wrapped up the tail section underside and all of the secondary plating and riveting. About 4 hours worth. Here’s where the beastie stands. THe only things left to do is…
OK, another year, another reflection as to what I picked up sonically the last twelve months. Looking over the list there wasn’t anything from the old days like the Steelheart find last year. There was a surprise in the form…
Got some time last night and forced my self to do what I’ve been putting off for while, the final paneling of the tail section. Because of the amount of compound curves I was at a loss as to how…
Put some time in on the bommer this week. Spent three hours doing rivets on the tail before doing the final attachment. With this in place, it’s time to finish the tail section, blend in the tail wing and start…
Small spurts of progress, doesn’t look like much but wrapping plastic around a fuselage with compound curves is tough! I’ve got more of the transition between body and tail. It needs multiple layers of pcard to get it where I…
Howdy folks! I’ve been putzing all week on the wings of the bommer but nothing worth posting. Would be pretty boring seeing one tiny thing each day… “Put hoses on today” “Put the engine brackets on today” “Put panels down…
A little bit finished tonight. If I keep this up It might be done by 2013! Worked on the side gun hatches last night and tonight. Not much but something. 🙂 Later!
So I sliced my finger good (or bad, depending on how you look at it) the other day. It’s still thumping sore but works gotta go on, right? Here’s the cut… Doesn’t look like much in the photo at left,…
Progress! Did some work on the Bride and IG trooper tonight. You can’t see it from the photo but I airbrushed a coating of Bleached Bone over the entire gown, then do a white zenithal highlight from the top to…
Sheeze, three days back on the bench and it shows me what for… Did something today I haven’t done in nearly 20 years – drove an exacto deep into my finger. One of those stupid things where two seconds before…