Well a jolly good evening to everyone
All the usual suspects along for the ride, your support and encouragement, means alot fellas so thanks
Now, your faith in me is a bit scary but anyhoo..........lets see what we can do
Thanks Bazza, i did see Bens stuff, very very nice indeed, useful reference but not the same as was used in the film but like i said in my first post, this will not be "Canon", i decided it will be "Water Pistol" at best ;D
I just want to say that i am an old school builder, i do not have access to a 3D printer or a lazer cutter (i have had offers) or any other fancy technology, i am an engineer, so i try to figure stuff out with the skill set i have at my disposal and my very meger budget to make this thing. I will be using everything i learned from the MK1 and MK2 builds with me on this one but most of what i will do is still a little 'trial and error', my scratchbuilding motto ;D. but i think it will work, famous last words.
I had divided the ship into shapes and planes and decided that my datum surface is the bottom section, not the drop down hangar but the roof of the hangar, that plane.
So i scaled up from the various printouts i had and came up with this,
Marked,
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Cut and cleaned.
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Then i considered the various bulkheads, the main one being attached to our datum plate/surface
Marked,
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Cut and cleaned
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Screwed
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Cut and attached various side panels
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Drilled some holes for the central pivot and internal cross braces and the mounting point was attached
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Added some foam between the two plates
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Ready for gluing
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Had a small re-think about my internal structure and decided to make some alterations
Marked out some redesigned bulkhead plates
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Cut cleaned and dry fit with the neck tube in position
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Cut a similar plate for the back end
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dry fit
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Screw both outer pieces together with base and bulkheads all in final position
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Basic foam shaping
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Big sucker, that is a 36" scale next to the ship
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Added some fill in foam blocks
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And started to sand the foam
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And thats about 24 hours worth of work so far
Stay tuned
Gag
