Omega 7 Columbia Helicarrier MkIV

[Grendels]

Keep it up! Your doing great.

 

[Quaralane]

Thanks for the support, John

 

[Jaitea]

Looking cool Q.....love the engines

J

 

[Quaralane]

Thanks, Jaitea.
The larger ones had been bugging me

 

[Klaus not Santa]

Wow, this baby is growing nicely.
I really like the new main engines - look a lot more in lin ewith the design.
I look forward to see the fans progressing.
Cheers
klaus

 

[Quaralane]

Thanks, Klaus.
With some luck, the fan update should be up this weekend

 

[TRM]

Great stuff here Q!! You have made some significant progress since the last time I checked in!! Rock on Brotha'!

 

[Quaralane]

Thanks, T

 

[Quaralane]

Time for the results of a busy week in the workshop (well, mostly 'weekend' )

The fan mounts have been cast up from Alumalite.
I broke several getting them out of the mold, but was able to get the ones I needed


Cut the blades into the fan disks.
To ease warping of the plastic, I cut out one segment from each blank, leaving 15 blades per fan.
With the thickness of the 1mm plastic, the blades got angled without much effort from me.


Completed fans mounted in the lower side of the hull.
I also used some styrene pieces to simulate cargo doors, loading hatches, and the doors for the emergency landing gear


Closeup of the underside of Fan 4 in place


The upper fan mounts in position.
Temporarily placed the deck island in position to get an idea of the look



WE HAVE PRIMER!
Gave the entire hull a coat of Krylon primer from rattle can.



Gave the lower hull a coat of Vallejo grey primer via my airbrush.
The main thrusters were painted in with Graphit Dust


Upper hull and island were given a coat of the same color, except for the flight deck, which was left in the darker grey of the primer.
Using electrical tape and .5mm styrene, I created the blast deflectors for the catapults at the front of the ship.



With main color in place, I pulled out what will become Columbia's air wing.
With the exception of Changewind One, which came from the original model, the planes were all purchased from Shapeways


11 XF-23 Black Widows, and a 'special guest.'


The 'guest' is SHIELD 616, or Phil Coulson's "Bus" from Marvel's "Agents of SHIELD."
It was made using a 1/700 C-17 Globemaster, and the wings ends from a second C-17 as a proof of concept for a larger model


Four of Omega 7's "quinjets."
These were made from 1/700 B-2 stealth bombers.
I trimmed the ends of the wings off, and used them to make the rudders I put on for added stability


Finally, a group of 12 F-35b Lightning II fighters flanking Changewind One


Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6HLUmuKfQ4

Folks, we are in the home stretch on this one

 

[JohnSimmons]

Looks great Q, well done mate

 

[Quaralane]

Thanks muchly, John.
It's been an interesting build so far

 

[Papermodder]

Looking really good there Patrick.

Jim

 

[The Chaos]

A great Job. good work.

 

[Grendels]

Looking good!

 

[Quaralane]

Thank you very much guys. Both for following along, and for the kind words

 

[noc5659]

This is looking good. Your best scratch/conversion yet. Good job

 

[Quaralane]

Definitely beats her predecessor all to heck.

Pending the final update/reveal, here are a couple of teaser pics to tide you all over

 

[Biskup]

ooo this is fun

 

[Quaralane]

Glad you're enjoying it, Biskup

 

[Jaitea]

This is it Q

Success!

Looking first class

J