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« on: August 02, 2007, 11:08:38 AM »
a 'Soviet attack saucer' ref, May 1954 'Air Trails', artwork by Cal Smith ...

 
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2007, 11:10:47 AM »
... can tell i was busy in the office today...lol

... ignore the pen marked vac moulding, that was to try determine placement of various features... im thinking a retractable missile tray, skid undercart, bifurbed intakes to a single exhaust slot, and of course obligitory red stars and dk. green uppers, lt. blue unders scheme prevelant on those old artists impressions and speculative models of Soviet aircraft during the 1950's

 
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2007, 02:16:17 PM »
... an hour later ...

... i was going to motorise it but decided to make the rotor free spinning instead

 
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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2007, 02:26:40 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2007, 02:33:59 PM »
... couldnt resist pouring resin into the vac halves giving a more rigid structure ...

 
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2007, 07:20:25 PM »
Reminds me a little of this Fw-500 by Daniele Sabatini (see here for more including a description)






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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2007, 07:30:50 PM »
That's the one I was thinking of Greg!

Great stuff Joe, hope you don't burn yourself out in case this GB comes along! Tongue   Seriously, looks like a nice scratch build you've got yourself there, fit's smack on the line between reality & sci-fi.
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« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2007, 03:55:15 AM »
Cool idea...ya gotta love flying saucers!
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« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2007, 01:32:06 PM »
... intakes and exhaust drilled out and sitting in primer ...

... i took the circular form intake shape from those neat Danieli Sabatini cg. images posted up by GTX.
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« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2007, 02:09:00 PM »
Ohhhhhh, look, submarine with SA-2 cheesy  
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« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2007, 02:16:20 PM »
I am in the middle of moving, so time is stressful, but I had to post a note to say this is one of the coolest builds of all time !!!!!
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« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2007, 03:53:43 PM »
Yep, TSR Joe has a prolific imagination these days  Party  
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« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2007, 08:11:37 PM »
TSR Joe - an amazing build! What did you use as a master for the vacuformed halves?
 
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« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2007, 10:27:22 PM »
Yeah, that!!!

That's an amazing build, the kind I like!!!

Great job!!!

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« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2007, 11:58:36 PM »
hiya frank, for making the master for the saucer body shells i screwed a piece of 25mm mdf. onto the faceplate of the wood lathe and turned it down till i was happy with the shape, polishing it with progrssivly finer grades of sandpaper whilst stil on the lathe ...

the finished saucer half was then vacuformed using the small machine here at my workshop using 2mm thick styrene ...

to provide rigidity, i mixed up a slurry using urethane resin with lots of filler powder, this gave a rigid base on which to sand down the edges etc., whilst tinkering with a mounting bolt for the 2 halves the resin infill seperated from the styrene vacuform moulding... as the internal surface was smooth and looked ok, i decided to just use the resin infil parts for my model ...

the cockpit was vacuformed again from a shaped mdf. former (i decided to finish this one in 'display model' style so an opaque moulding sufficed)

using the resin saucer halves made life a little easier when it came to cutting out the intakes and exhaust, the intakes being marked onto the surface, then a jig made so as to drill them in at an oblique angle, starting with a smaller drill and finishing with one of suitable size. The exhaust slot was notched out by first outlining the required shape then deeper trimming with a heavy blade, the excess filler powder making the resin easy to carve, any nicks and blemishes were filed with model putty ...

the blades were cut from 3mm styrene sheet, sanded to airfoil section, then the whole thing was primed in pigmented filler primer before final polishing with 600 grit wet and dry ...

ill hopefully get aroud to painting it proper over the weekend ...

thanks to all for the kind words, cheers, joe
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