(#3 done!! pics pg 3) Aliplast Fiat G.55 Centaur Vatican City Defense Force

TheChronicOne · December 14, 2016, 09:08:05 PM

Quote from: strobez on December 14, 2016, 08:53:46 PM
What did you use for the wire? I need to string one for my C.714 and I'm thinking of using stretched sprue... but I'm open to stealing good ideas elsewhere.

Stretched sprue probably IS your best bet granted you know how to do it well. (I assume that you do!) That said, this tiny gauge wire is prevalent in things like old headphones and such. They make it so tiny so that it will "fit" into tiny conduit and spaces and it works great. Some of it is easily thinner and more wispy than human hair. The problem that arises is in trying to paint it. The wire I used on this plane came from a PS3 headset that was no longer worth using. Other things like speaker wire, etc... provide tons of it. It's all about finding the right gauge I guess... when you find copper wire that you can simply pull apart and it snaps then you are in the money.

Modelling_Mushi · December 15, 2016, 05:02:17 AM

Captain Canada · December 15, 2016, 06:10:53 AM

Looks great in those colours and markings !

TheChronicOne · December 15, 2016, 09:40:11 AM

Thank you! My camera tried to assassinate said colors but I resurrected them with some photo correction. I managed to get my top three favorite colors on this one.

I love "whif-world" because I get to be greedy and make things how I want them.

Now that I think of it, I just started one that will have the same three, although the blue will be darker.

EDIT: Fixed the missing picture above. Not sure what I screwed up but I fixed it and that's all that counts I guess. LOL

DogfighterZen · December 17, 2016, 12:36:38 PM

Great stuff, Brad! That looks very good!

Would that be Van Helsing's plane?

TheChronicOne · December 17, 2016, 08:54:23 PM

Thanks dude! I think that is the second time someone mentioned Van Helsing. I've definitely heard of the name but not much more. I guess it's time to have a look.

zenrat · December 18, 2016, 01:01:35 AM

Start here.

DogfighterZen · December 18, 2016, 02:01:06 AM

Quote from: zenrat on December 18, 2016, 01:01:35 AM
Start here.

The bloodsucker's archenemy...

Old Wombat · December 18, 2016, 03:47:10 AM

Like this much more than the Vampire. Great job, Brad!

TheChronicOne · December 18, 2016, 08:18:27 AM

Thanks, O-Dub! I think I do, too. The colors are much more inline with what I find appealing for sure.

Ahh thanks for the link up Fred.. See there's one problem, I've never read or even seen the classics. I SHOULD know who Van Helsing is by now.

I'd have to say yes... this could well be Van Helsing flying in here although he might be pretty damn old by then.

Glenn Gilbertson · December 18, 2016, 10:20:32 AM

Great idea - that looks really different; Et salutare tuum artium.

TheChronicOne · December 18, 2016, 12:26:28 PM

Quote from: Glenn Gilbertson on December 18, 2016, 10:20:32 AM
Great idea - that looks really different; Et salutare tuum artium.

Thank you! The idea struck as I was half asleep. Gotta love it. That sometimes is how I invent things that will make millions of dollars, too, but I always seem to forget THOSE ideas. . . .

DogfighterZen · December 18, 2016, 06:17:22 PM

Don't forget that working for the Vatican would've given Van Helsing some kind of divine protection... maybe a special kind of holy water, or water from a fountain of youth so he could keep up with the Sucker's immortality till he was really dead again...

remember the movie Indiana Jones the last crusade?
Just say that Van Helsing had the carpenter's cup with him as a tool of the trade... just in case he had to replenish blood levels in his body after some casual battle with the Vampirettes...