Chronic's Research and Aeronautics Project (C.R.A.P.)

[PR19_Kit]

I tried translating it backwards from Hebrew but it comes up with 'Phalcon' 

[TheChronicOne]

Yeah... huh!  Ahh well...  considering the bulbous look I'm sticking with the theory that someone was being juvenile.      (doubtful but barring new information, I roll with my own!!!)   

[Weaver]

Yeah... huh!  Ahh well...  considering the bulbous look I'm sticking with the theory that someone was being juvenile.      (doubtful but barring new information, I roll with my own!!!)   

Someone posted a head-on pic of it on Twitter with the comment "this is what it looks like when a plane gets stung on the nose by a bee"....

[TheChronicOne]

Yeah... huh!  Ahh well...  considering the bulbous look I'm sticking with the theory that someone was being juvenile.      (doubtful but barring new information, I roll with my own!!!)   

Someone posted a head-on pic of it on Twitter with the comment "this is what it looks like when a plane gets stung on the nose by a bee"....

That's it! That's what I saw. It was reposted to Facebook but that's how I stumbled across it. For a second I was thinking it was someone's Photoshop job done up to look "funny" but the more I looked I realized... "that's real!" 

[TheChronicOne]

[Rick Lowe]

WRT mould release agents, you could try baby/cornstarch powder. It's inert, and apparently helps pull the resin into the mould surface, helping to avoid bubbles/voids.

Cheers

[TheChronicOne]

Fantastic tip, thanks!  Best part, it's cheap/free.   

[Rick Lowe]

Fantastic tip, thanks!  Best part, it's cheap/free.   

Cheap/Free is the best!
The tip works best with the usual 2-part pouring resins you can get, but there's no reason it shouldn't work with other stuff?

[TheChronicOne]

Definitely. I don't see why not.   

[TheChronicOne]

Well, SNAFU!!   The surprise project I was wanting to have done in time for Halloween is officially axed. After I bought the kit, two days passed, and the person sends me a message telling my they are out of town for work until the 29th.  THEN, I turn around to buy the waterslides and THAT person was "away" also.  I'm still going to make it, but it will be late..



Ah well, work continues on my three Old Kit GB builds, so please feel free to visit that forum and have a look! I do my best to take "in progress" photos and chat a bit about what I'm doing. I'm no rookie, for sure, but am certainly a novice/amateur. My stuff probably isn't that interesting to most folks but I'm having fun doing it all and perhaps seeing someone learn and get better is interesting some how..

[Librarian]

You know its funny but after racking my brains I can't remember when I made that switch from reality to whif. Reality had really got me badly and I was caught in that miasma of accuracy for every kit I was building (Japanese a GOOD!! example) and I know I just decided against my screaming aspergers to paint a kit just wrong...it worked . Could I do this or that? Start cutting things off and adding something else? Whats this substance and could it help etc etc. Never looked back. The idea of building a real a/c now just holds no interest. Sorry I don't post more often but I read everything everyone writes and I'm following your attempts at casting...that's something I've never tried so you're ahead of me now 

[TheChronicOne]

Gotta hate SNAFU's, not as bad as FUBAR though but...

Shame, better late than never.

Yeah... and to be honest, I was a bit relieved.  Had everything arrived on time I would have only had 4-5 days max to get the thing built so ... uhhhh.... yeah... I'm not one for rushing things. It might not have turned out worth a damn because I don't want to devote that much effort in that small a time frame. I'll save that hustle for the one week GB.

[TheChronicOne]

You know its funny but after racking my brains I can't remember when I made that switch from reality to whif. Reality had really got me badly and I was caught in that miasma of accuracy for every kit I was building (Japanese a GOOD!! example) and I know I just decided against my screaming aspergers to paint a kit just wrong...it worked . Could I do this or that? Start cutting things off and adding something else? Whats this substance and could it help etc etc. Never looked back. The idea of building a real a/c now just holds no interest. Sorry I don't post more often but I read everything everyone writes and I'm following your attempts at casting...that's something I've never tried so you're ahead of me now 

Hey, thanks, bud!!  And the other.. I know EXACTLY what you mean...  the freedom of not having to care much about all that accuracy is liberating. I'm like you, if I'm doing something like a "real" build I get mired in all the aspects of trying to get it right and eventually hours are blown on things like research and other tedious crap and suddenly it becomes a compulsion and the fun drains away. With this what if stuff *I* dictate whatever I choose and if it's wrong.... so what. 

And no worries.. good to see ya pop yer head up from time to time...   

That casting... HMM... I think it might actually work out..      Only thing stopping me would be my own lack of "finishing" skills. I'm sure the thingy I made will work but I can I actually get it put on the plane and have it looking right...    We shall definitely find out.  And pretty soon, I suspect.. I need to get this out of the way to proceed, really.

[TheChronicOne]

Practicing higlighting panel lines. I think it turned out pretty decent. I've never done it before. I settle on the bic fine pen there. The fine mecahinal pencil lead works too but is a more subtle effect. Still, the pencil effect is notiveable from nothing at all!  Pretty cool. 

[TheChronicOne]

More practice/ experimentation. This time I used pencil on the raised stuff, and the ink around the rudder.

I think it's good enough to use and will go on my "F-110B Vulture Time Traveling Alternate History MiG 27 Old Kit Group Build Plastic Scale Model. "