Recent content by Zubie

Sorry, been away finishing up the Narcissus (yes very nearly there). Anyway a link was posted at Starship Modeler for various ships from the opening episodes of SyFy's "The Expanse" and are now available for download as wavefront .obj files under a creative commons license. While these are...

You mean something like the attached. It's the one I've been doing the instructions on. I really should stop getting distracted and get on with it.

I'm a Blender user and quite fine with it (excited, after several years using it just discovered the power of making the components objects! [visualize hand slap on own head]). Recently though, I was at a local maker meeting and someone there showed me how to use "SolveSpace" (add the .com for...

It seems like a very natural set of categories. I would be more partial to lumping scratch and kitbash together since to me at least it seems the same. The latter seems almost specifically a SciFi thing anyway and is sort of odd. For instance , if you want to accurately reproduce a studio model...

Went to Michaels to find UHU. Nothing and don't carry it. No Zip Dry either. Currently use Alene's tacky which seems pretty good (tackier than elmer's, labeled non-yellowing & acid free). I noticed they sell a version they call "Quick Dry" tacky glue. Is this akin to the zip dry or should I keep...

I think the thread has gone a tad off topic. I personally doubt if my skill set (or equipment set) are on par for an IPMS contest placement (let alone win), but I think that it would pay not to be too harsh with regards to what "meets the requirement" with regards to posts. I understand that one...

I think figure "a" in the attached image illustrates what zanthros is talking about. It's akin to the kind of thing you would do in wood joinery to hide the joint. For a simple right angle you need to get both edge parts to 45 degrees by filing or cutting with a sharp edge. The parts are then...

I just found this thread and felt like putting my 2 cents in because I'm not totally anti-tab. Undoubtedly using internal tabs will generally result in a nicer finish, however it is possible to make an argument in their favor particularly where novices are involved. Actually on some level it's...

Firstly, here I always prefer the internal tab over an overt tab. If the kit comes with a tab, it gets cut off at the edge, and if possible with a considerable amount of excess, ideally twice the width. In this way I can use the tab edge as the alignment point when gluing it to the larger...

What do people think of the original Monogram Marauder as a starting point. I presume the engineers had access to the original, although I do admit the releases for BSG at the time were not great. Only really good refs I know of http://www.universalhartland.com/code/buck004p.shtml and...

Well, the kit parts as done allow for a very simple "done in about an hour if it weren't for glue time" version and a more detailed version with more parts and steps. I made most of the tabs so that you can cut them off to allow for a butt join seam if the builder is up to it and indicate that...

Thanks. It was a workshop kit designed for very quick builds, so I kept it as simple as possible. I recently rebuilt it and decided that it could use some mods on the tab placement, a bit of a change to the build steps, and opening up the fuselage a bit (and needless to say after all the work on...

I've been working up more instruction images along the lines of the ones I already posted. I'm starting to wonder if I should make the instructions an e-book rather than a pdf (generating a pdf from the e-book sb fairly trivial). E-book format is basically an html with different header info for...

Just got the archive to store this URL https://web.archive.org/web/20150504163010/http://www.ericksmodels.com/paper/models/minotaur5/minotaur5.html It isn't the neatest way to keep a record of it, but it does work in the meantime.

Based on the discussion on the thread, here's a pic I'm working up on a design I'm finishing up. I've built the model, I just need to finish up the instructions and number the parts.