Just awesome. Breathtaking! -M the Haggard On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:05 AM, william perry wrote:
> Hey all, this was my holiday project. > > As you know, I am a big fan of the old TTA series books and just > recently > repurchased the last of the series. > > I attached a pic of the original painting as well as pics of my build. > > This model was designed by Bunny and is still available for DL from > cardmodels.net. > > I love the fact that it was designed off a single piece of art and > that it > uses the painting as the texture maps. I also liked the > effectiveness of > fold-over parts to give texture to both sides. It is relatively > simple, but > it suffers from the fact that the designer basically made a forced > perspective model from the art. > > I added a lot of extras to make it more pleasing (and a bit more > accurate). > This includes a control panel, backside wing, resizing the pilot to > 80% > original size to match the scale of the painting, seat belts and > harnesses > (to give a reason for a skeleton to still be sitting upright - kudos > for the > design, BTW) Extension parts for the cockpit area and fuselage, rusty > skeletal frame, doubling the size of the base, paper claying the > support for > the wreck and flocking over the base as well as trimming the edge of > the > base to reinforce it. > > I would recommend using a Prismacolor Tuscan red and medium brown > marker for > making of rusty pieces and edging. > > All in all an enjoyable and simple (if you do it "out of the box") > build. > > B > > > > > < > compare > .jpg > > > < > bktp > .jpg > > > < > bkft > .jpg > ><control.jpg><ft.jpg><paintcu.jpg><pilot.jpg><sidedn.jpg><wrack.jpg> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
