On 11/30/08, william perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Nicely done, Bill; my compliments to you and to Bunny. :-) -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html Kore de ii no da. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
