Wow. This is great! On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Bones Parsons <[email protected] > wrote:
> For some years now I've wanted to build the Jupiter 2 from the original > Lost in Space series. I started the beautiful model by Vinicio Munoz but > stalled after getting the hull and top deck finished because it seemed a > shame to spend so much time on it when it was just black and white and > painting it, even with an airbrush, seemed to be sacrilegious to me. > I have a couple of others from Jaybats and someone else but they were > fairly basic after starting Vinicio's gorgeously shaped hero model > version so I tried Gary Pilsworth's model. It's more like the studio > squared looking version and after 3 tries and lunching them all at one > point or another, my crappy building NOT Gary's model, I decided that > the only way was to colour the one I had, Ron Caudillo was doing one > based on this model but the last I seem to be able to find on this was > from 2007 and again this year where he said that other things had got in > the way and it was on the backburner. > So with a free operating System, Linux, and a free editing program, the > GIMP, I got to work. Basically all I've done is to grab screen shots, > low res photos and anything else I could lay my hands on, and simply > cut, paste and resize until I have the top deck pretty much done apart > from the roof section which really only needs some colour added. I’m so > far from being any good at this that cut and paste is about all I've > really done...no original content at all I'm afraid. > The good thing about doing this is the fact that once the graphics are > sized down you really can't see all the horrible mistakes I've made !!!. > Once I finish the roof section I'll colour all the outside and landing > gear and then start building it....I think it should be passable. > Vinicio's model was missing a couple of parts namely the elevator cage > and the 3 flight deck consoles that sit on top of the main control > panels. Somewhere or other I got hold of a .pdf file called > Jupiter2redo, I have NO idea where it came from despite searching but it > had the elevator cage so I chopped it and resized it to fit. The > consoles I'll have to scratch build but I did get hold of some passable > graphics for the panels so that won't be too hard, I've already tried > one in paper and it looks OK...just have to print 3 of them. > Some of the sheets have 2 sides so I flipped them and added colour etc > where needed and saved as another file. > If this one turns out alright I might give the redo the same treatment, > it has more accurate inside wall shapes and a few other parts that are > better than Vinicio's model, like the outside fusion drive, however some > of it isn't as good as his. As a matter of interest I tried importing > the pdf into GIMP but lost a heap of resolution and was unable to colour > fill many parts without filling the entire page so I converted the lot > to 300dpi .jpg's and they seem to have fixed the pixelation problem > where the colour bleeds through to the whole page. > There is a jpg attached here that will give you some idea of what I’ve > been up to....just don't expect too much, it's just cuts and pastes > after all. Had to reduce the file size considerably so it might be a bit > furry, the actual printouts look pretty good by comparison. I might > leave the top removable so the inside detail can be seen. Don't know how > long until I'm finished...some time I expect, Vinicio's J2 is a complex > build requiring absolute accuracy. > I thought some here might be interested in this. > > Bones > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Papermodels II" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Ne Desit Virtus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
