Simon's Revel 1:24 N-1 star fighter

[simontie]

HI SI should look good lit up with led's
chrisb

fingers crossed or a big pile of melted plastic lol

[Steve-the-Duck]

Around 6 and some shades of grey as well …

That's what I like to hear

[boatman]

fingers crossed or a big pile of melted plastic lol

Cant happen Si as LED'S dont give off heat
chrisb

[simontie]

Ok, so i cut out the centre parts of the rear trust covers?
and put them back in the moulds then poured in the clear resin.

1st couple of bits i trialed had quite a few bubbles in them.

so for this final pour i used an improvised a vibration table, on my glass base using my Dremel drill I left it running for about 30 mins and voila much less bubbles :smiling3: left it over night to set and it looks good most of it will be hidden with the tail spikes anyway then i read the instructions…. Use a heat gun to remove unwanted air bubbles…

The blemishes are from inside the mould i made from silicon but it will produce the desired effect
centre motor looks great and even the fan blades came out well.

So when together the port & starboard trusters? Will be illuminated like this


and the centre truster like this.

well thats the theory anyway:thinking:
Mando and son are pieced together in cockpit but not completed yet

Well thats pretty much the kit done quick and simple build but well made all fits really well,now i need to paint it and wire it up might be a while !!!,


simon

[scottie3158]

Looking good the lighting should look very good.

[simontie]

Some shiny stuff applied

forgot how it highlights every blemish, 1 or 2 bitz ill need to clean up but all in not to bad
cockpit inners primed
more when i have it
simon

[A_J_Rimmer]

Very nice!

What's the B-17 sharing the bench?

[The Smythe Meister]

Coming along a treat there Simon, cracking stuff .

[simontie]

Very nice!

What's the B-17 sharing the bench?

Its in the bad books one day i hope to forgive it, :sad-face:

[simontie]

Its in the bad books one day i hope to forgive it, :sad-face:

Monograme 1/48 bought her a few decades back no decals and now i cant decide what to finish it with

[A_J_Rimmer]

Monograme 1/48 bought her a few decades back no decals and now i cant decide what to finish it with [ATTACH]510567[/ATTACH]

Wow, that is a big beast! Looked good in the photo! Hopefully one day we'll see it finished.

[simontie]

Quick up date painting continues silver mainly!!! (or variants of)
tested one set of leds and soldered up one set of rings (badly) …
cock pit mando and kin coming on .. ok
more over the weekend if I’m allowed (joke)

simon

[simontie]

Ok bit more soldering today and chopping out bits of plastic, so i put together a few more led’s 8, 4 a side. Glued them in to the rear truster covers added the pointy bit (Temp) checked they worked and then trialled the whole assembly in the dark seems to be working ok, other side to finish off then i need to cut a couple of tracks in the wing bottom to allow for an interference free fit
All just temporally fitted so once i get everything seated properly i can start assembling in earnest
simon

[Steve-the-Duck]

That is all deeply impressive

This IS the way

[simontie]

Bit more done today seen as how the weathers is so miserable… soldered up the 3rd engine and trialed it, also managed to fit the wiring into the very tight space between top and bottom of wings involved stripping off the insulation and cleaning out a couple of small groves even managed to get mando and Grogo finished seated in there cockpit, sorry pictures are not in order
this is the way
simon