So got some more work done today. You know one of the things I dislike
about scratch building projects like this is that I can work on the
project for multiple hours and only get a small section complete. Not
exactly a complaint just a point of annoyance with the project. As a
point of comparison, in 8 hours I can build a complete Land Raider kit,
fill in all the seems, clean it up, and probably get started on painting
it, and by get started I mean getting base colors down and started on
highlights. I've been working on the Thunderhawk for a bit over 8 hours
today. And the most notable piece I finished is the canopy.
The Canopy is actually made out of 3 layers of styrene affixed to one another both for strength and for the bonding plane to... well actually exist. The first layer is .02mm thick styrene. Then there's a layer of .05 mm styrene on top of that is just slightly larger then the .02 layer, This larger layer is principally what is actually holding everything together. And then ontop of that there's a layer of .01mm sheet styrene on top of that that is cut to create the panels you see. And then of course there's the 62 rivet details on the canopy. The rest is pretty straight forward and speaks for itself.
I was also able to add some more material to the cockpit of the craft to help fill in space a bit more and got the torsos of the pilots built. Gonna get 'em primed tomorrow I think. I used the weapon firing arms from the Space Marine vehicle accessory sprue as the pilot arms. I decided to get a little adventurous with the left side pilot and made one arm with a pointing finger like he had taken one of his hands off the yoke to push a button on the control panel.
The Canopy is actually made out of 3 layers of styrene affixed to one another both for strength and for the bonding plane to... well actually exist. The first layer is .02mm thick styrene. Then there's a layer of .05 mm styrene on top of that is just slightly larger then the .02 layer, This larger layer is principally what is actually holding everything together. And then ontop of that there's a layer of .01mm sheet styrene on top of that that is cut to create the panels you see. And then of course there's the 62 rivet details on the canopy. The rest is pretty straight forward and speaks for itself.
I was also able to add some more material to the cockpit of the craft to help fill in space a bit more and got the torsos of the pilots built. Gonna get 'em primed tomorrow I think. I used the weapon firing arms from the Space Marine vehicle accessory sprue as the pilot arms. I decided to get a little adventurous with the left side pilot and made one arm with a pointing finger like he had taken one of his hands off the yoke to push a button on the control panel.
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