This started out as a Kickstarter a few months ago. The artist's vision was to make available scientifically accurate models. One of his pledge offers was a 1:5 scale model + a T-shirt. Thankfully the Kickstarter was funded and the other day came to fruition when my model arrived at the door.
I had forgotten about it being 1:5 scale and was surprised at the size of the box, and even more so with the kit. It's huge!
The parts are very clean and you can barely see the seam lines. They should be easy to make disappear. The parts attachment points are ingenious in that there are feathers that will mask those points. Here are a few pics --
Thanks for looking.
I managed to get up to the Hobby room for an hour or so yesterday. This plane is so small that it almost looks like I'm building a 1:144 scale kit.
I left off with the Cam in 3 major subassemblies and got it all primed.
Where we left off was that the AD-1's canopy was glued on and now we need to fill the area around it. I applied the filler. When dried I carefully sanded it smooth only to find that I needed more. :-/ I was disappointed at what I missed as I put the filler on so carefully around the canopy and sanded it equally as carefully. Dang! So in a moment of anger, I just glopped it on there --
I'll let you know how this works out.
While I could have gone crazy and spent the rent money ;)
I behaved myself and only picked up the following kits--
The McVey Studios Ymir
Finally the Terror Bird, again from Gillman Productions.
The last picture is the bottom of the base. Sometimes the sculptor will surprise you with a drawing. He heard I was a retired firefighter and so the Dino Bird got a helmet! Cool! :)
Thanks for looking.
JerseyFest was this past weekend. I was only able to go the one day (Sat.). There was quite a number of models on the Contest Table, and a nice selection of demo's, throughout the day. There was even quite a number of vendors in their room. It was good to see some old friends as well as some new ones. I did make a few purchases from MoonDevil Studios, Creative Beast Studios, two kits from Gillman, I also picked up a pack of "organic" stencils that I can use for something --
Some pictures from the contest room are here:
http://s637.photobucket.com/user/kevtk135/slideshow/JerseyFest%202015
I did enter the 5 models I mentioned in my previous post and due to a stupid move on my part never wrote the name of the model on the slip. Doh! It didn't matter to the contest as they go by the slip number.
I was happy to win a Silver for entry "279." I tried to figure out which was which - "279" was either my Twisty model or my Abominable Snowman model. (DOH! again) I guess I'll have to wait for the public posting of the winners.
I finally got back up there this evening for a little while. I wanted to get the Edmontonia finished for Jersey Fest tomorrow. I just had to finish the
eyes and then gloss coat them and the nostrils. I also had to paint the
edge of the base. Done. I think I'm going to take that dinosaur, my Abominable Snowman, Dracula, and the Ghost Bust. They judge on a GSB basis. So we'll see what happens.
Finally I did some sanding around the canopy on
the AD-1 . not terrific but as I ended for the night I hit it with a
coat of primer. I'll check it sometime tomorrow night or Sunday to see
how it looks. Fingers crossed that it will look "good enuff." ;)
Someone was asking about basing the Edmontonia. Evidently this animal was a reissue by Cretaceous Creations and I'm guessing, there was no base or the base was different. This time around it looks like this --
Nothing special just a regular base. The "white thing" by the way is a branch of a tree. I'm planning on just doing a simple job on it, maybe a few plants but that s it. Be back when I have it done.
Thanks for lookin'.
