Gary Byrum
Overstable By Design
Try googling for "malachite green" and see if anything that takes your fancy can be printed.
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That's how I found the one Neil's been using. My search was for "Green Plasma"
Try googling for "malachite green" and see if anything that takes your fancy can be printed.
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I present to you... 8 Bit Bertha:
Maybe kitbashable from a New Way kit. Not intended for altitude records.
And yes, the whole thing is on a proper grid.
OK....A flying skyscraper with multiple staircases. Dayum! I think it's time to give the drawing board a break. Go build one of these other awesome brainstorms you came up with earlier. The reason I say this is because I run into a designers block also. Somewhat like a writers block, but in the design field. My drawings tend to get goofy-fied if I don't give it a rest now and then. Don't worry about this thread fading away to never never land, it'll be here. And we'll be waiting.
I present to you... 8 Bit Bertha:
Maybe kitbashable from a New Way kit. Not intended for altitude records.
And yes, the whole thing is on a proper grid.
Like something out of the "PIXEL" movie, eh? Yeah, I still have that Plasma Dart swirling around the Autocad Carousel waiting for for me to print the plans off. I still have 2 on my bench also. One you know about for sure. Neither of which are getting finished quickly.Well... it's an 8-bit thing, which is... a thing. Not *my* thing necessarily, but wanted to try it.
In any case, I have two builds in progress (not scratch builds), so not quite ready to start anything else at the moment. Next one I do will come from this thread; I have two in mind.
Inspired by an image I found of a fantasy space yacht sort of concept, was curious to see what could be done with it, if anything. I have no idea what it would take to make something like this stable (OR is unhappy with it at the moment, but I also think it's confused somehow).
Ha, well, in this case the ring is the whole design, so no discarding it. Also, because it's a really *big* ring, there would be lots of elbow room inside to deal with painting and whatnot. Plus in this case I'd get to actually fabricate the ring, which should be fun.Careful now, we all know what happened to the Avalon's ring.......
I should have posted the full link: https://snowflakehell.blogspot.com/2016/05/faster-than-light.html. It appears to be concept art illustrating a ship from a novel.Is that some Vulcan starship?
Go with using plywood and use the interlocking method for ring & wing. Sorta like "Tab A in Slot B".My biggest concern on construction is having sufficient strength for anchoring the ring and the pods. Would need to thing about how to build it strong.
This one is rounding into shape nicely. I adjusted some things so it now could act as a SPEV of sorts for me, which increases the chances that I might build it. Specifically, I have all the parts to build this other than the balsa. The ring would be fabricated around the same form I used for the Avalon (balsa or cardstock, not sure yet). Paint job is experimental, I just want to do something in different colors than I've been using so far.
I no longer know if this is a space yacht or a fighter or something else. But I like it.
My biggest concern on construction is having sufficient strength for anchoring the ring and the pods. Would need to thing about how to build it strong.
I dub thee "Alcubierre"BTW here's the image that got me started on this one:
I dub thee "Alcubierre"
... I nabbed a surprisingly clean sheet of 1/16" balsa from Michael's today and am going to take a whack at fabricating the ring...
I wish I could argue.I believe that is the faint sound of a build starting.
I wish I could argue.
This design is not finished by any means, but the ring is the ring is the ring, so I can monkey with that now and worry about the rest later. I really am unsure if I'll be able to get the wood to bend to my will here, but we'll see.
Yeah, that's a likely candidate. It's a little more purple than what I used up there; I'll probably update the model to use a more exact version of that color. Not committed to sticking with it, but it looks pretty nice and very different from all my other stuff, so that's good. Probably use silver for the grey bits.Purdy. Rusto 2X makes a satin Magenta that almost matches that perfectly.
This model has already drifted towards the SR-71 in appearance, why not keep going? Well, the reason would be that I'm not sure if I'd know how to do that successfully. Figuring out the shape of the piece would be an adventure; I'm particularly uncertain about how to handle the long leading edge of the main fins.How do you feel about adding some cardstock fillets along the body to wing joints, similar to the old Centuri SR-71 kit?
https://www.spacemodeling.org/jimz/centuri/cen5349.pdf
Yes, they will be rolled cardstock. The one in the main BT will be wrapped around the inner MM, almost exactly like the rear end of the Avalon. As for the engine pods... actually I'm not sure what to do in the back there. Stick a BT5 core in there (the pods are BT20) for support? Plug the back? What do folks normally do in the back of non-functional engine pods?I like those boat tails, you can roll them yourself with cardstock and the payloadbay.com transition tool.
Almost there I think. Opinions?
Thanks. I wish I had a clue of what to do with the decor (beyond what's there now). I dunno if this is a starship, a space yacht, a fighter, or what exactly. I will consider any and all suggestions on how to approach this.I really like this one!!
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