Blackadder's Scratchbuilt Thunderhawk

[Blackadder]

Well I thought of using a Zippo lighter and compressed aerosol blown through each engine but I'd better be quick with the camera and I can only do it once.............. as the old joke goes.

Seriously I've used the black cloth for most of my recent pictures as the white styrene shows up so well against it and the exhaust was just a fortuitous coincidence.

[pathwinder14]

Oh ok. Cool. You know, once you have the lights installed and the model painted you could use some small wisps of cotton as exhaust (and they'd catch the light).

[DavidDraper]

I just joined BoLS, and this is the first thread I checked out. What an amazing project. Thanks for posting your progress!

David

[Blackadder]

Okay, a while back someone asked me what Chapter colours I was going to paint this beauty (possibly not on this forum)? Well I hadn't considered that far down the line but I did receive some suggestions (Again maybe not from this forum) and I have decided barring a humongous meteorite strike or some other world shattering event I shall be going with this scheme. It just appeals to me adding just the right amount of racial senile decay and a patine of war weary resignation to the inevitable and ultimate end.

Whew, that is a depressing scenario if I do say so myself.

On a more upbeat note; the engines are just about done and I'll be posting an update soon.

With credit to the "Lord Inquisitioner" for the following images.


[url]http://i.imgur.com/Hk1Qr.jpg[/url]
Now thats vomit green!


[url]http://i.imgur.com/lH9Pg.jpg[/url]
I really like this 3D rendering


[url]http://i.imgur.com/GAQYz.jpg[/url]
I just hope my exhausts look this good


[url]http://i.imgur.com/dR9oP.jpg[/url]
And my landing gear function this well.

[Meph]

Oh, nice. That's a nice military scheme indeed.
Hang in there mate, you're almost there!

[SotonShades]

At the very very least you are a hell of a lot closer than I am with mine... mostly that is just a fantasy of one day getting round to thinking about making one or beginning to save up for FW! lol

[Blackadder]

Not much going on to this date I did some work on the lower portion of the engines and stated detailing the #3 engine upper half.

The biggest change is the following image which was the first taken with my new Rebel T3i Canon DSLR which Egad! is fully manual, I'm actually going to have to learn how to take pictures again. My old Kodak 290 (in the background) was having trouble extending the auto zoom lens (Getting it up as it were. ) so I guess it was time to retire it but this new camera will take some getting use to. I may have to read the manual though I did manage the image below right out of the box.


[url]http://i.imgur.com/rja78.jpg[/url]

[Meph]

Cool! manual shutter speed FTW (plus tripod)! that can correct most dreary lighting situations.

[Blackadder]

FTW, Aside from "F--- the what" there isn't any translation that lends meaning to the acronym.

Elucidate IYW?

Ha!

BTW I use a tripod.

Another BTW, You do know Meph that I am just re-hashing my Warhound thread on the 'Cool Mini' forum.

I like to display my wares on different forums to promulgate the craft and share techniques with budding scratch builders in hopes that I might glean a better way of accomplishing the rather more tedious tasks.

Don't get me wrong I do relish your input there.

[Meph]

lol, yeah, FTW, is one of the more 'loose' internet acronyms: For The Win!

IYW... hmm..; If You Wish?

Yeah, no worries, I see you thread pop up here and there. I do the same as the variety of input over different forums is always welcome. Just doing my part to keep the traffic up.

Oh, and I just see I totally missed the real engine photo's, that SR71 engine is glowing like there's no tomorrow. And I concur, the SR71 sure is a pretty birdy, but in my eyes the SU-35S comes very, very close in terms of beauty.
Are you going to LED up the entire craft (nav lights etc) or just the engines?

In any case, all those lovely little engine- and plating details really ad to the look and feel of the models. 'Greebles' they are called in the 3D modeling world, don't know if the term is known/applied in the physical modeling arena.


But in any case:

OMG WTF? Cool Thunderhawk FTW BTW! Make me one too IYW?