Anyone up for a 1/32 B-25?

[wds]

Thanks James. See that wasn't so hard, was it? :laugh:
How do you display something that big? :huh:



Bill

 

[jknaus]

I'll probably take it to the flight sim. Then its just a matter of keeping the pilots from flying it :laugh:

 

[Tony lee]

And people talk about how ridicules buying AM is to spruce up a $50 armor kit is. :hmmm

Show us how it's done James :v
Tony lee

 

[jknaus]

Anyone wanting to do a B-25J here is a cool site with lots of good gen.

http://www.maam.org/airshow/b25.htm

And they have a CD here

http://www.maam.org/flightsim/PACKAGES/b25MMcd.htm

 

[TomN]

Wow, awesome James. Hey I've never built an airplane kit before,
think this would be a good one to start with?

Tom

 

[Paulw]

Cant wait James I be it will look spiffy all dolled up and in NMF...

 

[jknaus]

Well its big and expensive, but very solid and lots of room for extra detailing.
James

 

[jknaus]

Nope no NMF on this one. She'll be Sag Harbor Express.

James

 

[Paulw]

Nice,something new...

 

[jknaus]

Well only got a little done on this 3 day weekend. Either fighting a cold or busy doing house stuff. What I did accomplish was to make seat cushions out of miliput for the pilots and copilots seats using a method I learned here from an esteemed member. I put the roll of miliput on some wax paper, folded over the rest of the wax paper, placed a couple of tooth pics either side and then rolled it out to a uniform depth. Worked pretty good for my first try. I also made some decals with the name of my Valentine and with U.S.Air Corps, and a Liverbird.
The US markings will go on the vertical seat pads.

Still have to sort out printer settings for decal sheet. But I got what I needed.
James

 

[phantom II]

Interesting idea for the seat cushion James . I wish I understood it better.

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Paulw]

C'mon James,Hurry,hurry

 

[moon puppy]

What printer are you using? Sometimes the paper size will trip things up.

 

[jknaus]

Chris I'll try and do a SBS soon. That will be 2 I owe you.
James

 

[jknaus]

Bob I have a nice colour laser printer. The problem is figuring out how to print on half sheets of paper. I am using Testers decal paper and it is 8.5 X 5.5 inches. Once I get it sorted out for the orientation and alignent I will be good. In this case I changed from Portrait to Landscape at the last moment which threw off the alignment.I have enough of what I need though that I wont waste another sheet. Cant wait to print more custom decals though. Its kind of fun.

James

 

[jknaus]

Okay a pic of the book I just got. Its fantastic.

And the best of some poor pics of my front seats. First time making cushions and first time making decals. I hope once they snuggle down and I weather the seat they will look good.

James

 

[Paulw]

I am working on decals also James,I bought that testors decal set and just wasted my $$.
I sorta kinda figured out how to do it on the comp but dont ask me how 'cause I cant tell you.
Be sure to spray the top coat three or four times to get it to keep the ink from lifting. But I guess you know all that The program I use is OpenOffice.org which I got off file hippo fro free. it will size the pages to what ever you need and then overlay a grid that you can section for the finished decal. I just dont have the cajones to goo all the way yet.

Paul

 

[moon puppy]

Those seats look great James, you going to us the RB seatbelts here?

 

[jknaus]

Yup RB all the way.

 

[phantom II]

Those cushion look good on the seat James . Should really look great with the RB belts .
Got me wondering about the book now ?

Cheers, Christian B)