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WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮

Seven part cockpit jazzed up with some scratch-built seat harnesses. In 53 years, kit manufacturers have struggled to fill this little void. Tamiya offer a ridiculous decal. Other kits, photo-etched copper or brass. These are difficult to make look natural.
I've used copper wire and masking tape. Not perfect, but it satisfies the casual glance. This assembly is approximately 35mm long.
#ScaleModel #ModelAircraft

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WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮

Niche complaint.

Sometimes, kit engineers will make what should have been one part, into two or three parts under the false belief that modellers like this because it requires "more modelling".
I refute this.
Even so, this supercharger intake from Tamiya's (pretty basic) Focke-Wulf 190 D-9 kit is a good example.
This is always going to be two parts given the shape and the limitations of injection moulding, but Dragon's kit presents this bit as two halves, not this silliness. There'll still be seam elimination, but easier.
Pics.
Tamiya's two parts assembled, a pic of the real thing, my attempt at sorting the problem. This is a kit for intermediate modellers. Good shapes, few parts.
#ScaleModel #ModelAircraft

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Dr H

UFO Abduction.

After seeing a lamp or something online, I had to make one for myself.

Mainly using some of my junk and a tiny (1:160) cow I had on hand.

With a battery inside, you can place the top half in one of 2 positions and either light the tractor beam or the red cockpit lights.

Low angle of the UFO.
UFO with the red cockpit lights lit.
A UFO abducts a cow that is probably too large for it.
Low light photo of the UFO to show the tractor beam light.
#UFO#UFOAbduction#ScaleModel
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Dr H

Helmet.

I cast this 1:6 scale F1 helmet in carbon fibre while on a work placement from school.

While we weren't meant to be paid for the work experience placements, I got ~£50 of carbon fibre and free tickets to the practice and qualifying sessions of the Silverstone F1 race.
To think, some kids chose office work...

Front and rear of the carbon fibre 1:6 scale helmet.
Rear views of the carbon fibre 1:6 scale helmet.
Front views of the carbon fibre 1:6 scale helmet.
Side views of the carbon fibre 1:6 scale helmet.
#CarbonFibre#Helmet#ScaleModel
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