WIP [finished] Rolling Thunder

[Jenseits]

Thanks Carl, well enjoying.. it's better than watch TV no? it's not a real question of enjoying it, more aquestion that i feel it has to be done if you follow me

thanks Janus you are right there, indeed the F-105 will be crashed in a ricefield, there will be only one picture, the dead pilot. I sort of base this diorama on a very icy picture, but i will take my liberties with the setting.

Thanks John!

Thanks Marc too, i hope it will really start to catch on soon, i have the feeling I made tons of posts and nothing really started!



So now i try to mess up a bit with the photoetch -first you may have noticed that none of the parts were attached, they tend to go here and there in the acid bath so you have to be careful and filter thoroughly, but then after not much trimming to do.
here are the parts for the cockpit, i'm going to solder it over the week-end to get stronger bonds and add a shattered canopy for good measure as well as adding some rivets

So now that plaster template takes all its sense! i did it so that i could position and shape better all the metal bits

But then I have to build another support for the metal parts, so here i am doing exactly the same work all over again, drawing some cross sections, printing them, gluing the paper on the plastic, and then cutting all the parts...

 

[housecarl]

What will you do Nicolas, solder everything together, then discard the plaster form?
Carl.

 

[Jenseits]

Well Carl, Actually most of the parts are not in PE. I will use some lead foil to make most of the panels, and will use the form to get the exact bending of the plane. the pilot will also lean on the plane, and I will use this form to sort of press my Magic Sculp lump on the right curve


This I am happy about: I have been able to bend my PE okay and to solder it in position -this looks like the real thing! There will be some glass shattered here and there. i will have to be really very cautious in gluing it

Then, more about this plaster form. first I have to makes some choices, which parts I will keep (in black); which part I will not use (or scatter all over the place).

Now I had some trouble to obtain this: lead foil. This is incredibly expensive! I found that in a French mail order; this was some Smallshop stuff to do rivets (another good idea that looks like it went in the drain). Anyway, their lead foil is okay for my needs.
So let's start cutting and bending..

 

[housecarl]

It gets better Nicolas. Once upon a time you could get lead foil off wine bottles, but in these health and safety times not anymore.
Carl.

 

[megroot]

Oh oh,
Where is this gonna end.....
Excellent modelling.

marc

 

[Jenseits]

Yep that's too bad Carl, I see you paint some nice miniatures -I used to use this lead foil to create some capes of sorts on figs a long time ago..

Marc, you'll get a hint at where it's going to end just right now. Well, *in the end* it's going to end in a ricefield that's for sure too. thanks for your comment

In the end I have all those bits –enough to do the upper part of the plane (well, cockpit area!)
The lead foil is absolutely fantastic to create all kinds of destruction on aluminium, look at that destroyed panel!

Oh yeah, this begins to look pretty cool ! Notice the mix between PE parts bent on the right position (by pressing them against a curved surface like a Tenax bottle for instance) as well as the aluminum parts.. But then how did I manage to hold all this stuff together?
Answer tomorrow eh.. ||

 

[housecarl]

This just gets better.
Carl.

 

[Meehan34]

Yeah this is really fun. Probably my favorite thread so far.

 

[Jenseits]

Carl you mean there's at least something going on in my SBS

Yep Mike you are right, i think so too, and from now on it should gain interest with the first cm² actually done

Thanks for your comments guys

What’s below the plane is absolutely ugly: this is car filler to get the metal all smooth. I have been using this stuff for years, it really stink but is incredibly efficient to sculpt minutethings, using Acetone, a gas mask and a brush you can even sculpt figs with it –I still have some Orks done this way in some corner (I believe)
Anyway, here it’s been applied on the back of the metal for a goodreason, it’s a very light paste and it can’t deform the fragilelead foil when applied. It makes a strong bond too.

Well, now it’s going to be a bit boring till the completion of the hull as it’s basically more plates assembly.. PE today.

 

[pmfs]

Hi,

stunning job!

 

[megroot]

And i was thinking you gonna use the PE for glueing on a plastic plane.
But this is a nightmare.... a nightmare in scale modelling.

Absolutely fantastic.

marc

 

[Jenseits]

Thanks for this Pedro

Hey Marc, really I could have buy the Trumpeteer kit but that would have been more complicated to end up getting a bit of a plane that looks like it fell 10000 feet to the ground. With building all separate panels I can make them look completely disjointed
thanks for your comment


So i am right into building some compartments walls. that's it, at least 4 trapdoors will stay open or will be pulled out, so time to do something about it -though I might be plagged by lack of reference at one point. I should ask at Hyperscale for close up pics.
So for those I use either plastic or like here my car repair mastic, i wait for it to start setting and cut it with an X-Acto.

Trapdoors.. notice the roundey thing, it's the place wheer you put the minigun. it's magic Sculp and photoetch from my homemade set.

 

[Meehan34]

Still have my attention, this is too cool.

 

[Marcel]

Great work and SBS sofar!

Marcel.

 

[John Bowery]

Nicolas,
This is coming along just great. Thanks for all the information.
Cheers
John

 

[housecarl]

This must be one of the most fascinating builds in a long time. Keep them coming please.
Carl.

 

[Jenseits]

Thank you Mike and Marcel and John, I am happy you like the way it comes.
Today there will be a sort of resume of the work done so far
That's pretty nice carl thanks

So here are all the parts already done which are enough to create an un-detailed portion of the f-105 fuselage. You may notice all the inner compartmenting that I will have to detail with various boxes and wires and stuff. And start sculpting a late pilot too.

I also cut the plastic canopy to the right dimension, and yep it fits!

 

[mil-mart]

Nicolas, late picking up on this great thread. Very interesting and informative. Will follow progress.
Cheers Ken

 

[Jenseits]

Thank you Ken, from now on things will really start to get faster

So here I fixed the canopy using tons of mastic and filler,

As some rivets went out with all that sanding job I have been doing, i had to use some of those Archer resin rivets that do the job quite nicely indeed

You don't want to miss tomorrow's update because it will be the last focusing on the plane -i have been spending hours this week-end on detailing all the cut bits and to be honest it looks like a real mess of a plane right now *and* for once the pictures are actually quite well taken.

 

[housecarl]

I look forwards to your updates.
Carl.