Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 16, 2022, 03:30:59 AM
Prepare to be TOTALLY boggled!!! 

Oh, i already am, Kit.   
All it took was the first page and pics, and my jaw was on the floor. Much respect for his skills! 

Thank you both for your kind posts - you're being way too kind, but I appreciate it none the less 
I know I've already posted a fair bit over the past couple of days but I thought I'd share my successful lighting in the one part I had strong doubts about getting lit.

The part itself is only 8mm x 5mm x 4mm and there was no way I was going to be able to thread nearly 20 fibers through it, so I went with the flood light method which is cutting off 4mm pieces of single strand fiber and sticking and gluing them just 1mm into the wall and then sealing off the bottom with a strip of styrene (that has some al-foil stuck to the bottom to better reflect the light up).

Inside the rear of the wall. I stuck a 2mm SMD upright through another small strip of styrene and then glued that onto the roof.

Hopefully the pictures will explain better than what I can in words



(sorry for the slightly blurry image there - I was struggling to get the phone to focus)









I've already fixed that light leak but I kinda wish I hadn't as I like that floodlit area. Maybe once its been painted black again I can chip a bit out and let that spread. We'll see how much light is left leaking soon enough.

Anyway, I was pretty happy with this

Thanks for looking

Si

 

Quote from: Old Wombat on August 15, 2022, 09:06:01 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 15, 2022, 06:22:35 AM
So the squares on the cutting mat are 1 cm square, are they?

¹/₂ inch, I reckon, Kit, but close enough for Government work.

Oh yeah, that reminds me: You were absolutely right there Guy, I was completely wrong. They're 12mm square squares. My bad

Seeing how high the STD will fly, and comparing its size to the base, I would say you could still fit a plethora of much larger buildings on the base (should you feel like it) and it still wouldn't feel too busy. The current buildings you have are rather "normal" scale, not even scifi-absurdity scale, and even the latter (ie. reaching up to a significant portion of the STD flight level) would still fit.

thank you for your input there Snowtrooper. Sorry I'm so late in replying. No excuse
I have been busy with this and have got some colour on it. I only have to fit the nose section and then I can paint the rest of the top half and then of course the bottom.
I have found the best colour match to the screen SD's in Gunze paints - in particular their Gundam paint. I'll look the # up if anyone cares enough to ask, but its the right shade (well, to my eyes anyway) to what they're meant to be.
The first building is base painted as well, but I haven't taken any pics yet as there is more I want to do before then.

















Well, that's it for now. I'll glue the nose on tonight and get the top half ready for painting. I'm fine with the black basing, it's the hours of tedious, repetitive masking I'm not looking forward too
Anyway, as always, thanks for stopping in and looking
Si

 

I still have major difficulty in figuring out how big/small that is.

That must be one ENORMOUS bottle of Tamiya cement you have there, maybe a gallon or two?

Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2022, 03:58:18 AMI still have major difficulty in figuring out how big/small that is.

That must be one ENORMOUS bottle of Tamiya cement you have there, maybe a gallon or two?

  

Thanks for posting the image with that bottle I now have an idea of it's size and am  . Fantastic job 

I'm just grateful you post your progress pictures because, although this level of patience is beyond me, I am in awe of the skills & abilities you display on such tiny objects!    

thanks guys! The feedback makes it worth taking the pictures. I have stopped posting on one forum because its like talking to myself 

Here she is in black

Looking good 

    

Looks so great.

4 hours straight masking and this is all I have to show for that time with another 3 colours and masking to go

https://flic.kr/p/2nNWofq