Pfk.85 Falke, Hasegawa 1/20

[Old Wombat]

It could easily have ended at "a few wires" bu-ut ...

I think someone got a touch of AMS ... or, perhaps, merely carried away in the moment.

[zenrat]

I saw one of these built up a few years ago on a diorama base with rare earth magnets built into the hull and the base set up so they repulsed.  This made it hover about 3/8" above the base.  It was tethered by a fuel line.
It was an awesome piece of work but I don't think it had this level of detail.

[MichelC]

AMS? Me? Of course! My MD says there's no cure.

Zenrat, that's a cool one. Revell came out with a bunch of planes with magnets. Magic Flight, or something like that, they were called. I didn't think you could use the trick on a Falke, though, as the kit is pretty heavy. I've something else is mind for my own Falke but I intend to use the magnet trick for another build, not sure which yet.

M

[Old Wombat]

I saw one of these built up a few years ago on a diorama base with rare earth magnets built into the hull and the base set up so they repulsed.  This made it hover about 3/8" above the base.  It was tethered by a fuel line.
It was an awesome piece of work but I don't think it had this level of detail.

$h!#! I'm positive I have some photo's of that but they're not on Photobucket or this lap-top.

Which means they're trapped on a PC at home, where I can't get to them!

[zenrat]

I'm pretty sure I saw it at model expo and that there was also an article in ModelArt Australia.

[CANSO]

...It was tethered by a fuel line.

I know the model below

floating on a fuel line, but without any magnets.
I myself did something similar with a smaller model, "hanging" on a figure touching it with one hand. The stand in fact was a hidden structure from the model through the figure into the base made of a bicycle spoke.  
The model shown is from the Maschinenkrueger forum.

[zenrat]

Love the camo job on that.
I'll have to dig out all my old copies of ModelArt Australia and have a look for it.

[MichelC]

...It was tethered by a fuel line.

I know the model below

floating on a fuel line, but without any magnets.
I myself did something similar with a smaller model, "hanging" on a figure touching it with one hand. The stand in fact was a hidden structure from the model through the figure into the base made of a bicycle spoke.  
The model shown is from the Maschinenkrueger forum.

Cool!

M

[CANSO]

Love the camo job on that.

The camo is based on the colours used by FAS (Salvadoran Air Force) for their Corsairs. This camo is usually connected with the "100-hours war" between Salvador and Honduras, but in fact the yellow bands and eventually the ochre colour were used postwar only, AFAIK.

MichelC, sorry for spamming your thread!

[zenrat]

Wow, Corsair looks great in those colours.

[MichelC]

MichelC, sorry for spamming your thread!

No problem. I'm always happy to get ideas from other people's work. This camo is 

M

[MichelC]

Engine done!























Now to the rest of the build!

M

[Old Wombat]

WOH!

Looks pretty damned good for a Yakult bottle!







Note: Kow Yokoyama, the designer behind Ma.K, used a Yakult bottle as the framework around which the engine was constructed.
        Once you know that, it's easy to see.

[MichelC]

Thank you Old Wombat!

Yakult bottle, ping-pong balls and P-38 booms are the most recognizable items. The rest of what went into it I'm not sure. Lol

M

[Old Wombat]

I believe there are parts of a car kit in there somewhere but I don't know what vehicle or what scale.

Ah, here we go! Knew Brian Krueger would have something to help - a complete list of everything that went into making the original Pkf.85 Falke!

http://www.maschinenkrueger.com/models/bk25_2.html