Fnord Galactic Skyliner Hover Car - Finished pics page 4

[zenrat]

  United Earth Navy Hover Car.  Possibly an Admirals Barge.

I should be in a position to glue the body parts together soon and then I can sit it on the tubes and take a mock up pic.

[zenrat]

Well its glued - two sides, the rear part of the boot and nose section are now forming the outline of a car body.

[kerick]

I saw a kit similar to this in the LHS yesterday. I resisted the urge.
Yours is going to be a very interesting build.

[zenrat]

Tube glue eat your heart out.  Today's solvent of choice was Plumbers Solvent PVC pipe glue.

Body will be mounted higher, but for mock up purposes...

[NARSES2]

To say I'm intrigued is putting it mildly 

[PR19_Kit]

My brain hurts................. 

[loupgarou]

To say I'm intrigued is putting it mildly 

It's a joint venture with Geneva's CERN
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
to develop a sewage synchrotron. 

[zenrat]

To say I'm intrigued is putting it mildly  

Me to.  I'm making it up as I go.

Today I started cutting the plate which will form the floor of the car and fit within the grav lift torus.  This would have been much easier if I had done it before sticking all the bits of conduit together.
A rummage in my parts box came up with a pair of 1/72 MiG 29 burner cans which will provide propulsion.

[zenrat]

The problem (OK, one of the problems) with using plumbing & electrical fittings for building models is that mould separation lines and sprue attachment points are not really what they are thinking about when they design the moulds.  And they are not exactly taking care cutting them from the sprues either.
So I spent much of my modelling time today cleaning up all the conduit fittings with filing sticks and sanding sponges. They'll need some filler though.  Hope it sticks to the PVC.

[Gondor]

The problem (OK, one of the problems) with using plumbing & electrical fittings for building models is that mould separation lines and sprue attachment points are not really what they are thinking about when they design the moulds.  And they are not exactly taking care cutting them from the sprues either.
So I spent much of my modelling time today cleaning up all the conduit fittings with filing sticks and sanding sponges. They'll need some filler though.  Hope it sticks to the PVC.

If you apply some adhesive to the surface that you are going to add filler to that should soften the surface to help the filler to bond with the plastic. I have used this technique when filling shallow depressions on a shiny plastic in the past to good effect.

Gondor

[zenrat]

Thanks for the tip Alastair.
I have some "special" glue for sticking PVC & styrene which I bought at last years Model Expo to use on the FW189 Tilt Fan.  Tetra it's called.
I put some filler on the pipes today before reading your tip so i'll find out tomorrow if it falls off or not.

[Captain Canada]

That's pretty cool and defo different ! Nice use of materials as well.

[zenrat]

Just nipped down and sanded the filler I put straight onto the PVC pipes.  It has stuck well enough that it didn't all fall off.
Next step is getting paint to adhere.  Hopefully my primer collection will have something acceptable.

[zenrat]

Given the pipes a nice thick coating of etching primer.  It appears to have covered OK.

[zenrat]

Purchased a 1/48 Monogram Me 262 ($10 but still overpriced IMO) to provide thrust engines for this.
Started assembling them today.