Ricks' Ramblings

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but fresh strawberries eaten with (sugar free) vanilla ice works

My favourite summer sweet. Apple crumble and custard in winter.

[Rick Lowe]

1/72 Stargate Tau'ri F-302 Fighter  **Sci Fi**

There is a lot of information on the net about this craft, so I won't bore you with it, or reinvent the wheel.

Another Christmas present for my Brother in Law, who is a huge SF fan; Stargate in particular being a favourite.

I was trying to find a way to do something like this, but the thought of getting and translating a set of 3-views into a workable plan/template was daunting, what with all the angled faces.
I then found there was a paper model available, and had an 'Aha!' Moment.
I printed the paper model out and figured out how big it should be in 1/72 – or around the right size anyway, sizing from the cockpit windows.
I enlarged the parts on a photocopier and proceeded to assemble the paper model as a practice run. It worked out ok, and was a reasonable size, so the plastic version was next.
Using another set of the parts as templates, I cut the bits out of plastic sheet.

The central core was from 1mm, in a wedge shape. This made a solid base for subsequent construction.
I made the top plate of the wedge 10mm wider than the lower; this would set the angle of the anhedral wings. The wing uppers were cut from .5mm in single pieces, then scored and bent to get the angled faces; the lower were 1mm for rigidity. There were a couple of ribs and spars inserted at points between the upper and lower faces, for added structural strength. Leading edges were thicker card, cut in wedges, and glued into the gaps. The insets for the engine nozzles were cut out and boxed in.
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The cockpit and upper works were basically a series of boxes of various shapes and sizes, with some planked card as detail in a couple of the intake areas. The cockpit part was clad in .5mm to define the inset windows. The underside Pyramid used the same technique.
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The engines were more boxes and the exhaust mountings from tube; the actual nozzles were made from sections of tube, 1/35 oil barrels and toothpaste tube caps. The central rocket unit was from various scrap bits and detailing. Fins, again from sheet.
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The model was sprayed in a rattlecan primer grey which looked about right to me. I didn't put any markings on, both because I didn't have any grey script/stars and bars, and because I'm not convinced they carried markings in the show. The paper model certainly didn't sport any.

I scratchbuilt 6 missiles from tubing and kit runner, with .25mm fins and mounted them on scratch pylons. (Yes I know they only carry 4 in the show, but there was all that wing area that needed filling up and 6 are better that 4, right?) Markings on the missiles are transfer stripes.
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The base is a piece of MDF, with knitting needle supports mounting into tubing I set into the base and rear of the model.
The base is sprayed black and detailed with printouts of a couple of patches from the show, glued on.

[Rick Lowe]

And some completed shots
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[Rick Lowe]

Apple crumble and custard in winter.

Yeessss!