Stingray Build

[RCnut]

Thought I'd fit the stator and nozzel to see if it all works, so far so good. I had to trim a bit off the nozzel each side so it would allow turning without fouling the rollers. Apart from that it went together very well. :biggrin:

[RCnut]

Did a bit of Fettling and almost there, just a bit more tidying up.

[RCnut]

Today I did the jet seating area, this is so that the jet can be removed for servicing or replacing. Needs tidying up a bit but its getting there.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Wonderful stuff, Bernie! The bare-bones is, as you suggested, very useful!

[Captain Scifi]

A few interior shots one which is devoid of all the furniture which is handy:


I also found this on my travels, a member of my forum noticed that the Stingray control steering wheels came from the Deluxe Reading Playmobile Dashboard toy made in the 1960's. Rare and difficult to find here in the UK but easier in the USA. Look at the control bank behind Marina and you will see a cut up version of the toy acting as equipment, nothing was wasted at Century21 Studios... LOL

[Captain Scifi]

A few of Troy Tempest to get the feel, note the epaulette details are ranked:

[Captain Scifi]

Some quick reference for the main characters, give David something to work with, big head, small body, not proportional unfortunately but full of character nonetheless....

[trout]

Here is the closest I got to sculpting- did this years ago for special parties and Halloween with my best friend. My friend actually got some work in the movies.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I can almost sculpt. My Dad was the true pro at that Craft. Still learning how. Wow! Would love to have been in on that action when you were active on SUPERCAR, as that vehicle was my first love.

A large r/c version of that thing is on my bucket-list.

David

[RCnut]

You can sculpt too huh! And you hate ME! lol. Supercar....funny you should mention that, I had the moulds from ENA ( Product Enterprises off late) a good few years back and did a Ltd run (2 footer) Complete with an excellently sculpted Mike Mercury. Long gone I'm afraid.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I use those magnifying goggles a lot these day.

1/32nd. Excellent. Twice the size of my 1/72 figures. That big I should capture the caricature features unique to the Anderson marionettes. There's a Mike Mercury in there too I think. Oh yeah ... I'm thinking SUPERCAR. How bout you, Mamas?

David

[RCnut]

Well to be honest the first working one I posted on you tube had brass tubing and it worked fine, just me trying to be a bit flash with the bearings and such lol. so yeh delrin, brass bushings will all work.

[Subculture]

The target speed for the rotor is about 65 - 75 rpm,

In that case a bog standard servo should be close to bang on, as they will do that sort of RPM out of the box.

For Du-b bearings, Norbert sells them in small quantities (can be difficult to get otherwise) http://modelluboot.de/Zubehoer/Dichtungen.html#WDR

Here's a link to an english PDF which tells you all about these bearings- http://www.nomo.se/pdf/DU-gb.pdf

Having said that, I'd have thought straightforward delrin bearings would be more than sufficient for this sort of application- low rpm and minimal load.

[RCnut]

David, Your eyes must have magnifiers in them lol. This is why I try and stick to largish stuff. Scale Would be around the 1/35 mark. Bernies been burning oil in the night and he agrees that its about right.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I've improved my figure building skills since the SEAVIEW job, example is the recent figure work in support of the 1/72 FOXTROT project.



Ironic, I got a bunch of 35mm frames from David Hersh in exchange for the XL-5 model -- most of them interior shots of the STINGRAY cockpit. I would have Phones and Troy in the front seats, with Marina on the couch behind them (talk about lavish! A couch and appointments right behind a warcrafts front-office). Boy, could those Century-21 guys imagine!

Mamas, what's the scale of this model?

David