Real Model Building -- its more than toy submarines

[cgbillb]

Wow great job thanks.
Good morning David.
I am enclosing two photos of a UC-5, is the finish one, yours?
If so, did you make a build log? Or one that I can use to help me build my UC-5?
The second one is one that I brought from Bob, and just started work on her.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Bill
Athens Ga.

[trout]

Love it. Thanks for sharing.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Is this Ellie's Aunt? Ant, get it?
Don't kick me out, I will leave peacefully

LOL. She started it all after we sat down for a late-night viewing of the movie, THEM! Totally creeped her out.

She was no push-over; once I saw her take down a gal twice her size (once we pulled them apart Ellie still had handfuls of hair). but if she saw a bug in the kitchen, she would scream like a little girl while at the same time clawing up anyone nearby to get some altitude between herself and the bug. Island girls hate bugs.

So, during a IPMS swap-meeting -- a twice-a-year event where members dust off unopened kits in the closet and bring them to the meeting to foist said kits on another guy who, in turn, will never open the kit -- I scored an 'ant' kit. To please Ellie, I assembled the ant kit and turned it into a diorama depicting one of the grisliest scenes of the move: a worker-ant performing house cleaning chores at the mouth of the colonies nest.

The picture? Ellie snuck up on me half-way through the ant's assembly, and that's when I talked her into this gag shot. She lost it when I shoved the mandibles into her neck. (Couch time for the kid, but it was worth it!).

David

[trout]

Is this Ellie's Aunt? Ant, get it?
Don't kick me out, I will leave peacefully

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Not overcome. Embrace! Like you would a woman!

David

[Ken_NJ]

Ahhhhh, figures. I'm good at things with straight or curved lines with models, but not there on something as as freelance as figures. We had an art teacher in our club who encourage making figures for our surface boats. He would give talks and demos and handouts like you posted. His figures were 6-8 inches. He did great work.

I made half figures, with helmets so no face details for my powerboat.

I need to make 1/24 scale figures for my fishing boats, 2-3 inches tall. Need lots of different types of people. Standing and sitting. I'm avoiding it as too difficult to manually make them. Thought of 3D printing. Either way is a steep learning curve. Another craft to overcome. Well I managed learning to scribe and weather a submarine with with an airbrush. Neither one I never did before. So all I need to do is try and see what happens and learn along the way.

[RCSubGuy]

Utterly amazing....

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]