Ronpur's Custom Figure and Model thread!

Here she is!








I am still looking for headlight covers. And trying to figure out something for the underside. Now,I need a Bessie kit!

Amazing. Simply amazing.

SeaDevil wrote:

Amazing. Simply amazing.

Thanks!

"Steady on, Old Chap! Go easy on the accelerator, she has quite a kick to her"

The Tardis looks awesome in the corner. The Whomobile's rear view always looks cool. Parked up to the Tardis in the third photo has the action appeal in it for me.
My favourite's the dinosaur one. How about one against the sky, to give the impression of flight.

Great balls of fire, that looks incredible, even with Matt Smith sitting in it.

Fantastic job!

WOW! This is simply magnificent!! Fantastic work, Ron! I really want one of my own now!

masterkhan wrote:

The Tardis looks awesome in the corner. The Whomobile's rear view always looks cool. Parked up to the Tardis in the third photo has the action appeal in it for me.
My favourite's the dinosaur one. How about one against the sky, to give the impression of flight.

Thanks! I will try to figure out how to do a sky shot somehow.

rdks wrote:

Great balls of fire, that looks incredible, even with Matt Smith sitting in it.

Fantastic job!

That is my fantasy for 2013, to see the Whomobile, or Bessie return.

Scary wrote:

WOW! This is simply magnificent!! Fantastic work, Ron! I really want one of my own now!

Thnaks! It as a fun project! And again, many thanks to Mark!

Ronpur wrote:

rdks wrote:

Great balls of fire, that looks incredible, even with Matt Smith sitting in it.

Fantastic job!

That is my fantasy for 2013, to see the Whomobile, or Bessie return.

Totally agree with you Ronpur, it would be fantastic if they came back for the 50th Anniversary, and a great excuse to release toys versions of them.

This photo shows where I cut the original kit to make a seat for the figure to sit. The drivers was cut more than the passenger side. I removed the entire seat so my Pertwee figure can fit all the way into the car without modifying the figure. I removed only the floorboard from the passenger side. The dotted lines show where I drilled 1/8th inch holes with my Dremel to cut the fiberglass.

This shows the bottom of the car and the box I built. I used black plastic and my green stuff putty. This way,I could just not worry about fitting the irregular contours to the plastic. Much easier. The tape was there to hold it while it dried, and is never coming off now, LOL.

This shows the layout of the seat box for the Pertwee figure. It has no detail, and the figure just slides down into it.

Love the Who Mobile and the process.

Just finished my 1/144th scale Airfix Space Shuttle model. I spent weeks on this, trying to get it to look like STS-135, the last flight and I am very happy with my new Atlantis.



I even made the four person crew to scale!

A close up of the orbiter:


i had to add the detail on the mid tank with 2 inch strips of 1/32 inch graphic tape, one strip at a time. Also added the ribs on the top segment of the SRB and a few other strips on the SRBs.

I simulated the tiles by using a window screen as a paint stencil:

The mission plaque I printed out.

My crew of 4:

Looking up at the stack. I used thin medical tape to simulate the fabric thermal protection on the top of the orbiter and tried to capture Atlantis's differint shades of white on her wings.

The bottom segments of the SRBs:


The added strips of insulation were added with epoxy putty.

Aft portion of the payload bay and wings, showing more of the fabric insulation:

Very well done! It looks great! Love the little astronauts. But this...

Ronpur wrote:

How very ingenious and clever of you! It looks fantastic. Brilliant idea to use the window screen!

Thanks RDKS. But I read of this technique back in the early days of the program when people were trying to simulate tiles. About 10 years ago, someone made decals,but I did not like the look of those, as to me, it looked too detailed. This looks more subtle to me.