trust Weirdy to win the points hahah nerd alert hahah
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trust Weirdy to win the points hahah nerd alert hahah
great work Weirdy!
Wow, I could identify them all, but not the model number of the blaster!!
That top one has taken its styling cues from the broomhandle Mauser....
http://www.kaisersbunker.com/dunkelb...ment/dbe08.htm
That's because it is one with a few extra bits stuck on! Tons of old school sci fi props are repurposed existing items. The lightsaber, for example, is most of a Graflex brand camera flash with some 'greeblies'.
https://www.fx-sabers.com/forum/prox...db98eb5985fa7f
Pabs, I have a friend who is a professional prop maker and set dresser. He has worked on most of the big films that have been made in Australia - the Wolverine movies, the Star Wars prequels, Babe 2, Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Speaking of nerdy hobbies - I still build plastic model planes...
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...psa22bf5b2.jpg
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...7-08153023.jpg
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...7-02185437.jpg
http://i1077.photobucket.com/albums/...ps835f1833.jpg
Nice work, Bill. Some great detailing work. Do you leave the kits as standard or get the extra bits to super-detail them?
I love the A-10. Never seen a 2-seat version before. Back in '91, I was witnessing on a large job in Cambridgeshire, UK, during the Desert Shield/Desert Storm period. The US A-10s and F-15Es from Lakenheath were often flying over the site, which was next to a huge unused railway marshalling yard. Being a very flat part of the country, the planes were practising low flying at maybe often only 50-100ft. The A-10s would often do a really tight 180° turns within maybe two plane lengths, great to see.
Thanks Simon. That would have been a seriously spectacular sight seeing them carrying on on like that.
Most of the models have a lot of extra bits added, some from the aftermarket industry, some scratched out of wire, plastic etc. This shows a lot of scratchbuilding on a different kit.
http://www.hyperscale.com/2008/galle...cher48bb_1.htm
The 2-seat A-10 was a prototype to see if Fairchild could get orders for it - they couldn;t. I think only 1 or 2 were made.
In my teens I used to build model airplanes as well. I only did Phantoms since I love the design of that fighterplane.