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And I say welcome aboard Hermes! If no one else jumps back in I'll jump back in behind M3. I'll pm my addy closer to time.

How many of us are left btw? I know we've had people fall off and join. So what does team mid west look like today? Post and let is know who's still here. Also do we want to start a second model like the other teams? I have lots of parts now since i reorganized my modeling area and now know what i h...

Wow, it's been a while since I've been here! Almost forgot about this. So do we have any pics of where she's at? Are we going to send her around again since we have alot of time till wonderfest next year?

thanks guys, :( i was hoping for better news. Rogviler, yeah i didn't make it clear in my first post. the brain chip is what is 3D printed the base is a cap from a chocolate milk bottle from Mc Donalds with a styrene disk on top. that had a few screws added and a button from an old computer drilled ...

The top part was made out of styrene though. The bottom and side were made from one of those lids from a kids chocolate milk. You can see one next to it in the pics. I don't think either piece was made from vinyl. I did put a primer coat and a coat of flat black under the chrome. I just want to put ...

Hey guys I've got a problem. I'm making a base for a terminator brain chip that i had my brothers 3D print for me. I've done the base up like part of the inside of the terminator.And I've painted it rustoleum metal finish chrome. It looks amazing! http://imgur.com/a3kPPDl http://imgur.com/zl9DgLh ht...

Adhesion promoter?vlike what they use for car bumpers. That what you have to use to paint a lot of toy parts like the hasbro falcon. It sticks to almost any plastic. Don't. Know never used straws. To flimsy.

so what do your models look like? where are they at?(who has them) and what are your plans since we have a year to work on them?

so where do your models stand? where are they at?(who has them) and what are your plans with them now that you have a year to work on them?

so hows she coming along? or has this kind of dead ended? are we going to send her around again? i'd love another shot at her myself. where is she going from here? goofy question, but since the other teams each have two ships. do we want to finish this one up and start another one for next year? tha...

so since we now have another year to work on this do we want to set up a schedule to send it around again? we could each have a few months with it this time. what say you all?? btw kalen, got on a better computer and it's looking good. that other monitor just blurred alot of the details together so ...

Johnnycrash wrote: Finishing is my weak area.

that's what she said. o.k. got my inner 10 year old out of my system for the day.sorry

Ok. Between my bad screen and you pics it looked more drastic. I do apologize.

I know we're not supposed to get upset about some one removing what you did but, it looks like you ripped off everything that everyone else has added and are starting from scratch. I just don't know how I feel about that. Kind of conflicted. Don't know what the others think about this. Just saying.

Wow! That's a complete teardown and rebuild. Didn't see that one coming.

maybe call it the abu garn? arabic for hammerhead.

have to see what she looks like now to come up with name ideas. haven't seen a pic of her in ,what? two months? since we have till next year do we want to send her around again? or is that to complicated? i've got tons of parts for more detailing. maybe we could add some lighting?

basically what i had in mind was doing a set of 1/350 sized stargazers in a few different configurations. so the styrene part that i would be copying would be the top of the saucer section on a 1/350 enterprise. i didn't know if the styrene would be thick enough to be able to take the heat and vac f...

basically what i had in mind was doing a set of 1/350 sized stargazers in a few different configurations. so the styrene part that i would be copying would be the top of the saucer section on a 1/350 enterprise. i didn't know if the styrene would be thick enough to be able to take the heat and vac f...

thanks johnny, great info i appreciate it.

thanks for the info guys. got another one that i thought of while sleeping last night. you are drawing heated plastic around what ever your master is. would you be able to vac form over a styrene kit part? or would it melt/warp/damage it? and resin doesn't like heat either what about it? is the form...

o.k. i've read the resin sticky and there really wasn't anything that would help me out to much. here's my question. is there a good cheaper but pretty clear resin out there? i don't need much since i'll only be doing a few parts a year just for myself. and i don't have a pressure pot system. so i w...

also would things like clay and silicon molds be able to stand up to the vac forming process with out distorting?

hey guys, got a few noob questions for the masters. i've put together a few vac form models and really like them. i see all of these small resin models being sold for some pretty large prices when compared to regular models. large scale resin models go for crazy amounts. now i realize the cost of re...

if so are we going to send them around again? i've got lots more greeblies.

or we could have some real fun and have the teams trade ships?

as much as i'd love to see it at this wonderfest, but i don't want to see anyone that wants to work on it get skipped either. so if we have to we can do it next year. up to everyone else.

i think it was supposed to go to locknut next then to M3 to get it to wonderfest. but with time running out on this i don't know. it would be more up to locknut, since he would be the one getting cut. but if he doesn't mind and mf can get it to you i'd say go for it. i'd really love to see pics of i...

31 days left, any new news?

anything new?

my camera has a super glue fingerprint on the screen from where i tapped it with my thumb one time i was taking a pic. i fogged the lens of my last one with super glue fumes while i was taking in progress pics. so i kind of do pictures at stopping points now. after every things cured and cleaned up....