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edited March 2011 in Ten Forward
After being inspired by Shinzon, this thread is now the all-purpose military, game, space, railway, car, boat and plane modelling thread. Anything else apart from these is obviously clothes modelling, which is not the same.

Railway
Railway modelling comes in many forms, and, after aircraft, is one of the most modelled mediums; having good trade support makes this hobby very easy.
Game
see Warhammer 40K thread
Game modelling (normally military) is the use of miniatures, along with scenic sets etc. to play out battles.
Space
The modelling of spacecraft and related items.
Boat
Boat modelling comes in two forms; modelling for pleasure and for racing.
Aircraft
Aircraft come in two forms; Airfix-style kits & models, and real working miniature models.

I'll start. Welcome!
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Woot!!

    Do 5-Foot carfboard space shuttles count?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Did I not say "space"? :D

    I'll be videoing my DCC Sound fitted BR Green Jubilee, soon. Watch this thread!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Some of my scale models I've constructed over the years:

    "Norris the Playhog"
    F-8 Crusader, aka "The Last Gunfighter."
    Su-27D "Sea Flanker"
    S-37 Berkut (according to the model box).
    RAH-66 Comanche, the stealth helicopter that will never see service. :(
    MiG-29 "Fulcrum" with Decepticon emblems. ;)
    JAS 39 Gripen, probably one of the coolest looking aircraft in service today.
    Romulan Warbird and Klingon Bird of Prey. The model also features a Ferengi Marauder on another arm.
    AMT/Ertl USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D. Getting all the windows and the Aztec pattern down was a pain in the TRIBBLE.
    AMT/Ertl USS Defiant, NX-74205. My sister an I actually built and painted this one together and it's in my office.
    Kotobukiya/Tomy High End Master Model Geno Saurer. Snap together model, but there a LOT of peices - took me 3-4 days to build it (partly because I built it in stages)

    I used to have a model of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A and a Klingon K't'inga battlecruiser, but niether survived the years - the 1701-A kept breaking at the warp pylon. I should also take some pictures of the Kotobukiya Blade Liger and Gun Sniper I built.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Woo! 40k player reporting in.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    4 different models from over the years of the Space Battlehip Yamato (well, one is underconstruction)
    and IJN Musashi (The original IJN Yamato's sister ship)
    One USS North Carolina (BB-55)
    Several hundred Airliner models from my Airliner phase in life
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    DCC SOUND

    Apologies for the shakiness - controlling a loco with one hand while holding the camera isn't very easy...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Ooo! I wish I was a model!

    *rereads thread title*

    Ohhh.

    *runs away embarassed*
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    I couldn't resist asking.

    It was a failed art project because it was too large to keep in a classroom.

    Gimme some time and I'll post my modle fleet in the comming days.

    Ya'll are already famaliar with the Arizona so I'll post her upon request.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Ooo! I wish I was a model!

    *rereads thread title*

    Ohhh.

    *runs away embarassed*
    Typical. :rolleyes:

    Anyways. Rumor has it Hornby might be reviving the Blue Pullman moulds from Triang. Bit late as Olivias Trains/Heljan are already working on one...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Just got a look at your video Dawson, nice layout you got started and impressive loco. Just started upgrading mine to DCC, totally worth the pain in the neck of soldering all that little stuff.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Just got a look at your video Dawson, nice layout you got started and impressive loco. Just started upgrading mine to DCC, totally worth the pain in the neck of soldering all that little stuff.

    awww, shucks. :o

    It's only about 40% done. I've still got a fiddle yard, "bridge" and a mainline station to lay yet.

    And then comes scenery....:cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Scenerey is my thing, it's what I'm best at. Specifically painting.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    i dont really have an models

    i used to have some warhammer but that all went

    i got some lego star wars models of some of the ships. i had the AT-ST as well which was pretty impressive but it suffered...a rebel attack...and is now in a few pieces
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    Scenerey is my thing, it's what I'm best at. Specifically painting.

    I've got no objections to scenery, per se. It's when scenery progresses between ballasting/platform making, and putting in buildings - i.e. grassing it all.

    I'll have a cleanup session next, though, and then start constructing the Dairy building, and then finishing off that corner (the one you can see the siding in, behind the loco when the camera and loco are head-on). And then I'll finish the platforms, though I may extend the bay platform that little bit more.

    And that loco, btw, was £145 - bargain, considering a normal one costs about £90, and DCC fitted about £105. Going to need some proper ex-LMS coaches tpo run with it though. And plenty more wagons.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2010
    my modeling hobby is "Radio Controlled Aircraft" - flying/building/designing.

    Currently focused on slope and thermal soaring... and slope combat :)


    we build from scratch nowadays.... using EPP (expanded polypropelene...like the tough flexible stuff TV's are packaged in)..the planes come out light..and tough. We use a lot of carbon fiber and fiberglass bagging, etc too in our build for structural integrity without much weight at all..

    and hotwire/CNC cutting. and all the geeky transmitter/reciever/servo madness.

    computer cad and airfoil templates, blah blah blah


    here is a picture of one or the many planes we built from scratch... a Schweizer 1-26. (taken at our favorite flying site :) )

    fun hobby if your into aviation, weather, building from scratch, and airfoils/flight theory and stuff.... :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Well, Alex McCallie and Zero have "outed" themselves...:D

    Anyway...anyone know how to straighten wood out quickly? My bridging piece between two parts of my model railway warped itself so badly if it's in one end it's 1cm out (in height) at the other. :(

    Of course, I could just TRIBBLE it together annd leave it for several weeks...:D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    That's the perk of having a welder for your best friend. I just got to hand my schematics to my buddy Vin and wait like a month and I have a gusseted piece of angle-iron perfection.

    However its just the frame, the top is still wood... but it still straights faster when screwed into the base.

    So, anyone else use pink insulation foam sheets or homosote? It's like a giant sheet of papermache awesome, only without the mess and sketchy performance.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    So, anyone else use pink insulation foam sheets or homosote? It's like a giant sheet of papermache awesome, only without the mess and sketchy performance.

    I've read about people using isulation-style boards. Providing it's a strong material, it should be fine.

    And I've straightened my board. :cool: Unscrewed the central (duplicate) spine and the board almost straightened itself out! :eek:

    The spine itself was warping both up and to one side by a centimeter at least!!!! So a TRIBBLE each end, and it's now fine.

    Also, I have some Warhammer 40K coming.....:o
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Ok, updates! (well photos actually)

    The currently only laid station has had a little tidy up, but nothing more: Pic
    One or two things to note:
    Platform is still incomplete. One I have finished laying my fiddle yard, and fitted a few more scale couplings, I shall be testing it all thoroughly, after which...I will start on scenics!
    Yes, that is my soldering iron in the background. I left it there to cool down after I soldered some power feeds to track and rail joiners....

    The progress on the fidde yard (this photo is actually several days out of date, the front line being finished and the rear one being laid....Pic
    The line curving off to the right top corner is the line to the other station.

    And apologies for the shakyness...the farmers siding/loop: Pic

    All these photos were taken on my camera phone, which has a limit at 3.2MP.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    I had a Thomas the tank Engine train set when I was little, a proper one mind, like the engines MGDawson posted, which are pretty neat! :)

    I've always loved Starship models, I've just never really had the money to get into it, although about 10 years ago I did purchase the model of the USS Voyager, but I put the thing together before I painted it and it was the first time I had a model, I was about 15 I think.

    So I kinda messed it up from the beggining, by putting it together first before I painted it. So I decided to take a TRIBBLE Driver, a Hammer and a Lighter, and then a made holes in the model in certain areas, then burnt the hull around these holes. I ended up doing a pretty amazing job at getting the model o look like teh USS Voyager in the "Year of Hell" episode.

    I also stuffed some multi coloured christamas lights in the model for an added special effect! Lol

    Unfortunately however, the home that the model was kept in, which was my mothers home, burnt down which I was not impressed about, as I not only left teh model there, but all of my best toys, including Ghostbuster, Robocop, Batman and Alien figues and vehicles!

    I'm loving all of your pics people, really great stuff!
    :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    I have an Excelsior kit, which is painted, and an Excelsior Refit kit on it's way, both have a slightly different colour scheme to that in the show, they're both White, with a light blue where the blues are. It looks really nice. Getting cusom decals done so I can have them both named after the Horizon that I use in STO etc
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Not bad, Dawson, not bad. Makes me want to get on building that OV-10 Bronco I have, before the cat sits on the box again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Archanubis wrote:
    Not bad, Dawson, not bad. Makes me want to get on building that OV-10 Bronco I have, before the cat sits on the box again.

    You have that problem too huh? There's a reason I don't let my fuzzy overlords in the extra bedroom :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    You have that problem too huh? There's a reason I don't let my fuzzy overlords in the extra bedroom :)

    Alas, I can't stop cats enetering my room. They whinge loudly otherwise. And very loud it is too.

    At least you have an extra bedroom! :mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    MGDawson wrote: »
    Alas, I can't stop cats enetering my room. They whinge loudly otherwise. And very loud it is too.

    At least you have an extra bedroom! :mad:

    I have to careful everytime I go into my extra bedroom. My cats have a thing about normally closed doors being opened, and if I am not careful, I'll get three cats hiding in different places in that room in short order
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    I have to careful everytime I go into my extra bedroom. My cats have a thing about normally closed doors being opened, and if I am not careful, I'll get three cats hiding in different places in that room in short order

    Yeah. My cats try to open the pantry and cupboards. :p

    And I have just been checking over my newest coach purchases; a pair of Hornby Gresley teaks (Brake and 1st class sleeper) in BR Lined Maroon. Tasty. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2010
    Fiddleyard being finished...pic

    Where the Class 42 and (previously mentioned in above post) coaches are is the line to the second station.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited September 2010
    Running a test on my Proton Pack

    I been working off and on for about a year now to finish it, between me and LED's having arguments and my budget I needed to wait until I found a practical way to make it happen, and I FINALLY DID!

    Tomorrow the Ion Battery (blue lights seen on it in the movie) But for now here's the Cyclotron and Neutrina Wand functioning. It'll have sound soon enough for the iconic KA BEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!! noise.

    I also have a trap and goggles.

    This will teach you to mess with a guy with a particle collider!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Well, let's revive this one!

    Model Railway
    All track is laid & wired. Scenery is being started on, mainly around the tunnel mouth next to the farmer's siding. Odd, I know, as this is a mid-point, but I'm starting there then working back along towards the station.

    I wangled a free Scammel Scarrab tractor & van from Mom due to a Hobbycraft voucher.

    Warhammer
    Due to the cold weather (and boredom) I'm getting out my Warhammer to paint! 1 is complete, another 4 are on the "painting bench" being worked on.

    So far, my entire amry consists of the "Black Reach" team plus another 3 Space Marines, I got "free" from my mother due to the Hobbycraft voucher.

    Aircraft
    My Airfix kit has been repaired; one of the landing gear wheels had come off from the right wing.

    Enterprise F
    I've started putting 'my' Enterprise Competition entry in 3d form.
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