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Blueprints of my FM
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Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:20 am ]
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Loz wrote:
My wife has something very similar to the above. She gets quite a buzz out of it. :a112:
She will be happy to know they come in the one foot model as well as the two foot model :-k
Anyway back to planet Earth.
This is going to take quite a bit of time, Milliput takes about three hours to set and I can only do a little bit at a time because it's so small and there isn't a lot of surface for me to hold on to without leaving fingerprints in the clay.
As with the Hood screen I've pressed Milliput into the shaver screen and curved it around an egg (don't worry it was free-range) when it had set I trimmed it to fit the back of the FM.

Author:  Loz [ Thu Oct 27, 2005 1:43 pm ]
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Its really good to see all the hard work behind your magnificent paintings before you even start on the actual painting. =D>

Author:  oever532 [ Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:17 pm ]
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I second that. :D

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:11 am ]
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Ahh' Shucks you guys, you'll get me all embarrassed again :oops: there I go, now look what you've done :wink:

Back to the basket, I have added the frame to three sides of the basket, just one side left to do, (you can't see it, it's on the other side of the model)
I think this is going to work [-o<

Author:  Loz [ Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:54 pm ]
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Come on the completion is in sight. Looking forward to seeing it all painted up. Or do you leave them as is, and only paint the silver on the actual paintings?

Author:  oever532 [ Fri Oct 28, 2005 1:27 pm ]
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I'd love to see the completed version! :D

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:43 pm ]
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Loz wrote:
Come on the completion is in sight. Looking forward to seeing it all painted up. Or do you leave them as is, and only paint the silver on the actual paintings?

Oh no this is just going to be a static model, it's not for a painting.

I have made a Positive & Negative silicon rubber mould of the basket and produced a clear acrylic duplicate.
After I have trimmed of the excess material I painted the outside gunmetal-silver and then with a lint-free cloth I gently wiped the excess paint off the top of the raised areas leaving paint in the deeper areas, then I repainted the frame around the mesh and put it in place.
I think it worked out quite well although it will need some locater pins in the underside of the basket and holes drilled in the back of the FM to receive them. but that's a simple broblem.

Author:  McTodd [ Sat Oct 29, 2005 5:11 pm ]
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Absolutely brilliant, sheer genius! =D> =D> =D> =D>

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:22 pm ]
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The basket on my two foot model broke before I even got around to attaching it, so I new a mash was not going to work for this half pint sized model. so creating the illusion of a thin mesh was the only other option I could think of. 8-[

Author:  Loz [ Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:09 pm ]
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Its very good Lonesome. Big round of applause! =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:49 am ]
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Not much to offer for a weeks absents from this thread but here it is;
The top part of the rear leg and the Heat Ray.
The batteries in my camera have finally died, so some of these pictures were created on my scanner, it worked quite well :wink:

Author:  oever532 [ Mon Nov 07, 2005 7:02 am ]
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Keep it up! Try to connect the parts you already have for the model, so you have a start.

Author:  Loz [ Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:43 am ]
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oever532 wrote:
Keep it up! Try to connect the parts you already have for the model, so you have a start.


I don'tr think he'll be able to do that! it's not like he's ever done it before. :roll:

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:15 am ]
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oever532 wrote:
Keep it up! Try to connect the parts you already have for the model, so you have a start.

Loz is right here, I can't start connecting the parts together until I have made all the parts and know what position I want the legs and what angle I want the body and until I know that I don't know at what angle the hood will go. and I can't do any of that until I have glued all the body sections together and I need them separate for the time being if I'm going to take moulds so I can make the Handling Machine.

Author:  oever532 [ Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:20 am ]
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Good luck anyway, friend.

Author:  Loz [ Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:43 pm ]
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Would you consider making an articulated model?

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:44 am ]
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I already have. my first model is articulated but the joints are not strong enough to stand without the help of a fine nylon thread suspending it from the ceiling.

Author:  Loz [ Wed Nov 09, 2005 11:57 pm ]
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Lonesome Crow wrote:
I already have. my first model is articulated but the joints are not strong enough to stand without the help of a fine nylon thread suspending it from the ceiling.


I thought so because of all the different angles of your FMs in your paintings. I bet the one blowing up in the Thunder Child peice was hard to set up.

Author:  Loz [ Fri Nov 11, 2005 12:44 pm ]
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That's really incredible! thanks for that I had wondered how you'd used the model in that part of the picture. :P =D> \:D/ :wink:

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:46 am ]
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As you can see the model is no longer in tip-top condition, it spent several years in the loft and I think something heavy must have been put on top of it. this is one of the reasons I am remaking the model now and trying to iron out the problems I encountered with the first one.

Author:  oever532 [ Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:44 pm ]
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:o Nice model and pics Lonesome! I'm impressed!

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:47 am ]
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At the moment it's a nice fragmented model :lol:

Author:  Loz [ Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:07 pm ]
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oever532 wrote:
:o Nice model and pics Lonesome! I'm impressed!


Don't you recognize where that picture comes from Oever?

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:31 pm ]
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:shock: He must do :-k

Author:  Lonesome Crow [ Mon Nov 14, 2005 11:28 pm ]
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I have spliced the lower part of the leg to the jointed section and sandpapered the joint until it's smooth :-s no Loz, not that kind of Joint :roll:

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