Jan Buragay inspired Spaceship part 8

 I have fooled around in photoshop and come up with a rough paint design for the model.

The next step is to see if I can achieve anything close in reality. It is always tricky masking over the top of surface detail.

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Jan Buragay Spaceship part 7

The grey primer stage has been reached for the Jan Buragay inspired spaceship project. I masked out where the wings glue on and after spraying the primer attached them with superglue after roughening the mating surfaces with coarse sandpaper. 

Next job is to come up with a paint scheme.

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Jan Buragay Spaceship part 6

I decided to tackle the side windows. I found some PVC conduit that fits inside the larger conduit I made the round ports from that sit at the side of the bridge. I cut rings of the smaller conduit by parting them off on the mini lathe. These rings were then stuck to small pieces of 2mm acrylic sheet (perspex). The acrylic was then carefully sanded flush with the rings and then pushed into the existing larger conduit tube window being careful not to push them all the way through into the cockpit where I would never be able to get them out again.

In the recesses between the hull sections I superglued some of the rubbery tracks from Hasegawa 1/72 Morser Karl kits.
Next I tackled the crew door, knocking up a design in 2D CAD. This was printed out fullsize onto paper which was cut out and stuck to two layers of 1.5mm styrene temporarily stuck together to make Two doors.

I then went to town on  detailing the remaining surfaces with many flat panel kit parts, 0.5 styrene panels, evergreen tiles, half circle profile piping and general nurnies. 

This was done section by section laying out the largest flat panel parts first and then filling in the gaps with 0.5 styrene and nurnies, rather like doing a jigsaw and getting all the pieces to fit.

I added four whip aerials made from some 1.2mm diameter stainless steel fishing trace. These were suggested by the concept thumbnail.

It was then time to glue on the engine nozzles which had been sprayed with grey primer some time ago.

This brings the construction phase of this project to a conclusion, although the bare bits of PVC pipe, just before the nozzles may need some further attention. I will know for sure when the rest of the surfaces get sprayed with primer which is the next step.

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