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It is good to see a vac-form being made. I made a few back in the eighties. Some came out alright and others were, in my opinion, unbuildable. I bought my first one after seeing some beautiful built up ones in magazines. I spent a lot of money on a 1/72 Nimrod. When I opened the box I found only the barest of parts to make it. I managed to get it together but it was rough. I didn't know about sanding down the parts at the time. My dad felt sorry for me and took me to the model shop to buy something else.
When I was successful, the satisfaction was immense. It was a lot of fun making a good one. But the bad ones just made me angry that someone could release such junk for what was a lot of money to me. I still have a few I bought back in the nineties by a company called Wings 72. They look nice, should I ever get around to making them. Robert |
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Yeah they are not for the newbie or casual builder. This one seems to be going smoothly thus far.
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Good seeing somebody actually get a vac-form together. Had a couple, one for a plane which fortunately an injected kit was issued before I got the nerve to try it. The other was for a late model dirt race car that I did get together. But the bodies on the real ones weren't much more then some hand formed sheet metal with a few fiberglass parts so had a lot of leeway.
Good luck on the beastie, always like those. |
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Wow! I remember these well. I started several, never finished any. This is the first one I've ever seen in black plastic. Good Luck!!
Bob
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Very interesting! From the level of detail on the outside, I'm guessing these are vacuum formed in concave negative form?
Our makerspace is building a vacuum form tool and this looks like an interesting project to try. I'm hoping to use it to vacuum form C3PO heads from a Pepakura model I've got. |
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Great seeing a vac being worked on!! Fond memories of my old "Formaplanes & Esoteric" builds from years ago..
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