Space Shuttle Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144)

[highdobb]

Hats off to you sir! Sad I only just stumbled on the thread, but I've had my jaw open for a couple hrs catching up lol! Excited for more, inspired for more!

[spacerunner]

Thanks highdopp for your nice response.
Then you were but curious. Stay tuned, it becomes even more exciting.

[eagleclaw4935]

If this isnt one of the biggest threads of the year,then I dont know what is.

[paperengineer]

This wasn't already the exciting part? What's next must be unbelievable!

[Getter 1]

Still mind boggling here :D

Some raise the bar on building.
You good sir have sent the bar into orbit!
Keep it up.
Loving every post

G1

[Rocky]

Your attetion and precision is beyond compair in ANY medium that I know of !

I think that may include brain surgery! (if I had to have it, I hope it's someone like you.)

Humbly Rocky

[paperengineer]

Me too! I love how you're like "I forgot this HUGE detail" when no one notices it but you! It's the most perfect model I think can be made

[spacerunner]

Thanks eagleclaw, PE, G1 and Rocky for your continued interest and your very nice compliments that make me happy.

Hello guys,

after the painters came from the rapport, it was now finally progressing again.

As suspected, the guys had indeed stirred the color after the long break, but not sufficiently diluted. If I would have the guys let continue to spray, I could have saved myself the effort with the 0.5 mm ROFI tubes and could probably take some rods.

So it was good that I've remembered the advice of a friend in our German Raumcon forum. After that I did not follow the the specifications of manufacturer Revell, after one should mix the Aqua Color paint with the thinner Aqua color mix 4:1, but I followed his suggestion and have selected a mixture ratio of paint to thinner by about 1:3.

And so two passes were then made​​, which here are the parts after the first passage,



and also the ROFI tubes look great.



The second pass is now also done, now everything should still really dry, then the fitters can finally begin with the supply lines.

[spacerunner]

Hello Guys,

on the fitters is also no relying, they were reassigned to another site.

Therefore I've also just taken a couple of days to relax and was over the weekend at the Spays Days in Darmstadt, supposedly Germany's largest Model Exhibition for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Space on 600 sqm with over 50 exhibitors and hundreds of exhibits and speakers from all over Europe.
Although it mostly went to SciFi, were also represented a few Real Space models, so among other things, a very impressive paper model of the ISS (1:80) of my friend Michael from Jülich.





But I will not digress too far, because I've also continued.

First, I've fiddled about some small handles for TSMs from 0.4 mm copper wire.





As can be individually handled quite difficult on the small base plates, it is especially favorable for the painting, if you have several glued at a stretch and painted,





which can then be subsequently separated.

Then I started installing the ROFI supply lines what I'm shirked me for long enough. First I made a test fit of the double-ROFI on the back of LOX-TSM,



and then finally glued.





So far so good, the difficulty in mounting the supply lines now is that you must carefully thread before gluing under the ladder through in order not to bend. Simultaneously with the adhesive would be a futile exercise. Even the positioning of the base plate before gluing was not so easy when you do not know exactly where it should sit. That means to try first time with applied supply line and mark slightly, then push the supply line aside and glue the plate.



Then I have the supply line as much as possible aligned to the right in the ROFI bracket and left on the base plate and first carefully glued under the ladder on the box and then at the connection points. The details I save my dear ...



And an additional support from U-profile had to be installed even under the supply line.



Well, all beginnings are difficult, maybe I need to correct something here and there.

[Chris Knowlton]

I think it is fantastic!

Chris