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Those knobs must be really difficult to handle.... Great job on the instruments!!
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These instrument panels look fantastic. Looking forward to your next post!
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Thank you all my friends. You are too kind, it's a great pleasure to feel your appreciation. Believe me, it means a lot to me.
Well... time to finish upper aft console. Here arrives an important improvement. I'm speaking about APDS panel (A7L). It has a distinctly different looking, as it comes from russian space industry that has a very peculiar style in its panels. It deserves some special attention because it's an important point of interest in this section of the cabin. Here the switch guards are pretty bigger so I can try to implement them without too much pain. The metal pieces here are not too tiny and the resulting look is pretty good (Pic1). Now it's time to prepare some little red-headed switches They look like matches (Pic2) The finished panel is perhaps the most realistic one I made till now. Very close to the real photos. (Pic3) Now let's go with the Canadian Arm controls... another nice panel. Here are some knobs that are different from any one used in other shuttle panels. I scomposed them in 3 parts instead of 2 (just to have more fun!) (Pic4) And here are all the many components needed to realize the A8U panel (Pic5) And the finished panel with the new knobs (two of them are the old type). (Pic6) For the A8L I had another crysis! Some of the switches have an additional protection, a sort of metallic bar that is usually closed to avoid operating them by mistake. I tried to reproduce them with little boxes (as little as I can make them) but the result is very ugly and way too big, not in scale. I rejected them at first sight. (Pic 7) I cut the details away from another copy of the panel. They are much better this way. I'll adopt this choice for all the switches of this kind I'll find from now on. (Pic8) And here it is: the aft upper console with this addition is finally completed!!! ooooops... I just realized there are some little velcro patches missing up there... OK let's say, then, ALMOST completed! (Pic 9 and 10) |
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Hi Tonino,
Gosh!!! You are shrinking from nothing. Your love for scratching the smallest details is incredible, which I can only admire. Somehow that sounds familiar to me ... and proves how much fun you have in it. But beware, this kind of attention for details is a drug that makes addictive ... Hold on tight, and keep it up!
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Greetings from Germany Manfred Under construction: Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144) |
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WOW!!!! Being complimented by Manfred about detailing it's - I think - the greatest gratification any "compulsive detailer" could receive!!!
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Honour to whom honour is due.
BTW, have you ever thought about lighting, maybe with optical fibers?
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Greetings from Germany Manfred Under construction: Launch Pad 39A with Challenger STS-6 (1:144) |
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Lighting? Just lighting? After watching this build so far I thought that once it was done you could get in and fire it up.
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So-many-small-details!!!
Mad and genius at the same time - though there is a fine line between both.
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I was forced to abandon this idea for the many difficulties it would have involved - at least in this scale - to concentrate to a visual "daylight" resemblance. Perhaps, who knows, I'll try another build in a greater scale, maybe only part of the cabin, e.g. the front section, with all the lighting as I wanted to do before.... (the files are vector graphics, you can print them in 1:1 scale if you want!!!) Quote:
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Thank you all my friends, more madness to come soon!!! |
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A little update:
Panel A1 (aft deck upper right section). Composed by sub-panels A1U, A1L (L stands for Left or Lower? Who knows?) and A1R. |
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