Jetplane Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 1/72 Shuttle by Revell...still in progress with lots of re-working and improving parts..... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Jiff Kenobi Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Looks great so far. Obi-Jiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screech Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Looks Great! Like the subtle weathering of re-entry you've done on the wings. Are those the kit decals with it? Keep us posted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackLight Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Great paint job, looks very real...congratulations and keep going on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousFO98 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 nice!! must be BIG! and looks great but why in sci-fi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetplane Posted April 16, 2010 Author Share Posted April 16, 2010 nice!! must be BIG!and looks great but why in sci-fi Thanks for the comments guys.. The model will be depict as Landing once finished..... Saw a fellow member posted his Saturn V somewhere here too...So I guess same goes for me..there seems to be no Real Space catagory..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousFO98 Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 (edited) Science Non-Fiction is a bit of a mouthful I guess looks good whichever forum! Edited April 16, 2010 by walrus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHIL B Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Very tasty. I particularly like the way the shading and weathering gives a tremendous sense of scale. Phil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Tango Posted April 16, 2010 Share Posted April 16, 2010 Lovely finish, looks like it's just back from the 'Space Station'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetplane Posted April 19, 2010 Author Share Posted April 19, 2010 The Shuttle has completed its decalling..and I sealed with clear coat. The weathering effect is not complete yet there are various places to apply such as the nose cone, wing leading edge and fuselage sides..so is the under belly which to replicate each tiles in various shades makes a dauting tasks ahead. I'm now working on the Landing Gear Doors. The Landing gear itself will be detailed with hydraulics lines prior installing. Once all done..I'll post it as Revell 1/72 Shuttle Atlantis just landed..with tail rudder split open and deployed as air brake.....hmmm maybe add a drag chute too?? Cheers.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverstone 2 Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Very good, especially like the re-entry Burns on the top surface. Well done with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liamfletch Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Weathering looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playingbassguitar Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 I have the earlier kit of this model. The decals were not very good at all, which led me to paint almost all details by hand. I would love to know how you got such a great weathered look on yours. Thanks for any help you may be willing to offer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimme Shelter Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 Very nice work - I don't think I have built the SS since Hasegawa first released their original 1/200 back in the 80's? I once made a Moonraker branded kit from Airfix or Revell kit but that was before the Hasegawa version came to the market. I love your work which is a reminder of my childhood spent watching the 747 host carrying test flights, original flight & landing, launch explosion etc. It is such a shame that yet again, just like we saw with Concorde, mankind chooses to ditch a magnificent piece of engineering. Thanks for posting your work - tip top 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 I'll correct the above comment - "Mankind chooses to ditch a fatally flawed, dangerous and inefficient form of engineering" - and decides to replace it with a new space vehicle that will actually take people somewhere beyond low earth orbit. Lovely Shuttle by the way (I see the pictures were posted five years ago). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uilleann Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Having worked directly with numerous employees, contractors and more than one administrator from NASA, the above comment would be taken as a very personal slight. You may wish to reword/rethink tyour above statement Eric - and help to keep things both civil, and factual. With that said, space travel of any form has never been emperically easy, safe, and certainly not routine. But it does push the limits of human thought like nothing else. I can remember working on this kit myself may ages ago, and it is indeed commanding in it's size. I think I went so far as to add a bit of scratched detail to the cockpit, including fiber optics, and LED lighting. Not the most accurate representation of the STS orbiters, but a very good base to bouild out from certainly, this kit. On a recent trip to the Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, I was able to spend some time up close and personal with Discovery. To call it a moving experience doesn't come close. I'll share some shots here in the hopes that Jetplane may find some inspiration as the final finish is applied to this kit. Sadly, i only had the mobile with me at the time, and not the bigger (better) camera and lens. but I was able to grab a fair amount of detail all the same: Hope some of these may help keep the creativity flowing, and perhaps assist in your final finish. Cracking work so far. Keep it up! Brian~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 You should know me by now that there is no way I would want to denigrate anybody who works in the space business - especially those who are responsible for looking after and ensuring that manned missions are as safe as possible. On the whole, the Shuttle's problems had little to do with those who worked on it, looked after it and readied it for flight. It's problems lay in the basic concept. It was flawed. There is little doubt that no agency will ever again commission a spacecraft that features a manned component of the craft attached to the side of a rocket. It is just asking for trouble - and ensures that effective and realistic abort systems are difficult if not impossible to design into the system. And there is no doubt that the two Shuttles that were lost were lost due to poor decision making at top management level. I have read enough now on the Shuttle programme to know where the problems were. And I have listened to and watched enough documentaries to understand how the programme evolved over time and how it went through phases when maybe some of the standards by which manned operations should be carried out were allowed to take a lower priority as political and commercial pressures were brought to bear. NASA made the right decision to retire the Shuttle as quickly as they could after Columbia was destroyed in 2003. They have now got a good plan which I think will really further true manned space exploration. It's only flaw is that budgetary constraints mean it is going forward at too slow a pace for me. Those pictures are fantastic by the way and I will certainly refer to them when doing my next Shuttle project (I have a few planned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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