What's the most outrageous thing you have done to a project?

hkshooter;

My wife thought I was nuts when I went on the search for eight tires to begin a project. Complete scratchbuild of a British vehicle that no kit exists of. (Sorry can't say...competition coming and don't want to give it away) Anyway, I had to find these things and I carried a sketch and ruler around in my pocket for weeks until Thursday I finally found the exact size I needed. The best part of all is I won't have to complete the scratchbuild of the tire to make a master for casting.

Then again my wife thinks I am nuts when I am building because I constantly want to improve things. It's even worse when she looks at the scale and says how can you paint that small without going blind.

That's what half the fun is for me. Shock value.

Cheers;

Gregory

DURR wrote:

sorry to say i don't have the talent to do any of those outrageous things

Well, in the grand scheme of modelling, with all the truly outrageous modifications, upgrades, and full scratchbuilds we see here at FSM and on other sites and in the modelling mags, I don't think I've really come close to doing anything that can be called "outrageous." 

The project that was the most "outrageous" for me personally, however, was the big "accurizing" job I tried on Aurora's ancient 1/48 MBT70 kit. I added over 850 scratchbuilt pieces to it, more than half of which went into the completely scratchbuilt suspension system. Nothing really difficult to fabricate, but just lots of pieces to deal with!

Here are a couple of pix:

The thing that drove me the craziest was making all the weld seams!

Brian that's why your old avatar was the box of that tank 

and you can say it drove you insane but you learned and gained a lot of exp. in the end

I give you a single link:

http://www.swannysmodels.com/Zwilling.html

'nuf said.

roadkill_275 wrote:

… Thats why I rarely get a kit done anymore, to much attempted super detailing and accurizing.

Triarius wrote:

roadkill_275 wrote: … Thats why I rarely get a kit done anymore, to much attempted super detailing and accurizing. "Control! Control! You must learn control!" 'Cause I do the same thing! Got a P-61 underway, intended to be displayed in flight—PE control panels, added scratch details to the cockpit, gunner, and RO positions, cast crew figures (doesn't count—they have to be there), etc. My excuse is that I'm learning to do this stuff—really!

Wait until you catch yourself pondering the question: Can I make this work like the real thing? I've often thought about trying to make all of the control surfaces functional, including the flaps operating from a tiny switch/lever/button in the cockpit. It could be done in a large scale like 1/24 or 1/32. The operational flaps could run off of an RC type servo motor............Okay, stop, deep breath. Excuse me while I stop and take my medication.

roadkill_275 wrote:

Triarius wrote:  roadkill_275 wrote: … Thats why I rarely get a kit done anymore, to much attempted super detailing and accurizing. "Control! Control! You must learn control!" 'Cause I do the same thing! Got a P-61 underway, intended to be displayed in flight—PE control panels, added scratch details to the cockpit, gunner, and RO positions, cast crew figures (doesn't count—they have to be there), etc. My excuse is that I'm learning to do this stuff—really! Wait until you catch yourself pondering the question: Can I make this work like the real thing? I've often thought about trying to make all of the control surfaces functional, including the flaps operating from a tiny switch/lever/button in the cockpit. It could be done in a large scale like 1/24 or 1/32. The operational flaps could run off of an RC type servo motor............Okay, stop, deep breath. Excuse me while I stop and take my medication.

The most outrageous thing ever, or just with the current model? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm ...

Anyway, with the 1/700 Liberty ship I'm currently whacking away at, I noticed that the life rafts had the correct square grating pattern molded into them ... and it looked like about the same size as a No. 80 drill ... After finishing drilling out three of them I finally caught myself and thought, OK, this is just a bit insane.

gringe88 wrote:

the most outrageous thing.......finished it in a reasonable amount of time.  thats OUTRAGEOUS!!

gringe88 wrote:

you heard me right.  I just went crazy one time and decided to FINISH it.  maybe it was the paint fumes....

Hello All;

A follow-up to my earlier post. The most outrageous thing to date. If you look at my other post in armor of my scratchbuilt Terrapin I made 42 wire tie downs by hand without a Grabhandler using pliers. As well I punched out the bolts for eight tires and other areas from copper shim stock using jeweller beading tools and a hockey puck. Each tire required 16 bolts which translates to 128 bolts for the tires to be placed individually. There were about 6 other areas of bolt placement which I won't even get into. Let's just say I am not going to do this again for awhile.

Cheers;

Gregory

hkshooter wrote:

I think we need to take up a collection for gburdon's therapy sessions. What say you?

hkshooter;

My wife is rolling on the floor laughing at your post!

Cheers;

Gregory