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NEW MEANING for TINY DIO.
Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:13 PM
I have been looking at all the topics and was amazed that 1/72 in called tiny. How about 1/285 or 1/2400?





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Posted by duckman on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 9:22 PM
holy tiny do! thats kind of small don't ya think!

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Posted by Glamdring on Tuesday, November 1, 2005 10:50 PM
I've been planning on a 1/700 with a bunch of Tamiya WW2 planes I have left over from when I worked on the USS Hornet. I guess this proves it can be done!

Robert 

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 4:05 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Glamdring

I've been planning on a 1/700 with a bunch of Tamiya WW2 planes I have left over from when I worked on the USS Hornet. I guess this proves it can be done!


Dude! WTF! R U Taliking about? Those are 1/2400 ships there. 1/700 Planes would be as big as the quater(25 cents) In the pic.
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Posted by Kelly_Zak on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 9:14 AM
Ok, that's cool, but waaaayyyyyy too small for me! My hat's off to whoever can do this!
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Posted by Glamdring on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 8:11 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by SKeeM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Glamdring

I've been planning on a 1/700 with a bunch of Tamiya WW2 planes I have left over from when I worked on the USS Hornet. I guess this proves it can be done!


Dude! WTF! R U Taliking about? Those are 1/2400 ships there. 1/700 Planes would be as big as the quater(25 cents) In the pic.


I'm aware of how big my planes are, I have just never made a dio of that size before. There is no need to get uppity about my statement.

Robert 

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 9:57 PM
Yo sorry man 1 too many beers :-)
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Posted by Jeff Herne on Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:48 AM
That's no excuse SKeem. Please review the FSM forum guidelines.

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Posted by Jeff Herne on Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:55 AM
Just as an aside, I've been known to dabble in micro-scale stuff (I consider 1/72 small).

This is a 1/350 aircraft repair depot I did about a year or two ago.

I used leftover Trumpeter planes, scratchbuilt the Catalina (including the removed engine cowls and photoetched motor mounts. I used a mix of Tom's Modelworks trucks and a few scratchbuilts (the tanker and the crane), and the quonset hut is styrene.



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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 3, 2005 9:52 AM
Miniature! Amazing Detail for size.
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Posted by cassibill on Thursday, November 3, 2005 10:32 AM
Thanks for the pic, Jeff. I was wondering how it turned out. I couldn't remember seeing the end product.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, November 3, 2005 9:46 PM
WOW! You scratchbuilt the Catalina? Thats insane man, Good Job! I need to start trying to do that my self. The 1/2400 ships have nothing made for them. I have almost 200 ships and i would lock to make a shipyard for some. I have some material for making docks, But no clue were to start for buildings. What is this styrene you used and were can i get some?
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Posted by Jeff Herne on Friday, November 4, 2005 8:33 AM
The styrene is basically Evergreen sheet. For the wings, I just cut the shape of the wing an sanded it to shape For the wing joints, I glued stretched sprue over the wing and then sanded it. I scribed the control surfaces with a No. 11 blade.

The fuselage was a bit more problematic – I have a set of line drawings for the Catalina with cross sections, so cut layers of plastic sheet then laminated them together to gt the rough shape, then sanded and filed until I was reasonably close. I took the canopy from a 1/350 Trumpeter B-25 (from their USS Hornet kit), and the ball turret in the nose is a clear plastic bead from a McDonald's Beanie Baby knock-off (my dog got to it and chewed it up, thousands of little clear plastic spheres everywhere).

The Quonset hut was quite simple to make...I cut two circles from Evergreen corrugated plastic, and cut them in half. I took thin plastic sheet and glue it to the semi-circular disks, then trimmed the bottom half and flat sanded. I sprayed it gray, drew the panel lines with a #2 pencil, then used dark gray pastels over the pencil lines to simulate the edges of the sheet metal.

Any good hobby shop, especially those that are heavy into model railroading, will have all sorts of materials you can use. The boxes, crates and pallets are all N-gauge accessories. Basically, a box is universal scale...a small box in N-gauge (1/160) is a big box in 1/350. Since most aircraft components come in large crates, it's easy to scale things out.

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Posted by J-Hulk on Friday, November 4, 2005 10:41 AM
Jeff, good to see that excellent 1/350 dio of yours again! When I first saw this thread, I remembered that dio, but couldn't remember who had done it.
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Posted by DURR on Friday, November 4, 2005 12:04 PM
wow jeff what about the vehicels
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 5, 2005 11:02 PM
thats tiny for a boat , tank ,and plane plus if you scrach build it, nice job to both SKeeM and Jeff
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Posted by zokissima on Wednesday, November 9, 2005 12:19 PM

Yeah, that is a hell of a dio, and considering the size, it's just phenomenal.

Those few pics on top are absurd. I can't believe someone can model in such a small scale. Only comment I have to make is that those tracks are just WAY too wide and dark.

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