Me410 A-1: To The Finish! 11/7/10

Oh, the punnishment I'm taking for this! I'm still working on my Me410, but this service project has a deadline zooming up, so here's more egg-citement!

Very cool side project, Chuck!  It has a Maschinen Krieger look to it, Hannah and Fritzi would fit right in, in smartly tailored SDR uniforms.

Thanks for the response on your sealer coat!  I use mineral spirits, and I've been thinking that I should perhaps dilute them a bit.

Best regards,

Brad

Awsome build!! The artwork and the Me410 are incredible!!! I'm picking up so much from just this post. Can't wait to see more.

I'd better hide my deviled eggs away from that thing! That is fun! A nice break from Pfennig.

Glad you had a nice trip back east.

Wow- I'm out of the klink at last!  Thanks, Hannah- let's get things going again...

Ahh, here we go.

Canopy seems to be giving you a run for your money. Chuck, You sir, have the patience of a saint! I would have sent something at the wall by now.

I really like the artistic touch, seeing Fritzis reflection in that last shot.

, Dave

Thanks, guys!

People have asked me one many occasions about the mysterious dot filter technique, whispered about in seedy backroom bars and the isolated huts of ominous mystics.   All is revealed below- with plenty of pics that, under careful study, will show this useful tool in its natural habitat- Fritzi?   

No, thank you Chuck You have a way of making the complex look so simple and easy. I will be trying dot filtering very very soon and referring back to this lesson ummmm I mean thread. No, I mean page, awww well, you know what I mean.  I dont like the monochrome finishes I have been coming up with lately.

I feel mush better now that I have had my Sunday night Fritzi  errrr Me110 fix

Well, all right!          

Now I can dig out my old oils and put 'em to use- GREAT.

Good to see the cockpit cover coming along also

Thanks again for the lesson in modeling

Zo, things are goink wery vell it seems, as Pfeinng has been quiet lately or haf vou been plying him mit schnapps- hummmm??Very inter-resting

Informative and entertaining as always.  Great work.  Keep it coming! 

Mark

I guess Pfennig threw Chuk in the Cooler and threw away the key? 

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

Thanks, guys!  Glad you like the dot-dealie- it's really effective.  As for Pfennig, he's still lurking in the shadows.  I've got some more egg stuff to show, and I'm back from ComicCon- progress will be made on that verdammt canopy! 

Sometimes I hate you so much chuck.  As I read your last post im sitting watching comic con coverage on G3, any chance you got caught on camera?

what projects were you working on that you were at comic con before?

and I cant wait to see more of your egg, it seriously looks like a Ma.k design and its looking great.

Looks great, Chuck!  I've used filters on some recent projects, and I like how simple the technique is.  I've used it to replicate fading, too.

Can't wait to see what you do with the canopy next!

This work is so good words just dont do it justice

way up and heres one on me

chukw

Thanks, guys!  Glad you like the dot-dealie- it's really effective.  As for Pfennig, he's still lurking in the shadows.  I've got some more egg stuff to show, and I'm back from ComicCon- progress will be made on that verdammt canopy! 

I figured you were going to ComicCon; it's been in the news even here in Arizona and each time I heard it mentioned, I would say,  " I know where chukw is!"

I took my own trip to southern California earlier in the month, so I've been away from my computer. I was up in Sylmar, then spent a few days in south Orange County, then back up in the Valley.

I'll have to try that dot-filtering myself one of these days. It looks quite simple.

So, I've been doing lots and lots- and even a little modeling!   I think I've pushed this build over the hump- and for a screen saver of Hannah and Fritzi see my blog:  here

Now that's cool. You've outdone yourself with this Chuk. Worth waiting for.

Tony

Yeah, a very nice 3D structure. And such luxurious materials you use... BTW, nice blog. Good luck with your project and have a nice day

Pawel

Wow, Chuck, I'm just amazed!  Great, great work!  I like your vacuforming rig, I've been looking for the old Mattel set or something similar, but after seeing yours, I think I'll have to borrow that design for my own.

The canopy and the roll cage are just outstanding.  The mag really needs to put this in an issue, when you've finished.

Best regards,

Brad

I agree, this is magazine stuff.  It is an incredibly well laid out tutorial.  This build could be published in the whole or even by specific sections.  They are great teaching tools.  Thank you Chuck.  Rick.

 So Chuck after reading your latest             I was responding when I had a computer glitch/crash/melt down 

                                                                                                so I fixed it

Now to you latest GREAT WORK!  I tried to vacuum form a  1/72 canopy once but was successful---just.  Didn't like the stove top burner or oven heating of the plastic both seemed too hazardous or over kill

-After the fact I did wonder about useing my heat gun,now thanks to you, I know I was right and that's  a more controllable way to go.

Also realy like the frame work it's all  going to a grand thing soon

Anybody know how many man-hours it took to assemble the real-deal Me410? Chuck - any idea how many hours YOU'VE got in on this one now?!?! Beautiful work, really enjoying watching this one,

Can not wait for the finished birdie, lots to inspire one here! almost having withdrawl..

Chuk is #1!

Great work, I really like the summer outfits!

Thanks, gang!

Over the hump and picking up speed.  It's nice to be adding parts to this bale of hay!   We'll get by as long as Hannah can keep the General at bay, right, Hannah? 

Very, very nice job on the canopy!

and the detailing of the cockpit is very...WOW!!

I'm not sure I follow the process for painting the canopy, but let me see:

You used the thin tape to outline where the paint was supposed to go, then fitted the Ed. masks around that?  Afterward, you pulled the thin tape up so you had the lines on the canopy to paint? 

And did you do that inside and outside, or just on the outside?  Awesome work!  Lots of stuff to take to current and future projects, although all this means that I'll NEVER finish the current projects!!!

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

excellent!