Doesnt help that ive just installed a fan made patch to one of my favourite games that opens it up to the way it should have been before the parent company behind it went bust.

Jim:

I give up, how did you get the stitching on the webbing/seat straps?

jimbot58

Didn't accomplish much today other than played around with camera:

I still can't believe that is 1/72 scale!  Wow, that is amazing work Jim!

Ken

Hi Everyone,

Here are the pictures of the completed ejection seats:

Ken:

Great seats, Where'd you get those FANTASTIC ejection handles man?????

Franklin is definitely smiling!

Ken I have to tell you, your seats make my whole B58 look amateurish..  What would you want for a set of those handles?  I plan on doing another Phantom in the near future.

Rich

Scorpiomikey

Doesnt help that ive just installed a fan made patch to one of my favourite games that opens it up to the way it should have been before the parent company behind it went bust.

Did you write the patch? I wish I knew how to do stuff like that these days...

Which Game Mikey?

Hi folks.  Does anyone have a set of instructions for the AMT X/YB-35 Flying Wing kit, that they could scan and email me?  Half of the sheets are missing from my kit here.

I didnt write the patch.

The game is Hellgate London.

Ive just installed the Revival 1.5b1 patch which amps everything in the game, bigger enemies etc.

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Everyone,

Here are the pictures of the completed ejection seats:

Beautiful work, Ken!  

Hey sparrow, my dad built that kit a while ago i think. Ill ask him tonight.

Thanks Mikey.

Bockscar

Ken:

Great seats, Where'd you get those FANTASTIC ejection handles man?????

Franklin is definitely smiling!

Thank you Dom for the compliments!

Ken

Jim: That cockpit looks fantastic!

Ken: Those seats are rocking! The handles you made are the finishing touch!

Mike: Interesting, I played that several years ago. I never got past the giant eyeball demon thingee and didn't finish the game. I'd been thinking about dusting off my copy and trying to finish it. I'll have to give the patch a look. Too bad they didn't stick around with Blizzard to do Diablo III, just finished it about a month ago, I mostly liked it but wasn't overwhelmed. Btw: the same guys did the Torchlight game, which is a fun little Diablo I like romp. Not that deep a game but it's cheap and worth what I paid for it.    

Scorpiomikey

Hey sparrow, my dad built that kit a while ago i think. Ill ask him tonight.

Didn't know your dad was a modeler, did he get you into this hobby?

Thanks for the compliments Rich, I am embarrased.   

Ken

Striker8241

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Everyone,

Here are the pictures of the completed ejection seats:

Beautiful work, Ken!  

Thank you Russ!  I appreciate it!

Ken

Gamera

Jim: That cockpit looks fantastic!

Ken: Those seats are rocking! The handles you made are the finishing touch!

Mike: Interesting, I played that several years ago. I never got past the giant eyeball demon thingee and didn't finish the game. I'd been thinking about dusting off my copy and trying to finish it. I'll have to give the patch a look. Too bad they didn't stick around with Blizzard to do Diablo III, just finished it about a month ago, I mostly liked it but wasn't overwhelmed. Btw: the same guys did the Torchlight game, which is a fun little Diablo I like romp. Not that deep a game but it's cheap and worth what I paid for it.    

Thanks Cliff for the comliments!

Ken

You guys are way beyond me,

I once found a subroutine break

for a game called Sword of Far Goal, a D&D

for Atari or Commadore, can't remember.

I found the subroutine for finding the sword about 20 levels down,

and I ran it for my friend, who was not amused.

it is as close to being Captain Kirk as I ever will get.

The last few years I have tried Bloons Tower Defense,

it is a flatlander game, like Pac Man on steroids.

It kills time faster than Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Genie

put together.....lol.....

Who knows, maybe Wii is coming out with a model kit ap,

so you don't have to actually build styrene kits....lol......

B-52 guys -

I came across a site with a technique to induce the correct wing droop to simulate a fully-fueled B-52 sitting on the ground. It's at: http://hsfeatures.com/b52had_1.htm. Under the Construction section, it describes a method to cut the top of the wings at specific intervals and insert styrene to spread the gaps and induce the droop. Sounds real good to me. I'm going to try it.

Russ

Thanks for the link Russ, looks great, very nice build.

Yeah he got me into modeling. Always had his hobby room off our play room. It was off limits. I still remember peering in the window trying to see what he had in there.

Dad built the AMT YB-49. I dont know how similar the instructions would be?

Hi Russ,

That is for the AMT kit which has a problem with the wings NOT drooping.  Since you are building a Monogram kit, you will not have that problem.  So don't use the cutting instructions or you will end up with the wings with too much droop.

Ken

Oh and Gamera. The website for the revival patch is here http://www.hellgateaus.net

You need to create an account to download everything. They have all the patches you need on there for it too.

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Russ,

That is for the AMT kit which has a problem with the wings NOT drooping.  Since you are building a Monogram kit, you will not have that problem.  So don't use the cutting instructions or you will end up with the wings with too much droop.

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Russ,

That is for the AMT kit which has a problem with the wings NOT drooping.  Since you are building a Monogram kit, you will not have that problem.  So don't use the cutting instructions or you will end up with the wings with too much droop.

Ken

The Mono kit, which I built, doesn't have that big AMT spar. The wings do the droop without much encouragement.

I didn't recognize Russ's kit.

Correction:

I built the Revell kit.....someone said it was the Monogram tooling.....now

I have to get a sample of the Monogram kit......yippee.....an excuse to buy another BUFF...

I hate it when that happens......

Hey wait a minute:

Russ:

Did you modify the nose section of your BUFF?

Striker8241

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Russ,

That is for the AMT kit which has a problem with the wings NOT drooping.  Since you are building a Monogram kit, you will not have that problem.  So don't use the cutting instructions or you will end up with the wings with too much droop.

Ken

 

Ahh, rgr that!  Thanks Ken!

You are most welcome friend!  It is funny, you pick up details like that being on websites like this one.

Ken

Son Of Medicine Man

Striker8241

Son Of Medicine Man

Hi Russ,

That is for the AMT kit which has a problem with the wings NOT drooping.  Since you are building a Monogram kit, you will not have that problem.  So don't use the cutting instructions or you will end up with the wings with too much droop.

Ken

 

Ahh, rgr that!  Thanks Ken!

You are most welcome friend!  It is funny, you pick up details like that being on websites like this one.

Ken

Right you are, Ken. That's what makes me glad every day I happend onto this site and hooked up with you guys.

Russ