Here's a Soyuz. it is a little bit small. It fits on the tip of my finger.
After the jump I will show you how I did it.
I started with a little 8mm rolled piece of paper around which I wrapped the engine compartment part.
I sanded down the top to make it look like the capsule.
Then the top layer came on.
The orbital module was made the same way. I disregarded the parts of Alfonso's very nice model to just try and do it with a rolled up piece of paper and my sand disk. It worked, as you can see.
After that it was time for some thingamajigs and doodads, also known as greeblies. trust me, it is all real stuff that is on the outside of a Soyuz.
A couple of nice blue glossy solar wings were added.
Through the entire length of the Soyuz runs a brass tube, so it can be shoved on a rod sticking out of a base plate. It thickens after a centimetre or six, seven, so there it sticks. However, it can still be removed. At the top of the still far protruding rod, the rest of Mir can be added to complete the Russian part of the structure.
And that's the short and long of it. Up next will be a Shuttle called Atlantis.
Once again, you've outdone yourself :) I'm just trying to get my head around the size of a 1/400 scale Mir and the the level of detail you have managed to achieve. Very impressive :)
ReplyDeleteIt actually is not that hard, if you get the hang of it, Desktopsimmer.
ReplyDeleteThere are enough bigger scaled models that need parts this size or smaller. Here, those small parts just are the biggest pieces. The part figuring out which of the smaller details still are doable in this scale is just trial and error. And a lot of parts that actually are available in the actual model PDF need to be scratch built. Nice to see you registered at Papermodelers!