Where do you get your ordinance?

1 hour ago, Darth Drago said:

Where do you get your ordinance?

From your local government or municipality.

Sorry. I felt compelled.

Barry has mentioned in the past that a lot of material he uses come from regular model kits like jet fighters, tanks, and naval ships. He's got oodles of spare parts from decades of modeling. Or so he's said in previous posts.

If you haven't already, find some of his other threads. There are a lot of helpful tips for painting and modding if you take the time.

39 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

From your local government or municipality.

Sorry. I felt compelled.

If you hadn't done it, I was going to!

On 7/29/2017 at 6:55 PM, Barry Harker said:

That's all for now.

This model is finished and so now ill be getting on with the YT-1930 and a Converted Skurrg H-6 Bomber for my Mandalorian Commandos

All the best,

Barry.

F me that looks cool
Is the material you use for the additional greebling and wings at all fragile?

4 hours ago, Force Majeure said:

Barry has mentioned in the past that a lot of material he uses come from regular model kits like jet fighters, tanks, and naval ships. He's got oodles of spare parts from decades of modeling. Or so he's said in previous posts.

If you haven't already, find some of his other threads. There are a lot of helpful tips for painting and modding if you take the time.

Okay! Thanks!

Someone check on Barry, he hasn't visited the forums for a month! (Sept. 24th)

Good Morning Barry,

I see in your pictures, the small straight edges you use to make your cuts in the fabricated pieces. Where did you find them and what was the cost?

P.S. what size styrene sheets do you use for wing fabrication for you vehicles?

I know I'm not Barry but...

If you go to Hobby Lobby (or maybe any other hobby store) you can pick up a small straight edge (6 in) for about $1-$3.

Hope this helps!

Here's a question for Barry:

What kind of glue do you use?

5 hours ago, Darth Drago said:

Here's a question for Barry:

What kind of glue do you use?

3 hours ago, Force Majeure said:

Thank you Force! You will soon see why....

Hello Guys,

Sorry I haven't been on the Forum lately.

Work has been chaotic and stupidly busy. So much so that the last week I have been burnt out !

Working in the Film industry has its up's and down's, to many days working 18-20 hours a day or days with no sleep at all

has cought up with me.

so while i'm now off for a while and getting lots of sleep, ill be doing some catching up on here

And updating the rest of my threads including the Weathering section.

All the best,

Barry.

Looking forward to Catching up with some more builds !

And spending the next few days going through the Painting Forum and seeing what everyone has been up to

Looking forward to seeing all of your new Builds and re-paints.

All the Best,

Barry.

Hang on! Wait, what?!! You go away and leave us, and then come back only to leave a teasing photo which shows a couple new conversion/scratch builds?! No fair!!!

Oh, and welcome back.

1 hour ago, CyCo said:

Hang on! Wait, what?!! You go away and leave us, and then come back only to leave a teasing photo which shows a couple new conversion/scratch builds?! No fair!!!

Oh, and welcome back.

Ha Ha Sorry

And Thanks.

Here you go then.

A little something I have been playing with.

A custom K-WING.

I have never liked the look of the K-Wing and I chopped my model up and then had it sat in the " Bits Box " for the past year.

Then Had a spare nose of a Protectorate Fighter................

Sort of had an idea in my head of how I wanted it to look.

chopped up the wings so I could get the dihedral stance I was after.

Then Added some extra ordinance from my parts box's.

K-WING in grey Primer, needs some surface finishing but nearly there.

K-WING Heavy Fighter Bomber.

Might paint it in the Standard Rebel Y- Wing yellow and White.

So it fits in with a standard Squadron.

I will post more photos soon

All the best,

Barry.

This makes me wonder about using the K Wing's engines for my G1A conversion...

So do you just use a normal X-Acto knife or is there some special knife/cutting set you use?

1 hour ago, Barry Harker said:

A custom K-WING.

The first thing I thought was that a racing car might drive out the front, and a motorbike might drop out of an engine pod!

1 hour ago, Barry Harker said:

Might paint it in the Standard Rebel Y- Wing yellow and White.

Or perhaps royal blue with red detailing.

20 minutes ago, Darth Drago said:

So do you just use a normal X-Acto knife or is there some special knife/cutting set you use?

I use Swan & Morton Scalpel's and blades.

And a Wooden Handle " Safer and more comfortable to use " Razor Saw.

You can get both very easily off eBay

Like both items in this photo.................

That K-wing mod looks so good. I wouldn't mind losing to Miranda if her K looked like that!

Welcome back. I hope you get some much needed rest.

I'd also recommend a Tamiya Plastic Scriber. It's a great tool specifically for cutting thin sheet plastic and for scribing in panel lines and details.

4 minutes ago, Force Majeure said:

That K-wing mod looks so good. I wouldn't mind losing to Miranda if her K looked like that!

Welcome back. I hope you get some much needed rest.

Thanks Force

Yes its also been great to chill and gander over the X-Wing Forum.

3 minutes ago, thespaceinvader said:

I'd also recommend a Tamiya Plastic Scriber. It's a great tool specifically for cutting thin sheet plastic and for scribing in panel lines and details.

Yes

Scribers are a useful tool to get the panel depth.

Mad skills as always.