Hi …the post below is a copy of one i had on another model forum…to which i got zip replies…maybe its me[%-)] Anyway, you guys seem a lot more onto it ,so here we go again:
What i would like to do is a …umm…hard to explain, but simply 1/2 an aicraft mounted on a framed board. The idea is simple but aspects of it have driven me to drink
I have looked at what “oldhooker” is doing with mirrors…just magic…but also copyright now i think. The problem is…if i dont want the whole wing sticking out of the frame…how can i make it look 3d? Most choppers are no problem ie Huey…nice and flat, or something like an F-104 (tiny wing), but i want to move up to 1/32-1/24 scale. I have a trumpeter p-51 i would like to do…jeezz…makes me crazy.
The other idea was to have the “open” side facing out, and detail the interior, with maybe a few external panels in place…
Anyway, if anybody has any ideas and you dont have a copyright on them , please let me know…here, or e-mail
Thanks for your time team
You have to treat the backing plate as the other half of the fuselage. Some of the parts you’ll have to assemble then slice in two. Cutting right down the centerline. Either that or not build them at all…that is tint the canopy so you can’t see what’s inside or leave doors/panels/hatches closed.
I’ve got a Huey that I started a long time ago…it needs to find its way back to the bench. I have cemented a backing of thick styrene to it and will sand and contour it to match the fuselage outline. I have the components ready to attach and will “blackout” the windows to make it a 3D profile model.
Two ways to slice a component in half once assembled…micro razor saw or a piece of thread.
Not really sure what you’re getting at…you want to take a three dimensional object, the wing, and replace it with a two dimensional object to look like a three dimensional object? You’d need a shadow box, build the feselage and attach it to the back then paint a forshortened wing on the glass cover. This would ony work in level flight, sine you need to paint the other wing, with propoer perspective onto the back drop.
Also, I don’t think anyone can copyright (or patent) gluing half a model to a mirror so you are completely free to do so. Heck, Shep Paine was using mirrors in his dios 35 years ago and the use of mirrors as part of an optical illusion is so old, it has it’s own idiomatic expression: “It’s all smoke and mirrors.” If you do this, however, remember anything you see in the mirror will be reversed and US aircraft have different marking on the upper and lower of each wing.
Thank you for the post and the advise [:)]…you have now sent me off on another direction…time to clear the bench.
I have to say, i have learnt more in the 3 days Ive been here than i learnt in months on other sites…great place…a real information mine. Thanks again for your time
