Hello I wanted to share something special that I picked up off the bay in pieces that I restored. It is made of Plaster Paris and has metal braces hold the nacelles in place. I had to shorten the nacelle on one side because it was too long. The person I got this from said that he tried to ship this to a person and in broke into pieces during shipping.
So I stripped it down and got rid of the bubbles as best I could,and added 2 part bondo as REL would use on resin,well I know this is plaster paris. But you know REL’s idea worked great on this,it blended great and I think from how I got this and what it is now,it has got a lot of life left in it as for being a display model.
It is about 90% done at present and I will post 1 picture of it now,but I really like to show my work complete. I figured that I would probably never see a resin kit for this as I have been told before that it would not sell well,so I saw this and I figured it would be my only chance to own a piece of history. Well anyway enjoy,click on picture for larger image:
Phase II Finished
Well I finished it today,I am really happy with how this turned out. From pieces to a display model of the Phase II.
And the really cool thing is it is in one of my favorite scales beside 2500 and that is 1000.
Here are the pics:
I wanted to say thanks for the response on this. This is very special to me,I have wanted to see this done in 1000 scale since I first saw the PL 1000 TOS Kit. I wanted to share a product that helped me with this and I think it would be very useful on resin or plastic kit as a filler. And the really cool thing is it only costed me $2.19+tax at Meijers.
It is made by DAP and called Plastic Wood Filler,it is sandable and dries quickly even though it says on the tube 1 hour drying time,it was dry in 15 minutes to touch and 20 minutes to be sandable.I got the tube of this,pretty good size too for a couple of bucks.Here is a pic:
Thanks Buddho,appreciate the kind words. It was a lot of fun to do.
Very nicely done AG. Your creative approach to fix it up looks to have done the job.
Excellent work. I am sure the Plaster of Paris was difficult to work with. Seeing your phase II gives me ideas…[:-^].
Scott