I am building a 144 scale Airfix space shuttle. Does anyone know how to simulate the tiles? Can decals be purchased? Can they be made somehow?
Thanks,
Mrdrago
Check out ‘Greetings and Solicitations from Calgary’ in the Welcome-Introduce Yourself Forum (currently on page 2). There’s a few options discussed there. As far as we know, there are no decals available on the market. If you have any other ideas, please let us know!!!
Here’s the link to the topic DJ is referring to:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=421
Definitely a discussion you’ll want to check out.
How do you do that, BR…??!
I just copied and pasted the link into the message. [;)]
In case you didn’t know this, you can move your mouse over a link and right click. It will bring up a menu. Select “Copy Shortcut” and the link is copied. Use the CTRL-V (pushing the CTRL key down and then the V key) to paste into your message.
Cool! Thanks for that. Beats my method!
thanks guys. I read the other thread and it was interestig but didn’t provide a solution for my 144 scale tile problem. I will need to think about how to accomplish this task.
If you want to simulate the tile pattern in 1/144th scale, check out this web.site. They have airbrush masks that will suit your needs.
Hey man, cut them in witha lovely new scalpel blade and transparent acrylic jig…it’s the best fun!! (see my model FSM Feb 2000)
I don’t know of any decals to simulate the TPS in 1/144
scale and they would be too small to scribe on the model’s surface (I’m trying to scribe them in 1/72 scale and they are still too small). As you probably already know, there are more than 30,000 of them. If you want to scribe or paint them you may want to check this web site, where
you will find drawings of top, sides and bottom of the space shuttle showing the tile pattern, these drawings are
in PDF format so you’ll need the Acrobat Reader to open them.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/sodb/
Well, check this out…!
Available from Cutting Edge Modelworks. $18.99
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What scale are those decals?
Lee
Those are 1/144 but they also come in 1/72…!
Cool. What’s the price on the 1/72?
Lee
Lee, they are $28.99…
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Space Shuttle Orbiter Tiles Decals for the 1/72 Revell kit. These decals have to be seen to be believed! This HUGE set contains THREE full 8.5" x 11" decal sheets! You can finally represent all the individual tiles actually seen on the Orbiter–in decal form. They even include serial numbers for many of the tiles! For best results, use BlackMagic™ precut painting masks set CEBM72165, Space Shuttle Orbiter masks, along with this decal set. This set is based on precise engineering plans for the tile pattern provided by NASA! NOTE: these are extremely intricate decals and the JPG image below does not show anywhere near all the details on our decals.
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