Still working on it. My 'real life' with an engineering design firm and three sons finishing college has really been getting in the way here this summer, and my apologies to all those patiently waiting. I'm pretty frustrated too, as I went ahead and made piles of resin parts in advance! Two things I've learned early on - 1) the CAD design is more work that making a master, and 2) don't pull the trigger until you're SURE the etching plan is right. While the handrails are comparatively easy, the steps - with the angled insets, are anything but, and I'm also trying to do all the other various typical detail parts rather than have modelers have to scratch all that stuff up themselves, like the ground plane antenna plate, etc.
That'll be a fun one to paint. There's a couple of guys that do small runs of custom decals out there. Thanks for the update Randy. Yes, CAD is quite the thrill and I only do it sometimes! Thank goodness.
Thanks for the update Randy, much appreciated. I would presume that making a kit from ground up is quite difficult. Thanks for your efforts. Putting kids through College I can relate is quite a task as well; I'm doing that part as well. Much success. Glen
I know how getting overrun by life and work can be. I have no idea how doing the etching stuff would be, but it looks like a lot of work. I've got my mechanisms and decoders ready. I am trying to get the decals finished up and made so that I can make my units when you do get the kits completed. I'm not bugging you. Just bumping the thread.
Don't know about falling from the sky, but a stencil made from masking tape and some paint might do the trick. Should be a fun scheme to replicate.:thumbs_up:
