Will McCammon's Minis (Formerly: My wallet hates me, but...)
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) and a single pin vertically through the nacelle strut tab into the secondary hull.Federation dreadnoughts, under repair, along with a pair of Orion interlopers.
Two of the dreadnoughts had shed their upper engines, due to issue with them being so tall on their stands and my storage cases allowing the lid to press down on them.
To prevent future issues, the stands were "chopped" to reduce their height and the strut for the engine was carefully drilled out and reinforced with a brass rod. The rod runs up into the engine itself and also runs down into the saucer's "neck". The rod was then encased in solid cyanoacrylate glue, which was then filed down to shape.
The Orions were acquired quite a while ago, in an eBay lot, and both had wings broken off. These were reattached with epoxy glue and reinforced (on the bottom side) with cyanoacrylate.
Romulan FastHawk fast battlecruiser kitbash, completed:
Romulan SaberHawk heavy war destroyer kitbash, completed:
Missing engine-mounted phasers added to Klingon FD7 fast battlecruiser kitbash (Thanks Paul!):
An initial dry-fit on a gluing-jig for the Federation CVA fleet carrier reconstruction:
Two of the dreadnoughts had shed their upper engines, due to issue with them being so tall on their stands and my storage cases allowing the lid to press down on them.
To prevent future issues, the stands were "chopped" to reduce their height and the strut for the engine was carefully drilled out and reinforced with a brass rod. The rod runs up into the engine itself and also runs down into the saucer's "neck". The rod was then encased in solid cyanoacrylate glue, which was then filed down to shape.
The Orions were acquired quite a while ago, in an eBay lot, and both had wings broken off. These were reattached with epoxy glue and reinforced (on the bottom side) with cyanoacrylate.
Romulan FastHawk fast battlecruiser kitbash, completed:
Romulan SaberHawk heavy war destroyer kitbash, completed:
Missing engine-mounted phasers added to Klingon FD7 fast battlecruiser kitbash (Thanks Paul!):
An initial dry-fit on a gluing-jig for the Federation CVA fleet carrier reconstruction:
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Wouldnt it have been easier to lower the stand height on those dreadnoughts?
Thats what I did with mine. I snipped off a quarter inch then drill the hole in the mini larger to accept the new fatter stand post.
They dont topple over as much with shorter stands. I do that with my larger and heavier mini's too.
Thats what I did with mine. I snipped off a quarter inch then drill the hole in the mini larger to accept the new fatter stand post.
They dont topple over as much with shorter stands. I do that with my larger and heavier mini's too.
It would have been easier, but they had already long been epoxied to their stands. I have poor luck with extracting stands once they're attached (usually just breaks the peg off in the mini).
So, out came the razor-saw.
The end result will be essentially the same, I just had to work harder at it.
As it is, these are probably going to get stripped and repainted. They've sat in basecoat only for over three years now, and I'm seeing lots of stuff that I must have thought was "ok" then, that I'm not to keen on now.
So, out came the razor-saw.
The end result will be essentially the same, I just had to work harder at it.
As it is, these are probably going to get stripped and repainted. They've sat in basecoat only for over three years now, and I'm seeing lots of stuff that I must have thought was "ok" then, that I'm not to keen on now.