03-13-2020, 09:25 AM
Well, I haven't made as much progress on the model in the last week as I had hoped for. The pic below shows that I focused on the Hetzer tank track details, the 8Rad part that Hammer helped me out with, and the box/struts above the canopy. I'm probably laboring over these details too much, but it is satisfying to compare it to the studio model and see that things just "look right". I want this to be a model that the rest of the community can embrace as the next best thing to having a well-done studio model reproduction kit.
I certainly spent waaaay too much time pouring over forums to research the cockpit ball size - 5.0" vs 5.25" and every dimension in between. I combed through every studio model pic that I had to estimate the size from known dimensions of kit details, then factoring in camera perspective distortion, etc. Pretty sure that I could justify just about any of those measurements depending on what source image I used for scaling. But it did seem to work out closer to the 5.25" side more than not. Apparently a 133mm Plastruct ball may have been utilized by the model makers, so I'll stick with this for now and see how the rest of the details fit.
I do have another request, of course. The pics below illustrate my attempt to model the 1/700 Tamiya Shinano part #52 as used for the "clamps" placed around the perimeter of the rear cone on the TIE. These are simplified versions of the anti-aircraft guns that the actual carrier had on board. I don't have anything higher resolution than the images shown behind the 3D model, so I'm not sure if I'm getting it right. It would be nice to see it "in the round". Does anyone else have a higher res pic(s) to donate to the cause?
Thanks again!
I certainly spent waaaay too much time pouring over forums to research the cockpit ball size - 5.0" vs 5.25" and every dimension in between. I combed through every studio model pic that I had to estimate the size from known dimensions of kit details, then factoring in camera perspective distortion, etc. Pretty sure that I could justify just about any of those measurements depending on what source image I used for scaling. But it did seem to work out closer to the 5.25" side more than not. Apparently a 133mm Plastruct ball may have been utilized by the model makers, so I'll stick with this for now and see how the rest of the details fit.
I do have another request, of course. The pics below illustrate my attempt to model the 1/700 Tamiya Shinano part #52 as used for the "clamps" placed around the perimeter of the rear cone on the TIE. These are simplified versions of the anti-aircraft guns that the actual carrier had on board. I don't have anything higher resolution than the images shown behind the 3D model, so I'm not sure if I'm getting it right. It would be nice to see it "in the round". Does anyone else have a higher res pic(s) to donate to the cause?
Thanks again!