I should have been more specific; that's my fuselage.
It may not look like much but there is a lot of precise work in there. The Maxi Brute definitely originates from a Hero buck... it just has to. There is no way it could not... having now spent so much time getting it just right (and still some work to be done)... it seems impossible to think the MB could have spawned so accurately from anyones scratchbuild. Prove it you say?
Spending way too much time with the Red 3 photos yielded yet another revalation. All this time I was thinking I would have to restore the edge/lip of the canopy (when viewed in profile) so there would be the step drop off to hold the 'glass' like on the originals. This would mean you would have to stop cutting before you got to the edge of the window. I was wrong again. Red 3 uses styrene sheet adhered to the inside of the fuselage to create the lip to hold the glass. This means even more variation in the shape of the finished canopies because you would first have to decide how much to take away for the window opening and then create the styrene frames for each window... without a panel line, step, or hard edge as a guide.
Granted this is some tricky work. There are obvious additions and subtractions to the MB and deciding which can often be frustrating. Did they take a little away, or did they add just a bit. I'm still working on a few problem spots in the back.
It may not look like much but there is a lot of precise work in there. The Maxi Brute definitely originates from a Hero buck... it just has to. There is no way it could not... having now spent so much time getting it just right (and still some work to be done)... it seems impossible to think the MB could have spawned so accurately from anyones scratchbuild. Prove it you say?
Spending way too much time with the Red 3 photos yielded yet another revalation. All this time I was thinking I would have to restore the edge/lip of the canopy (when viewed in profile) so there would be the step drop off to hold the 'glass' like on the originals. This would mean you would have to stop cutting before you got to the edge of the window. I was wrong again. Red 3 uses styrene sheet adhered to the inside of the fuselage to create the lip to hold the glass. This means even more variation in the shape of the finished canopies because you would first have to decide how much to take away for the window opening and then create the styrene frames for each window... without a panel line, step, or hard edge as a guide.
Granted this is some tricky work. There are obvious additions and subtractions to the MB and deciding which can often be frustrating. Did they take a little away, or did they add just a bit. I'm still working on a few problem spots in the back.