Excellent model Trevor! A very brave move with all the trenching - I would not have been confident I could hide them but you have managed it nicely. Does the UV resin sand nicely alongside the main body resin? I find if one is much harder than the other it all turns to custard. I had forgotten Hawk's ancestors came from Easter Island. A pity they didn't come from New Zealand (my birth place) as a species descended from the Kiwi bird would have been very different!
Hi Alon, thanks so much 😁I was surprised that the UV resin worked as well as it did. It sanded down almost seamlessly and was easy to re-scribe. LOL, if poor Hawk had Kiwi bird genes they would have had to cast Danny de Vito in a Penguin-esque version! I didn't know you are a fellow Southern hemispherian 😁 Thanks so much for dropping by! Much appreciated, as always!
I just finished 3-D printing a buck Rogers Thunderfighter starfighter… fairly large scale probably about twice the size of that… I’d like to suggest a couple of tools that might make your life a little easier… now I have a Dremel which is great but for working with plastics it’s too high speed and it just melts everything… what I ended up getting is a nail drill…. Neil salons use them to grind down fingernails and polish… Mine has an adjustable knob that allows me to find tune the speed of the tool from 1000 RPM all the way up to 45,000 RPM in 1000 increments. It’s battery powered rechargeable via USB and has a variety of tips that come with it from sanding to drilling to polishing and is ideal for fine work like modelling. It would’ve made fairly short work of drilling out the canopy glass and the other tool I have acquired recently for my modelmaking is a Sanding tool that is about half the size of a cordless Dremel that has an interchangeable sanding pad that has several different shapes from triangle square oval and comes with a variety of grits of sandpaper with adhesive backs and its fantastic for fine detail work. The Square pad is approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, I don’t know if the tool has a specific name but they are available on Temu AliExpress and other Chinese websites… I hope this helps
Those tools do sound awesome. I have a similar drill that's powered by a couple of AA batteries, but it's a low-torque little gadget that barely manages with regular model styrene. Maybe it's time for an upgrade. The sanding gadget sounds very nice, too. I'll definitely look into it, as I have a lot of resin cast models waiting in the stash. I still need to get around to building something, though. I've been a bit lazy for the last few months! Good luck with the Thunderfighter! It sounds like an exciting build, for sure!
I'd love to get Hawks Fighter, i don't it see listed for sale on their site anymore though. I recently bought FP's 1/48 scale Ranger 3 and did the same to the cockpit windows on that.
Nice - the Ranger is definitely on my bucket list. Interstellar Modeler bought the files and 3D printed one recently, so I guess that's an option if you're lucky enough to own a 3D printer. (He didn't light it up, haha!) Good work on the Ranger, though! I'd love to see how it turns out! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Verry cool ship 👍 I find uv resin a real problem, it seems a bit of a gimmick to me and has very little use, try ca glue and baking soda next time. It has better adhesion and sands fine (that's only my opinion) 👍
Thank you very much 😁The CA glue and baking soda is also an excellent suggestion. I've used it extensively in previous builds, like the Terminator and Hawk-IX builds. It works brilliantly. Have you tried UV-resin on photoetch? It changed my life, LOL. I'm just kicking myself that I didn't try Milliput instead of the UV resin on this model. It would have saved me hours of sanding and shaping. Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment! Much appreciated! 🙂👍
Thank you so much, Oron. It was a real puzzler when it came to lighting her up. And then I accidentally stepped on the canopy with my fat foot! Fun times! Thank you very much for stopping by, and God bless! 😊
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Awesome job Trevor
Thank you 😁
I've had a small resin kit of this fighter for years. Might just do something with it after watching this. Well done.
Thanks very much 😃 This was a lot of fun to build. I'm sure you'll enjoy yours too!
Wow she looks amazing awesome job
Thanks, Travis!
never seen thi one , nice jobTrevor
Thanks very much 😁 I stumbled on this one by accident a few years ago. It was a fun challenge to build! Thanks so much visiting! 🙂👍
Nice build, I really like how you still managed to light it up
Thanks very much Elliot. It was an interesting build!
What a cool build. Quite a challenge so well done for your perseverance.
Thanks, Mark! It was a fun challenge! Thanks for looking in! Much appreciated!
Excellent model Trevor!
A very brave move with all the trenching - I would not have been confident I could hide them but you have managed it nicely. Does the UV resin sand nicely alongside the main body resin? I find if one is much harder than the other it all turns to custard.
I had forgotten Hawk's ancestors came from Easter Island. A pity they didn't come from New Zealand (my birth place) as a species descended from the Kiwi bird would have been very different!
Hi Alon, thanks so much 😁I was surprised that the UV resin worked as well as it did. It sanded down almost seamlessly and was easy to re-scribe. LOL, if poor Hawk had Kiwi bird genes they would have had to cast Danny de Vito in a Penguin-esque version! I didn't know you are a fellow Southern hemispherian 😁 Thanks so much for dropping by! Much appreciated, as always!
I just finished 3-D printing a buck Rogers Thunderfighter starfighter… fairly large scale probably about twice the size of that… I’d like to suggest a couple of tools that might make your life a little easier… now I have a Dremel which is great but for working with plastics it’s too high speed and it just melts everything… what I ended up getting is a nail drill…. Neil salons use them to grind down fingernails and polish… Mine has an adjustable knob that allows me to find tune the speed of the tool from 1000 RPM all the way up to 45,000 RPM in 1000 increments. It’s battery powered rechargeable via USB and has a variety of tips that come with it from sanding to drilling to polishing and is ideal for fine work like modelling. It would’ve made fairly short work of drilling out the canopy glass and the other tool I have acquired recently for my modelmaking is a Sanding tool that is about half the size of a cordless Dremel that has an interchangeable sanding pad that has several different shapes from triangle square oval and comes with a variety of grits of sandpaper with adhesive backs and its fantastic for fine detail work. The Square pad is approximately 1 cm x 1 cm, I don’t know if the tool has a specific name but they are available on Temu AliExpress and other Chinese websites… I hope this helps
Those tools do sound awesome. I have a similar drill that's powered by a couple of AA batteries, but it's a low-torque little gadget that barely manages with regular model styrene. Maybe it's time for an upgrade. The sanding gadget sounds very nice, too. I'll definitely look into it, as I have a lot of resin cast models waiting in the stash. I still need to get around to building something, though. I've been a bit lazy for the last few months! Good luck with the Thunderfighter! It sounds like an exciting build, for sure!
@@OstrichLongneck if you can’t find them, let me know and I’ll see if I can get you a link
I'd love to get Hawks Fighter, i don't it see listed for sale on their site anymore though.
I recently bought FP's 1/48 scale Ranger 3 and did the same to the cockpit windows on that.
Nice - the Ranger is definitely on my bucket list. Interstellar Modeler bought the files and 3D printed one recently, so I guess that's an option if you're lucky enough to own a 3D printer. (He didn't light it up, haha!) Good work on the Ranger, though! I'd love to see how it turns out! Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Verry cool ship 👍 I find uv resin a real problem, it seems a bit of a gimmick to me and has very little use, try ca glue and baking soda next time. It has better adhesion and sands fine (that's only my opinion) 👍
Thank you very much 😁The CA glue and baking soda is also an excellent suggestion. I've used it extensively in previous builds, like the Terminator and Hawk-IX builds. It works brilliantly. Have you tried UV-resin on photoetch? It changed my life, LOL. I'm just kicking myself that I didn't try Milliput instead of the UV resin on this model. It would have saved me hours of sanding and shaping. Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment! Much appreciated! 🙂👍
I have put Wild Willy vid on my channel today .
Oh man Trevor, that is so awesome!!! Incredible work!!! That will go great with the Starfighter you already did!!
Thank you so much, Oron. It was a real puzzler when it came to lighting her up. And then I accidentally stepped on the canopy with my fat foot! Fun times! Thank you very much for stopping by, and God bless! 😊