Hans

Ok got it!!! Thanks!!!

Um... the thread flased a 404... :cry:

Hmmm... I wonder now if aircraft gray mixed with another gray shade will work... Tamiya's sky gray looks fine for the second color for me...

Well, what I'm really after are the colors that closely match the requirements, not the exact color... Because our hobby shops here doesn't really carry different paint brands... The only paint brand common here is from tamiya, and is also the cheapest. Anything from testors (model master), humbrol, gunze etc. is a rarity, and even if they have them, they don't have the colors I needed and are very expensive... <_<

anybody?... :blink:

BTW, I must ask this... What tamiya gray paints are the closest to the shades on the Top Gun Cats? I've now started building academy's kit for this... :D

BTW sir Neil... Do you plan to revise the exhaust stacks for the D set? 'cause the stacks are of the wrong shape (but just on the trailing side...)...

It looks like its going to be a heavy model... Sir, do you have an estimate of how much your model weighs when finished? (or at least the fuselage?)

Speaking of the squadrons on the Big E during the filming... Does the tamiya kit include the decals for these squadrons? I'm saving my allowance for this kit (which is about to be done :blink: )

Just like the real thing

Wow!!! Pls count me in too!!! I have the academy 1/72 scale cat here, and I've been looking for decals for the 114!!! Thanks alot!!! keep us updated!!

Thanks sir!!! The 1/32 card SS1 was just the resized version of the 1/48 kit (courtesy from the designer himself), so the assembly process was just the same, only the cockpit received some minor adjustments. I would really love to see the Unicraft Tier One being build up! But after looking at the images of the parts from the Unicraft site, I would guess the WK has 2 incorrectly shaped parts; the tail fins. They were somewhat "stretched" up & down... the original have a shorter tail, but the side-to-side width looks fine, & the other parts were correct in shape though, its just the

Left Perspective View Right Perspective View SS1 Right Perspective View SS1 Left Perspective View Zenith-Aft View Another Whole view Left Nose view Right Nose view Zenith View (with a foot ruler for reference) Together with sir Jan Mueller's 1/48 WK & Ralph's SS1 (which by now, is about 1 year & 7 moons old! ) Whew!!! That's 4 months of waiting, planning & working! And to my relief, despite some pretty catastrophic errors, it turned out nicely! Well, if I'm gonna rate Dr. Z's White Knight, I'll give it 8 out of 10, because his WK is (by far) the mos

the 2 in the box that my sister made, along with some display write-ups plus the official Scaled lithographs Unfortunately, again, I wasn't able to take pics of the actual display because I simply carry too much study materials everytime I go to school, so I can't carry our camera along (I'm using Sony's TRV 33 Camcorder BTW) So after spending 10 days at school, here's the tandem, finally together :D Whole view Port View Starboard View Aft View Forward View Forward View (close-up) (Much) closer view

Hehehe!!! Um, I should be the one sending this ---- :blink: --- to you guys, cause you rock!!!

I just used the ones with 160 grm/m thickness. For building techniques, it varies for each part, but to make it simple, the entire model is just a combination of basic shapes that can be done on a 2-dimensional sheet; cones, cylinders & boxes :(

Thanks a lot sir!!! <_< It was really intimidating to build at first, but fortunately it turned out great, despite some pretty nasty mistakes, which (fortunately) was easy to reverse or correct BTW, Do any of you guys think that making an article about this model at our site is a good idea? :D

The tandem :D Well, By the time I took these pictures, I still didn't glued the two together, because I packed it up, brought it to school & displayed it as a part of our Science & Technology week exhibit at our school, where I finally joined them together, and hung the entire thing to the ceiling. I'll take pics of them later, so watch out! <_<

All Finished! (Apologies, first, I forgot to take pictures for the tail boom assembly, and for the dark pic, again no adequate lighting... ) Another one Next to the original 1/48 scale SS1 (this model is just an enlarged version of the 1/48 kit) Also, I want to tell that after I finished this one, I kinda felt that the 1/48 kit just "shrunked", because it felt somewhat "smaller" everytime I hold it... WK Attachment Points Right Tail Boom camera pod (sorry again for the inadequate lighting & blurry pic... :lol: ) Another Shot And Another And Another! :D <_<

Wing Spars installed Another Dorsal View Wings now finished

Next in line is of course, SpaceShipOne! <_< Cockpit/Nose pieces Ballast Cabinets (Scratchbuilt) During the X-Prize qualifying flights, the FAA was in the process of approving the law in which people will be permitted to fly in space (at their own risk), but it didn't make it on time for the flights, so, Scaled resorted to the alternative, put ballasts that have an equivalent weight of 2 adult persons (this altenative is also stated in the X-Prize Rules), but instead of putting sand bags, dummies or any heavy object, Burt Rutan decided that each and every employee of Scaled shou

Individual details SS1-WK mating pylon (the 2 anti-sway braces glued in each wing are scratchbuild, since the card kit didn't provide it... :D ) Right Main Landing Gear, similar to the left (the original card kit landing gear struts are just plain wrong, so i replaced it with an enlarged version of the mains that came from my e-copy of the 1/48 scale WK model (available from its designer, Physicist Jan Mueller, at www.cardmodels.de), which is correct, the wheels came from the 1/32 card kit though, but reduced in diameter slightly because its too large <_< ) Right Vertical Stabi

Whew! After 4 months since this build started (because of many delays), finally, its finished!!! :lol: So here it is!!! Scaled Composites' Tier One finally done! First stop, White Knight Starboard Side Port Side Port side, close-up to cockpit/nose BTW, the (bond paper) decal you see just behind the Official White Knight Logo is (obviously) the symbols for the 17 successful test flights (with some minor incidents) of SpaceShipOne, from the first glide test to the final, X-Prize winning flight. I manually drew this from MS Paint. Here's the actual, I didn't include the 2 othe

Hey guys... I've finally finished the tandem, but I'm gonna post the pics later, because my sister brought our camera...

Great work on the nose sir!!! Really coming together nicely!