Not long after discovering this forum, I undertook a build of Ton Noteboom's excellent Voyager model, even though I knew it was well above my skill level. The idea was to use it as a practice piece, and it served that purpose well. (The best that can be said of the final result was that it looked reasonably presentable if not examined too closely, and it did hold together -- for a while.) So, now I had a fair idea of the right way to go about it, and decided that I'd need to revisit Voyager some time in the indeterminate future.
Soon after this, I became interested in working at smaller scales (after seeing some of the amazing penny-sized aircraft that members here had made), and after shrinking down the Canon Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe with reasonable results, got the idea to combine these two interests, and redo the Voyager model at 1/48. (Also, I had seen a thread here about doing exactly this.) i have to admit that I started with a fatalistic attitude -- I had no idea, really, whether I'd be able to pull it off, but knew that I needed to take a shot at it.
Anyway, I think the pictures below show that it worked out pretty well. I was surprised to find that even though I was working with much smaller parts, it seemed no more difficult than the original build, and I'm sure it took quite a bit less time than the first go-round. So, I guess I must be learning something about this craft, after all.
So, now I figure I'll have to try what, had the idea occurred to me a year ago, would have seemed like pure madness -- taking it all the way down to 1/96th scale. The key, I think, is not to press too hard toward finishing -- just get SOMETHING done every day. Most of the work will have to be done under a magnifier, so fairly short work sessions are the order of the day.
It's going to be a while before I'll be able to muster the ambition to start, but I suspect this is a job worth my first build thread!
Soon after this, I became interested in working at smaller scales (after seeing some of the amazing penny-sized aircraft that members here had made), and after shrinking down the Canon Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe with reasonable results, got the idea to combine these two interests, and redo the Voyager model at 1/48. (Also, I had seen a thread here about doing exactly this.) i have to admit that I started with a fatalistic attitude -- I had no idea, really, whether I'd be able to pull it off, but knew that I needed to take a shot at it.
Anyway, I think the pictures below show that it worked out pretty well. I was surprised to find that even though I was working with much smaller parts, it seemed no more difficult than the original build, and I'm sure it took quite a bit less time than the first go-round. So, I guess I must be learning something about this craft, after all.
So, now I figure I'll have to try what, had the idea occurred to me a year ago, would have seemed like pure madness -- taking it all the way down to 1/96th scale. The key, I think, is not to press too hard toward finishing -- just get SOMETHING done every day. Most of the work will have to be done under a magnifier, so fairly short work sessions are the order of the day.
It's going to be a while before I'll be able to muster the ambition to start, but I suspect this is a job worth my first build thread!
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