Rog's Models Blog

Finishing Touches

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:07:50 -0700

Been a very, very long time since I did any work. About 4 months ago I put in 2 of 3 window sills. One left to do but it is a big one and I have not made the time to go get the right size piece of MDF to do it.

Over the past few days I have been busy caulking the baseboard and door trim to cover over all the seams. I have had varried success with some seams better than others. Tonight after work I painted all the door and closet trim as well as the baseboard in the hall and stairs. I found a few areas I will sand down again and repaint as the filler in the nail holes is a little off and I missed a few... It really finishes off the room when the baseboards and trim are all done...

What prompted this flurey of activity... having people over from work for a BBQ on saturday....

Model MakerZ

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:07:13 -0700

Hey all

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Updated Look and Feel

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:07:35 -0700

Decided that I wanted a change from the Green theme to a new one. After playing with a few themes over the past few days I settled on this one, shades of Grey.

Now if only I could get motivated to build!

Site Outage

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:06:44 -0700

Site was down last few days. Hosting service changed their php version and I had some incompatibilities in my site code. Should be fixed up now.

Been a long, long time.

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:06:21 -0700

April 11th my Daughter was born. Early April my Son started ball season. January at work I got a new Boss and we have the busiest year that I can remember.

All of this has added up to me not even setting foot in the hobby room for over two months, and even before that not very much. After having no where to work for almost 3 years I finished my hobby room last August and between then and January I was able to finish up a few projects I had been working on. Since then I've had a LAV and Rebel Snow Speeder on the bench but not much work.

Life takes about all the energy I have right now, and any "free time" is spent crashed on the couch watching the boob tube. Baseball season is coming to an end (playoffs this week) so maybe that will free up a few hours a week. Work is not going die down... oh well....

Sub-assemblies & Paint (Post has Pictures)

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:04:10 -0700

This won't be an extensive build log.

I decided to build and paint this in sub assemblies. I have the main hull, sets of laser assemblies/engine parts, rear radiator (really, what sort of power source do they have in there.....) and canopy. They have all been patched up, sanded and painted. The rear engine assemblies has gaps where they met the top of the hull so I filled that with some strips of plastic.

Next up will be some panel shading and the rest of the detail painting.

I have also primed the figures grey. These are possibly the worst pilot figures in any model, in any scale.. in the history of models.

Dio Base Progress (Post has Pictures)

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:04:13 -0700

A quick update on the progress. Not a lot. I cut and shaped a piece of foam to give the impression of road with ditch on either side. I will cover this with Celuclay and work from there.

I am building a concrete barrier out of sheet plastic for the LAV to be hoisting. I may try to make a mold of it so that I can make multiple copies of it.

Lethargic

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 16:04:38 -0700

It's been two weeks since I built anything. Works been very busy and have just had no energy. The management of my Crohns has been so so and then a couple really late nights have really blown my energy levels. I wish I were more consistent in my building... it seems like boom or bust. I will build 4 or 5 kids in rapid succession and then nothing for a while....

Another Trek kitbash Idea. (Post has Pictures)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:03:35 -0800

Here is another idea for an explorer/scout idea. It has a single engine over a standard constitution class saucer. The neck between the primary and secondary hull is used as a larger pylon. The rear section of the primary hull with the shuttle bay is turned upside down and mounted under the saucer.

Enterprise Refit (Post has Pictures)

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:03:51 -0800

Picked this up from Cameo yesterday. I think I will be building this very soon. It even comes with the aztecing stencils. I intend to pick up a few more to do some conversions with.