BuildsByBaz
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A plea for information!
Builds By Baz - Full scale MKII Colonial Viper
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Been doing some work in the cockpit fitting the instrument panels. Planning with cardboard, then transferring to ply once it's right.
Full story here. Cockpit interior fit-out.
Full story here. Cockpit interior fit-out.
BuildsByBaz
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I couldn't find the unit under the port-side RCS joystick, nor the piper fuel mixture lever and knob, so I went ahead and made them.
Instrument panel is coming along.
Full build here.
Instrument panel is coming along.
Full build here.
BuildsByBaz
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Update.
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BuildsByBaz
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Canopy video
BuildsByBaz
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That darned red light!
Can't afford to buy it? FINE THEN! I'll MAKE it. Scaled using a screenshot of the original prop and a know item that I have, (red switch). Turned on the lathe from polycarbonate rod, details melted in with soldering iron, collar is the lid off my wood glue bottle. Drilled out for a globe. I'll paint it with a red permanent marker.
Original prop
Let's go!
Can't afford to buy it? FINE THEN! I'll MAKE it. Scaled using a screenshot of the original prop and a know item that I have, (red switch). Turned on the lathe from polycarbonate rod, details melted in with soldering iron, collar is the lid off my wood glue bottle. Drilled out for a globe. I'll paint it with a red permanent marker.
Original prop
Let's go!
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BuildsByBaz
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I've had no luck sourcing the panel from an old AMPEX VPR-80 video editing machine, so I've started to make it. A fellow overseas has been kind enough to run a ruler over his machine and send me the dimensions, so I've been hard at it in the shed tonight.
The large knob is the lid of a methylated spirits bottle with a steel plate glued to the top. The small knobs I turned from wood and painted up. The screens are clear perspex sheet and the large buttons are hand cut from opaque white perspex sheet. The red one is just coloured in with a permanent marker pen. The small buttons are dressed timber, cut and hand sanded into shape.
Full story here.
The large knob is the lid of a methylated spirits bottle with a steel plate glued to the top. The small knobs I turned from wood and painted up. The screens are clear perspex sheet and the large buttons are hand cut from opaque white perspex sheet. The red one is just coloured in with a permanent marker pen. The small buttons are dressed timber, cut and hand sanded into shape.
Full story here.
Tony stark
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Ok
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BuildsByBaz
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Mate, not the place. Please go and start your own thread in the New Recruits or Non-Halo Costumes and Props topics. 
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Admins can you please remove the above post?
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Admins can you please remove the above post?
BuildsByBaz
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Got the Ampex panel almost done, just some printed gauges and lights to go in. The cockpit is getting tight!
mblackwell1002
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Looks like it's turning into an aircraft, all right! Looking awesome so far!
Lieutenant Jaku
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Even though this is from the new show and I much prefer the 70s one I still want one of these
It's Fracking amazing!!
Keep up the good work
BuildsByBaz
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Cheers gang.
With new and unprecedented reference photos now made available to me, thanks to a secret benefactor, I have decided there are some angles,shapes and sizes I can't live with. So, I stripped the instrument panel out and fixed. Never be afraid to start over and strive for perfection!
I also trimmed an old parcel shelf out of a hatchback so size for a floor. Looks professional.
And put it all back together again.
With new and unprecedented reference photos now made available to me, thanks to a secret benefactor, I have decided there are some angles,shapes and sizes I can't live with. So, I stripped the instrument panel out and fixed. Never be afraid to start over and strive for perfection!
I also trimmed an old parcel shelf out of a hatchback so size for a floor. Looks professional.
And put it all back together again.
BuildsByBaz
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Using cardboard and reference photos to work out the side panels. Once I’m happy with it I will transfer it all to wood for shaping and painting.
BuildsByBaz
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Port instrument shelf almost done in cardboard. I can't afford to fibreglass it this close to Christmas, so I'll do the starboard side next to keep myself busy.
BuildsByBaz
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The closest ammunition I could find to what seems to be agreed as the right one for the Viper, is a NATO 30mm cannon round with a 173mm long case.
I found a scrap piece of Oregon and hacked it square with one of my small knives. Metalwork lathes work OK on wood, lucky for me. I used a photograph of the NATO round and was able to guesstimate approximate dimensions, knowing the diameter of the projectile was 30mm. It looks good after a bit of paint. I’ll mask it off tomorrow and spray the bands on it. I’d still like to get hold of an inert round to compare it. Then to make about 30 more of them and find/make some link to hang them under the guns of the Viper.
I found a scrap piece of Oregon and hacked it square with one of my small knives. Metalwork lathes work OK on wood, lucky for me. I used a photograph of the NATO round and was able to guesstimate approximate dimensions, knowing the diameter of the projectile was 30mm. It looks good after a bit of paint. I’ll mask it off tomorrow and spray the bands on it. I’d still like to get hold of an inert round to compare it. Then to make about 30 more of them and find/make some link to hang them under the guns of the Viper.
BuildsByBaz
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Finished. Simple work of art.
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Illuminated push-buttons.
I’m really worried that the push button banks sent via US postage last October, (2017) have been lost or stolen. I am making fake buttons to cover the shortfall. They are 19x19mm and have 18x18mm stickers to label them all.
Full build here.
I’m really worried that the push button banks sent via US postage last October, (2017) have been lost or stolen. I am making fake buttons to cover the shortfall. They are 19x19mm and have 18x18mm stickers to label them all.
Full build here.
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SI3RRA 117
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How do you find such time to do the astonishing, over the top builds? You make my small builds look like child’s play. Amazing job so far this thing looks like it could dam well fly.
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