Dan Vadas
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Dan Vadas reacted to pontiachedmark in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Looking good Danny.
You overcame the challenges of the kit extremely well.
I am looking forward to your future endeavours.
All the best.
Mark.
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Dan Vadas reacted to druxey in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Despite your not being happy with this model, it is very nice and cleanly done, Dan. Looking forward to your next model!
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Dan Vadas reacted to ccoyle in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Looks great from here, Danny! I have the Halinski Spitfire Mk V in my stash.
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Dan Vadas reacted to vossy in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Fantastic model of the most beautiful building on the planet! Everyone should aspire to visit the real thing at least once in their lives. Great job. Congratulations.
Cheers
Chris
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
Hi all,
Here's my next Card project, once again "off-topic" in a Model Ship Forum . It's a WWII Mk. IV Spitfire, or should I say TWO Spitfires. Halinski supply two aircraft in this kit - a green/grey version and and all-grey one. I didn't realise that until I was doing my Parts Spreadsheet and found a couple of identical pages which got me wondering . At this stage I'm only going to do the green/grey Post D-Day version, but I may change my mind later.
Here's a pic of the Cover Art :
Here's a pic of the first thing built, the Dashboard. There are 2 versions in the kit - a simplified one-piece dash and a 3-piece one that needs the holes for the gauges punched out and a thin sheet of cellophane (from a cigarette packet) inserted between them to simulate glass. No prizes for guessing which way I chose :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CDW in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
Hi all,
Here's my next Card project, once again "off-topic" in a Model Ship Forum . It's a WWII Mk. IV Spitfire, or should I say TWO Spitfires. Halinski supply two aircraft in this kit - a green/grey version and and all-grey one. I didn't realise that until I was doing my Parts Spreadsheet and found a couple of identical pages which got me wondering . At this stage I'm only going to do the green/grey Post D-Day version, but I may change my mind later.
Here's a pic of the Cover Art :
Here's a pic of the first thing built, the Dashboard. There are 2 versions in the kit - a simplified one-piece dash and a 3-piece one that needs the holes for the gauges punched out and a thin sheet of cellophane (from a cigarette packet) inserted between them to simulate glass. No prizes for guessing which way I chose :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks all for the kind words .
No Grant, not until I can build myself a new workshop. The main reason I started with Card in the first place is that I'm currently working in my bedroom - too much sawdust for wood and the power tools disturb the neighbours in the next room .
Pav, it's in whatever scale my printer spat out. I'll be able to work out what the actual scale is after I glue together the fuselage - I know what the original wingspan is.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Javlin in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Canute in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Javlin in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
It's been a while since I last posted to this log. Life got in the way a bit, but I've still managed to do some more work on the "House". These pics are of the staircases and windows on the seaboard side :
Next step was to make the smallest of the three buildings. Here are some of the parts needed :
Some assembly pics. The instructions are a bit sparse in some areas, a fair bit of guesswork was involved but it all came together in the end :
The building fitted to the base. I'll straighten out the wrinkles at a later stage :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from tkay11 in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
I see I've been real slack on updating this log . Here we go again then .
I've completed the largest of the three buildings and fitted it to the base. It wasn't without numerous problems, mostly due to a lack of laminating extra card where needed. This resulted in quite a lot of wrinkles, most of which I managed to fix to a certain degree. Nowhere near perfect however . Here are some pics of the building fitted :
Laminating 1mm card to the support pieces helped a LOT in keeping the last building's structures straight. Here's one piece ready to glue to the central support :
The building under way. It's turning out quite well so far, and I think it will be acceptable without any drastic modifications when it comes to fitting it to the base :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Sure, all those parts that I could actually laminate. It's not really possible on some of them due to the tabs getting in the way and of course they are the parts that are virtually impossible to reach the back of to put pressure on once other pieces are glued up.
It's only 0.25mm, the same as photo paper. This is too thin for large pieces, it should have been at least 0.35mm or heavier, at least for about half the kit.
Way too late for that I'm afraid, I'm getting close to completion.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from tasmanian in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
It's been a while since I last posted to this log. Life got in the way a bit, but I've still managed to do some more work on the "House". These pics are of the staircases and windows on the seaboard side :
Next step was to make the smallest of the three buildings. Here are some of the parts needed :
Some assembly pics. The instructions are a bit sparse in some areas, a fair bit of guesswork was involved but it all came together in the end :
The building fitted to the base. I'll straighten out the wrinkles at a later stage :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Javlin in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
The main base is almost finished. I had to add a LOT of extra bracing :
I'm fairly happy with the way all the steps turned out :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
I believe that the idea behind the design was to imitate the sails of yachts on Sydney Harbour.
Yeah I get that, but I was hoping they might have drawn in some texture. Like on the edges of the tiles for example.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
This model is of the iconic Sydney Opera House. The kit is from Schreiber-Bogen, a German kit publisher. When finished it will measure 730mm x 470mm x 230mm :
My thoughts on the kit are that it is not printed as well as I'd hoped, with no "weathering" at all and fairly simplistic colouring. The card is of reasonable quality without being exceptional, and the instructions are fairly basic line drawings which are easy enough to follow. The design of construction could have been better, but it's workable.
On with it. I started the model 3 days ago, and have completed the base to the stage of adding the vertical sections. For bracing beneath the base a number of square sections are used, some of which are integral with the upper surface and others are free sections :
These pieces are ready for fitting to the main section :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from paulsutcliffe in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from JeffT in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
Thanks Popeye .
I've finally finished the Opera House. I must say it wasn't the most enjoyable model I've ever built, and I'm not particularly happy with the way it turned out. Here are the final pics :
My next model will be a (Card) Halinski MkIX Spitfire in about 1:50 scale. I'll do a build log for it in this forum.
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to popeye the sailor in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
..some pretty daunting work there Danny.........way too many twists and turns! looks really good
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
I see I've been real slack on updating this log . Here we go again then .
I've completed the largest of the three buildings and fitted it to the base. It wasn't without numerous problems, mostly due to a lack of laminating extra card where needed. This resulted in quite a lot of wrinkles, most of which I managed to fix to a certain degree. Nowhere near perfect however . Here are some pics of the building fitted :
Laminating 1mm card to the support pieces helped a LOT in keeping the last building's structures straight. Here's one piece ready to glue to the central support :
The building under way. It's turning out quite well so far, and I think it will be acceptable without any drastic modifications when it comes to fitting it to the base :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Sydney Opera House by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Schreiber-Bogen - 1:300 - CARD
I see I've been real slack on updating this log . Here we go again then .
I've completed the largest of the three buildings and fitted it to the base. It wasn't without numerous problems, mostly due to a lack of laminating extra card where needed. This resulted in quite a lot of wrinkles, most of which I managed to fix to a certain degree. Nowhere near perfect however . Here are some pics of the building fitted :
Laminating 1mm card to the support pieces helped a LOT in keeping the last building's structures straight. Here's one piece ready to glue to the central support :
The building under way. It's turning out quite well so far, and I think it will be acceptable without any drastic modifications when it comes to fitting it to the base :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Canute in Atlantic Conveyor by kirk - JSC - 1/400 - CARD - auxilary aircraft carrier
Hi Kirk, and welcome to the wonderful world of Card Modelling . You're off to a pretty good start and I hope you won't find too many difficulties along the way.
Yeah, I don't like Tabs but some models just won't go together without them - my Sydney Opera House for example. If you want to dispense with them (and even on a Tabbed model you can do that for some parts) you need to virtually re-design the support structure of the kit. Laminating using heavier card is a good option, as is adding extra card where you think it may be needed for keeping things square (or not).
As far as "instructions" go in Card Kits - no publisher has the perfect examples. Some are just worse than others . You'll tend to pick up the gist of it with experience. Planning a step or three ahead is a pretty good idea. So is "dry-fitting" parts before applying any glue.
BTW - a proper Swann-Morton Scalpel with replaceable blades works far better than an Xacto blade. They are cheap enough, and you can buy blades in boxes of 100 which is a lot cheaper than buying 5 or 10 at a time (see HERE) - believe me, you'll need LOTS of blades .
Have fun, and I'll be following your Log.
Danny
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