love watching your builds, you are one of the few master modelers who take the time to explain in detail and show how you achieve the effects you look for on your models, enjoy your coffee....
Beautiful job again. Great solutions to the problems. When I did my STS-117 stack build for a museum, I was fortunate to have access to Floquil colors for my mixes (UP Light orange, SP Daylight orange, UP Armor yellow and SP freight car brown). I would mix one of the oranges with a brown for the main shade and the other orange with the brown for the ribbed intertank area for a slightly different shade. The yellow was used for the banded areas. Now with Floquil gone, it is a little more difficult to find those shades. So a Tamiya mix works just as well. The foam is indeed sprayed on a machine in most areas (the banding is from rotating the spray nozzles and/or the tank like a giant rotisserie). In some spots, it is hand applied with spray guns. Some areas which are lighter are due to the surface rind being sanded down to make them smoother, which exposes foam that hasn't darkened yet from UV light. The color sequence is off white, to pancake batter tan, to yellow, to dark yellow, to burnt orange and eventually to a chocolate brown if a shuttle has sat on the pad for a couple months (say due to a pad abort). It is a constantly moving target. The same foam was used to make the orange/yellow rings on the SRBs. They were added to prevent sea water intrusion into the field joints while the SRBs float in the water awaiting recovery. If you haven't finished build work on the SRBs yet, they can be represented with epoxy putty easily and painted an orange shade. The rings were sanded, so you do not have to give them texture.
Truly remarkable! This just keeps getting better and better! I had no idea how big this model was until you started the tank and WOW! Intimidating scale! Reminds me of the 105mm howitzer shells we used on the AC-130H gunship when I was still in ops’!!!
I like to drink coffee while I build so to heck with those that don't like it. I say drink more ☕. The space shuttle is looking great. I'm waiting with anticipation to see it done. Keep on modelin.
Yeah, I actually thought of using that initially...I’ve used it several times to patch up some areas on my walls. I think it would be a little out of scale and not as durable as the spray paint that I settled on though.
Pulling off a hot coffee slurp with Ringo in hand without spilling a drop is an amazing feat in itself! Let alone the perfect texture and flawless recreation of the LWT!
I’ve built two 1/144 shuttle stacks and now you’ve really got me wanting to do a 1/72!!!!. Amazing job!! I have a weakness for large scale model kits I recently bought the 1/72 kc-10 kit from anigrand and am currently building a modelcollect b-52 in 1/72 scale. Your not helping my addiction!! LOL
@@seanerk5kt9 it’s a really nice kit I got the b-52g from the gulf war era it has a full detailed interior which is cool. I ordered the correction kit for it which comes with a new nose and tail that are more accurate than what comes with the kit and also comes with flaps that can be displayed down.
Once again nothing short of amazing! Looks so good and realistic compared to the pictures of the real thing. See I have this kit too and after seeing how nice yours has turned out I don't even want to try and build mine. Thanks for sharing
Hey primed model works... sorry I don't know your name 😂 Please forgive me. Just a quick thank you for showing how to use vac canopies in your heuikbahn video. It will really help me out soon so a big thumbs up 👍🇬🇧
The texture on the tank is a spray on foam insulation system. You got the color of the tank perfect for the LWT (light weight tank) last flown on Columbia.
Wow Sean your great talent to solve modelling challenges really came out in this update, fantastic work !!!oh and who knows what you could have in that coffee mug, could be bourbon, cordial, water or it could be empty who cares its YOUR signature opening so your choice cheers !
It's all your fault! I started watching your videos [very entertaining and informative they are!] as I recently starting making kits again [after buying an XB-70 kit - another precision piece of kit production. Would like to see your take on it one day]. I didn't know about a shuttle stack kit. I had to have one! Bought one on ebay - eyes open after watching your videos. My fuel tank halves seemed to line up pretty well out of the box, so thought I would have an easier time. Now mid way through the fuel tank - god it's horrible! No matter how careful you are, the seams jump out at you and I will have to do something similar to you with a texture paint. So yeah - your fault getting me in to this. [Joking ;) ] It will look mega cool one day when I've finished it though. I will keep battling!
Lol Andy. Yeah, the stack is a real headache. My recommendation is to get the seams as close to perfect as you can before spraying the textured paint. The paint will hide some minor imperfections but won’t cover up as much as you think it might. If you some cheap filler, I’d recommend glazing and spot putty found at wal-mart in the automotive section.
As far as I’m concerned you have just the right amount of content and info. I’m sorry but I don’t wanna see a 21 video build at 40-60 minutes a piece. Not to mention your work is just the right amount of detailing and weathering and you don’t put down others methods. We all have different tastes. Keep hydrated brother!
I’ll never put down anyone’s methods...we all have what works for us. I just like to share how I do stuff so if someone out there is stuck on something, maybe my methods will work for them :)
I was thinking about this external fule tank you can cut out styrene circles to fit inside the tank like bulkheads I did that on the AMT fule tanker trailer and worked out fine those tank half were badly warped but the internal bulk heads did the trick yes there is a lot of warpage in these old kits
What I would have done with the ET is sand both sides smooth, not for polish smooth but enough that there is no rough texture, because the ablative coatings texture on the real ET is not that large, in reality it's more like doing waves on a diorama's river scene or more like when you airbrush the paint with too much air pressure and really grainy and that pronounced like that the kit has been made to look or how pictures look, yes they show some texture but it's not that pronounced, remember the ablative is very thick to keep the fuels & oxidizes from getting to hot and boiling off while on launch but not as like the models texture. I've been up close and personal to the Shuttles on the pads (was part of the Magellan program and loaded it on the Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center way back in late 1980's). But great job!! Keep it up!! I really like both of your Shuttles!!!
Great job matching the tank color to the 107 final launch. In a build I attempted to find the exact color of the tank and learned it changes overtime. In one picture I saw where it was lighter in a rectangular shape around the nose of the orbiter where the rotating service structure had shielded the tank from the sun and it’s UV rays. The volume of paint needed for the tank is crazy. I really love this build. How are you going to mount it for display? Will you run rods up the boosters or use the kit stand? The size and weight of the orbiter in this scale might make it a challenge to keep vertical. I like coffee too. I like mine strong and black...
Thanks buddy! I’ve currently got my boys in the engineering division working on the final details for mounting. Looks like they’re gonna run their rods up the tail end of the boosters. It’ll be set up similar to the kit base but more substantial. I’ll go over it in the next video which should be the final one in this award winning series.
I wonder if there shouldn’t be some overspray on some of the brackets? I’m guessing that the foam sealant would have been touched up between missions and would have been sprayed onto existing, attached brackets. Or maybe not. Just a thought.
Great work PMW , this Kit is impossible find now there was one example on E bay a few months ago @ $500.00 USD where can you buy it ? will they monogram re release this ?
Drinking coffee at the beginning of your videos is your thing! If people have to complain about that, they have no life and should consider there are much bigger things in the world than their pettiness. The guy who "unsubscribed" probably didn't have a subscription to your channel anyway. There are a bunch of miserable a-holes like that all over YT. I wouldn't give that jerk a micro-second of my time. It's really much easier and costs less energy to let these people show everyone else what terrible human beings they are and let them go on their way. They just poison whatever room they're in...
It's too late for this model but this guy has an amazing set of windows for this kit. So if you do another one...amp.rokket.biz/am_shuttle_win.shtml Don Mac.
You drink coffee? I was wondering what you were up to with the EFT in your crotch, I thought home confinement was getting to you. Isn't it easier to build things with props on it? Just don't let NASA touch it, it may explode. OUCH! To early? There are just too many jokes in this one! I'll keep it PG-13. All kidding aside, the EFT came out good. It'll look real sharp with the Shuttle on it.
