Thunderbirds are go, er well, sort of....

[Cybergrinder]

Here we go with the engines; sorry for the lower quality pics, had to use my phone camera

Attachment to hull with tail fin

Engine inlet

Exhaust

Fully assembled

And attached!

 

[Cybergrinder]

And attached to the body

just the wings & legs to go!

 

[zathros]

The engines look good. If you could find a Dark Green Marker and color those edge lines, it would do the model more justice. Any color is better than white, even black, on the trailing ends on the wings, and leding edges of all wing surfaces, including rudders and elevator.

 

[Sky Seeker]

And attached to the body

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just the wings & legs to go!

This is shaping up nicely. thumbsup Always a pretty cool design! Timeless!:robot2:

Sky Seeker
:tank:

 

[spaceagent-9]

That's my favorite! Glad to see it!

 

[Cybergrinder]

Happy new year everyone! Sometimes I like to leave the edges to "show" that is paper Sometimes people don't always believe you ....

Engines attached

Then the wing

And attached

Then the undercarriage "covers"

And now the legs

And, she is done!! (wonky leg corrected after these pics )

 

[Cybergrinder]

I then started with the "Mole", I just had to do this

Delivery "truck" And the trusty AA battery for scale

And the Mole

And then together

 

[Cybergrinder]

A brief disclaimer, all the "support" vehicles are extremely fiddly and I "hyperfocused" while building. As a result forgot to take in progress photos

Recovery vehicle

And the Firefly. This one I took the resource that's available here and scaled it down

 

[Cybergrinder]

However, TB 4 get's a build section

Engines attached to primary hull base

Main body and nose attached

Then the intake pod

And she's done

And the four small guys together Good ol' battery scale reference

 

[Cybergrinder]

Then came Pod 4, here's the floor

Come up to my lab, and see what's on the slab hyperfocusing kicked in again...

Then attached to the floor

And the support ribs

Stick 'em together & what have you got?

Then then the front door

And interior. The gap is for the centre spar

Door section attached to the pod frame, you can see the slipway/catapult much better here

Back door section

Pod 4 complete! I decided to leave it as a cut away, seemed wrong to cover up all this detail

I did complete an empty pod for TB2 to look complete, here we go

 

[Cybergrinder]

And now the photo shoot!

Do need to sort out the glue "splat" or was it a really big, big bird?

And here's an indication of the actual sizes of the small guys calibrations are in cm

And, so closes the Thunderbird project, it's been, challenging, (the small guys really took patience and several attempts!). Thank you all for the likes, suggestions and lovely comments! I promised the wife I'd take a break after finishing this. The break started on the 28th December, got some other (non-model) projects to do around the house.

I'll still be around the forum, just not building for a bit

But in the words of the most famous Austrian actor;

"I'll be Back."

 

[spaceagent-9]

man those are small!!! good job!!

 

[Sky Seeker]

And now the photo shoot!

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Do need to sort out the glue "splat" or was it a really big, big bird?

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And, so closes the Thunderbird project, it's been, challenging, (the small guys really took patience and several attempts!). Thank you all for the likes, suggestions and lovely comments! I promised the wife I'd take a break after finishing this. The break started on the 28th December, got some other (non-model) projects to do around the house.

I'll still be around the forum, just not building for a bit

But in the words of the most famous Austrian actor;

"I'll be Back."

Great thread! Love the small models and especially Thunderbird 2!:Bravo::King::King:rinks:

Those small models really took some great skill with a pair of tweezers!thumbsupthumbsup

Thanks for sharing your work.

Sky Seeker
:tank:

 

[Rhaven Blaack]

This looks really good!!!

 

[Cybergrinder]

Thanks guys, after this build TB 4 has a special spot in the collection

TB 2 is still my favourite though!

 

[zathros]

I hope I clicked all the likes. Really neat collection you got there. Hold onto them, years from now they will bring you memories.

 

[Cybergrinder]

Thanks Zathros, I will

 

[blake7]

Fantastic set of models! It was a pleasure to watch you build them. They look Great!

 

[Cybergrinder]

Thanks Blake7

 

[Boba Frett]

Great job!