Pour me a Me 163 and a while you are at it, a Me 262!

**clipper1801** · 05-28-2014 20:03

So, I had a night I could not sleep, kept thinking about diving in and making a completely new resin model of my own . . . where to start, simple of course. What could be simpler than a Me 163?

Scaled the 3=view to 1/200" scale and printed the top and side views on card stock, cut them out, traced onto styrene sheet and cut them out.

Cut a lap joint into them each and slid the wing into the fuselage

Mixed up some green stuff epoxy putty

Roll some snakes of epoxy, cut into long wedges . . .

Do some smoothing and squeezing . . . while that is hardening, and since it was rather painless, why not a second front?

Bits are glued and fitted together . . . formed with epoxy and set aside to cure,

Tomorrow we sand and carve . .

**Nightbomber** · 05-29-2014 02:57

Very educative, very educative...:

It fuels my own mind with new ideas...
Waiting for part two...

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 05-29-2014 03:33

Is there no limit to this man's skill and ingenuity?
Way to go Clipper.
Rob.

**fast.git** · 05-29-2014 05:49

Some people are blessed with hands that a precise, wondrous tools... and others, such as myself, with hands of stone. I am continually impressed.

**Sulring** · 05-29-2014 06:04

Once again, the master of all crafts amazes us with his sheer genius!
Well done, David! I imagine these are going to be masters to manufacture another pair of molds? And then production will begin in earnest?
Be careful though: lack of sleep isn't good for you... Try to get some proper rest between projects.

**Lt. S.Kafloc** · 05-29-2014 08:31

'Pack up your tools in an old kit bag and smile, smile, smile' How do you keep doing it David? Imagination, skill, elves at your command night and day, understanding wife, a time dilation device to slow down time outside of your workshop bubble.......is there no end to your acutrements?

**clipper1801** · 05-29-2014 17:25

The carving began before breakfast!

The excess green stuff is carved down to the white styrene formers, then carved to curve

And then the 262 met Mr Xacto!

Final sand and coat of thick CA to create fillet and fill the surfaces

Engines and tail bits, carving control surface grooves . . .

Liking what I'm seeing!

More details being added as they cure . . .

Now where did I put the mold latex?

**Flying Officer Kyte** · 05-30-2014 00:33

This "How to" gets better and better Dave. I am really looking forward to seeing the detailing go on.
Rob.

**Guntruck** · 05-30-2014 01:18

Dave, I applaud your efforts

Hopefully you are doing this as an exercise in resin casting rather than to have an aircraft nobody else makes, otherwise I would question the cost in resin and rubber to produce a few aircraft as AIM have both of these types listed as available soon. (I am assuming these are 1/200, if not ignore everything after the clapping

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**clipper1801** · 05-30-2014 08:21

Yes i am aware of AIMs fine offerings and will no doubt invest there someday, but the fun and fury of molding your own is intoxicating! Along with that "coming soon" is a phrase I have heard before but never bothered to find out what it means, I need to keep the elves elving or they turn domestic . . .

**Lt. S.Kafloc** · 05-30-2014 09:00

Oooh...do they make cup cakes?

Along with that "coming soon" is a phrase I have heard before but never bothered to find out what it means, I need to keep the elves elving or they turn domestic . . .

**Blackronin** · 05-30-2014 14:14

Excellent once again, Dave.
You never cease to amaze me.
And I'm very happy being amazed by you.

**clipper1801** · 05-30-2014 19:27

And they are bedded down for the night in latex . . .

Tomorrow we pour part 2 of the mold, then we dominate the (rumored) Ares bomber stream!

**Blackronin** · 05-31-2014 01:30

**clipper1801** · 05-31-2014 17:15

Wake up time! The latex is set and the excitement builds! Peel off the foam core box sides and . . .

The mystery box emerges, needs a bit of trimming . . .

Then the mold is split! The elves rejoice! And the production really begins . . .

Pouring time! What? My night to make dinner? Rats!

**Blackronin** · 05-31-2014 17:58

OH! Dinner?!
C'mon!!
Don't you have an elf to make dinner?
Or a minion?!
Those yellow little guys with a scuba diver mask on?!
Ok...
I'll wait... But...
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