Days away

So close to completion, I can almost smell it... or is that the smell of an approaching deadline? Actually, both myself and the model are in a really great place at the moment - the stress has gone and I'm enjoying these final stages. So much so in fact, that I decided to go balls-out and risk the uber-detailing, and aie carumba the difference to the feel of the model is mahusive!
To illustrate what I mean, here are a couple of pictures of the extra hydraulic cable detailing to the wing-mech and engines.

The quickening

With only a few weeks left on this project, it all appears to be coming together. Fingers crossed there are no major upsets left to deal with...

Such delights to show you

Wow, what a last couple of weeks! Dissertation madness over (handed it over yesterday) and now I can give everything to the models again.
Time for some pictures....
The Ornithopter comes along with increasing momentum, now that the final components are finally arriving, .



My Fremen sculpt

Engine pod metal layers

Wing mechanism





Yummy yummy brass etching

......and the Puzzlecube is mind-blowing

 

The brass panels are here and are stunning, cube is polished up and a suitable display dome is being created, holding my breath until the laser etching of the cube is done and those panels pop right in... after extensive testing!!!!

 

Goin' thru changes

As regular visitors may have noticed, the blog (and everything else me-related) is undergoing a bit of a face-lift as I work on updating my professional image.
Doing some re-branding and logo work at the moment which will appear here, for test runs etc.
Bear with me, it will all be alright in the end...more or less.

Ornithopter Progress

Starting work on the 3d print tidy-up and fitting, now all the pieces have arrived... and yes it is sitting on a padlock - that's how small it is!

 

And that is the basic scenic base taken care of after a two day flurry of work..

And away we go

As the last of my 3d prints come back from the printers, I'm beginning to get an idea of how the ornithopter is going to take shape. Still much to finalise and make, but it is now out of the computer and on its way to the real world!

 A quick scenery mock up for the design of the presentation base and a scale test of the cockpit.

Oh and thanks to my machining maestro Chewie, I now have the completed perspex cube - now for much polishing before moving on to the etching...

Next

Lego masterpiece out of the way, and onto the next one...
I sometimes wonder why I think that my ideas are
1 - practical
2 - do-able
3 - anything other than totally, mind-bogglingly insane!

But that aside, here is my progress on my degree model based on Ron Cobb's ornithopter concept art.
Watch this space to keep up on developments and nervous breakdowns....

Pretty, but ooooh so complicated!