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Peter Hardy
The ladder doesn't come with it so it'll be done in flight.

Martin Oostrom
Will she be shiny new or battle weary?

Chris Greathouse
Frak yeah... I'm on!

Peter Hardy
Welcome aboard all!

Peter Hardy
Martin, somewhere in between methinks.

Peter Hardy
Made my mind up Marty, she'll be fairy pristine. I also have a Mk 1 in the stash. I could beat the stuffing out of that and put them side by side.

Random Penguin
Yay, Viper! 👍
I think that`s how destiny shows me to paint Cosmo Falcon

Peter Hardy
Welcome along Dishonest bird!

Martin Oostrom
A new Mk II to replace the virtually destroyed Mk I. Good story!

Björn Svedberg
Freck! This I have to see!😉 You are off to a great start! 👍

Paul Juliano
I'm down for a fracking good time. Anyone want to play a game of pyramid?

Alec K
Peter has a sci-if gig?? I am in, although such lack of focused thematic direction is somewhat worrisome to me. Or inspirational?? I have to think about which... 😄

Rene Scheiblich
Worrisome. 😛

But a frakking Viper? Count me in, I love these things.
Gotta roll the hard six on the weathering though. I've never seen a moderately weathered. Most go for the FUBAR-look or the shiny, brand-new Starbuck one.

Too bad you can't spray right now. But at least you're not in Brisbane! 😮

Dave Flitton
Awesome start, except for the cockpit of course

Torsten
Nice start, I will have a look 👍

Greg Baker
Whoa... why was I not informed of his earlier? I must bear witness to this...

Rene Scheiblich
Nice heads-up on the brittle decals mate, but Mr Ramjet does a good job of hiding it. Solid work so far!
But aren't you going to add a reversing camera? ;p

Peter Hardy
I wouldn't rule it out just yet Rene. I am fully capable of a surprise or two.

Peter Hardy
You're not the last in Rene, Kez hasn't spotted it yet.

Kerry COX
Gap filling without the mess is best done with superglue 'gel'. 👍
Thicker than the usual clear superglue and sandable when dry. 😉
I do like the 'cans', and the pilot looks a treat. 👍

Slavo Hazucha
Looks like a ton of putty with some model on it!😉 And a greasy fingerprint on the upper engine cowling on pic 23... 😄

Slavo Hazucha
Just teasing - great to see this old fellow built! - if Troy Bayliss would go to space, he´d want to go in one of these... Engine section looks most promising already 👍

Rene Scheiblich
Holy cow. I knew the fit isn't stellar with those things, but you have a puttyparty on your hands 😮

Greasy fingerprints happen. Gotta have beer and peanuts when watching Galactica 😛

Spanjaard
i have one in my stash, so really interested in what you do with yours 🙂

Nathan Dempsey
That's some nice work on the exhausts and cockpit Peter. I can't wait to see what you do with the rest.

Maciej Bellos
Niiiiice!

Ben M
When I was a kid, a friend's older brother built this one with the engine nozzle assembly just pushed in place, not glued on. He showed me how he stored his weed inside of it in a little baggie.

Peter Hardy
Thanks Ben, that's, ummmm, very helpful?

Slavo Hazucha
Well, our hobby is so much more than you see on the surface... 👍

Taking shape nicely, looking forward to the paint job once dust turns into aerosol liquid again at your side of the globe!😉

Paul Juliano
Haha Ben that friend is a genius. I recently got some of those little scale leaf punches, and I was thinking how it'd be funny for the company to make one for hemp leaves. That'd be some diorama.

Ben M
Peter, no point to my story, just flashed into my mind when I saw your Viper. I guess that would have been the old MPC? Viper from the 70's, not this awesome one. I built one myself without the weed storage capability.

Rene Scheiblich
Hard to see, but the white seems to have went down nicely😎
Moved the airbrush chamber into the fridge? 😛

Peter Hardy
Rene, Slavo, I can get up very early and get some quick airbrushing in but again, it's gotta be quick! I'll get the red stripes on the upper bodywork done today.

Ben, Viper is from the 70s. Moulding is very basic. Not many panel lines to work with. Not really sure how I can upgrade the level of external detail but I have plenty of time in the hobby room aircon. I have no excuses for a visually boring build!

Kerry COX
Both Peter and myself are having to deal with this extremely hot weather, all in 40c plus on a daily basis.
Dust everywhere. 🙁 🙁 🙁

Spanjaard
prepare some models, do sanding, and leave them all ready to be painted in winter😉

Spanjaard
and send some sun over here 😄 😄
10 degrees would do fine 🙂

Peter Hardy
Gladly! 42*C here again today. 49*C in Birdsville, 51*C in Oodnadatta.

Chris Greathouse
24c is comfortable, I start melting at the 28c mark too... I'm glad I don't live in your upside-down Aussie world Peter 😛 42c is 107f!!! I would be a worthless sack of a human seeking air conditioning and beer as I melt. Next are you going to say "but it's a dry heat"? 😛 My grandparents would say that all the time living in Arizona. lol

Spanjaard
i rather take 45 and dry than 35 and wet... any time. and i know both pretty well 😛

Michael Hickey
WoW, she looks fantastic mate.👍👍👍

Peter Hardy
Thanks Mick, got a long way to go yet but flying thingys are a steep learning curve!

Chris Greathouse
Those exhausts are amazing!

Michael Hickey
Well you're certainly on your way.👍

Jozef Goos
Nice!

Rene Scheiblich
This can't be the old Viper from the 70s. It's the MK2 from the more recent remake with the female Starbuck 😛 less cheesy as well.
Makes the bad fit even worse 🙂

40°... Anything above 25 is uncomfortable and 30 starts to torture my sweat glands. 😄
But good thing you've got the morning hours. The red stripes came out quite nice, albeit a bit too bright shade of red.

Maciej Bellos
Great going. As for the temps, I am with Spaanjard here. Singapore with 30 and 100% humidity was far worse than 45 in Patras, Greece.

Slavo Hazucha
A humble comment from a man also working on some nozzles at the same time: these look great!😉 👍

Tim Heimer
Yes, there is more to learn when you expand your imagination to more than motorcycles! LOL

Peter Hardy
Rene, give me time to dull it all down Mate!

Lode, haven't seen the second series. Still secretly in lust with the "dirty socialator" Cassiopeia.

Jimbo, thank you! I am a Sci Fi fan and have been itching to get at this one.

Slavo, Tim has been badgering me for six months to try pastels. She'll be covered in chalk by the time I am finished.

Tim, shut up.

Peter Hardy
Yeah! Wilma and the giggle about the three shells in the toilet!

Ben M
What was that little robot always saying, beedy beedy beedy

Donald Dickson II
Nice! As for the intakes. Correct me if I am wrong, but the Vipers can go into a planets atmosphere. Perhaps at that time the engines switch to a combustion type system and then need the intakes?

Rene Scheiblich
Yep they are capable of atmospheric flight 🙂

Just picking, Peter 😛
She's looking fine 🙂

Spanjaard
Cassiopeia.... i was too young at that time 😛 but i remember the book certainly....

Chris Greathouse
Love the weathering!

Peter Hardy
Thanks Chris.

Tim Heimer
Not too shabby Peter!

Slavo Hazucha
Grilled & smoked bits looking tasty! 👍

Michael Hickey
She looks the goods.👍

Christian Bruer
Very nice work Peter 👍

Donald Dickson II
Love it!

Tim Heimer
Looking good mate!

Stefan Schacht
very nice 👍

Christian Bruer
Excellent paintwork and weathering 👍

Kerry COX
For a bloke who lives in such a rural and removed place, he has got amazing talent and determination to be a great modeller. 👍 😉

Peter Hardy
Thank you All. I am a bit of a sci fi nut so it was an enjoyable build. Next shots loaded will be of the completed build.

Rene Scheiblich
It's also enjoyable to look at! Hefty but sensible chipping, if I remember the series right, the birds looked quite beaten up a few episodes in.
The colourful area around the visible engine parts and exhausts looks cool B)
Seems you could apply some knowledge from your bike builds here.

Norbert Steffens
Fantastic weathering.looks gorgeous

Peter Hardy
Ok, calling this completed!

Michael Hickey
And I'd say you'd be correct, lovely job Peter.👍👍👍

Peter Hardy
Thanks Mick. Dogs do good this year you think?

Michael Hickey
Has to be better than last year but, the important question is "can the refs be better this year?"

Peter Hardy
Not that old chestnut again?

Donald Dickson II
Looks great!

Tim Heimer
Looks good mate! That burnt area looks great! What did you do, take it outside a bit?

Alec K
Nice job Peter. Makes me wanna do a sci-fi build 🙂. Hope you are not impacted by the fires too much.

Chris Greathouse
Awesome Viper!! Well done 😄

Rene Scheiblich
Great finish Peter! What's next, Apollo's Mk VII? ;P

Peter Hardy
Rene, the Galactica herself if undergoing a refit! It is posted so have a look!

Peter Hardy
Alec, I'm 2000 kays away from the incinerator. We just get whacked with a cyclone or two every year!

Thanks Jimbo! I will be slowing down from this point as I have to go back to work after 10 weeks recovering.

Thanks Chris, cannot waitto see your first Sci Fi build!

Tim, shut up!

Spanjaard
nice job Peter. one question comes to mind now that i see the fotos in the computer... all the red is nicely chipped showing grey or metallic color underneatch... but i see not chipping in the white

Nathan Dempsey
The red paint manufacturer was the lowest bidder. 🙂

Peter Hardy
Spanjaard, I have given this point a great deal of thought. I have decided the following; the bodywork of the Viper is made from sheet Chipless Imperviousium and does not chip. The red strips are made from non chipless plastisised sheeting, which does. Hope this explains why the 'white' never chips on Vipers. I thought everyone knew that! These facts can now go down in modelling folklore!

Dave Flitton
🙂

Kim Branders
I am fan Peter. Nice white wheathering there.

JD
Ooo! Do the Cylon Raider next!

Peter Hardy
Thanks Dave, you have made me smile enough so it is only fair!

Kim, thank you!

J D, got it half built but ran out of skills. When I get nearly as good as you I will try to finish it.

JD
Wow, try and give a compliment, get hit with a compliment...times shure have changed! You rock Pete!

Spanjaard
i could i forgot that Peter, of course, the imperviosum alloy 😛

Peter Hardy
Learned all about from Harry Potter movies!

Slavo Hazucha
Dogfighting in space is a hell of a dirty work😉 Great stuff, top job on the "space bike"! 👍