Stand by for Action, we are about to launch Stingray!

[Boldman]

Eh?

[lancfan]

Eh?

Boldman, Kids do read this site, please read your 11.59 post and you will see what I meant.

David.

[Boldman]

Yes I understand the post you are talking about, but I don't understand how you think what I posted would be at all shocking or corrupting to a "kid" who is capable of reading this forum?

[lancfan]

Boldman, ?
Forget I said anything.

David.

[SJPONeill]

Eh?

Boldman, Kids do read this site, please read your 11.59 post and you will see what I meant.

David.

Exactly...it's cruel and inconsiderate to mention having a WARP Eagle without posting pics of it...

[Boldman]

I shall now endeavour to post without causing any potential offence to anyone... So after a few days fighting with the hull joint, airbrush and home-made decals, we are almost there!

The joint between the two hulls took a LOT of filling and sanding to get it anything like decent. Then of course came the complexity of respraying the silver, then there was retouching the paint creep under the masking tape. The nose had to be completely repainted - there are something like 8 or 9 coats of yellow paint there!

As for the decals - well there hangs a tail. I had bought some clear decal film for colour laser printers, but then the company I work for got taken over by a big software company whose name begins with "O" and they moved us into their offices and got rid of all out lovely colour laser printers!!! So now I have to use my own inkjet printer on the appropriate decal paper. Problem here seems to be the ink used by HP will run at the slightest touch of the liquid decal film, so today I have used up about half a sheet of decal film trying to get two "Stingray" decals where the ink has run, smudged or simply dropped off!

Anyway perseverance paid off. However, its still not 100% complete. The fins behind the cabin should have a white "3" on them but there was no way I could print white, so I have some generic number decals in the post that will hopefully do the trick. So here she is 98% complete...







and of course with the lights off...



and here is a close-up of the cockpit

[MerlinJones]

Thing is, you now need some guppies and mollies and a couple of neon tetras swimming past.

Regards,
Bruce

[lancfan]

Boldman, your Stingray is just great, really like the way you have iit it using the base as a battery box.
I just have to get one of these.

David.

[ShaunW]

That is really excellent Boldman and although it presented you with some proper challenges by the sound of it, the end result has been worth it. I love the lighting effects too.

[DavidWomby]

Well done. You certainly improved that old kit. Brings back lots of memories.

David

[Boldman]

Thanks guys - I'll see if I can find an aquarium somewhere to photograph it against haha

[Dirkpitt289]

That is very cool. Nice work

[JohnRatzenberger]

Excellent ! If you move a couple of those sea grass they'll just about hide the stand

[Boldman]

it was only after I complete dit that I realised I'd put the stand in the wrong way round - if it was going the other way, it would simply blend into the plants which seem to be flowing backward, but the stand is pointing forward... oh well, never mind

[ntrocket88]

Beautifully finished. A great piece of work.