Silent Running: Huey Duey & Luie

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Silent Running: Huey Duey & Luie

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These cute little droids are from a great 70's Sci-Fi called Silent Running.

I found these years ago after seeing them on a stand at a SMW. They are by a Japanese guy who made a loads of simple cards models from SciFi films (ie SW & ST). Unfortunately he pulled his site after his models got reposted and plagiarized.

As I'm a bit cheap and like a challenge from these simple models I've printed them at A5 rather than A4 size. I've not got the instructions either but I'm assuming I can work it out looking at pics.

As they three are very similar I shall just post one of the builds #3 Louie.

Cutting cards parts out if very tedious so I do anything that can speed up the process. Basically try to do as much as possible with the card part and tools held in one position.

1. Make all the horiztonal cuts on the part in one go, then rotate the card and repeat the process.

2. If duplicate parts are aligned placed your ruler across them and duplicate the cuts at the same time.

3. I free hand cut the tabs, again making all the same angle cuts together

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... and then rotating the card to make the others.

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I score parts with a blunt sewing needle in a pin-vice and use the same techniques are above. In addition to make small marks on the right side so that I can see where to score on the reverse.

It's easier to stick parts to a flat surface then a constructed box. Here I've stuck the three main subsection to the body before the later is glued together.

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Great to see you leaping straight into your build, James.

I think that these are the one by Uhu02. While you need the magic fairy dust and password to access the libary where he keeps the models, you can access the build thread for the models by clicking on the relevant model in the sidebar on the left of the home page. Uhu02 offers this instead of instructions so you might find them informative:http://uhu02.way-nifty.com/die_eule_der ... a/033.html
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One of my favourite all-time movies! Bruce Dern's finest hour.
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SJPONeill wrote:I think that these are the one by Uhu02.
No, those are far more detailed models. These are from about 10 years ago at least.
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Looks more like these ones then (http://www7a.biglobe.ne.jp/~sf-papercra ... ilent.html;) ...there is an instructions file on the page but it looks pretty simple and I'd say that you are well on top of this one, James...
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Yeah that's the guy. Good to see his work available. People should check out his other models for good first builds or model for youngsters.

Looks like I've got the bezel on the front panel a bit wrong.
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Just another 50mins work and he's all done. I've corrected the front panel by slicing around it and pushing it back so that it was correctly inset. The droids looked a bit knocked about so I'm not fretting about.

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At half size it's pretty dinky!

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Wow that's small. It looks brilliant.
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Wow! didn't realise just how small until you posed it alongside the paint tin...great work!
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Yes, almost makes 144th look like superscale ... Well Done, Fingers !
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ohhh I remember this movie, so nice!

So you now have three little helpers at the bench then?
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Well done on such a small thing.
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Nice work, just needs a watering can. :grin:

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Clashcityrocker wrote:Nice work, just needs a watering can. :grin:
Cheers, there is actually an "extras" pdf which has them playing cards and indeed a watering can!
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JamesPerrin wrote:
SJPONeill wrote:I think that these are the one by Uhu02.
No, those are far more detailed models. These are from about 10 years ago at least.
Yes, these were the very first thing I built when I tried paper-modelling for the first time, a good 5, maybe 6 years ago, and they'd already been doing the rounds for quite a while even then.

The Uhu02 models do seem more detailed, but then they are bigger than even the standard size version of these - and MUCH bigger than the size you've made them - HUGE kudos to you James.
There's a pic of mine in the 'Previous builds' thread, complete with the card table and watering can.
Pretty sure I still have all the files on a hard-drive somewhere....
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