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Greg Baker
First print mostly successful. I will need to rework the thickness of the walls and the support struts for the roof. Much too thin.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here 🙂

LucLuke B
3d printing, I wouldn't know where to start. Is the ami 6 a file you found online?

Greg Baker
I did find it online, but was a little disappointed with the quality. It required a lot (and will need more) work to be able to print it. I mainly have to increase the thickness of the rear trunk area. The strange overhang roof in the rear needs to be sturdier as well.

Alex K
Can't miss this...

Greg Baker
The second printing went much better. I made a mistake though, I forgot to add the support to both sides of the rear roof struts. Luckily one side seems to be strong enough to hold everything, and with a little paint I don't think the thin part will be visible.

Cuajete
I can't miss it either.

Matthew A
Amazing printing

Alec K
Taking a seat 👍

Thomas Espe
👀

Spanjaard
i am in 🙂

Greg Baker
Good timing. After a bit of a summer break spent watching football, olympics, and playing video games with my son... I just started back at the modelling desk. After clearing up a couple of other, smaller, Tintin-related projects, I'm almost ready to tackle this one again.

Greg Baker
With the Hawker Hart off the bench and on the shelf… I guess it's time to tackle this one again. Getting the colour right was tricky. I finally settled on a 10:5:1 ratio of Tamiya XF-2 White, X-14 Sky Blue and XF-18 Medium Blue. Not perfect, but close enough I think.

Cuajete
I like this color, Greg 👍

Greg Baker
Thanks Cuajete. It might be a LITTLE bit darker than I was going for, but close enough for me. It looked lighter in the airbrush cup, but I suspect the darker undercoat is at play here.

Greg Baker
Got the windows in place. I used an old iPhone screen protector plastic cut to fit. For the interior windows I glued it them in place with some very small dabs of CA glue and then a brush of Future. However, for the open doors, I used the thinner "peel off plastic" that's supposed to keep the iPhone protector nice and clear until it's applied. Then I dipped them in Future and applied them directly to the doors. Let's hope there's enough adhesion once the Future dries. It SHOULD work, since I did the same thing on my Tintin Model T project for the windscreen. But that was flat… these have a bit of a curve to them.

Greg Baker
Looks like the windows are holding. Next up… painting some of the details.

Cuajete
Perfect, Greg! 👍

Finn
Looking good, I'm in for sure!

Greg Baker
Coming along…

Greg Baker
I just realized that I've been looking at the colour scheme from the album - specifically the scene that takes place at night where Professor Calculus is taken down the stairs and dump unceremoniously into the front seat of the Citron Ami 6 by a rogue wheelchair, blasting the doctor out the passenger door in the process. However... since it takes place at night, the colouring is different (i.e. darker) than it should be in the light of day. Now I feel like I screwed up the paint job!

Spanjaard
the dio is set in the dark... correct color! 😉

Greg Baker
I like the way you think... 🙂

Cuajete
I'm with Spanjaard 👍 😉

Greg Baker
Basically done. Just a couple of tiny bits to add.. like the license plate!

Harald Besold
Great project! The Talon looks extremely good in the Thunderbirds colors. I really hope that the T-38 will come onto the market as a new kit in 1/72 at some point. In my opinion there is a real gap in the market. The few old kits are very difficult to obtain. Congratulations on the project.

Dave Burgess
Yeah,I don't even HAVE this model anymore. Got crushed when a couple of my display case shelves collapsed a few years ago (support pins worked themselves loose). I'm working on doing the TBirds collection in 1:72 because I need less display space. I've found a t-38 kit, but as yet, no decals. I believe Warbirds does a 1:48 sheet, but not a 1:72 sheet.

Dave Burgess
The above kit that I found on E-Bay (Hasegawa #00012) just arrived, and it turns out it has decals (albeit minimal) to do the Thunderbirds. You have to paint on all of the stripes by hand, but the decal sheet provides lettering, the TBirds logo and the tail flash for #2 bird, plus the rectangle of flags. I can live with that.

Dave Burgess
Found a full 1:72 decal set (Microscale 72-138) for the T-38 on EBay. So it's full speed ahead now!

Robert Podkoński
Great!

Harald Besold
I'm already looking forward to the result. This will be a unique model in 1:72. Good luck!

Ekki
Watching

Dave Burgess
Continuing the build, while I wait for the decals to arrive. It's at the painting stage now. I still have to mask the canopy.

Dave Burgess
First problem: Got the white base coat down, and started to apply the decals. Unfortunately, the Microscale decal sheet is so old that it's dried out and the first decal completely fractured when I tried to apply it. So before doing any more, I need to trip down to the local hobby shop and get some decal fixer. I've also scanned the decal sheet, and in the event that the decal sheet can't be used, I'll print another. That's plan B, because the pale blue colour of the backing paper means you have to colour adjust the scanned image to remove the blue background, and the dark blue of the decals comes out more black. Kinda ruined my day!

Doubtingmango
Amazing detail!

Craig Everson
Thank you 🙂

Chris Ubing
It looks like some of your parts are 3d printed.

Craig Everson
Yeah they are, most of them I got from Cults3D.

Nicolas
Following

Dave Burgess
Continuing the build, while I wait for the decals. It's at the paint stage now; just have to apply the canopy mask.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here!