Crashing a Plane

[Smokeyrone]

Good work.

Here are a few suggestions, as I am a long time IPMS competition 1/35 armor and car modeler (Just won a prize for converting a '59 Buick into the malachi brother's Demolition Derby car, LOTS of damage):

To make realistic holes and fuselage, wing tears: 

 Use a dremel to sand the inside portion of the plastic, until it's damn near see through.   Then carefully tear holes with an exacto. 

To make crumpeled sections of the fuselage and flight surfaces:  Get heavy duty aluminum foil (the cooking stuff).   Wrap said around desired area of model.  Carefully burnish with a toothpick and paint brush, so your foil section has the detail of the area.  Then, remove the plastic of the area, and replace with your new foil piece, and CAREFULLY crumple.  Works GREAT!

For stringers, and interior framework:  You can off course use various Plastruct/Evergreen styrene strips, OR, cut your strips from an aluminum pan (1 dollar for a huge turkey pan at Dollar Tree).  They can be glued to your interior, and bent and twist to look like...well...aluminum framework.

Debris:  Plane crashes leave all sorts of debris.  Use your imagination, and have lots of various straps, flooring, insulation, wiring, and stuff around the wreckage.

Fire damage:  Drybrush actual suit (soot?  Sute?  ?) on your model.  Burn some paper, mix up and grind the ashes in a cup, and brush on, then overcoat. 

Oil, hydrolic fluid, gas:  Brush on actual oil.  I use olive oil mixed with ashes, and a drop of flat acrylic paint.  Looks GREAT!

I can show you pics of any of these techniques if needed

[ChargeDog]

Thank you very much, those are some awesome tips! I'm really looking forward to trying them out

[ChargeDog]

I've done the horrible bit of sawing the C130 into sections. The break points was inspired by a certain call of duty map.

Next step is to mount each section onto thin MDF base boards and then the detailing can begin

[OSHIROmodels]

That's my favourite map 

[Smokeyrone]

Looking good!   


Now experiment with a dremel in sanding sections (the edges, especially) thin, and tearing 'em up with exacto. 



BTW, was that a scale model kit, or a assembled plane? 

[tomrommel1]

what a project !

[ChargeDog]

Looking good!   


Now experiment with a dremel in sanding sections (the edges, especially) thin, and tearing 'em up with exacto. 



BTW, was that a scale model kit, or a assembled plane? 

Thats the plan!

It was a scale model kit, Italirei's 1:48 C130J. So i had the joy of assembling it and then cutting it up into pieces :|

[Smokeyrone]

Thats the plan!

It was a scale model kit, Italirei's 1:48 C130J. So i had the joy of assembling it and then cutting it up into pieces :|

LOL!  Big sucker!   I built the 1/48 B-52 (painted up as the Dr. Strangelove plane) and the amount of expensive  Alcad paint required was ghastly!

Awesome!   Oh, and for thin styrene to add any details, go buy styrene "For Sale" signs at a Wal Mart or DIY store, for under a buck a sheet! v   

For fire damaged sections, press your fingers into Testors model glue, touch finger and thumb over and over until the glue becomes a sticky, string film, and stick on surface.  Then paint with your black and suit colors.   (Trick I learned)

[ChargeDog]

The update is finally here! Seeing as I'm running a version of the game on sunday, I should probably show off how far I've got.

I still want to use some of the techniques people have mentioned in this thread, I just ran out of materials and time before it's first showing. However, I will be going back and making it look a bit more banged up.



The rest of the post is on the blog at http://hntdaab.co.uk/blog/2017/09/22/demo-games-planning-part-4-mad-panic/

[Hammers]

It looks great!

[SABOT]

Coming along nicely.

[Mako]

Looks like a great start!

The nose and tail sections rarely line up with the center section, when they break off, so having separate pieces for them is a good idea.

[ChargeDog]

I've done a report on the first play of the board. Still a few things to work on but it was a good first show. One thing I'm thinking it to tweak the layout - it does look a little carefully placed rather than crash landed.



It's on the blog at http://hntdaab.co.uk/blog/2017/09/29/demo-game-100-years-of-war-falkirk/

[AndrewBeasley]

Ace

Began to think you where going to play in the plane till the last couple of pics!

[dampfpanzerwagon]

The model looks fantastic.

Tony