Hey, thanks for all your comments
unfortunately I've come down with a nasty flu, so there has been no progress at all for a couple of weeks.
But I found some WIP pics from the projects beginning, so enjoy ! (and thanks for the idea, DaddyfromNaboo
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It all started with an engine, made of foam core and paper.
WIP of the first wing :
The method I used to detail the flat surfaces with panel lines : the ones I improvis...err, designed, are made with a layer of thick paper, and the "canon" panel lines are made with two, so they are a little deeper.
I tried for days to build a sufficiently fine meshing for this part of the wings, and finally settled on cutting into a mosquito net mesh thingy (I hope it's the right word, pardon my french)
My first idea for this part was to cut strips of paper and glue them on just like the panel lines, but it turned out reaaaaally ugly (and messy), so I tried to cut LOTS of parallel lines in a strip of foam core with my scalpel blade, and it turned out so much better
Thrusters WIP and complete wings (as I said previously, the thrusters are basically 2 ice-tea cans glued together, rolled in paper and sprinkled with bits and bobs)
Fuselage and canopy WIP (it was SUCH a pain in the bottom to get the proportions about right)
And voilà
more progress pics coming as soon as I feel alive again !