Full Size TOS Colonial Viper in aluminium

[Tiberius Kirk]

I'd like to encourage you to push ahead with great vigor! You got this!!!

 

[publiusr]

I wish you worked on this at Area 51 to get chatter started

 

[joberg]

Yes!! I know that real life can put a damper into our projects (and yours is certainly a heck of a project!!).
Keep up the great work and eager to see your next update!

 

[Lunajammer]

You realize this thing is going to be in your epitaph. Epic achievements as this don't go unmentioned.

 

[binarysunset]

I'd like to encourage you to push ahead with great vigor! You got this!!!

Thanks - all encouragement appreciated!!

 

[binarysunset]

I wish you worked on this at Area 51 to get chatter started

 

[binarysunset]

Yes!! I know that real life can put a damper into our projects (and yours is certainly a heck of a project!!).
Keep up the great work and eager to see your next update!

Thanks mate!

 

[binarysunset]

You realize this thing is going to be in your epitaph. Epic achievements as this don't go unmentioned.

Well then, I better get to it and get it over the finish line! Almost finished isn't going to cut it

 

[Tiberius Kirk]

You know that your project places a great burden on me. I have to convince my wife that we need to travel half way around the world to (someday) see a Viper!

 

[binarysunset]

You know that your project places a great burden on me. I have to convince my wife that we need to travel half way around the world to (someday) see a Viper!

I hear ya! The look on her face is likely to be similar to telling your wife that you're building a space fighter in your back shed

 

[binarysunset]

Greeblies and Guns – part 2

G’day All, I have a little further progress on the starboard side to share. With all the major components fleshed out, I have made a start on some of the more detailed components, like the gr…

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[joberg]

Oh yes mate; great workmanship/pics Are you going to prep the metal before painting it?

 

[asalaw]

Very nice! Coming down the home stretch now!

 

[binarysunset]

Oh yes mate; great workmanship/pics Are you going to prep the metal before painting it?

Thank you sir! I used an etch primer on the port side greeblies and that seems to have worked quite well. The paint hasn't lifted after a couple of years anyway... The main fuselage will be cleaned with an aluminium surface prep solution to remove oxidation, then etch primed and painted. That seems to be the approach for aluminium aircraft.

 

[binarysunset]

Very nice! Coming down the home stretch now!

Thank you! Yes it will be good to get it finished

 

[binarysunset]

Fifty Shades of Gray…

G’day Folks, I’ve been making good progress on the starboard fuselage sheeting, cutting out the panels and temporarily fixing with cleco’s. I also tackled the fuselage tapered sec…

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[Searun]

binarysunset,
Great to see you still at the Viper project. Excellent metal work continues. I salute your art work and persistence in getting this unique space aircraft replicated. Original designers should be proud. Please safely sit some kids in that cockpit one day. Turn up the BSG music.

 

[joberg]

You're a stickler for details and it shows Keep up the excellent work!!

 

[asalaw]

Fifty Shades of Gray…

G’day Folks, I’ve been making good progress on the starboard fuselage sheeting, cutting out the panels and temporarily fixing with cleco’s. I also tackled the fuselage tapered sec…

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Just awesome!

 

[binarysunset]

binarysunset,
Great to see you still at the Viper project. Excellent metal work continues. I salute your art work and persistence in getting this unique space aircraft replicated. Original designers should be proud. Please safely sit some kids in that cockpit one day. Turn up the BSG music.

Thanks mate, appreciate your feedback and support