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WWI Spotter Balloons paper models for DL by Yuri Efremov:


Parsival
https://vk.ru/doc306481469_638315327...1&no_preview=1

Caguot
https://vk.ru/doc306481469_638314880...1&no_preview=1

The Germans copied the French Caguot balloon as the AE balloon since the German Parsival was difficult to ...

Beautiful job!

Merci!

pourrait te satisfaire. Trous de 2 à 4,5 mm dans le cuir, le carton et même le métal tendre.
J'en ai une , elle est très efficace et précise. Par rapport à ton outil, il faut la régler selon le diamètre de perçage que tu veux, c'est un peu moins pratique. Mais il y a bien un trou de guidage face ...

More pics.

Next was building the waist and hips. The designer had added some parts to make the waist swivel, but they weren't in the instructions.

Unfortunately, I can't find the photos I took while building it, so I'll try to describe it.

I remembered an article from the early 2000s about making a rotating ...

Next, I made the shoulder pads. As there were some recesses and holes in the pads, these were punched and cut out. I then created hand holds and finally the rings to make it accurate to the production art and animation.

The rings double punched with a very nice punch set I picked up at IPMS ...

Next, I built and modified the middle shoulder section between the pauldrons and the torso.

I cut and added tiny wedge-shaped venting that was shown in the production art for the anime, the anime, and many of the plastic kits and toys that were developed.

I then added raised surface detail like ...

Next, I taped off the head and "chest" and added stripes by cutting some thin strips of making tape and then painting white stripes.

Ensuite, j'ai scotché la tête et la "poitrine" et j'ai ajouté des rayures en coupant de fines bandes de ruban adhésif, puis en peignant des rayures blanches.

Sanded and painted

Poncé et peint

Next I moved on to the upper torso. The anime showed that there was a "collar" surrounding the neck, which I scratch built, then all the neck hydraulics and mechanicals were covered in some type of kevlar or canvas. I also double layered the torso so I could emphasize the panel segmenting and add ...

Plasma Obliterator

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Gbeo2 ... X01i_v6bkQ

Next, I sprayed sandable auto body primer on the helmet, did a quick sand and then stippled artist's gesso over the surface. I then added the visor that came with the kit and repeated the process.

Next came sanding with some finer grit sandpaper to smooth out the texture. then a coat of olive drab ...

More pics to go with post above.
Plus de photos pour accompagner le message ci-dessus.

So I found a scan of the "Art of Patlabor the Movie" with one page dedicated to the concept art for the Helldiver. Comparing it to the designer's build, I quickly realized that there were going to be....issues in my OCD mind. Fortunately, being well stocked, on vacation, and in lockdowns, I had ...