I just finished playing Dead Space (Remake) and it was a blast. Loved it! Solid 9.5 out of 10! And have been “coaching” our Chief Inspiration Officer @Wally_AMD on how to get around the USG Ishimura.
When I don’t play video games I dive into my other hobby; building scale model kits, specifically airplanes from the cold war era.
I just finished building the Tamiya F-16CJ Fighting Falcon Block 50. It was my first 1/32 scale built, and man, I loved it. There is a reason why the kit has a 5-star rating – everything about the kit is awesome, especially the removable engine, and the various weapon load-outs, not to mention the detailed cockpit and pilot.
I’m not a pro, but I humbly believe I did a pretty good job; it took me a little over a month to finish it, and overall, I’m satisfied with the result. I spent about 2 to 4 hours at night, in my garage where I’ve set up a small workshop for my new-found hobby. (I’m planning on building the F-4 C/D Phantom II next – one of my cousins flew one when he was in the IRAF, and I got to sit the in cockpit when I was 6 years old, I’ll never forget it).
Here are a few pics:
Engine and Cart:
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Cockpit (my favorite part to assemble):
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Pilot:
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Weapons and Seat:
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Done (I'll take more, better, higher-rez pics):
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What about you, are you into model kits?
oh dang you went all in on painting, ive only done that for one model ever, a dornier do-335. its been so long since i made a model plane, but i do have a model space probe i got from japan i would like to build and paint sometime. i guess the most recent models ive done have all been gundam, and those dont require glue.
Currently, my hobby is making custom USB controllers for flight simulators. I'm mostly playing DCS. I'll post a couple pictures of my project below. I am making two consoles that I will mount as drawers in a desk. They're just sitting on boxes now while I test them out, so my setup looks pretty janky. I'm currently making the custom joystick that will go on the right-side console.
The learning curve has been crazy. I never programmed an Arduino before (or anything for that matter), and I had very little experience with soldering. So a few hundred hours has gone into learning - what parts to buy, how best to carve out the throttle and joystick, how to work with the cheap tools I have, how best to wire and solder things, how to program Arduino and Teensy controllers, and how to troubleshoot everything when it doesn't work.
That's a fantastic job. I don't see an airbrush in your pictures, just the small paint jars. That suggests that you only use a brush to paint the models. I used to be into model making, and I had even entered (an won 1st place in the Novice division of the International Plastic Modelers Society) a Panzer III model I made back in 1975. After a few moves the models were pretty well banged up and the glue started letting go, so I gave it up. My older sisters husband (who passed a few years ago) was into the Japanese WWII aircraft and he had collected over 1,000 model kits. He only built about 50 models in total but they were extremely well done. It was his passion. Needless to say, my sister had to deal with all those model kits but she got a fair price from someone that took all of them with a U-Haul truck.
