Hi all,
I really want to join the MPC 22" Eagle party, but I paid good money for the Warp Eagle and feel it's a rite of passage before I go to the good life of the new styrene kit...
I've been working on this project off and on for an amount of time I'm ashamed to admit. Cleaning up the metal spine has been the issue. Hours and hours of filing.
OK, more history: The kit had a broken spine and I requested help from Federation models. They contacted WARP and they were kind enough to send a new spine. Thanks! So in the meantime I got confident enough to try and solder the broken spine, and it worked! Warp also included several new resin pieces to replace the old and very brittle resin they used in the older kits. Bottom line: I have about 80% of the parts to make a second eagle. So.... I have cleaned up both spines in this attempt.
Here's a snapshot. As you can see, I'm using "the chopper II" to make some styrene replacements for the kit metal.
The chopper makes this easy and quick and filing the ends of the plastic goes fairly quickly.
I'll used this thread as my build blog. Perhaps posting photos will keep my motivation going to finish!
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I really want to join the MPC 22" Eagle party, but I paid good money for the Warp Eagle and feel it's a rite of passage before I go to the good life of the new styrene kit...
I've been working on this project off and on for an amount of time I'm ashamed to admit. Cleaning up the metal spine has been the issue. Hours and hours of filing.
OK, more history: The kit had a broken spine and I requested help from Federation models. They contacted WARP and they were kind enough to send a new spine. Thanks! So in the meantime I got confident enough to try and solder the broken spine, and it worked! Warp also included several new resin pieces to replace the old and very brittle resin they used in the older kits. Bottom line: I have about 80% of the parts to make a second eagle. So.... I have cleaned up both spines in this attempt.
Here's a snapshot. As you can see, I'm using "the chopper II" to make some styrene replacements for the kit metal.
The chopper makes this easy and quick and filing the ends of the plastic goes fairly quickly.
I'll used this thread as my build blog. Perhaps posting photos will keep my motivation going to finish!
