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Oh man, i would have loved to have some of those. Great looking stuff. Thanks for Sharing Ahhh such a shame that they went out of business, but obviously there was no market for them :cry: Seeing the ALF tiller, reminds me of my plans of building a Philadelphia version myself. Just waited to long t...

Outstanding work of art, impressive.
Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks for your feedback! Fantastic work my friend. I'm glad to see you're still working on it. Thanks for sharing Yes i´m still working on it! 8-) And since i´m trying to create as much details as possible, it quite often got out of hand, and i´ve wasted so much time for something that went into th...

And to finish this small update; „One important thing for the basket was the water gun, which i have created next. The steps were basically the same as for the pipe system; "thermoformed" small clear acrylic rods, added some polysterol rods in smaller diameter as well as polysterol pipes in larger ...

And to finish this small update; One important thing for the basket was the water gun, which i have created next. The steps were basically the same as for the pipe system; "thermoformed" small clear acrylic rods, added some polysterol rods in smaller diameter as well as polysterol pipes in larger di...

Hi everbody, another quick update on this project :D One important thing for the basket was the water gun, which i have created next. The steps were basically the same as for the pipe system; "thermoformed" small clear acrylic rods, added some polysterol rods in smaller diameter as well as polystero...

And the complete laddersystem, not attached to the boom yet

That´s all for this time, the next update will follow soon

So another quick update; the ladder system :D For the ladders i used the 1/32 scale styrene ladder from plastruct (item Nr. 90674). The package holds 2 very long pieces, which were cut in half to have the four ladders needed. But since the top ladder needed to be wider than the telescope boom, i had...

To finish this update, a picture with the whole system, roughly in place.

I further have started to build the ladder system as well and it will follow with another post

Then i created the support/mounting brakets for the pipes, out of rectangular polysterol tubes (clear and white). For an instance they´re all just taped in place and will be glued onto the telescope boom at the very end of the build. This way i have have room, when all the further details will be pl...