Module 3 – The cockpit shell
*This page will be updated with all the progress on building the structure of the cockpit. (The instrument fitout will
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Author: BuildsByBaz
Fuselage Module 2 – Redux
As you may have seen in the video earlier, we made an error in the size of the formers for
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WE FINALLY DID IT!!
Last week we had an awesome time at the Canberra hospital in the paediatric ward with the kids! The Starlight
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Viper Pilot flight suit
*This page will be updated with work in progress on the flight suit. There are flight suits available on Ebay
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Viper Pilot Sidearm
ATTENTION! Please read this article carefully and obey the law. Caution: Replica weapons are covered under law. BEFORE MAKING ONE, check
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Viper Pilot Helmet
*This page will be updated with progress work on building the helmet. No life sized Viper builder in his right
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September on the Viper – Nose intake.
This week has been pretty slow. I’ve got maybe an hour over the last few days to tinker in the
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Cylons have a plan. So does Baz.
I decided to take a couple of leave days to work on the project. I don’t take much leave so
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Module 2 begins and first instruments arrive.
The second module formers are now ready to space, align and attach to the spar. They are pictured upside down
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Iron Man and the Starlight Children’s Foundation
The original and ongoing mission of this suit was and is to wear it into children’s hospital wards to cheer
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Mk II Viper cockpit interior fit-out.
Trying to faithfully recreate every single part of the cockpit is particularly hard when all you have to work from
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New Iron Man video!
A man pivotal to that latter stages of my build, (pretty much most of the electronics), turns out to be
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Viper MK II cockpit reference pictures.
(This page under continual review to improve references.) Instruments, controls and furniture This page identifies instruments from the 2003 reimagined
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Maximising moments.
Today I couldn’t do much while babysitting, but while miss two watched on in the back yard sunshine, dad drew
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Builds By Baz
Introducing a new website, encouraging folks to build stuff. The site documents some previous ambitious and ultra-cool projects, plus has
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Foaming at the nose.
To start building the body of the fuselage in layers, I found some Sikabond foam construction adhesive at Bunnings. Messy
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DIY foam hot-wire cutter
Part of the Viper build is sculpting the shape of the fuselage between the formers, so I have a good
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Colonial Viper MKII – Stringers and Longerons
I got about three hours of frantic cutting, drilling and grinding done this evening. All the horizontal and vertical stringers
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Man of the match.
Introducing my good friend James. I met James through a Facebook photography friend, Ben. Ben saw what I was doing
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Steel Iron Man suit WIP videos.
Most of my documenting of the build was in photos, but occasionally I took some video to add some depth
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