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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Colonial Viper MK II
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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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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(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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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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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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Viper frame strengthening and weight reduction.
I got quite a lot done today. Finished all the horizontal and vertical stingers in the nose. Then some strategic
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No noise on the nose at night.
Working on the Viper at night is really difficult in the suburbs. Not only my own family sleeping, but trying
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First videos of my full-scale MK II Colonial Viper build
After years of dreaming about it, an unsatisfactory attempt in cardboard, lots of planning and accumulation of materials, the time
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Battlestar Galactica MK II Colonial Viper – 1:1 Build
I first had this idea years ago, along with a couple of other projects I may move onto after it.
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