Horten Hanger 1945

[danb]

Right chaps i have been trying something different from the norm diorama wise and have been dabbling in the art of paper modelling after being influenced by another modeller on Facebook some of you may know him Slava Trudu he has made several pieces for Uschi if you get the chance to check out his work look for his Reimag bunker dio anyway enough of the woffling this will be a on going blog showing some of the processes i have used for anyone else interested in trying out this technique.

Background on my dio idea after watching a documentary about the Horten brothers on Discovery History i wanted to recreate a scene in the film of a Horten 229 flying wing being made in a hanger more on the Horten later in the project .

first up i found a Texture website that you can download templates which can be put into a photo editing program then the template can be resized to a scale in my case 1/72 on the site i used i found a section on concrete bunkers and steel industrial doors then the templates were downloaded re sized and printed onto Canon craft photo card these were cut out and attached by 3M spray adhesive to black foam board here is a picture of work done so far this was a practice piece and is roughly 1/48 scale





I am currently building the final hanger door and will be posting up a sbs if anyone is interested :?

as always comments are always welcome

[AndyArgent]

looking great Dan, i knew you were going to end up doing one of these after you telling me how impressed you were with the one you told me about.

[danb]

Cheers Andy its taken a lot of research and practice but im slowly getting the hang of it

Here is the start of the ongoing sbs

the printed scaled template



Then using a sharp scalpel and ruler the doors were cut out of the picture to make up 1 hanger door i have used 4 printed templates



The doors were then arranged and stuck to a sheet of black foamboard



Next up was to find a concrete base for the floor of the hanger this was roughly scaled to 1/72 then printed off this will be stuck to foamboard like the doorand walling also i printed off a line drawing of a Horten in 1/72 as i scale guide this will be used as a template for panel lines when i get started on the Horten kit



Before i move onto the next stage i tried adding some figures to what i have so far to check for scale and its a chance for a bit of photography practice







next update soon

Dan B

[wbill76]

Pretty cool project and approach there Dan, nice!

[Deleted]

Interesting approach! Looking good!

[venom1]

Great idea Dan, lookin' good so far!

Cheers,

Sam

[AverageJoe]

Blimey! I recognise those figures......

[imatanker]

DB, this intrigues me. I have bookmarked the thread and will be following closely. Plus I am looking forward to the Horton part of the build. 

[danb]

Thanks for all the comments chaps

iamatanker: bookmark away fella glad this blog will be a help to you im also looking forward to the Horten part of the build

Dicky: just trying something new buddy still unsure how it will end up :? but only time will tell cheers for looking in

Joe: you been watching me again from behind that till again aint ya

Sam : cheers buddy

jcon: Thanks buddy:)

Bill: thanks for looking in fella

Dan B

[`Boots`]

They look pretty cool Dan and i gotta say i`ve not come across them before!!.........call me old fashioned , did you weather and paint these or did they come pre-painted.......like i said never seen them fella!!

[`Boots`]

......S`ok, just re-read the top bit again........now i know

[Leon]

Super cool project there Dan.I'll be following with interest.

[Deleted]

Was just looking at this software yesterday on Evil Bay! A little light came on Like where you're heading with this! Next..... the Flying Saucer Do you have a link to their web page?

[Deleted]

excellent stuff! nice idea those hanger faces look ace

[Steve Zuleski]

This should be a fun build, standing-by.

Cheers, Ski.

[multicam]

Pretty cool, Dan. Don't know much about modeling with paper, but I gotta say. That door and the cement slabs look darn realistic:) well done.

[armorguy]

Unbelievable !