Great to see a new update Wolff, wow has it nearly been a year since your last update?!! Hard to believe, where did that go eh?

Anyway, keep up the good work my friend    I look forward to your next update  

THANKS SO MUCH GUYS!!!         


Update:
http://swspaceclub.com/wbobafett/my-collection/customs/khetanna/#06july2014

THE UNDERSURFACE

The undersurface as I call it will be the last part of the hull. This stage of construction will give the ship its final shape and form. I decided to build it more like one of the models used in the movie although everyone will be more familiar with the CGI undersurface.



As I do not build other models I have no "fodder box". As you can see on the picture above a lot of stuff will be needed to build the undersurface. I in example searched quite a while for a material to build those grills. Now I have finally found somrthing that can be used perfectly.
After that the rough construction of the undersurface is built in one piece. It will be cut in three pieces as soon as its mounted to the top part.
I needed to disassemble the whole ship again. The three main parts needed refixing and I had to change the way some of the transition parts work and look. It is quite a lot of filling, sanding and smoothing.

Great to see un update of your Sailbarge, Wolff.  

Man, you do have some skills for model building!    

Simply amazing work. I love the detail of the side panels.

I want it!   

Good to see you're still active with this project   Even if it takes another 11 months or longer, I'd still like to see this complete.

Really outstanding Wolff! Fantastic work!  

General Kahn wrote:

I want it!  

Alex, I'm convinced Wolff will make one for both of us...  

Wolff it's great to watch your work as it progresses, awesome job mate  

Wollf, this is fabulous! Do you want to marry me    ?

Some very nice comments here guys!!! THANK YOU!!!!

      

Jedi Blueberry wrote:

Wollf, this is fabulous! Do you want to marry me    ?

Hmmm....let me see your bank account and I will think of it.....      



UPDATE!!!

guys...it freaking works...I am so damn happy.....



http://swspaceclub.com/wbobafett/my-collection/customs/khetanna/#07july2014

Time to get one of the features done. I started to built the landing gear mechanism. First up was a rough design of the landing gear. I tried to build them a bit like the ones from Kenner's Tatooine Skiff.





I thought long about how to build the mechanism to get it work. I studied the landing gear mechnaism of Kenner's Tatooine Skiff and B-Wing Fighter (thanks for the help on TIG btw). All have three feet and the front foot ist retracted the other way. I was near quitting the whole mechanism thing but then I remembered playing with Lego-Technik as a child and I was able to find a box with parts in my parents house. I came to a simple solution where one move retracts the front and the back feet oppositional.







I finally got the hull of the undersurface finsihed. Some filling and sanding still left but I couldn't wait to see if the mechanism works. So the construction was glued to the ship. Then it was cut into three pieces so that the hull is still detachable (pics will follow). Two pieces as cover were build, also detachable.
So this is it: The ship has its final shape and form, the mechanism works and it carries the weight.
















Next up will be the mechanism of the wings and the electronic parts. Then on with the deatils to the landing gear and the undersurface.

  

Holy crap!
LEGO to the rescue!

Nice to see such an elegant and simple solution to that, Wolff!
Very cool indeed!   

Are you sure you aren't a model maker/designer for a living?

Nice updates lately man!

cheers!

  Love it man, the lego is legendary! absolutely perfect!   

Words fail to desribe just how amazingly good this looks man,, even my wife gave it a serious 'WOW' and she a woman.... with a woman brain!!!!

Awesome chief!

Excellent work Wollf.  

Your new young padiwan must be letting you get some rest.  

Your words are very apreciated guys!!!

UPDATE:



http://swspaceclub.com/wbobafett/my-collection/customs/khetanna/#20july2014



I am now trying to give the undersurface some details. Here is some pictures of the progress:









I also installed the electronics. The switch and the battery box were built in:






I also finally made the wings work. Complicated (maybe too complicated??) mechanism, but hey it works!
The mechanism itself was built out of brass tubes: sawed, drilled, crumbed and sanded.
The back of the wings was built after the look of the ILM model, whereas the front was built more like the full size movie set. Simply because the front is designed more complicated and I got the detail pictures of the model too late. It was then just more easy to go with the ILM model on the backside....safes a lot of time and nobody will ever see it anyway....






















I hope you like it!

Comments/criticism are welcome...

Regards

Wolff

Amazing workmanship Wollf  

It's a pleasure to watch this progress mate  

Cheers Andy  

It just keeps getting better and better, Wolff!!!   

I hope to visit Germany in the next few years and when I do I hope to visit and see your collection and dioramas in person! I am sure pictures do not look as nice as they do in real life!

Very nice update as usual man!

Thank you for sharing!

J

Looking good Wolff. It's nice to see a POTF 2 Landspeeder being put to good use.  

Without putting it too bluntly, I've just had an orgasm   

Fantastic work Wolff!

  

Guys...I needed longer to update all my threads then you replying!! GO TO BED!!!    

Thanks a lot....it was hard work again. Great to see some love for it!   

cantina_patron wrote:

Looking good Wolff. It's nice to see a POTF 2 Landspeeder being put to good use.

        

Well...it was in spare box for a long time. The only reason I kept it was a possible use for a diorama   

The Kethanna actually has an engine there.....not actually correct shape...but hey...better then building one on my own. I will modify it...though


Cheers

Wolff

PS: next up will be the deatils of the landing gear and hopefully a good stand.....as well as a support platform/stand for it.....  

ooops...front pic of the wings was missing.....now up...see the actual damage of the movie set modell!!  

Incredible work Wolff   

This is one of my favorite threads - getting to watch your step by step progress is really cool   

Brilliant updates Wolff   
The way you came up with the landing gear and wing mechanisms was a stroke of genius,
the whole thing is really coming together now, well done sir    

Words alone can not describe how amazing this looks !!

   


UPDATE:



http://swspaceclub.com/wbobafett/my-collection/customs/khetanna/#21july2014



Before I can go on with the details to the undersurface I will need to finish the landing gear. The three landing feet must be finished to get the slots done in their final shape. I have collected stuff for month and now its time to get them all together. Remember it was only a wooden landing feet before:







I cannot remeber to whom I talked, but I did. Some standard cables get tacky when primed...it never stops, probably because of the flexibilzers in the plastic hull. So why not simply dismantle them???...finer structure and better look anyway. But I needed very small cable straps to make it look more real:



Finally I could test the guitar strings I bought nearly a year ago. They work perfectly:






I cannot wait to get them all done and get them primed.


I hope you like it!

Comments/criticism are welcome...

Regards

Wolff

  wow! You just took a really cool looking landing gear....and somehow, not only made it cooler, but like really fucking cool!