PTM folded up shop *years* ago. There was a brief revival 3 or so years back, when I released the Lockheed lifting body CEV model; but other than that, my model work has been done under contract (largely to Fantastic Plastic).
I have decided to bring PTM back. PTM was, in it’s day, a provider of simple and (for garage resin kits) relatively *cheap* model kits. I am going to largely stick with that… minimum parts count, minimal price (which, since they are garage kits, will still be more expensive than injection molded kits). It won’t be competition for FP… I am going to either do kits that have been rejected by FP, or are outside of FP’s baliwick, or were previous PTM kits. One of the SICBM “Midgetman” Hard Mobile Launchers, for example. The Lockheed CEV. The X-20. A few conversion kits for regular injection mold kits… a new lower half for the Monogram 1/72 X-15 to produce a very different bird, for example. Possibly the nuclear engines for the X-6 to fit to the 1/72 B-36 kit. The early Jupiter IRBM-launching submarine concept.
Feel free to post suggestions.
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I sold Allen a bunch of my CAD files, so long as they don’t compete with his stuff you can count on me to help with any models you’d like to do.
Right now I have a 16″ w/s X-48b that is ready for scribing and I was wondering if you’d be interested in doing the scribing in trade for CAD work. The SLA model only cost me $235. A 12″ version would be under $200. I also have a 16″ long Quiet Supersonic Bizjet concept by SAI that’s primed and ready to scribe. I’m not sure what you mean about the bottom of the 1/72nd X-15, but the CAD I have on it is pretty accurate.
I did a CAD model of that two stage Bell hypersonic that you have on the blog, I could send you some pics.
On another subject I found most of my old blueprints like the complete X-33 Launch site, A complete NASA Voyager BP set, and more that I’ve forgotten about but I’m sure there are some good ones. You can have them if you can send me scans of everything. I just don’t have the room for all that paper
JP
> I was wondering if you’d be interested in doing the scribing in trade for CAD work.
Possibly….
> I’m not sure what you mean about the bottom of the 1/72nd X-15, but the CAD I have on it is pretty accurate.
The Monogram X-15A-2 has a top half and a bottom half. I am workign ona kit that repalces the bottom half… not because Monogram got it wrong, but because the version I’m working on is an *airbreather.* Seemed better to make a conversion kit than an entire new kit, given the low cost of the Monogram kit.
> I did a CAD model of that two stage Bell hypersonic that you have on the blog, I could send you some pics.
I’d be interested. I recently found some text describing it in greater detail, giving dimensions.
> You can have them if you can send me scans of everything.
Deal!