Thanks for the responses, everyone!
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Remster_9, styrene comes in different thicknes and can be supported really well so that a finished product is as strong if not stronger than a production piece. It comes down to the builder and how much they put into making it structurally sound. Dark Horse for example said he could skateboard acrossntue room on his Indy tank. Having followed the WIPs for this I'm willing to bet the main body is very solid.
I won't be standing on it any time soon, but it's fairly solid. I put support braces on the insides to give it a bit more strength. And I used a really, really strong epoxy to hold the horizontal engine bar on.
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It looks MASSIVE too!
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I really like the size of it.
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Scale and detail is amazing
This just made me laugh, because another place I posted this, people keep going on about how I made it way too small (And there's a smudge on the cockpit glass! And you said a swear in the first post!). I think the extra wing I would have had to build onto my house to contain the scale they want me to have built it at would have really added to the project.
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Next time, make paper patterns of the pieces that can be easily scanned or copied too
I really wish I'd done this. Unfortunately, so much of the piecing together was done trial and error that, by the time I got it right, it was already assembled. I'm not so much a "measure twice, cut once" type of guy as a, "Cut, cut, cut, CUT CUT CUT WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE TAKE THIS KNIFE AWAY FROM ME?" guy.
Again, thanks for all the feedback! I probably will do another scratch build at some point. It's a lot of fun to watch it all come together.