When I saw the first
Jetman-video on Youtube (just search for "Jetman", you´ll find some very exciting movies) years ago, I thought this must be the coolest way of flying, Yves Rossy from Switzerland has found (
https://yvesrossy.com/ ).
In the end of 2019 I built a model of a Lamborghini Countach LP500S from Tamiya in 1/24 - my fictional "Slayer car". I didn´t use the included driver but it brought me to the idea to make the Jetman out of it.
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The only dimension I had for the wing was the wingspan (2,4m). So I had to take photographies from the internet to make my own views. For 1/24 the figure is too small I measured out. To make the wing matching to the figure it´s sized down to 1/27.
First I modified the figure to get the right posture. For the belts, I heated thin plastic material and deep-drew it over the figures body. So I could cut it off in the right thickness and had a matching shape to glue it on the surface of the body.
After that I added all the little details out of stretched sprue.
The parachute was made out of a plastic block. I made the structures with a small milling cutter and a small grinder. I covered it a few times with acetone, so thr hard edges disappeared.
The wing was made out of a massive polystyrene plate (thickness 5 mm). The vertical stabilizers were cut out of 0,5 mm thick plastic sheet.
The engines I made from external fuel tanks and Sidewinder missiles I had left from some F-104 kits in 1/72.