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The added detail is phenomenal. Really enjoyable watching this one come together.
The detail on the IP and the weathering in general is really top notch! Very, very impressive.
Mike
Hector Berlioz
Looking really great. Excited to watch this come together.
-J
Awesome work on that cockpit!
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Chris
Man these AM kits build up nicely!!! Great progress so far on that beautiful interior.
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You are doing this AM kit proud, as it deserves.
Nice work, thanks for sharing.
Wow, fantastic job on the cockpit.
Thanks all for the great comments, I truly appreciate them.
This is just a small update as I glued the cockpit floor onto the starboard fuselage half. Kit instructions say to first glue fuselage halves together and then insert the cockpit floor in from the bottom. But I have too much extra stuffed attached the fuselage walls for the floor to fit in this way.
I also finished and glued in a few levers and pump handles as well as the landing gear indicator and the fresh air hose under the IP.
This last photo is the pilot's seat and harnesses and the navigation/plotting table which fits into a slot right below the upper IP. The lap harness is from the Eduard Big Ed set which inexplicably doesn't include a shoulder harness. Even though, according to my resources, Dauntlesses were equipped with shoulder harnesses at the start of WWII. So I'm using a piece from an HGW Models harness and buckles with Tamiya masking tape for the lower part of the shoulder harness. I might just replace that upper HGW harness piece with masking tape too, the HGW piece looks kind of thick next to the masking tape. Thanks again for you comments and also many thanks for looking. Hope you enjoy. I welcome any and all comments, good and bad.
This last photo is the pilot's seat and harnesses and the navigation/plotting table which fits into a slot right below the upper IP. The lap harness is from the Eduard Big Ed set which inexplicably doesn't include a shoulder harness. Even though, according to my resources, Dauntlesses were equipped with shoulder harnesses at the start of WWII. So I'm using a piece from an HGW Models harness and buckles with Tamiya masking tape for the lower part of the shoulder harness. I might just replace that upper HGW harness piece with masking tape too, the HGW piece looks kind of thick next to the masking tape.
Thanks again for you comments and also many thanks for looking.
Hope you enjoy. I welcome any and all comments, good and bad.
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I have to agree with Uncle Jay Jay!
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Thanks for all the great comments so far. It really is nice to read them.
Just wanted to post another short update to progress in the cockpit, and out. Since my last update, I attached the controls and a panel on the port inside wall of the pilot's cockpit and also decided to add instruments to the back of the gunner's small IP in the rear cockpit (to add a little more depth). Also, right below this small rear IP I installed the antenna reel, after I finally found some small enough copper wire to fill it (40 AWG copper wire from Remington Industries).
On the starboard interior fuselage I installed the ammo container for the twin .30 cal MGs in the rear, the small deck piece that covers the radio section just aft of the pilot's armored bulkhead and the pilot's seat. Also on the seat, if you look back to my last update for reference, I replaced the HGW cloth shoulder harnesses with ones I made from Tamiya tape and the buckles from the HGW set. The harness was too thick and there is no way I could fit them through the buckles provided with the set. Then I painted them with Tamiya buff, applied a little burnt umber wash and a touch of pastel powder. I think they turned pretty nice. The lap harness is from the Eduard PE set. The fuselage is almost ready to close up but before I can do this I will wire and install LEDs to illuminate the lights in the rear of the fuselage. Right behind the .30 cal MG gun tunnel are two position lights; one green and the other clear. And on the very aft end of the plane just below the rudder is another clear position light. For the two on top I will glue in colored clear pieces; one from a CMK nav lights set and the other one I made from a piece of clear sprue. But the rear position light will be a piece of .5 mm fiber optic cable coming out of a small cannister that will hold the LED light. I got this tip from the May 2017 issue of FSM. While waiting for glue to set, paint to dry and resources to arrive in the mail, I started working on animating the propellor. I plan to install a Vector resin engine but first will drill out the center of the engine to fit a pager motor. The propellor shaft hole already in the prop wasn't true; I couldn't get the prop to spin straight. So I drilled it out larger and slid in a small piece of brass tube. It fit in tight and straight enough that I didn't have to glue it in. Then I drilled a small hole into a piece of .6 mm styrene rod to take the pager motor shaft. This will be the main propellor shaft coming out of the engine. I tried using a jig to drill this true but couldn't get it straight enough, so I just eyeballed it with a pin vise and my thumb and fingers and amazingly, got it centered and almost perfectly straight. If I can post a video of the prop spinning, I will. That's all I got for updates today. I'm making slow, but steady progress and hope to close up the fuselage soon. Because the wings are going to require a lot of work, not to mention the cowling and getting the engine and prop in straight. Thanks for looking, and again thanks for the great comments, I truly appreciate them.
On the starboard interior fuselage I installed the ammo container for the twin .30 cal MGs in the rear, the small deck piece that covers the radio section just aft of the pilot's armored bulkhead and the pilot's seat. Also on the seat, if you look back to my last update for reference, I replaced the HGW cloth shoulder harnesses with ones I made from Tamiya tape and the buckles from the HGW set. The harness was too thick and there is no way I could fit them through the buckles provided with the set. Then I painted them with Tamiya buff, applied a little burnt umber wash and a touch of pastel powder. I think they turned pretty nice. The lap harness is from the Eduard PE set.
The fuselage is almost ready to close up but before I can do this I will wire and install LEDs to illuminate the lights in the rear of the fuselage. Right behind the .30 cal MG gun tunnel are two position lights; one green and the other clear. And on the very aft end of the plane just below the rudder is another clear position light. For the two on top I will glue in colored clear pieces; one from a CMK nav lights set and the other one I made from a piece of clear sprue. But the rear position light will be a piece of .5 mm fiber optic cable coming out of a small cannister that will hold the LED light. I got this tip from the May 2017 issue of FSM. While waiting for glue to set, paint to dry and resources to arrive in the mail, I started working on animating the propellor. I plan to install a Vector resin engine but first will drill out the center of the engine to fit a pager motor. The propellor shaft hole already in the prop wasn't true; I couldn't get the prop to spin straight. So I drilled it out larger and slid in a small piece of brass tube. It fit in tight and straight enough that I didn't have to glue it in. Then I drilled a small hole into a piece of .6 mm styrene rod to take the pager motor shaft. This will be the main propellor shaft coming out of the engine. I tried using a jig to drill this true but couldn't get it straight enough, so I just eyeballed it with a pin vise and my thumb and fingers and amazingly, got it centered and almost perfectly straight. If I can post a video of the prop spinning, I will. That's all I got for updates today. I'm making slow, but steady progress and hope to close up the fuselage soon. Because the wings are going to require a lot of work, not to mention the cowling and getting the engine and prop in straight. Thanks for looking, and again thanks for the great comments, I truly appreciate them.
The fuselage is almost ready to close up but before I can do this I will wire and install LEDs to illuminate the lights in the rear of the fuselage. Right behind the .30 cal MG gun tunnel are two position lights; one green and the other clear. And on the very aft end of the plane just below the rudder is another clear position light. For the two on top I will glue in colored clear pieces; one from a CMK nav lights set and the other one I made from a piece of clear sprue. But the rear position light will be a piece of .5 mm fiber optic cable coming out of a small cannister that will hold the LED light. I got this tip from the May 2017 issue of FSM.
While waiting for glue to set, paint to dry and resources to arrive in the mail, I started working on animating the propellor. I plan to install a Vector resin engine but first will drill out the center of the engine to fit a pager motor. The propellor shaft hole already in the prop wasn't true; I couldn't get the prop to spin straight. So I drilled it out larger and slid in a small piece of brass tube. It fit in tight and straight enough that I didn't have to glue it in. Then I drilled a small hole into a piece of .6 mm styrene rod to take the pager motor shaft. This will be the main propellor shaft coming out of the engine. I tried using a jig to drill this true but couldn't get it straight enough, so I just eyeballed it with a pin vise and my thumb and fingers and amazingly, got it centered and almost perfectly straight. If I can post a video of the prop spinning, I will. That's all I got for updates today. I'm making slow, but steady progress and hope to close up the fuselage soon. Because the wings are going to require a lot of work, not to mention the cowling and getting the engine and prop in straight. Thanks for looking, and again thanks for the great comments, I truly appreciate them.
While waiting for glue to set, paint to dry and resources to arrive in the mail, I started working on animating the propellor. I plan to install a Vector resin engine but first will drill out the center of the engine to fit a pager motor. The propellor shaft hole already in the prop wasn't true; I couldn't get the prop to spin straight. So I drilled it out larger and slid in a small piece of brass tube. It fit in tight and straight enough that I didn't have to glue it in. Then I drilled a small hole into a piece of .6 mm styrene rod to take the pager motor shaft. This will be the main propellor shaft coming out of the engine. I tried using a jig to drill this true but couldn't get it straight enough, so I just eyeballed it with a pin vise and my thumb and fingers and amazingly, got it centered and almost perfectly straight. If I can post a video of the prop spinning, I will.
That's all I got for updates today. I'm making slow, but steady progress and hope to close up the fuselage soon. Because the wings are going to require a lot of work, not to mention the cowling and getting the engine and prop in straight. Thanks for looking, and again thanks for the great comments, I truly appreciate them.
That's all I got for updates today. I'm making slow, but steady progress and hope to close up the fuselage soon. Because the wings are going to require a lot of work, not to mention the cowling and getting the engine and prop in straight.
Thanks for looking, and again thanks for the great comments, I truly appreciate them.
If the rest of this build is as good as the progress so far this will be one of the best builds I have ever seen. Awesome!
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