Oh wow, those look really great Don. 

Been working on the cylinders, now that the crankcase is ready to receive them.  Got them all painted now.

Detailing the cylinders is becoming a lot of work!  Every time I think I've got them ready to put into the crankcase I find another widget I have to add.  But one cylinder is now, I am sure, completely finished and ready to mount, though I want to finish them all before gluing them in.

modelcrazy

Oh, I  never thought of them being blued. What would you use, gunmetal? I'm intrested in seeing what you do with them. 

 

I mixed up a concoction, a mixture of Testors Gunmetal and gloss blue.  The gunmetal is dead flat, and no color to it at all.  I wanted a touch of blue in it, and a bit of a sheen.  I took the full (new) bottle of gunmetal, which was full up to the neck (square bottle).  I then poured in the gloss blue until it reached halfway up the neck.  This was a first cut, and it worked beautifully.  Picture maybe tomorrow.

Also, I learned yesterday that while the cylinder is one piece steel, the big cooling fins on the top part, and for the head are an aluminum "muff".  The top of the cylinder is threaded, as is the inside of the muff, and they are screwed together.  So I decided to do the top areas of the cylinder in alclad.  I masked off the bottom section with the blued steel and applied Alclad directly over the black plastic.  Worked great!

Looking forward for you to add some fuel to it to start her up sir!

Oh cool !! I wanna hear it run.

BK

Oh, I  never thought of them being blued. What would you use, gunmetal? I'm intrested in seeing what you do with them. 

Got the crankcase assembly painted, and all of the cylinders cleaned up and ready for painting.

Got the lower section of the cylinders painted, and they look great.  I am now contemplating painting whole cylinder that color of blued steel, instead of the aluminun color I had originally planned.  I see so many color combinations of Wasp cylinders!  I wish I knew what metals were used in which areas of the cylinder, and what process was used to get that color.  I am sure the lower part of the cylinder was blued or other chemical treatment, but do not know what were used on various others in the upper cylinder and head area.  Having a tough time finding the info.  And I assume many of the engine pictures I see these days are overhauled/re-manufactured engines with processes that didn't exist back in days when engine was manufactured.

Gamera

Oh wow Don that bench is waaaaaaayyyyyyy too clean- gives me a headache to look at it!!! 

Good to see you with a new project to get it messy again! 

Looks good so far. Seems like it'll be some work getting everything aligned proper and straight. 

 

I just pushed everything aside to clear a little area in the front of the bench to take the picture.  It is messy again already.  The reason the surface is so clean is that I refinish the surface each couple of models with contact paper.  My bench becomes really bad with glue gobs and paint drips and spills, and  I needed a fast way to refinish it.

And Steve, I'd love to do the Wright!  I had already done one Wasp, and wrote them encouraging them to repop the Wright.  But when the Wasp came out first, I took a look at mine and determined I could use the skills I had obtained in the 20+ years since then to do a better Wasp.  Really looking forward to the repop of the Wright.- why don't those of you want the Wright also write WB, the more emails and letters they get, the better

Looks really nice Don

Hey Don, sorry I missed this. I have the WB Cyclone.

I'll be watching. 

Oh wow Don that bench is waaaaaaayyyyyyy too clean- gives me a headache to look at it!!! 

Good to see you with a new project to get it messy again! 

Looks good so far. Seems like it'll be some work getting everything aligned proper and straight. 

Okay got  some more work done.  Front case glued to crankcase, and intake manifold halves glued together, seams filled, and primed.

The manifold was a bear!  It warped easily, and I had to glue the halves together in two operations to maintain decent alignment.  A lot of flash made cleaning the holes where the intake pipes fit.  Some areas were so bad I had to make plastic "washers" to make the hole circular and fit the pipes.  Above you see the pipes ready for priming.

Mea Culpa!  I had remembered (gee it had been a long time since I built that first kit) as a Wasp Jr.  It isn't- it is the big Wasp, the 1340.

Hi Don

Looking forward to seeing what you do with this

In the meantime, I like your bench--very businesslike. I also appreciate clearing the decks before starting a new project. I do that as well, and often just after a session, or even in the middle, so I have a clean slate. 

cheers

-J

JohnnyK

That looks like an interesting build. I never heard of the Williams Brothers Model Co. It seems like they make large scale models like your kit and parts for  RC airplanes. Here is their website: http://www.wmbros.com

 

They also made airplane kits.  One specialty I really liked were racing planes.  I see so many available now that the new owners must be repopping those too.  They were/are 1:32 scale, which is nice because those racing planes were pretty small.

I'll be watching Don!  Mine's in the closet currently.

That looks like an interesting build. I never heard of the Williams Brothers Model Co. It seems like they make large scale models like your kit and parts for  RC airplanes. Here is their website: http://www.wmbros.com