Classic Aviation GB 1903-1938 (Feb 5-Oct 31, 2010)

Dave, the RE-8 is 1/72.

The more I see those Wing Nut kits, the more impressed I am. That looks like a collection of small kits, not one model. 

I'm posting what I got done today.  The first is a pic of the engine sans cylinders, looking aft.  The distributors are drilled out for ignition wires.  I'm going to scratch the ignition harness.

The kit supplies two sets of cylinders. One with push rods, the other without, so you can add your own.

I drilled and hollowed out the top of the

exhaust stack

The drum for the rear gun. You have the option for the one piece affair or the the three piece assembly which is much better IMHO

The rear gun. Only two pieces.

The middle section of the lower wing.  PE attached with urethane glue.  Those pieces are NOT going anywhere.

I couldn't help but mock up the upper wing after I assembled the ailerons.  With the horns the wing span is out to about 20"

This was the best pic I could get of the aileron, to show the complex curvature that was captured by the folks at Wingnuts.  I can't wait to build another of their kits.

Cheers

Dave

Thanks Dave!! Well so far it hasn't sagged one bit and it's been about 9 months. Yeah, so I build slow! Not sure how it would take paint, haven't tried that yet.

Aaron,

Thank you for the info on the rigging. There really isn't a whole lot more to tell about the wood grain technique other than when you wet the brush with mineral spirits, touching the side of the brush to the edge of a paper towel to pull of the excess spirits.  It actually is very easy.  It's what I've used on wood handled tools for my armor buildsin 1/35. I like the RE-8 you posted.  What scale is it? 

Simpilot,

Thank you for the heads up on the rigging you use.  How does it hold up over time?  Does it sag? How well does it take paint?  By the way, I like that Jake you're building. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Andrew,

That is going to be one mighty big beastie when you are done.  Can't wait to see it.  I build Tamiya's version a couple of years ago and, at 1/48 it is a pretty good size.

Cheers

Dave

HI Guys. Well my build is Trumpeters 1/32 Fairey Swordfish. A great plane the rounds off the end of the build era. IIRC she was also the Britains last Biplane in frontline service taking it to the enemy right till the end of the war in europe.

Well heres the box and the sprues laid out, building start tonight :)

Andrew

Dave that looks fantastic!!!! Love the wood grain effect!!!

Dave, for rigging I use some stuff I found out about from keeping track of some builds. It's called "knitting-in elastic". It is great stuff IMHO. If it is a bit thick it can be patiently split into a smaller size as it is a bunch of stretchy fibres together, not unlike a cable. Can be anchored with either epoxy or ACC and stretched to the other anchor point and glued. Instantly dead straight with no fuss. One thing that is the best asset is that it gives and doesn't break if you happen to put a wayward finger into it all, then snaps back dead straight again. I used some as the bracing wires on the floats of my Hase Jake I am building atm.

This is the stage it is at now, not much more to do now.

I'm still here! I've been busy with work and such lately so I havent gotten anything done. I'm thinking weathering for this plane wont happen. Modelling is going to be a winter hobby for me as I paintball during the spring/summer/fall seasons. I have about a month to finish the 109 so I'm going to try to finish it up soon as the last build for the season. I shall post pics when the prop and spinner are painted, everything else is on for the most part so there isnt much left to do.

I haven't done much rigging, but I found I like the wire cut to length and glued into place method. I just can't see myself drilling a bunch of holes and trying to run strings through them. I use guitar string glued in place with 5 min epoxy.

This Airfix RE-8 was my first attempt and I was pretty happy with the outcome.

I'd be interested in hearing a bit more about your wood grain technique, it looks good and doesn't sound particularly difficult.

I get several hours of bench time today so, no complaints here.  I'm still a ways off from getting the fuselage halves together.  Here are the engine bearers in place.  

A shot of the office.  The wood portions were painted with Tamiya XF-59. Once it was dried I gave it a light rubbing from a sponge with Windsor & Newton oil Burnt Umber.  I then took a flat brush dampened with mineral spirits and took off the excess burnt umber.  

This is the panel for the gunners office.

A mock up of the office

The fuselage dry fitted

Not much of the front office will be seen once all the parts are in place

Cheers

Dave

Aaron,

Those are a couple of nice clean builds.  Looking forward to seeing the rigging.  By the way, what do you use for rigging?

I'll get some update pics here shortly.  

Cheers

Dave

Aaron they both are looking awesome!!!! Not far away from the Siskin being finished!! WOOHOO!!

Still need to add the rigging, but the Siskin has decals. They went on pretty well despite their age, I was a little worried as the sheet had curled and slightly yellowed. The only problem was the roundels wrinkled slightly with the microsol.

and the Seafox, it is starting to look like a plane.

Ok, I've got you updated with the Swordfish.

Sweet!!! Another Stringbag!!!!

Aaron, hate to be a pain in the you know where but I'm gonna change my build. It was gonna be Sopwith Camel but I got my new "toy" in the mail to that will fit perfect with build and another buiild I stepped forward for (Battle of the Atlantic), the beast is...

Will be starting in the next day or so. Build will be OOB, but will be slowish till I get a few almost completes out of the way.

Andrew

Simpilot34,

Thank you for the compliment.  I like the "brick proverbial" comment. It had the take off run of one. In the instruction booklet, there is a picture of one that had a ground accident.  The entire top wing is turned at an angle to the fuselage.  Both parts appear relatively intact.  You can view these pics at Wingnuts website.

Aaronw,

Thank you for getting me on the roster.  This is my first 1/32 aircraft and I'm not sure where I'll put it when I'm done. It'll be interesting if they will come out with other scales down the road.  So far everything is 1/32, including the as yet to be released Gotha bomber.  

I didn't even know this aircraft existed until I came across it on Wingnuts website.  The corrugation was Junkers trademark so to speak.  It was skinned just like their Monoplane the J.1.  The J.1 that I am building was originally designated J.4 by Junkers but was changed by the bureaucracy responsible for aircraft.

Cheers

Dave

I've got you added to the roster. Those Wingnut kits look nice and this is no exception, I just wish they would scale some of their kits down to 1/72.

I'm not familiar with that particular aircraft but it looks like it is corrigated metal like the Junkers Monoplane?

Hughes you are off to a great start. Looking good!!!! That thing looks like it is going to be built like a brick proverbial!!!!!!!

Here is my entry into my first ever group build.  It is Wingnut Wings 1/32 scale Junkers J.1.  In late 1916 design specs were issued and out of them came the J.1.  Confusingly, this aircraft was designated J.1 along with Junkers steel monoplane that flew in 1915.  This aircraft was constructed entirely of dural tubes and almost completely covered in corrugated dural sheet.  The front fuselage was constructed from 5mm armored steel to protect the crew from ground fire, since the aircraft was designed to attack enemy ground targets.  

This build actually got started in the Aircraft Forum but, then I stumbled across this GB and thought I would give it a go.

I will be finishing this up as the one depicted on the front of the instruction booklet

I got the engine bulkheads and the instrument panel bulkhead painted today using Tamiya XF-67 NATO green.

The detail work I have yet to start on the instrument panel.  It will get some burnt umber oil to represent wood grain

The upper wing is made up of three panels.  All together they span just a bit over 18".

The fitting together of the panels is very stout as evidenced by the beefy tab & slot assembly. The lower wing is built up the same way.  The inside of the wing panels have reinforcement ribs.  These babies are NOT going to droop.

Cheers

Dave

WWII,

I like the camo you have gotten on the 109.  Some areas of desert have some low growing scrub brush.   It does a good job of breaking up the outline of the AC.  There is an color pic of a 109 flying over a desert with that camo scheme and it certainly does blend in nicely.

Cheers

Dave

Bob,

So this is the wee yellow winged one that you told me about.  That is a neat looking bird!  I need to get off my duff and get the J.1 going here

Cheers

Dave

WW2 she's looking good mate!!!! Well done on the desert camo.

Yea its desert camo, it looked the easiest to do of the choices it gave, yet was still apealing to me. I dont know why you'd have green spots on an aircraft in the desert, but i'm not the expert.

Most of my work gets done on the weekends. Im thinking i'll get to the 85% complete stage tmw if I work on it. The prop might get done, idk if I have white paint. The front landing gear is painted and ready to be put on, the back wheel needs some painting, and the 20mm cannons for the wings need painting. other than that the basic painting/assembly is complete. I will be trying some weathering with this one also.

I don't know much about Luftwaffe camo, I'm guessing that is the desert camo used in North Africa?

Glad to see you're still plugging away, I got some decals on the Siskin and should be getting some pics up. I might have to send out a search party for some of these guys though.  

Time to bring this thread back to life! I tried the green dots tonight, first time trying something that small with and airbrush. I dont think they turned out too bad. You'll notice in the last picture that two of the spots are pretty big, I will fix that in the morning. Next thing to do is the guns and prop, shouldnt take too much more to finish this 109.

B17Pilot

I use the blue painters tape all the time and have no problems with it peeling up paint.  Did you wait at least 24 hrs before putting the tape on?

HAHA NO! yea I know I should have waited and I knew that was my problem, I probably waited a few hours. I'm ok with it though, I'll have to learn to wait in the future.

I use the blue painters tape all the time and have no problems with it peeling up paint.  Did you wait at least 24 hrs before putting the tape on?

I painted the top of the wings first so I had to cover them. The only tape I could think of that would work best was the blue painters tape, it was pealing less paint than the others I tried. I'm ok with how much it pealed off, I dont need to remask anything to fix it so its all good. Hoping to do touch ups tomorrow morning and depending on how much I feel like working on it I will get some of the green spots done.

I also tried the tissue paper method for masking the wheel wells. I have to say I like it, They werent great but werent the worst I've had with wheel wells, Just need to brush paint some of the surfaces near the bottom of the wing and it will be good. Practicing will help me get better with this.

There are a few firsts with this model for me. I've never done a multi paint scheme on a plane (the corsair in a previous post was my first airplane I completed), and it was my first time trying the tissue paper to mask the wheel wells. I'm learning a lot and hoping to get better at them in future builds.

Looks good, what caused the patches of missing paint? 

PICS!!! Well the touch ups arent done, you'll see where they are needed. I will get at that tonight or tmw.