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Heh... Not everyone is making progress :/
Although I will be able to go back to work on the Falcon after Christmas, I don't think I'm going to make it before the Jan 6 deadline. But I will submit as a late entry when Im done.
C17 is looking sharp!
1/32 Revell Duo Discus 1/32 Revell ASK-21 1/48 Ardpol SZD-51 Junior 1/48 Czech Models Grumman Goose 1/144 FineMolds Millennium Falcon
Yep. I once built a Sopwith Camel in 1/72-- and that was even tiny.
It's good to see that everyone's still making progress on this GB.
The hardest part of flying isn't flying...it's landing.
I know I have not been able to be an active participant but I have been lurking. All the work has been impressive.
Dunno if you guys saw this. Those have got to be near microscopic. Gotta me some of that!
http://hyperscale.com/2013/reviews/kits/valom14402reviewpp_1.htm
Marc
Getting more done on the C-17. I masked off the windshield:
Here it is dry fitted to the fuselage: The clear part doesn't fit onto the fuselage very well. Its a bit too wide at the corners so you have to sort of pinch it or squeeze it together just a little. Also, there is a small gap under the to forward windshields and the nose of the plane. So I thought no problem. I'll just lay a little bit of Mr Surfacer 500 in the gap and sand it out. Well, the grey Mr Surfacer 500 flowed onto the glareshield in the cockpit just ever so slightly and there's nothing I can do about it. This is too bad because I really polished out the windscreen and its crystal clear. But one of my decal sheets includes window decals so I might just use that instead. I should have painted some black in there first. What was I thinking? Oh well, I'm not really losing any sleep over it. You can see the grey pain in this pic:
Here it is dry fitted to the fuselage:
The clear part doesn't fit onto the fuselage very well. Its a bit too wide at the corners so you have to sort of pinch it or squeeze it together just a little. Also, there is a small gap under the to forward windshields and the nose of the plane. So I thought no problem. I'll just lay a little bit of Mr Surfacer 500 in the gap and sand it out. Well, the grey Mr Surfacer 500 flowed onto the glareshield in the cockpit just ever so slightly and there's nothing I can do about it. This is too bad because I really polished out the windscreen and its crystal clear. But one of my decal sheets includes window decals so I might just use that instead. I should have painted some black in there first. What was I thinking? Oh well, I'm not really losing any sleep over it. You can see the grey pain in this pic:
The clear part doesn't fit onto the fuselage very well. Its a bit too wide at the corners so you have to sort of pinch it or squeeze it together just a little. Also, there is a small gap under the to forward windshields and the nose of the plane. So I thought no problem. I'll just lay a little bit of Mr Surfacer 500 in the gap and sand it out. Well, the grey Mr Surfacer 500 flowed onto the glareshield in the cockpit just ever so slightly and there's nothing I can do about it. This is too bad because I really polished out the windscreen and its crystal clear. But one of my decal sheets includes window decals so I might just use that instead.
I should have painted some black in there first. What was I thinking? Oh well, I'm not really losing any sleep over it. You can see the grey pain in this pic:
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Thanks everyone for the kind words.I'm about to start another 1/144 scale kit,but this is for the Latin American Build started by stikpusher.It will be the Academy / Minicraft P-51 in El Salvador AF Markings.I really enjoyed this build and hope it becomes an annual event here at FSM....Douglas
"Build what YOU want, the way YOU want, and above all have fun!" - RIP Modeler Al.
Nice work there Roger_Wilco. Your work has been added to completed works list. And yes Chazzer, you can join. I'll add you now.
In progress:
CAD:
1/35 SINCGARS ICOM/ASIP; 1/35 Flat screen TVs; 1/35 tactical light that I shall reveal later
Models:
1/35 DML M4A1 DV; AFV Club M18 Hellcat; DML StuG IV; DML Armored Jeep w/ .50 cal; Panda Cougar 4x4 MRAP; Academy M3A1 Stuart; 1/700 Midship Models USS Miami; 1/700 Skywave Rudderow Destroyer Escort
Very nice work, RW!
Can I join? I have a 1/144 German Rail gun from dragon. Let me know and I will start it right away. Thanks Scott
Chazzer
Nice work on the Saber!
Here's my completed entry,finished this morning.Fun project overall but the air brake assembly almost made me lose my religion! I have several of these F-86 kits in the stash and will build more in the future.
roger_wilco Looking good!I've saw the C-17 at an airshow in 2005.For a large aircraft she sure is maneuverable.Which squadron markings are you going to put it in?
Looking good!I've saw the C-17 at an airshow in 2005.For a large aircraft she sure is maneuverable.Which squadron markings are you going to put it in?
Not sure about the markings yet. I'm leaning towards March but I fly in and out of Honolulu alot and I always see the Hickam planes out on the ramp (I see the F-22s out there, too!). So I might be more inspired to use those markings.
I've also assembled the fuselage. The trickiest part was the aft cargo door.The door part and the opening in the fuselage did't quite match up. So I cut out the alignment tabs on the door part and added a piece of styrene card to the fuselage part.
Here's the tabs that were cut off:
Here's the styrene card added to the fuselage: I ended up attaching the lower part (that had the doors molded onto it) to the fuselage part and filled it all in to make it seamless. Then I went back over the seams with my scriber. I also removed some of the raised seam lines in the process so I scribed out those lines as well: Here's the finished product. I also attached the ventral fins: This part was also a bit tricky in the front. This seam forms 4 right angles that you might be able to see in the pics. This part also has a few raised seams that are very difficult to sand around. I almost had it but I screwed up one of the lines just a little bit so I rescribed all of them: I had to rescribe many of the lines on the landing gear fairings: The top of the fuselage was relatively easy to make seamless:
Here's the styrene card added to the fuselage:
I ended up attaching the lower part (that had the doors molded onto it) to the fuselage part and filled it all in to make it seamless. Then I went back over the seams with my scriber. I also removed some of the raised seam lines in the process so I scribed out those lines as well: Here's the finished product. I also attached the ventral fins: This part was also a bit tricky in the front. This seam forms 4 right angles that you might be able to see in the pics. This part also has a few raised seams that are very difficult to sand around. I almost had it but I screwed up one of the lines just a little bit so I rescribed all of them: I had to rescribe many of the lines on the landing gear fairings: The top of the fuselage was relatively easy to make seamless:
I ended up attaching the lower part (that had the doors molded onto it) to the fuselage part and filled it all in to make it seamless. Then I went back over the seams with my scriber. I also removed some of the raised seam lines in the process so I scribed out those lines as well:
Here's the finished product. I also attached the ventral fins: This part was also a bit tricky in the front. This seam forms 4 right angles that you might be able to see in the pics. This part also has a few raised seams that are very difficult to sand around. I almost had it but I screwed up one of the lines just a little bit so I rescribed all of them: I had to rescribe many of the lines on the landing gear fairings: The top of the fuselage was relatively easy to make seamless:
Here's the finished product. I also attached the ventral fins:
This part was also a bit tricky in the front. This seam forms 4 right angles that you might be able to see in the pics. This part also has a few raised seams that are very difficult to sand around. I almost had it but I screwed up one of the lines just a little bit so I rescribed all of them: I had to rescribe many of the lines on the landing gear fairings: The top of the fuselage was relatively easy to make seamless:
This part was also a bit tricky in the front. This seam forms 4 right angles that you might be able to see in the pics. This part also has a few raised seams that are very difficult to sand around. I almost had it but I screwed up one of the lines just a little bit so I rescribed all of them:
I had to rescribe many of the lines on the landing gear fairings: The top of the fuselage was relatively easy to make seamless:
I had to rescribe many of the lines on the landing gear fairings:
The top of the fuselage was relatively easy to make seamless:
More progress on the C-17A...
Here's the fully assembled engine nacelle including the vortex generators:
The insides of the engines are fully painted. I used Alclad II Steel for the compressor blades, flat black for the spinners, aircraft grey for the interior surface of the intake and Alclad II Aluminum for the heated part of the intake lip. The inner part wasn't quite as seamless as I had hoped for but its very difficult to get in there with any kind of sanding medium. It certainly looks better than it did with no filling/sanding: Now I just have to mask off the intake lips and the exhaust hot sections and attach them to the wings. I may add a black wash to the fan blades to make them stand out a little bit.
The insides of the engines are fully painted. I used Alclad II Steel for the compressor blades, flat black for the spinners, aircraft grey for the interior surface of the intake and Alclad II Aluminum for the heated part of the intake lip. The inner part wasn't quite as seamless as I had hoped for but its very difficult to get in there with any kind of sanding medium. It certainly looks better than it did with no filling/sanding:
Now I just have to mask off the intake lips and the exhaust hot sections and attach them to the wings. I may add a black wash to the fan blades to make them stand out a little bit.
Thanks Mickey!
Fly-n-hi It will be really impressive when you put some wiring behind the panel
It will be really impressive when you put some wiring behind the panel
Fly-n-hi, do you mean behind the control column? I think I have thin enough copper wire for that.
As I said there was something weird with the wings. Also horizontal stabilizer was in wrong shape and vertical stabilizer was placed to starboard side of the centerline. Engine housings are too long and in wrong place. Overal shape of the wing was mostly right. Landing flaps were wrong shaped. Fitting of horizontal stabilizer wasn´t horizontal. It was about 30 degrees tilted Quite high class kit...
Fixed the wing shape and I decided not to relocate the engine housings, just correct the shape. Port side starts to take shape, starboard just cut in lenght.
"Space may be the final frontier, but it´s made in Hollywood basement." RHCP, Californication
Here's my current progress on my F-86F of the FAA.
roger_wilco My F-86F is coming along.I did get some painting done this morning and will post some pictures tomorrow.Everyone's projects are looking great!
My F-86F is coming along.I did get some painting done this morning and will post some pictures tomorrow.Everyone's projects are looking great!
taxtp They look great Fly-n-hi, you've just shown me what to do on my next airliner model. Thanks ! Cheers Tony
They look great Fly-n-hi, you've just shown me what to do on my next airliner model. Thanks !
Cheers
Tony
Funny you should mention airliners. I'm working on a 1/200 Hasegawa 767-200 simultaneously and I did the same thing with those engines. I haven't taken any progress pics of that one, though.
I'm just taking it one GB at a time.
Do you remember the first part of Empire Strikes Back, when chewy is ripping the guts out of the Falcon and nothing works? That's where I'm at right now, LOL.
I have a few projects that I'm giving as Christmas gifts, and I'm struggling to get them done in time. Hopefully I can turn my attention back to the Falcon soon to finish before the deadline (~Jan 6, I calculate). Still optimistic:)
Thanks IL2. The pics don't show them but there are 2 vortex generators on each nacelle. You can see the insert guides on the nacelle halves in the first pic with the engine parts. The guide slots were wider than the parts so I filled them in with CA glue and then attached the parts with the CA glue. I'll post some pics later this week when I get a chance..
The next step is gonna be a buttload of masking. My goal is to get all the detail painting done before I attach the engines to the wings because once they're on it will be difficult to reach certain areas with the airbrush. After all of that I'll attach the completed wings to the fuselage.
I'm pretty much making it up as I go.
Where are you at with the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy?
Those engines look great FlynHi
It looks like I'm carrying this GB at the moment. I hope you all don't mind if I post bunch of replies in a row but I've made some good progress this week.
Anyway, I've started on the engines. Each engine has 10 parts! Here's a pic of what I'm dealing with:
Each nacelle half has this strange trench molded into it. I don't know why. So I filled them in with Mr. Dissolved Putty: I painted the rear compressor parts Alclad Steel but I think I accidentally deleted the pics. I also painted the interior of the "hot section" Alclad Burnt Iron but I'm afraid I deleted those as well. Here' are the hot sections of the engines with Alclad Aluminum. I actually painted these 3 different shades but I didn't take pics of each step: Here's the final product: Once all the parts were glued together I had to fill in some more small gaps created by the seam between the completed nacelle and the engine lip parts. I created a special sanding tool using a dowel rod and flexible sanding pads to sand out the Mr. Dissolved Putty. Here you can see the smooth intakes:
Each nacelle half has this strange trench molded into it. I don't know why. So I filled them in with Mr. Dissolved Putty:
I painted the rear compressor parts Alclad Steel but I think I accidentally deleted the pics. I also painted the interior of the "hot section" Alclad Burnt Iron but I'm afraid I deleted those as well. Here' are the hot sections of the engines with Alclad Aluminum. I actually painted these 3 different shades but I didn't take pics of each step: Here's the final product: Once all the parts were glued together I had to fill in some more small gaps created by the seam between the completed nacelle and the engine lip parts. I created a special sanding tool using a dowel rod and flexible sanding pads to sand out the Mr. Dissolved Putty. Here you can see the smooth intakes:
I painted the rear compressor parts Alclad Steel but I think I accidentally deleted the pics. I also painted the interior of the "hot section" Alclad Burnt Iron but I'm afraid I deleted those as well.
Here' are the hot sections of the engines with Alclad Aluminum. I actually painted these 3 different shades but I didn't take pics of each step:
Here's the final product: Once all the parts were glued together I had to fill in some more small gaps created by the seam between the completed nacelle and the engine lip parts. I created a special sanding tool using a dowel rod and flexible sanding pads to sand out the Mr. Dissolved Putty. Here you can see the smooth intakes:
Here's the final product:
Once all the parts were glued together I had to fill in some more small gaps created by the seam between the completed nacelle and the engine lip parts. I created a special sanding tool using a dowel rod and flexible sanding pads to sand out the Mr. Dissolved Putty. Here you can see the smooth intakes:
I painted the landing gear areas with Mr. White Surfacer followed by Mr. Color gloss white:
I decided to give the flight deck just a little detail. I don't think it will be very visible once the windshield part is attached but it will be visible enough to justify a little bit of detail. I've touched up the ragged edges at the front of the seats since these pics:
I plainly painted the IP just to give it a little bit of life.
I said I was going to wait until after Thanksgiving to work on the C-17 but I actually had this whole week off so I figured what the heck and busted out my modeling stuff. I got alot done!
Here's where I'm at with the wings. I used CA glue to attach the inserts for the leading and trailing edges of the upper wing halves and then filled them with Mr. Dissolved Putty, Mr. Surfacer and some CA glue. There are also some small filler parts that are inserted into the most inboard flap fairings. These help you cut the fairings to the correct angle. I also cut the fairings to the correct angle.
Different angle: Here are the wings fully assembled. I had to rescribe the panel lines that were filled/sanded out: I also filled the gaps in the fairings and the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves:
Different angle:
Here are the wings fully assembled. I had to rescribe the panel lines that were filled/sanded out: I also filled the gaps in the fairings and the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves:
Here are the wings fully assembled. I had to rescribe the panel lines that were filled/sanded out:
I also filled the gaps in the fairings and the gaps between the upper and lower wing halves:
The He-111 is now on the roster, Trabi. Nice work so far everyone.
Thanks IL2. It looks "bit" rugged in these pictures, but irl. it´s so tiny that hardly shows at all
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