Interceptors GB 2018 - CLOSED

BrynnWryttur

Nice! It's impressive, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed that you were able to drill such a small hole to put that metal pitot tube in. I t looks pretty small!

 

Yes it's VERY thin and the plastic part was very tricky to drill. I used a pair of small pliers with masking tape applied on the grabbing surfaces as padding to carefully hold the part to be drilled. If that sharp thin drill bit slips off it goes into one's finger OUCH!!

By the way, these tiny drill bits I ordered from Home Depot and are made in the USA by Gyros. They are high speed steel and VERY sharp. Got several sizes to replace the missing ones from a set I bought over 30 years ago.

Nice! It's impressive, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed that you were able to drill such a small hole to put that metal pitot tube in. I t looks pretty small!

68GT

Thats excellent work you've done one the Dora PJ!

 

Thanks GT! Again apologies for not posting sooner.

Thats excellent work you've done one the Dora PJ!

I like to take pictures as I go which magnifies any issues missed by the human eye. Another method is placing a small mirror to view from different angles. Silvering is visible on one of the tank decals.

Sometimes the silvering appears no matter how glossy the surface is but I usually kill it by taking a new #11 blade and lightly scoring the decal film then apply good old Solvaset to get it under the decal film which usually works. I did it to the one decal on the tank and the silvering was neutralized.

And same angle as the original picture.

Been busy with house things bu got to attach the drop tank and added the metal fuel lines a few minutes back. I like how the NMF drop tanks looks on the painted plane. I weathered the main wheels and dirtied up the doors since they operated from grass fileds. Next will be a flat coat and dot filtering/weathering. 

Hasegawa dropped the ball here with the dash padding/coaming. It's missing a piece for the Revi sight to sit in which is absolutely wrong.

So the first thing to do here was to add some stretched sprue to match the rest of the padding.

I did some minor surgery on the Revi16B sight to make it fit in the square and added the glass pieces to it. I have resin ones but the Hasegawa sight was equally well made so I used it for this build.  I also see in the picture the white is showing on the inside of the seatbelts . I need to touch up those to get rid of that white color.

I also attached the boarding ladder, loop and small straight antenna. The smaller antenna is a piece of very thin metal.

For the pitot tube, the thiiner part was replaced with .004 brass pipe into a drilled hole in the thicker plastic part.

Have been working on the canopy details so here's what I did. Very carefully I drilled down into the canopy so the aerial can come in clear thru. It will attach to the rear bottom of the frame.

Scrap pe pieces were trimmed to make the top canopy frame wire brackets. Using my mini drill bits  a clearance slot was made on the top brace so the antenna wire can go thru and attach to the pulley at the bottom rear that I made from stretched sprue.

Wires attached and threaded thru the pe gussets aft. Once the CA securing the wires is dry they will be trimmed. A simple pulley was made from sprue and will have the antenna wire attached once the plane is completed.

This is how they look

The bottom antenna was cleaned up and the thick plastic tip sliced off and replaced wih thin surgical wire ca'd in place. Next will be painting it then attaching it to the Dora's belly.

Another update on my Dora....I was gonna give Hasegawa a pass on the color scheme mistake on Michalski's Dora thinking the kit was older. The kit isnstruction sheet is from 2005 and the Eagle Editions decal sheet containing the updated information is from 2003 so Hasegawa should have done some checking since the info was out and verified in actual pictures.

But then the Eagle Editions sheet has Michalski's name misspelled as Michaelski so even they made a mistake. As a side note, 21st Century makes a 1/32 diecast model of Michalski's Dora and they actually got the scheme and name correct LOL.

The corrected left wing tip area has what appears to be a paint patch, or half painted. This part is clearly visible in one of the pictures in the Eagle Editions sheet so It's correct.

The right wing also has a filled in area forward mid wing with RLM83 and the top of the right aileron is a solid RLM75 cutting into the green area.

Most all of the larger decals are on. I still have to add several small stencils.

I was going to replace the guns with brass tubing but I drilled out the bores even more and painted them several shades of Alclad paints till I got the desired metal color. I then hand polished them with a soft cotton rag giving them a metallic sheen.

The wing cannons

and the nose guns

I was going to replace the loop antenna with thin brass strip but tried first to thin the plastic to see how thin I could get it and it actually looks to scale so I will be using the part as is.

There are a couple more plastic antennas I will be replacing with thin surgical wire I have courtesy of my late friend and former FSM member John Staworski who sent me a ton of this stuff some years back.

The nose spots were carefully re-sprayed with RLM 84 Grey/Green which has a higher contrast as seeen in the pictures of the actual plane.

Some of the decals went on but it's getting late..

I decided to have a NMF on the drop tank. It was weathered with oils and Prismacolor pencils.

Fuel streaks are present.

Correcting the splinter pattern on the wings will be next.l

My decals came in the mail yesterday late afternoon but was busy helping my daugther move till late in the evening so not much done except reviewing the sheet and finding a couple of mistakes thanks to Hasegawa.

I should have ordered this Eagle Cals sheet from the beginning but trusting that Hasegawa's info was correct and their decals were still in good condition has been rather a disapointment.

The  Eagle Cal instruction sheet also provides pictures of the actual aircraft credited to Jerry Crandall and three other gentlemen cleary showing the pin stripe of the Stab JG4 tail band that Hasegawa totally omitted.

I painted it as per Hasegawa's description:

Pin stripe added as seen in the actual picture of Michaelki's Dora:

This was as simple as slicing a couple of thin strips of white decal film from a leftover helicopter decal sheet I have in my spares decal box.

Another area where Hasegawa goofed is in the nose spots where they list it at RLM 75. In reality, it was RLM 84 which makes it stand out more. This will be my next mission to carefully spray RLM 84 over the present spots.

Got the mains assembled painted and detailed. Made the brake lines from thin wire and the fittings from masking tape and a tiny drop of thin CA to secure them. Made my own strut placards at the copier from another sheet. Afterwards a dark wash of burnt umber helped to pop details and gives a grimy look. Some chips need some re touching to show up better. A #2 pencil was used for the oleo strut color instead of paint. The grahite gives it a realistic metallic sheen.

the leg actuators from the box

And after my mods. Wrapped thin copper wire around one arm and thin wiring for added plumbing.

The tail wheel and main tires are done too

Also went back and extended the spiral to the back plate by painting it flat white with a small thin brush

Getting ready for decals in a bit.   

An update on Dora. Got the canopy mask removed

Spiral's done

Tail band sprayed

RLM02 sprayed in the flap wells

Salt chipping done

other side

Several coats of Future are next

I'm doing the markings for Gerhard Michalski's D9 from Stab/JG4.

The colors are RLM76, 75 and 83 with a real cool spotted RLM 75 over the RLM 83. The side fuselage mottling is extending behind the side crosses. Instead of using the tail band decals I'm opting to spray paint those instead.

The canopy was riveted, masked, painted RLM66 first then RLM83. The RLM66 will show as the the interior frame color. The salt exposes some chips from foot traffic and wear on the wing walkway. 

The salt chipping exposes a few chips here and there on the outside of the doors. The inside will get the same treatment later on.

The prop unit got the salt chipping too. The MM RLM70 was  not dark enough so a few drops of flat black was added to darken the color a bit. The spiral will be next.

aeroplanegripper

 

68GT

WOW!

 

 

 

 

I agree! That is fantastic work.

 

Thanks.

68GT

WOW!

 

I agree! That is fantastic work.

Brynn, that looks really good mate, looking forward to the progress on this. I have two of these Airfix kits in my stash, are you going to fold the wings?

Yup,  New Jersey and Montana

I know how you feel! Are you making National Guard F-106s?

I got tired of filling joints so I did some work on the wing tanks.

Brynn, that looks like a nice little kit you have there.

Looks like the Hasegawa decals are beyond repair. Even after brushing several coats of Superfilm they eventually fracture. No biggie since Eaglecal #58 decal sheet is easily available online but will check first with my LHS as soon as they open.

EDIT: Nothing locally so an order was placed with SB that should be here within 3 days or so. Cheaper than ebay and way faster shipping so ebay is sometimes NOT the best option.  

Thanks GT!

WOW!

Got the mains assembled painted and detailed. Made the brake lines from thin wire and the fittings from masking tape and a tiny drop of thin CA to secure them. Made my own strut placards at the copier from another sheet. Afterwards a dark wash of burnt umber helped to pop details and gives a grimy look. Some chips need some re touching to show up better. A #2 pencil was used for the oleo strut color instead of paint. The grahite gives it a realistic metallic sheen.

the leg actuators from the box

And after my mods. Wrapped thin copper wire around one arm and thin wiring for added plumbing.

The tail wheel and main tires are done too

Also went back and extended the spiral to the back plate by painting it flat white with a small thin brush

Getting ready for decals in a bit.   

539 FIS F-106 is ready for some paint to see if thw filling and sand is good.

Dora is really looking nice!

I have to try the salt.  Been wanting to for a while but just havnt for some reason

An update on Dora. Got the canopy mask removed

Spiral's done

Tail band sprayed

RLM02 sprayed in the flap wells

Salt chipping done

other side

Several coats of Future are next

My apologies for forgetting to post pictures. I'm running this build on two other threads and painting the inside of our house in between.

I'm doing the markings for Gerhard Michalski's D9 from Stab/JG4.

The colors are RLM76, 75 and 83 with a real cool spotted RLM 75 over the RLM 83. The side fuselage mottling is extending behind the side crosses. Instead of using the tail band decals I'm opting to spray paint those instead.

The canopy was riveted, masked, painted RLM66 first then RLM83. The RLM66 will show as the the interior frame color. The salt exposes some chips from foot traffic and wear on the wing walkway. 

The salt chipping exposes a few chips here and there on the outside of the doors. The inside will get the same treatment later on.

The prop unit got the salt chipping too. The MM RLM70 was  not dark enough so a few drops of flat black was added to darken the color a bit. The spiral will be next.