<> 1/48 Arado Ar196A - WW1 / WW2 over Water.

[Airframes]

That'll look the bog's dollocks when painted !

 

[Robert Porter]

Is the piece the wires go into a bit of rod?

 

[Crimea_River]

The circular harnesses around the gear box are solder Robert.

Oh sorry. I was working from my phone and didn't see your circle at first. Yes those are the new spark plugs cut from 0.8mm rod.

 

[Crimea_River]

Engine painted and installed into the cowl:

 

[Gnomey]

Looks great so far Andy!

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Sweet

 

[Robert Porter]

Looks very realistic, much more so than what you started with! Thanks for sharing info about your approach!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. While all that is going on, I've continued to fill the canyons around the float struts and will post pictures of that when I'm done. That issue has changed my construction sequence somewhat in that I had hoped to complete the floats/struts as a complete, separate assembly before gluing to the plane but that won't happen now.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff Andy.

 

[Crimea_River]

After a number of session of filling and sanding, I've completed the mounting points of the float struts to the fuselage to a more-or-less acceptable point and then glued on the floats, which offer up yet another round of filling/filing/sanding/priming:

Jockeying this strut into position opened up the seam on the float again:

This is turning into a long term project and won't be done before I leave for the UK next week to meet up with Red 1 and 2. Thanks for your continued interest and patience.

 

[Wurger]

 

[parsifal]

nice work andy

 

[Robert Porter]

That looks great! Enjoying this build!

 

[turbo]

Man that's frustrating - nice work though

 

[destrozas]

great job, a big tutorial of this model....

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Initial filling of the gaps has been done with stretched sprue. This was filed down and now we're into filling with primer and sanding. Boring stuff really.

 

[Airframes]

Might be boring stuff, but it's good stuff. Looking forward to meeting up again next week.

 

[Crimea_River]

Me too Terry. Will send you a PM this weekend to confirm contact info.

 

[Airframes]

Roger, Roger - over !