Kalakan
Airman 1st Class
Hello again my fellow modelers.
This is a new project that I´ve been working since last month in order to present it in the Mexico City nationals in October.
I´d like to mention that this particular kite has always fascinated me since little due to the contrast of the paint applied during the Battle of Britain of this particular squadron KG-55.
This is an image of the particular kite I want to emulate:
For this matter, I´ve decided to print 4 crew members in different positions in order to better emulate the plane during flight. Also I got some nice resin parts (basically for the cockpit) as can be appreciated on the following images:
The resin parts are quite fragile but does the trick:
The crew was installed and dry fitted several times before proceeding to glue them.
One of the crew members (the bombardier) as you can appreciate, is an X wing pilot, that will change its colours shortly...
For this purpose, some german stahlhelms were also printed to switch heads with a corresponding one....
Again, there were lots of dry fitting hours in order to better position the crew before the paint works....
This is how the cokpit looks as today before closing the two halves of the fuselage together. I´m aware that lot of details will be lost behind the clear parts. But again, it was worthwhile....
This is how the interior of the kite looked like before the works....
And this is how the same areas look like after applying some scratch built parts in order to make it more credible......
I'm also considering applying some lights in the cockpit as well as in the interior, so these details (hopefully) can be appreciated.
I've never done this kind of work, but guess it's worthwhile.... Love this hobby.
Best regards from Monterrey.
Gerry
This is a new project that I´ve been working since last month in order to present it in the Mexico City nationals in October.
I´d like to mention that this particular kite has always fascinated me since little due to the contrast of the paint applied during the Battle of Britain of this particular squadron KG-55.
This is an image of the particular kite I want to emulate:
For this matter, I´ve decided to print 4 crew members in different positions in order to better emulate the plane during flight. Also I got some nice resin parts (basically for the cockpit) as can be appreciated on the following images:
The resin parts are quite fragile but does the trick:
The crew was installed and dry fitted several times before proceeding to glue them.
One of the crew members (the bombardier) as you can appreciate, is an X wing pilot, that will change its colours shortly...
For this purpose, some german stahlhelms were also printed to switch heads with a corresponding one....
Again, there were lots of dry fitting hours in order to better position the crew before the paint works....
This is how the cokpit looks as today before closing the two halves of the fuselage together. I´m aware that lot of details will be lost behind the clear parts. But again, it was worthwhile....
This is how the interior of the kite looked like before the works....
And this is how the same areas look like after applying some scratch built parts in order to make it more credible......
I'm also considering applying some lights in the cockpit as well as in the interior, so these details (hopefully) can be appreciated.
I've never done this kind of work, but guess it's worthwhile.... Love this hobby.
Best regards from Monterrey.
Gerry
