I'm with you Wojtek...
1/48 Ta152H - Allied Advance and Defense of the Reich WWII.
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Lovely work so far Andy!
Donivanp
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Looking Great there Andy.
JKim
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Great progress Andy!
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Crimea_River
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Thanks all. Still plugging away at the same area and I've now damaged the hinge enough on the starboard wing to require a sprue replacement. Pics when I'm finally satisfied with this.
fubar57
General
Nice work on the landing gear. Awaiting the seam work
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Crimea_River
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Went golfing this morning and had to quit after 11 holes as my back was getting really sore. So Plan B was to work on the Tank and i got a fair bit done, including the finish (finally!) of the nasty seam on the gun access cover. I'm now satisfied that this will not get any better than it now is so onward and upward....Here's how these look now:
The port side was completed and I managed to not damage the molded hinge. A PE flange was added behind the access panel per the instructions.
On the other side, this one took a lot more work as, in addition to having to fill the seam, I had to get rid of a step between the wing root fairing and the upper surface of the wing at the seam. In doing so, I pretty much obliterated the molded hinge so I replaced it with a length of stretched sprue.
So, now that that mess was behind me, I got on with the nose section. The Dragon kit provides a pretty basic nose cowl that does nothing to represent the unique radiator set up in this aircraft so, being the sucker I am for details, I set about making the cylindrical radiator sections from scratch. This was relatively simple. I started with a 5 mm wide strip of styrene sheet and cut some lines in with a blade and straight edge. I then cut 4 sections and rolled them into a circular form.
The 4 sections were then CA glued in place.
On the opposite side, I drilled some holes to receive some pieces of stretched sprue to represent the cowl flap actuators.
These were then carefully snipped to length by checking against the nose section and then both parts were painted RLM 02 and a dark aluminum over the rad sections.
The nose section was then glued on and a final check of the actuators shows a good fit. Actually, I just noticed that I must have broke one so I'll need to replace it.
That's it for now guys. I'm now suddenly at the point when I can start laying some paint down so will have to decide on a final scheme now. It's down to White 7 or Green 4 and a coin flip may decide it.
The port side was completed and I managed to not damage the molded hinge. A PE flange was added behind the access panel per the instructions.
On the other side, this one took a lot more work as, in addition to having to fill the seam, I had to get rid of a step between the wing root fairing and the upper surface of the wing at the seam. In doing so, I pretty much obliterated the molded hinge so I replaced it with a length of stretched sprue.
So, now that that mess was behind me, I got on with the nose section. The Dragon kit provides a pretty basic nose cowl that does nothing to represent the unique radiator set up in this aircraft so, being the sucker I am for details, I set about making the cylindrical radiator sections from scratch. This was relatively simple. I started with a 5 mm wide strip of styrene sheet and cut some lines in with a blade and straight edge. I then cut 4 sections and rolled them into a circular form.
The 4 sections were then CA glued in place.
On the opposite side, I drilled some holes to receive some pieces of stretched sprue to represent the cowl flap actuators.
These were then carefully snipped to length by checking against the nose section and then both parts were painted RLM 02 and a dark aluminum over the rad sections.
The nose section was then glued on and a final check of the actuators shows a good fit. Actually, I just noticed that I must have broke one so I'll need to replace it.
That's it for now guys. I'm now suddenly at the point when I can start laying some paint down so will have to decide on a final scheme now. It's down to White 7 or Green 4 and a coin flip may decide it.
fubar57
General
Nice....that's some pretty slick measuring with the actuators. I can imagine the back pain. I haven't golfed seriously since '08. Going from 100 or so rounds per year prior to only a handful since then, I'd probably have to crawl off after 9. I'd probably destroy my handicap as well. Hoping it's a quick heal.
Nice work Andy !
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Benevolens Magister
11 holes - I wouldn't even make it to the first tee !
Very nice work on the hinges and the rad and cowl actuators Andy - must have been a bit tricky getting the actuator rods all the right length.
Very nice work on the hinges and the rad and cowl actuators Andy - must have been a bit tricky getting the actuator rods all the right length.
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Crimea_River
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Thanks all. Terry, I just used an old pair of nail scissors and clipped just a tiny bit at a time. Fortunately they are all the same length so once I got one right, it was a matter of using the MkI eyeball on all the rest.
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Benevolens Magister
Good stuff. I use nail clippers to do similar jobs, but sometimes the clippers mask the view, so, like you, I clip a bit at a time, and hope my Mk1 eyeballs are accurate !
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Crimea_River
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Looking for a bit of help here. Leaning toward doing White 7. John, you posted this pic in your Ta152 thread:
I have also find the same image, much smaller but not as cropped.
Does anyone have a clear image of the Ta152 behind the 190A in the foreground? I believe it's White 7 based on the research I've done and I understand it's from the book "LO+ST".
One thing I'm not getting is the colour of the horizontal bar. The more popularly modeled Green 4 and Green 9 are both with the Stab of JG301 and thus carry the green bar. White 7 would seem to indicate a 9 Staffel aircraft but the bar that is painted across the red and yellow ID band is neither ref nor yellow and is depicted green in published profiles, which would be the Stab colour. Can anyone enlighten me?
I have also find the same image, much smaller but not as cropped.
Does anyone have a clear image of the Ta152 behind the 190A in the foreground? I believe it's White 7 based on the research I've done and I understand it's from the book "LO+ST".
One thing I'm not getting is the colour of the horizontal bar. The more popularly modeled Green 4 and Green 9 are both with the Stab of JG301 and thus carry the green bar. White 7 would seem to indicate a 9 Staffel aircraft but the bar that is painted across the red and yellow ID band is neither ref nor yellow and is depicted green in published profiles, which would be the Stab colour. Can anyone enlighten me?
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Here is enlarged part of the pic above. I would say the bar can be noticed on the red band barely. If it would be of the yellow it was of more lighter grey shade. In my opinion the green colour is more likely that the blue one.
And here is a clipped profile with the Green9 .. turned into the B&W shot for comparing.
And here is the same B&W shot but I have replaced the grey bar ( of the light blue in origin ) with a bar of the grey shade picked up from the digit 9. What do you think?
And here is a clipped profile with the Green9 .. turned into the B&W shot for comparing.
And here is the same B&W shot but I have replaced the grey bar ( of the light blue in origin ) with a bar of the grey shade picked up from the digit 9. What do you think?
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The image is from LO+ST and it is White 7 Andy, the W.Nr. is 0007 it's an H-0 aircraft.
The Bar should be Green, previously yellow, as the Ta's all finished up in the Stab Schwarm.
The Bar should be Green, previously yellow, as the Ta's all finished up in the Stab Schwarm.
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Crimea_River
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Thanks Wojtek and Wayne. I'm wondering why they did not paint the 7 in green like on other Stab aircraft. Maybe at that late stage they ran out of time, material, or will.
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Crimea_River
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Yes it was but, as Wayne said, the bar was repainted green so why not the number?
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