1/72 Breda Ba64 resin kit by Choroszy

[Wurger]

 

[fastmongrel]

I like your alignment checking. I do something similar.

I find if I try to do it by eye it's never right.

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[rochie]

Wow, seems to much like hard work to me

 

[fastmongrel]

I thought it was gum stuck to his fingers.

A well chewed lump of chewing gum would have been a better quality instrument panel than this piece of clart.

 

[fastmongrel]

Wow, seems to much like hard work to me

I have made it harder for myself. I meant to glue the wing root butt joint to the fuselage and then add some packing strips of styrene to thicken the leading edge. I forgot how superglue loves to run along a joint

I need to decide do I leave the wing looking anorexic or try to split the joint. I have plenty of debonder so will soak the leading edge and see if it peels apart.

 

[fastmongrel]

That went surprisingly easy, I smeared on Loctite debonder gel and left it for a bit. Then I worried at it with a scalpel and it popped open quite quickly.

I have rinsed it with water to get the debonder off just need to let it dry. Then I will warm the resin to try and get some of the kinks out and fill the gap with styrene.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

I have sometimes used a thicker CA to set the location of parts before filling joints with the thin, wicky stuff.

 

[fastmongrel]

Leading edge packed with styrene strips then plenty of epoxy smeared thickly so I can file it back to the right shape.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[fastmongrel]

Working on the front of the plane.

The mountings for the engine cowling were dreadful so I chopped them off and will fit brass pins instead.

 

[fastmongrel]

Pinhead

 

[fastmongrel]

 

[Wurger]

 

[fastmongrel]

Scalpel slipped and removed a bit more than I wanted. Now putting it back by supergluing a scrap of styrene in place

There we go the kit police will never know when the filler has dried and been painted

 

[Airframes]

"Oops "!, said the surgeon "but never mind, Mr. Smith, I'll stitch it back on later !"

 

[fastmongrel]

The resin undercarriage legs looked terribly flimsy so I made some out of brass. Unfortunately one of the wheels is a bit wonky but the rest of this kit is so bad I have stopped worrying.

 

[fastmongrel]

Coat of primer to try and find all the bits that need filling.

 

[fastmongrel]

With it's big brother the Breda Ba65