1:72 scale Revell Arado Ar 234

[Crimea_River]

Excellent reference Rudolph.

 

[Bustedwing]

Yes thank you ! I found one picture, nowhere near as good as those but that's what i was thinking towards ! Perfect !

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far!

 

[fubar57]

Nice reference pics

 

[Bustedwing]

So the War Dept asks me " what are you doing, you look like your doing brain surgery or something?" Do I look like I'm building models aboard my multi million dollar yacht ? No I'm building a miniature Arado cockpit. Then there's " that look" married guys know it ! Anyways, here are some latest pictures. Control column, pedals and instrument gauges and so on all together. Next step is forming a new glazing with my home made vacu-form melt a lot of plastic before you get the right shape set up. At least I know why my eye sight is going bum hooley !

 

[fubar57]

Wow, very nice work in any scale Graham. I can't remember the last time I saw a penny

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Keep having to remind myself this is 1/72. Fantastic work man!

 

[SANCER]

Awesome scratch and paint job Graham.
The rings of the dials in the IP, are metallic?, how did you do them? The best I've seen in 1/72 cockpits !!

Felicidades y saludos

 

[Airframes]

Really excellent work, and more so in that small scale.
These make a huge difference when doing such small work - two main lenses, the second being 'flip down' for extra magnification, plus the 'loupe', for really close work.
Don't know how I've managed without them for so many years !

 

[fubar57]

Very similar to mine though I took the loupe off. I just couldn't get used to working by my nose

 

[Airframes]

Yeah, I rarely use the loupe - only when I want to check on something really close, and frighten the cr@p out of myself !!
Fortunately, the loupe swings upwards, out of the way, so I can leave it attached in case I do need to use it.

 

[Bustedwing]

I have a magnifying glass attached to my light on a bendy thing to see up close and a pair of those cheap 30x readers. The rings on the gauges are very fine wire from a computer, about the size of a hair. Then I wind them around very small drill bits and make drop rings from them with an exacto knife. Then it's just a matter of gluing them down.

 

[Bustedwing]

Wow, very nice work in any scale Graham. I can't remember the last time I saw a penny

I have tons of them, The War dept uses them, you should see the look on some peoples faces when she pays in cash down to the penny, gotta get rid of them some how. When you think of it, you need a dozen washers for something ? Drill holes in some pennies, a hell of a lot cheaper than buying a pack of 12 at the hardware store ! And they don't rust !

 

[Bustedwing]

So here we go towards completion. I cut the rudder and elevators off to pose them. Then I had to deal with the balance dealys and make them look a bit better than just brutally thick ( thanks for the pictures rudolph 1951). I also melted up a ton of plastic trying to make the glazing in one piece. No matter what I did I always got a crease some where so I ended up making it in two pieces. It's all masked up and painted but I have a sneaky suspicion I flubbed it, won't know till I peel off all the masking. It's kind of like a little mini Christmas thing, you think your getting anew airbrush but you know it's probably socks !

 

[Airframes]

Nice work, especially the canopy.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Looking good.

 

[SANCER]

Very good work, ... in the scale you are working on, the results that can be seen, are far superior to what can be expected !!, you are doing it well and it is worth the effort.

Saludos desde Cd. de México
Luiis Carlos

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!