100th Anniversary Naval Aviation - Curtiss A-1 Triad 1/48th

[vikingBerserker]

NICE!!!

 

[hawkeye2an]

Working on the prop today.

pic 1 - pattern cut from plans and glued to thick styrene strip
pic 2 - rough cut outline with razor saw and knife
pic 3 - remove everything that doesn't look like a finished prop

 

[Airframes]

Bl**dy good work Andy !

 

[Wurger]

That's it. Great job.

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice. Looking foreward to the wood grain!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, well done!

 

[Jayl]

Nice shape on the prop, should look real horror show once painted.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Masking the wings to do the ribs up right.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Nice shape on the prop, should look real horror show once painted.

Me drooggies will love it.

 

[Wurger]

Andy, are you going to spray some of paint to make ribs bulge ?

 

[Wayne Little]

Andy, love the Prop work mate..

 

[hawkeye2an]

Wojtek - it's hard to see in this set of pics but the last set shows the stretched sprue added to the mold to give that raised rib detail. Waiting for the brown paint to dry, then I will show pics of the rib paint detail. Then will come a transluscent coat of tan to replicate the clear doped linen look. I do not see any stitching or seam covers in any of the pictures. I know that WWI combat types had this feature, but don't believe this to be the case with this bird. The replicas had the upper covering glued to the ribs only.

Terry - thanks for the compliments, after doing a few, I have that distinctive prop shape down pretty well.

 

[Wurger]

I see.

 

[hawkeye2an]

Rib work is complete. The combination of raised ribbing and paint is looking just like I want it to. Now for a coat of transluscent paint and hoping that I don't scratch it up again. Unlike other paint jobs, this can't be touched up. Because the paint is transluscent, any area that has even a slightly thicker coat will look very different.

 

[Wurger]

Looking very realistic , Andy. Well done.

 

[Airframes]

I agree, great job !

 

[Gnomey]

Looking good so far!

 

[hawkeye2an]

The finished prop

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Great stuff Andy. How did you make the hub? or is it PE?