A Dewoitine D.520 under Italian flag - From the Azur kit in 1:32

[al49]

Do you want make the riveting on entire fuselage and the wings?
do you need a riveting plan?

So far I only extended riveting from the resin nose, where it exist already, to the fuselage. I think it will be more visible when I will give a first coat of primer.
So far I haven't decided how far I will go, in case I know that your support is available, thanks for the offer.
At the moment I just finished to scratch-build new main landing gear legs and I'm fighting to address wing's dihedral in presence of heavily wrapped kit's wings.
Alberto

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[al49]

Moving forward on this bird as well
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As you have seen some filling and sanding was needed.

Modified radiator:

Modified wheel wells

New landing gear legs made with brass tube, plastic tube and some parts form kit's items.

And finally the gun muzzle through the propeller hub.

Some more filling and sanding here and there plus the front part of the canopy and I will be able to start painting.

My plan is to replicate this aircraft:

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Worth of notice in the original photo is that the gun sight isn't the original OPL RX 39 but a different one, probably Italian or German: I will have to investigate a bit more on this subject.
Alberto

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Coming along nicely Alberto.

Geo

 

[waroff]

good work, Al

If the undercarriage legs are vertical, the wheels had a camber 10°

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff Alberto!

 

[al49]

good work, Al

If the undercarriage legs are vertical, the wheels had a camber 10°

Very good point Waroff!
I based my assembly on this drawing

where a camber is shown for wheels but doesn't seems to be 10°.
I can remedy to this because I can replace axles with new ones.
One tricky thing in the Azur kit is that undercarriage legs are installed from inside the wings.

This will offer a very solid support and legs will be positionable until glue sets. The downside is of course that painting will be a bit more complicate eased by the fact that wheel wells and lower wing surface should be all the same colour: "Gris Blue Foncé"
In my case, legs are glued in "almost" vertical position and I need to see if I can adjust this.
Alberto

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Alberto.

 

[Wurger]

 

[waroff]

 

[Crimea_River]

Very nice work Alberto.

 

[al49]

Thanks Waroff, very interesting and useful.
Alberto

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far!

 

[al49]

Did some more little progresses:

As I think I've mentioned above, a period photos of that bird shows that the original French gun-sight was replaced by an other one, probably Italian

So I tried to do the same using a San Giorgio I had in my spare box. Here three pictures, unfortunately not very clear:

Also added wing-tip navigation lights made from solid transparent plastic drilled inside to simulate the bulb and filed to shape.

Finally I cut to shape and masked the vacu-formed front wind-shield:

Some more to follow a.s.a.p.
Alberto

 

[Wayne Little]

doin' good Alberto!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far!

 

[al49]

Help!
I got a problem in understanding correct underside colour for my model.
According to the instruction I should use Gunze Mr Hobby H314 (FS 35622) but it looks too pale for me.
According a book on the subject, the correct colour should be FS 25189 ...

In your knowledge, which one is correct? Or, may be the correct one is an other one?

Many thanks in advance
Alberto

 

[Wurger]

According to my reference the colour for undersides should be FS 35189 that is the matt version of the semi-gloss FS 25189. The FS 35622 is close to the FS 34414 that is suggested being the cockpit interior for French planes. I think you might have been misled by the names of colours in French. The FS 25189 ( FS35189 ) is the Gris Bleu Clair ( the light blue-grey ) while the FS35622 ( FS34414) is the Gris Bleu Ciel ( the sky blue-grey ). Clair=Light while Ciel=Sky.