Crimea_River
Marshal
Just made the mounts for the pulleys out of styrene card, the pulleys with cut rod, and the cables with stretched sprue. This is 1/48:
<> **** DONE: 1/32 Corsair F4U-1A - WW1 / WW2 over Water.
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great work so far Kirby.
Lovely work so far Andy!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Hugh. I'll pass that on to Kirby.
Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
Very nicely done!
fubar57
General
Great work
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turbo
Staff Sergeant
Perhaps I can borrow Andy's cowlflaps 
. In a bit of a boring phase at the moment, prepping and constructing sub-assemblies. Although I had to drill out 3.5 mm holes for the formation lights in the upper wings and found that my new 3.5 mm drill bit was too big for my largest pin vice chuck. I've got no other manual drill and trying to do it by hand wasn't working sooooo....
I had visions of fragments of melted plastic flying in all directions but with a careful (but nervous) trigger finger I managed to pull it off. Needs a bit of cleanup but at least the wings aren't pieces of mangled plastic!
I also decided to strip the ventral window using IPA and repainted it zinc chromate yellow primer. I black-based the interior of the cowl preparatory to painting with FS 36118 grey and the landing gear pistons and landing light interiors were painted gloss black enamel ahead of painting with metalizer.
I think I've got a plan for scratch building the cowl flap pulley system so might get started on that once I get bored of drilling holes in things and putting flaps, etc together...
. In a bit of a boring phase at the moment, prepping and constructing sub-assemblies. Although I had to drill out 3.5 mm holes for the formation lights in the upper wings and found that my new 3.5 mm drill bit was too big for my largest pin vice chuck. I've got no other manual drill and trying to do it by hand wasn't working sooooo....I had visions of fragments of melted plastic flying in all directions but with a careful (but nervous) trigger finger I managed to pull it off. Needs a bit of cleanup but at least the wings aren't pieces of mangled plastic!
I also decided to strip the ventral window using IPA and repainted it zinc chromate yellow primer. I black-based the interior of the cowl preparatory to painting with FS 36118 grey and the landing gear pistons and landing light interiors were painted gloss black enamel ahead of painting with metalizer.
I think I've got a plan for scratch building the cowl flap pulley system so might get started on that once I get bored of drilling holes in things and putting flaps, etc together...
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Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Good stuff. A bit risky using a power tool, but it seems to have worked.
If you're stuck for a similar task in the future, use a drill bit as close as you can get which will fit the pin vice, and then enlarge the hole with a jeweler's 'rat's tail' file.
If you're stuck for a similar task in the future, use a drill bit as close as you can get which will fit the pin vice, and then enlarge the hole with a jeweler's 'rat's tail' file.
Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
Very nicely done! I would have lost some weight doing the drilling! I have a Dremel workstation that I can use as a drill press but even with that I think I would have worried!
Nice work so far!
Crimea_River
Marshal
Good stuff Kirby. Now I know why I don't like India Pale Ale. Apparently it removes paint.
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turbo
Staff Sergeant
Well, I was on my third pint so figured I'd use some of it to strip the paint!
Good idea Terry, although I don't have a round file either! I think this was a case of impatience to keep things moving! I gave it a test run so was fairly confident but don't plan to make it a standard technique
Good idea Terry, although I don't have a round file either! I think this was a case of impatience to keep things moving! I gave it a test run so was fairly confident but don't plan to make it a standard technique
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
I spent around 40 years modelling with just a scalpel, tweezers, and wet and dry papers. How I managed without razor saws, files and drills, I'll never know.
And an airbrush ?
They were only for posh, rich sods !
And an airbrush ?
They were only for posh, rich sods !
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turbo
Staff Sergeant
Ahh, the good old days. I remember when I was a kid all I had was a knife, a tube of glue, and some Humbrol paints and brushes. And I used to walk 8 miles through the snow to get to my LHS...
Robert Porter
Senior Master Sergeant
...uphill both ways in gale force winds...
Doin good Kirby, got awaty with that drilling business, that could have gone pear shaped real quick...
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
That's nothing !
When I were a lad, we lived in't hole in't middle of road .............
When I were a lad, we lived in't hole in't middle of road .............
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turbo
Staff Sergeant
I hear ya Wayne, not planning on making a habit of it!
Been busy constructing wings and other sub-assemblies. The way I deal with seams on most things is to run Tamiya Extra Thin through the seam a section at a time and quickly clamp the parts firmly so that a thin line of molten plastic is squeezed out of the seam. Don't touch it!
It's left to dry for several hours and then the back of a hobby knife is used to gently remove the bulk of the squeezed out plastic.
Any residual squeezed out plastic is sanded off and the join polished with various grades of sandpaper and panel lines that cross the join re-scribed. Et voila, no seams and no filler needed Helps when the kit is well-engineered like this one is.
I used this method to assemble various other sub-assemblies with no problems.
Although this phase is a bit tedious, I have to tip my hat to Tamiya again. Everything fits perfectly, and they have even supplied extra PE detail for the flaps which also conforms perfectly to the assemblies and surface detail. This is by far the best engineered kit I have ever built.
Thanks for dropping by guys.
Been busy constructing wings and other sub-assemblies. The way I deal with seams on most things is to run Tamiya Extra Thin through the seam a section at a time and quickly clamp the parts firmly so that a thin line of molten plastic is squeezed out of the seam. Don't touch it!
It's left to dry for several hours and then the back of a hobby knife is used to gently remove the bulk of the squeezed out plastic.
Any residual squeezed out plastic is sanded off and the join polished with various grades of sandpaper and panel lines that cross the join re-scribed. Et voila, no seams and no filler needed
Helps when the kit is well-engineered like this one is.I used this method to assemble various other sub-assemblies with no problems.
Although this phase is a bit tedious, I have to tip my hat to Tamiya again. Everything fits perfectly, and they have even supplied extra PE detail for the flaps which also conforms perfectly to the assemblies and surface detail. This is by far the best engineered kit I have ever built.
Thanks for dropping by guys.
