<-- **** DONE: 1:48 A-20G Havoc - Twin Engined Aircraft of WWII
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Agree.
Real nice Glenn
Good work so far Glenn!
JKim
Senior Master Sergeant
The Havoc is looking very good Glenn!
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T Bolt
Colonel
Update on the last few days of work
I've been doing a lot of assembling, filing and sanding.
Glued on the vertical fin and rudder. Again a lot of work the get it smoothed out at the forward end of the joint.
Figured out a way to install some of the gear mechanism before the nacells wile still leaving off the actual gear leg until later in the construction. The fit of the nacell was pretty good except...........
This seam on top. It really wasn't too bad of a seam, it was just very difficult to file down with the oil cooler intake in the way.
Also did detail work on the seat adding Eduard seat-belts and gluing it in the cockpit.
At Terry's suggestion I drilled out the holes on the underside of the canopy door and painted and weathered it (still needs touch-up along the edges).
The canopy and turret glass after a dip in Future. The Turret glass will be installed just like this with out painting framework because the Martin turret did not have any framework. The Plexiglas segments that made it up were formed with 90 degree flanges which were bolted together. The unpainted lines formed in the clear kit plastic look pretty much like the real thing.
I've been doing a lot of assembling, filing and sanding.
Glued on the vertical fin and rudder. Again a lot of work the get it smoothed out at the forward end of the joint.
Figured out a way to install some of the gear mechanism before the nacells wile still leaving off the actual gear leg until later in the construction. The fit of the nacell was pretty good except...........
This seam on top. It really wasn't too bad of a seam, it was just very difficult to file down with the oil cooler intake in the way.
Also did detail work on the seat adding Eduard seat-belts and gluing it in the cockpit.
At Terry's suggestion I drilled out the holes on the underside of the canopy door and painted and weathered it (still needs touch-up along the edges).
The canopy and turret glass after a dip in Future. The Turret glass will be installed just like this with out painting framework because the Martin turret did not have any framework. The Plexiglas segments that made it up were formed with 90 degree flanges which were bolted together. The unpainted lines formed in the clear kit plastic look pretty much like the real thing.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Looking good. That seam fix would definitely be easier without that protrusion to hamper you.
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T Bolt
Colonel
It sure would have been, I could have fixed it in about 2 minutes. On the next A-20 I do I'll be sure to leave that scoop off until later.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice work Glenn.
JKim
Senior Master Sergeant
Good progress Glenn! Awfully small cockpit for such a large aircraft!
Lovely work so far Glenn!
Nice progress Glenn
Liking it Glenn!
Model coming along great Glenn, Not to throw your thread off Glenn but just found out this is suppose to take place again this year. I am hoping on going to it and since you said you lived a couple hours way in last years thread I thought you might be interested as they look to do it again. Looks like they are trying for 14 TBM's this year.
http://www.tbmavenger.com/
http://www.tbmavenger.com/
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Man that looks nice!
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T Bolt
Colonel
Masked the windows and put the wings on. The fit of the cockpit hatch to the fuselage is not great but this is only on there temporally for painting as I will be displaying the hatch in the open position. A little bit of clean up on the wing joints and It will be ready for paint.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Looking forward to the coloured stuff.
