**** DONE: 1/48 Arado Ar234B-2 - Jet/Recon/Transport GB

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys.

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Andy!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Like the look of those rocket thingies Andy, truth be known, I've never seen the likes of them before.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Andy. I presume they're parachute packs on the end?

 

[Wayne Little]

They are Terry, the rockets are jettisoned after take off.

 

[ccheese]

Lookin' good, Andy....

Charles

 

[T Bolt]

Looking good Andy. As far at the putty, thin layers a day or two apart may work fine. I did it all at once and that may have been the problem. Hard on the out side but still soft inside

 

[Wurger]

With all.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks for the comments everyone. I spent much of my modeling time doing more of the same but I think I'm close to scribing now. There have been 3 or 4 passes of sanding/puttying/priming and I have the areas on the fuselage and wing roots how I want them. But before adding another primer layer on local fixes, I decided to glue the tail planes and engine on. Here are a series of pics showing the extensive body work.

The joints where the engines mate to the wings are pretty good but they will will also need a bit of filling. I'll show more of that in detail when I get to it.

Also tackled this weekend was the remaining canopy section. I will be posing the entry hatch open and will use a section of Terry's vac-formed canopy for this. This required that the kit-provided section be cut out and the next series of pics shows how I did this. First, the unmodified piece:

I first taped along the lines to be cut and drilled some holes.

Then I cut between the holes with a fine saw, removed the section, and smoothed the cut surfaces on the canopy.

Next, I attached some bits of sprue on the cut edges (hard to see here) to make the edges look a bit more structural when I paint them. I also began adding the rivet decals and ran out so I'll need to make more.

Thanks again for looking in.

 

[Airframes]

Nice work on the 'padding' Andy, and the canopy is looking good too.

 

[meatloaf109]

Wow, once again, superior work!

 

[tigerdriver]

thats some great skills there Andy

 

[Wayne Little]

Damn fine work Andy...

 

[T Bolt]

Looking real good Andy.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks much guys.

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done so far Andy!

 

[vikingBerserker]

That's just so fricken impressive.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice work all around Andy, you are truly a master modeller.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks everyone. Not much happening - crazy days at work.

 

[woody]

Real nice work Andy.