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Crimea_River
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Well folks, it seems longer than just 12 days since I posted but I've progressed this model in spurts over lunch times and the odd hour in evenings to get to the point shown below.
Let's start back where we left off at the cowl. Because of the gaping hole where the louvers are, you can see quite easily up into the nothingness that is the engine area. To remedy this, I built a quick assembly of split plastic tubes and copper wires glued onto plastic card to simulate the inverted vee cylinder banks and this was stuck into the cowl assembly after painting.
The prop and spinner was masked and painted over a couple of lunch breaks.
The wings went on without any drama, as did the landing gear.
I revisited the pilot seat which I found to be kind of clunky looking and unsatisfactory. I broke it out of the cockpit, thinned the sidewalls, rounded the bucket a bit, added some cushions made of tissue paper, and then added the Eduard belts.
The seat was then installed back into the pit and the gunner's back rest belt was fastened to one side to finish off the cockpit.
Actually, one final piece to put in, which I had forgotten, is the hand wheel in front of the joystick that controlled the trap door to the bomb aiming window seen in this drawing below. That will be the subject of a future post, if I can get it in!
Let's start back where we left off at the cowl. Because of the gaping hole where the louvers are, you can see quite easily up into the nothingness that is the engine area. To remedy this, I built a quick assembly of split plastic tubes and copper wires glued onto plastic card to simulate the inverted vee cylinder banks and this was stuck into the cowl assembly after painting.
The prop and spinner was masked and painted over a couple of lunch breaks.
The wings went on without any drama, as did the landing gear.
I revisited the pilot seat which I found to be kind of clunky looking and unsatisfactory. I broke it out of the cockpit, thinned the sidewalls, rounded the bucket a bit, added some cushions made of tissue paper, and then added the Eduard belts.
The seat was then installed back into the pit and the gunner's back rest belt was fastened to one side to finish off the cockpit.
Actually, one final piece to put in, which I had forgotten, is the hand wheel in front of the joystick that controlled the trap door to the bomb aiming window seen in this drawing below. That will be the subject of a future post, if I can get it in!