T Bolt
Colonel
What an improvement over the plane kit parts Andy!! Excellent work my man!!
**** DONE: 1/48 Tamiya Heinkel He-219 WNr 290123 of 1/NJG 1 Nightfighter GB
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ozhawk40
Master Sergeant
Excellent progress there Andy, well done!
Cheers
Peter
Cheers
Peter
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Many thanks Peter, Glenn, and Bill.
Good thing we still have 4 weeks!
Good thing we still have 4 weeks!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
This is brilliant stuff even down to the tarnished aluminium.
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Crimea_River
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Yeah, let's go with that. I did have my choice of 3 different "silver" paints and went with the duller aluminum one so I guess you could say there was some thought behind it!
Thanks Vic.
Thanks Vic.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
That's STOUT Andy!!!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Like Guinness?
Excellent work Andy....
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Crimea_River
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Thanks Wayne. Landing gear has been painted and I'm working on finishing details on them this week.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Bit of progress on some bits and pieces to show you:
Pic 1. The finished propellers with blades in RLM 70, hubs in metallic gray and pitch mechanisms in aluminum. The spinners (not shown) have been painted white in preparation for masking a spiral. Although not shown as such in the kit profile, reference photos I've studied show a/c of the same unit and close to the same serial numbers as having the ubiquitous black/white spirals on the spinners.
Pic 2: The finished nose wheel strut and one of the main gear struts. None of the photos I studied revealed a brake line on the nose gear so I have not installed one. The brake lines on the main strut have been painted RLM 02 along with the rest of the strut except for the couplings which were simulated with a dab of white glue and painted silver after drying and the flex hoses which were black. A very light wash was applied at the hinge joints on all the legs and a mild smudging with black pastels finished things off.
Next time I should have some work on the landing lights and intakes to show.
Pic 1. The finished propellers with blades in RLM 70, hubs in metallic gray and pitch mechanisms in aluminum. The spinners (not shown) have been painted white in preparation for masking a spiral. Although not shown as such in the kit profile, reference photos I've studied show a/c of the same unit and close to the same serial numbers as having the ubiquitous black/white spirals on the spinners.
Pic 2: The finished nose wheel strut and one of the main gear struts. None of the photos I studied revealed a brake line on the nose gear so I have not installed one. The brake lines on the main strut have been painted RLM 02 along with the rest of the strut except for the couplings which were simulated with a dab of white glue and painted silver after drying and the flex hoses which were black. A very light wash was applied at the hinge joints on all the legs and a mild smudging with black pastels finished things off.
Next time I should have some work on the landing lights and intakes to show.
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Cool stuff Andy!
T Bolt
Colonel
Excellent work Andy! Those brake lines look real!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks guys.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Splendid job old boy, absolutely splendid!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Bloody nice of you to say old chap!
Lots to show you today. Work on the air intakes, landing lights trailing edges and spinners.
First to see is the rather sad looking treatment of the intakes for the supercharger and leading edge de-icing heater as well as the plain looking landing lights.
I dressed up the intakes with a simulated grille cut from a corrugated door from an old Ju-52 model that was in my spares box. These will be painted black later and the vertical bars drybrushed to make them stand out. The molded landing lights were removed and holes were drilled and plugged with tapered pieces of stretched sprue. A small hole was drilled in the center of the sprue and then a larger drill was used to create the concave lens which was then painted silver. Once that was dry, a tiny bulb was fashioned from clear sprue held up to a candle to round the end. This was then cut off and glued into the hole to simulate the bulb. The one on the left turned out better than the right one.
Next we have two pictures showing work on the wing trailing edges at the engine nacelle joint. The first pic below shows what the edge looks like before modification. As you can see it's quite thick so I set about filing and sanding the edges to make it look more realistic. The second pic shows the finished edge on the opposite side of the nacelle.
Now we move to the spinners. As I said yesterday, the spinnners were painted white a while ago. Tamiya didn't include decals for the spirals so I had to make a mask and paint them on. Fortunately, I have a 1/48 Dora whose spinner is almost the same shape as those on my Uhu and whose decal sheet had 3 different styles of spiral decals. I scanned a copy of the decal sheet and cut out the spiral I wanted then taped it onto masking tape as a template (below pic).
Next, I very carefully cut the tape along the edge of the template using a french curve and a brand new x-acto blade.
The mask was then wound around the spinner....
...et, voila, the finished spinners after spraying with black. The below pic were taken immediately after removal of the masks. There's a little bit of touch up needed but I'm quite happy with the way these turned out.
That's it for today. The weekend will be spend doing lots of filing/sanding/rescribing to hide the seams and thin out the trailing edges. The target is to have the wings assembled to the fuselage by Sunday night but I may get out for a ski day that could delay this.
Thanks for looking in for your continued interest and comments.
Lots to show you today. Work on the air intakes, landing lights trailing edges and spinners.
First to see is the rather sad looking treatment of the intakes for the supercharger and leading edge de-icing heater as well as the plain looking landing lights.
I dressed up the intakes with a simulated grille cut from a corrugated door from an old Ju-52 model that was in my spares box. These will be painted black later and the vertical bars drybrushed to make them stand out. The molded landing lights were removed and holes were drilled and plugged with tapered pieces of stretched sprue. A small hole was drilled in the center of the sprue and then a larger drill was used to create the concave lens which was then painted silver. Once that was dry, a tiny bulb was fashioned from clear sprue held up to a candle to round the end. This was then cut off and glued into the hole to simulate the bulb. The one on the left turned out better than the right one.
Next we have two pictures showing work on the wing trailing edges at the engine nacelle joint. The first pic below shows what the edge looks like before modification. As you can see it's quite thick so I set about filing and sanding the edges to make it look more realistic. The second pic shows the finished edge on the opposite side of the nacelle.
Now we move to the spinners. As I said yesterday, the spinnners were painted white a while ago. Tamiya didn't include decals for the spirals so I had to make a mask and paint them on. Fortunately, I have a 1/48 Dora whose spinner is almost the same shape as those on my Uhu and whose decal sheet had 3 different styles of spiral decals. I scanned a copy of the decal sheet and cut out the spiral I wanted then taped it onto masking tape as a template (below pic).
Next, I very carefully cut the tape along the edge of the template using a french curve and a brand new x-acto blade.
The mask was then wound around the spinner....
...et, voila, the finished spinners after spraying with black. The below pic were taken immediately after removal of the masks. There's a little bit of touch up needed but I'm quite happy with the way these turned out.
That's it for today. The weekend will be spend doing lots of filing/sanding/rescribing to hide the seams and thin out the trailing edges. The target is to have the wings assembled to the fuselage by Sunday night but I may get out for a ski day that could delay this.
Thanks for looking in for your continued interest and comments.
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
STU-FRIGGIN-PENDOUS ANDY!!!!!!!!!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
thanks
T Bolt
Colonel
Very slick work on the spinners Andy, and the intakes and landing lights look 1000% better!
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