GB-59 1/72 Mitsubishi Ki-15 'Babs' - WW2 PTO V

[Wurger]

 

[A4K]

Tight as a duck's @ss Rob! Cheers guys.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Enjoying and doing a good job, can't be bad.

 

[A4K]

Works better when you're enjoying it Vic

 

[Crimea_River]

Doing great Evan.

 

[A4K]

Cheers Andy.
Looking at available schematics again, and considering going the whole hog on this - redoing ribbing and stringers to correct scale thicknesses... decisions decisions...

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Happy days!

 

[A4K]

'In for a penny, in for a pound'

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers Andy.
Looking at available schematics again, and considering going the whole hog on this - redoing ribbing and stringers to correct scale thicknesses... decisions decisions...

Pointless IMO, unless you thin the walls to a scale thickness but I'd not recommend that!

 

[A4K]

I'd mostly just like to make the stringers smaller.
I didn't have smaller styrene strip, and didn't want to cut strips by hand, so just went with the same 0.25 x 0.5 mm strip of the ribs. Just can't live with it though, so ordered a mixed bag of Plastikard tube and square rod in various shapes and sizes yesterday. Should get them on Wednesday.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I admire your tenacity Evan, looks like your heading for some hard graft.

 

[A4K]

*Should* be ok Vic!

 

[GrauGeist]

This can be the conundrum of the perfectionist:
No one will really be able to see the detail in there *but* you know what's in there!

 

[A4K]

Exactly Dave.
It can, and never will be, completely accurate (almost anything in 1:72 is automatically out of scale, due to the tiny nature of the parts!), but we are creating an illusion, trying to make it 'look' realistic, without actually being so.
I personally will be happy if it 'looks right' or atleast 'semi-right', but I need to change a couple of things with this one for that yet.

 

[SaparotRob]

Exactly Dave.
It can, and never will be, completely accurate (almost anything in 1:72 is automatically out of scale, due to the tiny nature of the parts!), but we are creating an illusion, trying to make it 'look' realistic, without actually being so.
I personally will be happy if it 'looks right' or atleast 'semi-right', but I need to change a couple of things with this one for that yet.

It's the preservation of history.

 

[A4K]

Yeah, you're right Rob. I love learning the technical details of the aircraft too.

 

[A4K]

All stringers and some ribs have been removed, aswell as the throttle quadrant from the port cockpit wall.
Had to fill a few places where the plastic was marred by the glue, pics up when dried and sanded.

 

[Totalize]

Who weee. and I thought I was slow. Nice efforts all the way around Evan but do you think you will finish by the deadline? I would really like to see this one make it.

 

[A4K]

Cheers, but definitely not mate! I figure I can continue it into the Zombie build though.

 

[A4K]

Just ordered 'Mitsubishi Babs Vol.2' By Giuseppe Picarella. Should be here by Dec 6 - can't wait!