Yep, my bad, I posted it on the other! Sorry, hows the model though?
Lots of little detail work in the cockpit in progress.
Here's the updated status:
Finished:
01 ) Scavenge and paint an instrument panel from the few spares that I have
02 ) Build the forward cockpit bulkhead from plastic card
03 ) Fabricate a control yoke since the kit doesn't come with one
04 ) Create a new head rest - the head rest should actually be triangular, not round - will be glued in after the fuselage halves are mated
05 ) Create Triangular shaped brace in the front engine cowling
06 ) Add PE seat belts
07 ) Drill out holes for new gun barrels
08 ) Cut gun barrels from hypodermic tubing - Note: the Hs 123 frequently had a field modification that replaced the 2× 7.92 mm MG 17 machine guns with 2× 20 mm MG FF cannon and that's what I am going to try to replicate
09 ) Drill a hole in the rear cabin bulkhead for control yoke cabling.
In progress:
10 )
Sand off all of the rivets on the rear wings, tail and fuselage (nearly done) - there are a LOT of rivets on this kit - a bl**dy lot of rivets!
11 ) Drill holes in underside of upper wing and matching holes in center of fuselage between gun channels for strut cabling. Cables will be 0.006 inch brass railroad wire
12 ) Fabricate new cockpit doors to display the cockpits "doors" in the down position - (that means cutting away part of the upper fuselage and building new doors - it's also the ONLY way to see anything inside the cockpit.
13 ) Add the flooring forward of the front cabin bulkhead - this isn't going to be really visible but I need it as an anchor point for bottom portion of the control yoke - once I see what this entails I MAY add PE rudder pedals - but they are going to be REALLY hard to see so I might leave them out
14 ) Add internal ribbing - I am going to use a set of PE sidepanels that I scrounged from an Airwaves PE set for another kit. Somebody is always selling PE sets at bargain prices so I tend to buy them even though I don't have the specific kits they are intended for. I need to cut the side panels down and remove some extraneous bits
15 ) Add port side control levels and possibly add the small instrument panel there as well
16 ) Attach cable to bottom of control yoke and run cable from control yoke thru rear bulkhead - I'm going to use 0.008 inch diameter (0.2mm) 4 lb monofilament test line - that scales to 0.56 inches (14.4 mm) at true scale - that's about right for a cable I think - possibly a bit thick but it's the smallest I could get. - I might be able to scrounge some 0.006 inch railroad wire (that scales up to 0.43 inches or 11 mm) but I'm not sure it's THAT critical.
LOTS to do still.
Canceled:
17 ) Finish the oxygen tank / oxygen unit to the starboard cabin side
a ) the oxygen tank is finished and was built from 1 mm and 0.5 mm evergreen tubing which were butt end mated and then sanded to get the proper shape
b ) the frame for the unit is nearly finished. It was built from 0.010 " plasti-card with holes drilled out as in the image in the first post. I've rolled it from end to end so that it has nearly the right oval cross section as seen from top down. The plasticard wants to revert to its flat shape so it's going to be tricky getting this shaped properly. Once the oxygen regulator is ready, gluing it into the fram will help.
c ) the second tank inside the frame which I believe is the oxygen regulator has been built - again from 1 mm and 0,5 mm evergreen tubing. I need to run lines from the tank to the regulator and from the regulator to the "mask" - those will be built from the fishing line
Bottom line is that there just isn't enough room to squeeze this into the cockpit. I did a test fit with the oxygen tank and the seat in place and the oxygen regulator unit is just not going to fit. The ovygen tank is a tight fit without anything else but the rgulator unit is comprised of a tank and a frame and the combination is just a bit too big. I'm looking at some way to alter the design to make everything fit.
I'll add some new pics possibly later this week or next. A lot of this stuff won't be interesting until it's painted and installed - it's simply tiny, but I'll see what I can do.
Note: I'm worried that I am biting off more than I can chew with all this, so I reserve the right to revise this list.
Decals might be an issue with this kit as well. Evan was kind enough to send me a bunch but I won't know if what I have is going to do the job. The decals I had from the kit were in just miserable shape!