Scratch build Boeing F4B-4

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far!

 

[Skyediamonds]

Lovely work so far!

Thank you for watching.

 

[Skyediamonds]

The gun troughs were next. I borrowed the idea of pre-rolling the glossy cardstock from watching videos of papercraft models prior to bending & squeezing into the cutouts.

My upmost respect to those guys who do papercrafting. The level of detail & the workmanship on such tiny objects needs to be seen to believe.

I try to borrow ideas from a wide variety of sources such as plastic modeling, r/c scale planes, real aircraft restoration & of course papercraft.

I'm always open to ideas & suggestions. So if anyone has some ideas on flat wire rigging, please feel free to chime in.

 

[Skyediamonds]

The gun troughs were given a once over with filler compound to smooth out some of the cracks & gaps. Then a couple of shots of grey primer to help harden the glossy paper cardstock as well as preparing the surfaces for paint.

In the first picture, you can see some of the white filler along the edges of the trough to help smooth out the surfaces.

Since I don't have a spray gun & only use rattle cans for spray paint, trying to get enough spray into the narrow troughs without over spraying the outside surfaces was a challenge.

 

[Skyediamonds]

One of the ( many ) reference pictures shows the center section underside of the top wing with either a rear view mirror or compass. I chose a compass. It was an arbitrary choice or just a mental flip of the coin.

 

[Wurger]

Nicely done !

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Agree with Wojtek.

 

[special ed]

As you learn other's techniques, you pass them to us. Keep it going.