Shawn M Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 nice work, I bought one of those "odds n ends" bags as well and will buy another Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Nice progress, Alain. I think you should totally scratch or re-enforce the front LG as well. Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 Hi all! nice work, I bought one of those "odds n ends" bags as well and will buy another I always look in that assortment first and usually find the section that is needed. Nice progress, Alain. I think you should totally scratch or re-enforce the front LG as well. Yeah, I know it would look better, I'll see what I can do. Here's what I did today, all in the main gear bay: The painted fuel cells with Tamiya Rubber Black spray. I will ad retaining straps next before gluing in place. Here is the almost closed fuselage bottom, as the tanks need a bit of material removed for the section to fall perfectly in place. There are still details to ad in this area before painting and I will try to finish this in the next coupe days... Bye for now, Alain mgbooyv8, Shawn M, Hubert Boillot and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Fantastic work, Alain! Kev Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Just wonderful detail, Alain! Guyman1 and Alain Gadbois 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel460 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Excellent detail work Alain. Dan Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Vundabar! Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Fantastic detail! Keep on the good work! Cheers, Peter Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted May 25, 2017 Author Share Posted May 25, 2017 (edited) Hi all! I always appreciate your comments very much! I am glad you enjoy this build, which I think is a lot of fun for just $22.50 Canadian! I marked and shortened the 2 fuel tanks. I used my silver pencil as it is well visible on the black surface. The next part is all your fault Shaka! I didn't want to consider this at first, but your suggestion was just too logical and that big ejection pin garanteed a lot of work to clean up! So in all it took less than 10 minutes to do this, after finding a perfect size part in my assorted bin! No drilling, just thinning the strut to fit the aluminium part. There! And not glued yet, so I can avoid any masking and assemble in the end after painting. Back to the main gear area. I started to box in the well in the wings. The rivets are raised by passing the riveter in the back of the part with a firm pressure. The next photos show the main leg construction reusing the sections of kit parts with the locating pin and wheel axel. The aluminium tube had to be filed down to fit in the kit. I couldn't help taking 20 minutes to put this Tamiya 1/100 scale 262! Nice looking little model! Now finally primer on the fore part to prepare final scribing and riveting. The tape in place is the first strip indicating the rivet location on the fuselage. Tonight I worked on the final details inside the wheels wells necessary before gluing the bottom wing section. Bye for now! Alain Edited May 25, 2017 by Alain Gadbois mgbooyv8, Shaka HI, Shawn M and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Come'on, man! This build deserve the extra attention! No shortcuts! Alain Gadbois and mgbooyv8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 Hi all! That's the trouble, it is hard to take shortcuts to finish faster! So here is the additional work done in the main wheel bay. First here are the retraction cylinders which fit on a tiny section of brass rod inserted on the gear leg. Both complete. Here is the inner door retraction mechanism.. ...in place in the centerline of the wheel well, which is complete except a couple of strenthening plates. I finally figured a way to make the camera bays. I will fit 0.010 clear styrene disks and seal with the very thin aluminium ring (I hope I can make a second one!). This will hide the glue joint. The cameras (just lens in fact) will be slipped inside each tube before placing the clear disks and ring. One last thing tonight, I had a bit of shrink between the kit plastic and epoxy putty where the old canopy fairing had been removed, and it kept reappearing over and over. Actually the putty had come loose and was moving with all the manipulations so I superglued heavily from the inside. After a couple coats of paint and sanding, the problem appears solved... Thanks again for all remarks and comments! Alain LSP_Kevin, mgbooyv8, MikeMaben and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Excellent modelling! Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 A joy to watch this coming on Alain - some lovely scratching going on - I'm learning some new tricks too. Torben Alain Gadbois and Shaka HI 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Palimaka Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Following this has been like a lesson in scratch building, and it has actually taken away a lot of my anxiety of trying it. I've learned a lot that I'm using on my build. Thanks so much for sharing all that you've been doing. Richard Shaka HI and Alain Gadbois 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgbooyv8 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Nice progress!!! Cheers, Peter Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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