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WNW Sopwith Snipe


BloorwestSiR

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Excellent work as usual Carl, the wood graining is very effective and I just love the Sopwith Snipe, need to get one myself before too long for my 56 squadron series.

Max

Thanks Max. I'm enjoying this build so far. There's definitely some new skills to be learned.

 

Same goes for the Snipe. I didn't even know about it until Ernie suggested it. It has a bit of a pugnacious look to it I think.

 

Carl

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With my son's Halloween costume done, I was finally able to spend some time at the workbench. I assembled and painted the pair of machine guns.

 

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I then attached these to the front of the cockpit assembly.

 

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The rear half of the fuselage interior was painted using Gunze Sail.

 

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I then assembled the fuselage halves together with the cockpit inside.

 

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It seems I might have missed documenting a step in the build.

 

I painted the upper and forward fuselage sections in Alclad polished aluminum.

 

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And then missed grabbing pics of attaching there shoulder belts to the inside of the upper fuselage before I attached it.

 

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So since I've never done rigging before, I thought I'd start with something simple, like the tailplanes.

 

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The first two went OK, the next one no so much as you can see. I think I need to get some CA accelerator or something.

 

Back to the main wing, I removed from the sprues all the struts and cleaned them up. I labeled and mounted each one on a clip for painting.

 

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I then painted them in blue based on the scheme I'm doing.

 

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Then it was time to start installing them.

 

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