petrov27 Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Started this one for the new year: Everything appears to be cast very nice with fine details present. There is quite a lot of work to be done to remove parts from casting blocks and "wafers" of resin though: Lars Befring, Zero77, Iain and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Working yesterday and today, cockpit parts are all separated from the resin wafers and cleaned up HPH has provided holes for 2mm lugs to be mounted in the fuselage sides to aid in alignment; I have used some aluminum tubing I had around: And here we are this evening: Uncarina, lawman56, Lars Befring and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Nice work, Petrov! I'm looking forward to your progress on this one, as I have it in the stash, and will be taking notes. Kev Zero77 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Oh boy! I'll be looking in. Great start....Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougN Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I have this one on the "short list" to do, so I'm looking forward to seeing your build Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrbrdmech Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Watching this build! I just picked up the HpH La-7. It's a beautiful kit! Shane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loic Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 I will follow with great interest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 This one will be followed closely as I would love to build mine but am slightly afraid of it ! Cheers Dennis moksha and coogrfan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Tail-wheel assembly completed. Just pinned in there not glued - I can remove and should be able to fish in back in there much later in the build. The wheel casting is very nice with separate hubs that fit precisely into the tire... sandokan, tomv87, Dragon and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Interior bits painted with base coat. Used AKAN A-14 grey - first time I have used this brand of paint. For grins just dumped it outta the bottle into the airbrush to see how it would fair; went on great, very pleased. I did shoot a second coat with a drop of white in the grey as I will likely use a wash on the interior and dont want it getting too dark in there. Also first time airbrushing with new Christmas present - Sparmax Arism mini compressor - it also performed very nice - soooo much quieter than my old giant compressor.... [/url] coogrfan, tomv87, mywifehatesmodels and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Built up the instrument panel. I am just not sure I am sold on the pre-painted Eduard etched stuff like what is provided here. The color is strange with part of the panel in a faded blue-black but the center portion in unfaded solid black - pretty sure the entire panel should be just one color? You can also see a print pattern in the faded black that is really apparent in the close up pic (so is the glue spot I have to clean up.) Also the instrument faces themselves are pretty basic. The etch is otherwise good - I may just see if I can strip the paint off the whole thing and paint it myself and add some instrument decals (not sure anyone does WW2 Russian instrument decals?) Anyone have experience with stripping the paint off these etched parts and what works for it? It seems to be on there pretty good and fairly thick.... sandokan, tomv87, Zero77 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Going to be watching this, love these old Russian birds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mywifehatesmodels Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Your work is fantastic, but I have to agree about the instrument faces provided. They look a little hokey to me and I would have expected better, especially in this scale. But, again, that's not a dig on you or your work, because it's great and I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this one. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I have a similar feeling about Eduard's pre-painted IPs. The process is a 4-colours printing one (probably Inkjet process) and does not stand close-up scrutiny. As for cleaning them up, I'd suggest the usual suspects : oven-cleaning foam (containing caustic soda) or a bath in acetone (which evaporates fast unfortunately, so this needs constant checking) Keep-up the good work Hubert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Dog Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 The instrument panel is certainly not one of their better efforts especially the gauge markings. I have found that giving the outer panel a coat of your favorite flat coating before assembly lessons the fabric effect and takes the gloss away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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