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Wilhelm Hipperts Jasta 74 "Mimmi"


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Looking Great Brian!

 

 

Thanks Ron!

 

Well, although I havnt kept up on pics as much as Id like, I have indeed been making progress. The last few days have been ALL about the Bemmer IIIa high altitude engine for the F model.

The molding on this thing is wonderful and little touches like "BMW" molded into the top of each valve cover are really nice. 

 

Back with pics in a moment........

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The BMW engine went together without a single issue, and is 100% OOB. I was thinking about adding the rotor leads and plug wires, but Hipperts plane had the cowls closed up, and that in conjunction with keeping this OOB build moving, I decided against it, as you wont see a whole lot once everything's buttoned up. 

The main painting on the block is AKs X-treme metal Duraluminum, the cylinders are MM satin black, then some Alclad and brass mix of paints, and some hand rubbed AK burnt jet exhaust and rust pigments on the plug wire tubes, and some MM brass for the valve spring caps.

This is just after painting and assembly, and has no weathering here ATM:

 

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I also used some Tamiya clear yellow over the top of the valves as well, to bring out the "Casteroil" kind of look to it, as that stuff spewed everywhere. In this case, I definitely wanted to do some weathering, as have always planned on making this one a well used machine.

 

Back in a moment with some engine weathering.................

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Thanks Andy, very kind of you. This one, I wanted to "muck up" a bit, as a lot of the pics of these engines Ive seen were dirty as all get out, with dirt, oil and all kinds of staining. I didn't want to go TOO overboard, as we all know too much weathering not only doesnt look right, its not accurate if everything is caked in a 1" scale layer of mud.
 
I used mig pigments, AK engine wash, AK grease and kerosene, and AK aircraft oil on this, as well as giving the exhaust a flat coat. I popped the exhaust on w/blu tack just to see how it looked.
Of course, the flat coat killed what there was of teh really nice looking partial sheen on the exhaust, but this way its protected and most of the shorter exhausts Ive seen are pretty dark anyway:
 
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Finally now in situ, but not glued in yet. Wanted to make sure the completed engine fit in the fuselage frame as it should. It sits in there perfectly, just as I expected:
 
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Well, im off again today, and its hotter than blazes around here, so that means Ill likely be inside for the duration of the day, and see if I can take some glamour shots for another side project, and continue on with the Fokker, as once Im on a roll like this, I dont like wasting the "want"/good MoJo.
 
 
Cheers till next time!

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Gazzas, TJ, Karim, thanks to you all for taking the time to post.

 

Well I def was on a roll tonight!  I not only got seat-belts annealed, painted and installed, I completely finished off the fuselage frame and got it glued inside the main fuselage half. I then buttoned up the fuselage halves, after installing the engine. I also got the top of the fuselage sanded smooth, and got the rib stitching seam glued on the bottom and smoothed out.

 

 

ATM, Im cleaning up all the forward cowl and under fuse parts that need to be painted aluminum on the interior sides, so that they can be dry by tomorrow, and I can start assembling the rest of the fuse parts. I will also continue working on, and smoothing out the wings as well.

 

Pics later when the cowl parts are dry.

 

Cheers!  

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I started off by finishing up the interior bits, getting the engine glued in, and finally getting the fuselage panels on. First I glued the main rear fuselage on, then the nose of the cowl and rad:

 

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Now it was time to put on the cowl panels. Here things can get tricky w/the D.VII, as there are SO many cowl variations.....................make sure you CHECK YOUR REFERENCES!   :lol:

 

Hipperts D.VII is the only D.VII that I have seen that uses this non louvered cowl set with the two rounded square holes, with an S shaped cutout for the high mount D.VII F exhaust. 

Funny, these top cowl parts are not even used on the actual D.VII F kit!  They are completely grayed out on the instructions......

 

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On to the (minor) troubles..........................MORE

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Now onto my issue......................
 
A quick check of my reference photos (after I had already put on the cowling unfortunately) clearly showed I had put the incorrect late style D.VII rear cowl panel on:
 
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Ooops!  Well back to the drawing board, and fortunately, I was able to gingerly pop off the late style panels:
 
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I should have used the earlier style fabric ones that came with the kit, but after knowing the was an F model, and assuming (there is where I went wrong) it was also a late style cowling led directly to the troubles.
 
I DID however manage to get the fabric panels in place, and get the glued in, in a satisfactory way.  Once I had the fabric panels on, I decided that I better get a move on, with the paint, and as anyone who has built one of these kits knows, the build order is ALL wonky, since you have to build and paint most sub-assemblies before actual assembly.
I figured this would be as good of a time as any to start that process.
 
Since I dont have any of the Aviattic lozenge decals yet, I decided that the best place to start was the fuselage. For Hipperts mount, that meant starting with the cowling blue, then later I will bust out the checkers for the rest of the fuse.
First up, some pre-shading. I normally am NOT a pre-shade guy, but in some cases I like the look it creates, and WWI models fall into that category for me. I chose not to prime on this model, so I went with enamels as its not only what shoots nice for me, enamels always seem to get a better bite into raw non-primed plastic:
 
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Putting on the blue also meant assembling then pre-shading the gear as well:
 
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Well that is it for this round. Im at work but leaving soon to go to the LHS and buy some MM enamel paints (including some blue for Mimmi) since the line is going away soon and Id like to round up as much as I can. 
 
Till next time.
 
Cheers!

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