Lufty Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Beautiful workmanship Sir, ...Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 Hi All, Thanks for all your nice comments Some further progress with the Japanese Swallow - the fuselage sanded smooth, will probably still need to improve in some places, but I think it looks good. Unfortunately, the first serious fitting problems have revealed, as the fit of the wings and the fuselage is poor. That's how it looks dry fitted: Tightened with a clothes peg (I really like the rubberized type) the underside looks good. But the upper side - not. Therefore, I glued on only the lower half of the wings. When the glue dries well, I'll be fitting the upper halves, so that to minimize as much as possible the mismatch at the connection with the fuselage. Some adjustment of the elevation angle of wings is also necessary, which by the way can also minimize the gap. Still hope that only a small amount of dissolved putty will be necessary - excess of which I will wipe off with the LT. Stay tuned, best Hubert Uncarina and tomv87 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Wow, that looks so familiar. I'd suggest considering a very thin shim under the gun bay doors too, mine ended up set below the surrounding surface ever so slightly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amurray Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Excellent work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted July 17, 2016 Author Share Posted July 17, 2016 Thanks, Gentlemen . And now, the upper halves of the wings glued on. Doesn't look bad I think, few drops of Mr. Dissolved Putty should do the job. Stay tuned, best Hubert TorbenD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 A way nicer fit than what I have. Looks like you'll be adding the wing pylons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted July 17, 2016 Author Share Posted July 17, 2016 A way nicer fit that what I have. Looks like you'll be adding the wing pylons? Thanks Yes, will add the pylons. Going to make this one (sorry for poor quality photos): Nice set of masks included: Best Hubert Uncarina, LSP_K2 and Azgaron 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 Great progress. Keep it up!!! Cheers Collin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted August 1, 2016 Author Share Posted August 1, 2016 Thanks, Gents So, slooooowly moving forward. - glued in the fuselage armament (Master) - glued in the guns' cover, this will still need some attention, - added tubing of fuel installation in the cockpit, - the canopy was masked inside, - added pylons for the tanks under the wings. Here some attention is needed - I think they should be glued in before gluing halves of the wings - there is a need to push them into the slots, but the wing is flexible subjected to a pressure and becomes slightly concave in this area. Therefore I had to cut off most of the fixing elements. Fit of the radiator and its housing to the fuselage is weak, resulting in an over 1 mm gap between these elements. One should therefore slightly file off the rear of the radiator, but for best results, it is necessary to clamp the parts to be glued together. For this purpose, I have "invented" this system: Result: the small gap, which will disappear under the drop Mr. Dissolved Putty. Best Hubert Uncarina, TorbenD and mpk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Real nice progress. Looks like you're having all of the same fit issues that I had. mpk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collin Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Coming along very very nicely!!!! Cheers Collin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kendzior Posted August 9, 2016 Author Share Posted August 9, 2016 Hi All Thanks for comments Sprayed the colours for the markings (for red C385 from Gunze, for yellow IJA Chrome Yellow 71.135 from Vallejo) and masked them with Montex masks, Tamiya and 3M tapes. Now I'm going to spray the matt black antiglare panel and then glossy black in preparation for the metallic - going to use Liquid Silver from Vallejo. As you can see, the dissolved putty is still required in some places... Best Hubert tomv87, Shaka HI, LSP_K2 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Hubert Excellent progress and the paint scheme will surely be a knockout. Keep 'em coming Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Looking good Hubert. Looking forward to the de-masking stage. Great modeling going on here. Troy. Kendzior 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted August 10, 2016 Share Posted August 10, 2016 Nice progress! Looking forward to the pulling of the masks and seeing it in full color. Kendzior and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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