Hi folks – have been ticking away at this one over the last week or so. Okay where to start - I mentioned
‘Might have bitten off a bit more than I can chew, then
WOW you look at the wonders that Peter is doing with his!!!! I now know I have.
But I’m in and you have to learn to do this scratchy stuff somehow, somewhere – no nicer place than here and with you LSP folks to show me the ways of the masters!
So a very big thanks to Peter for doing all my research for me and showing me the way and what is possible.Okay first up I started with reshaping the front cowl – getting rid of the facet shapes and rounding it off. Started to do some of the re-scribing. My first attempt at this as you can see I got carried away and did the line to long!!!
So some filler applied and will get back to this when I do the rest. That was a test run to see how it went.
I also have cut out the massive thick walls to the cooling vents and the exhausts. Plus thinned and re-shaped the cockpit entrance – that’s enough slashing and hacking on the fuselage
Moved on to the rudder. This, I will offset slightly, so added some layered thin plastic sheet to the front and then rubbed it back to shape. Also drilled the holes for the hinges (bits of wire). I have stuck a couple of blocks inside the tail for the wires to be stuck into. Just leaves some filler on the other side and the tab actuator to do.
Right with the trail blazed by Peter I started on the front office. With all the detail rubbed off from the inside of the fuselage I used some BlueTac to give me the shapes then started on the IP. Quite pleased with this and my homemade bezels don’t look too bad! Slap some paint on and fill in the holes with decals, should look okay. A bit better than the kit part.
I am going to use the kit cockpit floor but the side instrument panels have to go. So off they come and I fabricated my own. Hope you think they are better. Maybe not 100% accurate but they look more busy and realistic.
Using the same BlueTac method for the shape I cut the Cockpit back panel out and set about adding a bit of detail – not sure how much will be seen once the chair is in, but all good practice – And I think I do need a lot more of that.
Firewall and the Cockpit floor next – I real hope that my measurements workout – a lot of work here if it doesn’t!!!!
Okay that’s it for this update I am pushing my skills barrier here so hope you don’t mind but we all have to learn somehow – this is just a bit of a public way of doing it. So any pointers or tips on how to miniaturise things very welcome!!!!
It does amaze me how you make these tiny bits so accurate and intricate. Do you just have little tiny pixy helpers!!!??? – with my sausage fingers I would struggle to pick some of these bits up let alone work on them.
So till next time I look forward to some more inspiration and wonderful work form all others to push me along.
Happy Days - Taff
But hay hopefully it will turn out all right.
