LSP_Ron Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Looking really nice. You don't seem to be having much issue with getting the casting blocks sanded off parts nor does it seem to be slowing you down any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 Brian Holy Cow what an update. The interior and front office work looks fantastic. And as always, completely blown away by your woodwork and weathering Keep 'em coming Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneBramage Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 O2GY you are owning this outstanding kit in like fashion. Coo-Coo-Ka-Joob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 oh boy Brian you are nailing this - the interior looks amazing even more so given the challenges in working resin kits & all the prep involved - it has certainly paid off big time here ..really looking forward to every update Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Javlin1 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 This is Nice Brian! I did old 1/48 kit OOB for the most part but I used guitar string for the rigging and it worked out really well.I used some string I p/u that measured .006" and slid in into brass tubing on the wings that measured out @.010"(i/D) angled appropiately then build up the area around the tubing with carpenters glue to make that cone like shape that appears on the rigging worked out fairly well in 1/48.Just a thought/ideal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shepard Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 Oh Brian.. thats will be a beauty!!.... as Boris always said: i think i will go back to collecting stamps.... cheers shep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Thanks guys! All your positive comments really keep me going. Ron, As to the prep................it is indeed a PITA. However, once you get going on it, prepping the resin becomes second nature when deep in a long modeling session. I think the only part that really broke me as far as the "slowing down" goes, was the prep of the fuselage ribs. That was a REALLY taxing endeavor. More updates SOON! For some reason, I cant seem to post comments/posts with links of any kind in them from work. I know its not our "iron port". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneBramage Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Thanks guys! All your positive comments really keep me going. Ron, As to the prep................it is indeed a PITA. However, once you get going on it, prepping the resin becomes second nature when deep in a long modeling session. I think the only part that really broke me as far as the "slowing down" goes, was the prep of the fuselage ribs. That was a REALLY taxing endeavor. More updates SOON! For some reason, I cant seem to post comments/posts with links of any kind in them from work. I know its not our "iron port". I am so grateful to have guys like you and the rest of the Varsity here along with "Murphy" as my teachers. Thanks for you impeccable attention to detail. This is purer sprue-porn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamj Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Lookin Great!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Progress!!! I had a little family emergency at the end of last week, and had to take a couple days off...........and in between dealing with that (and some overnights) I made some more good progress on the tusked one. I started off by getting the Nav/radio table mounted and installed. **NOTE TO ANYONE BUILDING THIS KIT** It probably goes without saying for most cases, but FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!! The reason I say this is I initially installed the main center rib on the wrong side, and then subsequently the floor since it needed to fit up to the main rib.............this led to having to mount the Nav/radio table also on the wrong side, and NOT against the port side fuselage wall like it should have been. This was a TOTAL and COMPLETE PITA to line up since I basically had to guess/dry fit both fuse sides to get things to line up. I have the main rib, floor Nav/radio table all on the starboard side, and the pilot/nav pit, and front gunners platform all on the port side of the fuse. It took hrs, and hrs, of compiled dry fitting to get all of it to fit. Nav/radio table now mounted: I also got all of the radio gear painted and mounted on Radio ops side of the Nav/radio table Once I got the table mounted, I realized that you can very plainly see the Nav side of the table through the two fuselage windows, and that I wanted have to have a bit of detail there. So................I started in on making a set of little scale Tunisia/Op Torch maps for the Nav portion of the table, along with an RAF navigators chart plotter. You can see here the plotter arm that I modeled mine off of: This looks like an original RAF WWII plotter arm but is likely just part of the resto job on this particular Walrus (unknown origin of the pics as they were all in Spanish and the translator did not indicate where they came from) but I thought it looked cool, so I went with it. I started off by getting some maps of Tunisia/Africa/Op Torch, and one with some cool folded map markings on it, and shrunk the high res versions down to a suitable size. You can see here the co-pilots seat included in picture for size reference: Next up, I started on the tiny, tiny RAF chart plotter arm. This is made from sheet/strip styrene, bits of cut down sewing needles, some model rail-road railing stantions, PE from the spares bin and some decals also from the spares bin: Now painted up but a bit harder to see details: A trial run on the Nav table to see how it fits: Here is the result with maps and chart plotter all installed, all readily visible through the port side fuselage windowas well as being visible through the front windsheild canopy glass: MORE......................... Uncarina, The1971Show, Zero77 and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 OMG !! Fantastic work buddy !!........Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Thanks Harv!!! On then to more progress on the interior. I finished up a lot of the rear interior by adding the radio op seat, the thingy behind the radio ops seat (not really sure WHAT it is exactly) as well as some more of the rear gunners side wall detail: I also finally figured that I should do something with all the excess "rope" I had connected to the tie off/anchor spool, so as apposed to trying to tie it off to one of the two anchors HpH provides, I just coiled it up on the floor below where the gunner stands, like they just coiled it up there temporarily while waiting to beach, or tie off to a dock or anchor: I also added the two include anchors. The OOB instructions called for black, but I have seen silver before and thought that might be more interesting as I didnt want more black chipping to do. Here I used Tamiya acrylic silver with a FM wash, followed by some Tamiya weathering pallets "orange rust" then some thick "mud" from a Tamiya mud weathering pen to simulate soft sea bed being brought up with the anchors: Tiz all for now gents. Im out on business to Dallas next week, so Im hoping I can slip in some more work on the Walrus before leaving. Thanks for lookin in on me once again!! Cheers, Uncarina and Zero77 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loic Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Most beautifull job ! Anchor... that certainly does not help getting a light weight aircraft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneBramage Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Insane!!! (in an awesome way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Brian You're a mad man ! Totally blown away by the incredible detailing and weathering. brilliant work. Keep 'em coming Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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