Tomek

Greetings everyone!
 
This is my first model presented here, so please be understanding http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/smile.gif.
This paper kit was published by Kartonowa Kolekcja, one of the relatively small, but popular Polish publisher of paper models. The model, desined by Pawel Mistewicz, shows the machine which belonged to RAF 67 Squadron and was operated by P.M. Bingham-Wallis (December 1941, Burma).
The kit itself is rather simple without too many details and is intended for beginners to modelers having already some experience. As rather basic kit you can see quite few simplification, which are quite natural for paper models. This is especially visible on the cowling of the model. Knowing these limitations of the kit I tried to push the envelope a little by trying to form some parts to more resemble the original subject (spinner, cowl). Paper (or more precisely cardstock) is quite suitable for this kind of operations, with some limitations of course. So this is it. I hope those of you who expressed some interest in the other thread won't be disappointed. http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/blush.gif
 
I'm still not sure what is the preferable format for showing pictures here, so please excuse if this causing any inconvenience on your side. All the thumbnails are clickable if you would like to see photo in a bigger format. I apologize for the background, I didn't realize how awkward it will come out (lesson for later...)
 
So here it goes:
 

 

 
http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad75/cotletuss/Brewster%20Mk1_new/th_IMG_0133.jpg http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad75/cotletuss/Brewster%20Mk1_new/th_IMG_0196.jpg

Cool project Kevin!
Your cast turret made me think ... a lot ... ... and gave me some ideas . Thanks!

The ammo belt looks awesome!
 
Marek, I find too scratch-building enjoyable and very satisfactory. It's just that your rounds show such high quality that I don't think I'll be able to make anything like that in my modeling career. Equipment to make them is one thing, your experience and attention to detail is another.
 
I'm following your build with great pleasure!
Pozdrawiam!

I couldn't say it better than Budman. Mark, your persistence, patience, attention and joy of research is exemplary. The results speak for themselves! Love what you have done so far. Great details!

I don't see a lot of reasons to be so hard on yourself, Mark. The engine looks very good to my eye! 
Nice trick with braided sheathing. Looks super convincing on thicker lines! Will try to remember that.
More please!
 
 

Trully inspirational Mark! Keep it coming!

Love it, Mark!
As usual, super clean. Can't stop being amaazed how some of you do it.

Thread subscribed, so I won't miss anything when you restart the project

I'm blown away ...
Lesson for me today: jigs keep the results consitent - see the fasteners!

It still amazes me how clean your work is! I love your detailing, Mark!

Pure pleasure to follow your build, Mark!

More please!

:bow:

Congrats Brian! She looks great:)
I love your restrained weathering. Looks very convincing.
As usual, hats off for your magic with Reynolds foil - this alone puts your model a level higher.

I am new to LSP and looking at your work is just .... mind blowing. It took me awhile to go through your Spitfire build, absorb all the details of your Stuka and of course this beautiful diorama. I guess closer the viewer get more details are revealed to him ... I'm stunned!
Amazing work fozzy! :bow:

Superb build, Kevin     
She looks fantastic. I may even buy the issue of AIR Modeller just to see your article! Pretty cool!

Time to start a new project ... The Cub has to wait a little bit longer.
I promised this one to a friend, and I don't have much time, so I'll be trying cut corners whenever possible. The idea is to take a paper kit, improve it if desired and feasible, and replace more time consuming details with plastic parts. I'm thinking specifically about using Wingnut Wings Mercedes D. IIIau engine, Gaspatch Spandau 08/15 machine gun and Gaspatch turnbuckles. This ought to save me some time (or that's what I hope will happen   ). Problem is I don't have any experience with plastic models - this will be definitely a challenge. I hope I'll get some guidance from you guys.
 
I got myself Matt77 repaint of Marek's design available at Ecardmodels store. 
 

 

 
The kit is quite detailed, but I would like to raise a bar a little bit higher for myself. If I'm going to use "ready" plastic parts, I might as well spend some time improving other areas of the model, right?.
The first order of things will be to simulate better bare plywood section of the fuselage. I started with the nail lines visible on the plywood. The tests revealed I need some adjustments - it's bit challenging to add anything that spans between the parts as they are unfolded in 2D form. 
 

 
The next step was the plywood itself. The first attempt was actually done by mistake. I wanted to print wood grain on the reverse side of the parts to make the fuselage skin double sided. I grabbed some plywood textures out of the Internet, stitched it to cover larger area and put a sheet with the printed parts into the printer. As it often happens to me, I put the wrong side up, and ended up overprinting the wood grain texture on printed previously fuselage skin parts. The effect was quite interesting:
 



 
This could be a very easy solution in some of the cases. Here though the color came out too dark, especially if one compares with this photo (source Jagstaffel 5 by G.K. Merrill, vol .1):
 

 
Back to the drafting board. I'm thinking about redrawing the parts and the panels of the plywood in the kit and filling them with my plywood textures. Let's see if I can figure it out in Corel...
 
I started work on the engine bay bulkheads. The kit proposes very simple solution:
 

 
I used the kit's bulkheads as a pattern for my own version:
 

 
These also may need some adjustments as I'll be trying to fit them inside the fuselage. 
 
I feel this will be a one step forward, two steps backwards project... 
 
 
 
 

Bravo Kevin! You have built a very lovely model. A real eye-catcher for sure. :clap2:
Somehow the background seems ... appropriate. Has some coolness in it

Greetings everyone!
 
This is my first model presented here, so please be understanding http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/smile.gif.
This paper kit was published by Kartonowa Kolekcja, one of the relatively small, but popular Polish publisher of paper models. The model, desined by Pawel Mistewicz, shows the machine which belonged to RAF 67 Squadron and was operated by P.M. Bingham-Wallis (December 1941, Burma).
The kit itself is rather simple without too many details and is intended for beginners to modelers having already some experience. As rather basic kit you can see quite few simplification, which are quite natural for paper models. This is especially visible on the cowling of the model. Knowing these limitations of the kit I tried to push the envelope a little by trying to form some parts to more resemble the original subject (spinner, cowl). Paper (or more precisely cardstock) is quite suitable for this kind of operations, with some limitations of course. So this is it. I hope those of you who expressed some interest in the other thread won't be disappointed. http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/public/style_emoticons/#EMO_DIR#/blush.gif
 
I'm still not sure what is the preferable format for showing pictures here, so please excuse if this causing any inconvenience on your side. All the thumbnails are clickable if you would like to see photo in a bigger format. I apologize for the background, I didn't realize how awkward it will come out (lesson for later...)
 
So here it goes:
 

 

 
http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad75/cotletuss/Brewster%20Mk1_new/th_IMG_0133.jpg http://i923.photobucket.com/albums/ad75/cotletuss/Brewster%20Mk1_new/th_IMG_0196.jpg

Hi Peter,
She looks great already! 
Really glad you enjoy the process. Keep it up!
 
Sagging of the fuselage skin between formers seems to be a paper modeling curse. Very common problem that happens not only to beginners. Not sure how this can translate to plastic, but in paper modeling there are some few things that help. First, the formers have to fit absolutely perfect. They can not be even tiny bit too big, because it will show. One should be able to slide them in and out without effort, there can not be any tension. Second, choice of glue. It's safer to go with a glue that will not make card soft (contact cement, CA, etc.). Any water based glue is a recipe for "cow ribs", especially for a novice. I'm sure you will be able to figure out if any of this solutions can be adapted in your build. 
Good news is, your medium is plastic and this is just the beginning. No harm done, and with little effort things can be fixed. In paper modeling that would be over ....
Love your work Peter!

Time to start a new project ... The Cub has to wait a little bit longer.
I promised this one to a friend, and I don't have much time, so I'll be trying cut corners whenever possible. The idea is to take a paper kit, improve it if desired and feasible, and replace more time consuming details with plastic parts. I'm thinking specifically about using Wingnut Wings Mercedes D. IIIau engine, Gaspatch Spandau 08/15 machine gun and Gaspatch turnbuckles. This ought to save me some time (or that's what I hope will happen   ). Problem is I don't have any experience with plastic models - this will be definitely a challenge. I hope I'll get some guidance from you guys.
 
I got myself Matt77 repaint of Marek's design available at Ecardmodels store. 
 

 

 
The kit is quite detailed, but I would like to raise a bar a little bit higher for myself. If I'm going to use "ready" plastic parts, I might as well spend some time improving other areas of the model, right?.
The first order of things will be to simulate better bare plywood section of the fuselage. I started with the nail lines visible on the plywood. The tests revealed I need some adjustments - it's bit challenging to add anything that spans between the parts as they are unfolded in 2D form. 
 

 
The next step was the plywood itself. The first attempt was actually done by mistake. I wanted to print wood grain on the reverse side of the parts to make the fuselage skin double sided. I grabbed some plywood textures out of the Internet, stitched it to cover larger area and put a sheet with the printed parts into the printer. As it often happens to me, I put the wrong side up, and ended up overprinting the wood grain texture on printed previously fuselage skin parts. The effect was quite interesting:
 



 
This could be a very easy solution in some of the cases. Here though the color came out too dark, especially if one compares with this photo (source Jagstaffel 5 by G.K. Merrill, vol .1):
 

 
Back to the drafting board. I'm thinking about redrawing the parts and the panels of the plywood in the kit and filling them with my plywood textures. Let's see if I can figure it out in Corel...
 
I started work on the engine bay bulkheads. The kit proposes very simple solution:
 

 
I used the kit's bulkheads as a pattern for my own version:
 

 
These also may need some adjustments as I'll be trying to fit them inside the fuselage. 
 
I feel this will be a one step forward, two steps backwards project... 
 
 
 
 

Hi folks
   thanks for your interest I've been doing a bit more to her trying the guns out in there place in the wing.  I have been searching the net for pic's of this AC but I'm finding it hard to get the ref pic's I'm looking for, does any of you know where I may get some good ref on the engine and cockpit.
 
Here's a few shots of the guns.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
That's all for now folks back soon and thanks for dropping by.
 
Clive

Hi all
   I've been saving hard for sometime now for one of those Big! Tiffies and now I have one, yes the Airfix 1/24 Typhoon.  I'm hoping I make a great job of her as I'm making this in memory of a wonderful chap I had the pleasure of talking to over lunch some time ago now, he flew these brutes and Mustang P-51B's during the war and some of his tales are scary and brave but a little humour was in amongst the fear. 
 
So first up is the seat this was painted with Tamiya paints and a touch of artist oil for a wash.
 

 

 
Secondly was the lower wing this to had Tamiya paint and was washed over with artist oil Vandyke Brown.
 

 
Thirdly was the framing, now for this I tried a new method of painting.  I used Tamiya X18 semi gloss black as the first coat then I used warpaints shinning silver and then I thought this looks a bit dull so I then used rub n buff silver and bam she came to life and so this is the result.
 

 

 

 

 
The Vandyke Brown was also used as a base wash on the framework as well as the wheel bays and cockpit, a little copper and brass was also rubbed in on the oil tank in front of the cockpit.
 
Thanks for stopping by.
 
Clive

Hello all,
 
As a part of finding my modelling mojo back, I did not intend initially to make a WiP for this one, just go to the RFI when it's finished. But then, I am getting so much from reading others' WiP threads that I thought that maybe, if I could help juts one fellow LSPer, then a WiP was needed. Unfortunately, some of the work is done and has not been recorded on pics, so you'll have to take it from where it is !
 
I start by doing some side-stepping around my personal life, because maybe it can also help fellow LSPers relate to what I have been living though, and understand why sometimes they have their own blocks in modelling.
 
I have been on LSP for some time now, but I have so far failed to finish anything. There are plenty of (bad) reasons for it, the first one being that I could really spare little time for modelling for many years. To be precise, I was forbidding myself from any modelling as long as other priorities were not ticked over first, starting with taking care of the wife, the home, the companies I manage, including for some the tedious accounting records, etc...
 
Then my life changed somewhat since the summer of 2011. I decided that bringing a stop to my then long-lasting marital life was in the end an inevitable - but better for me - decision. Then I met Patricia , whilst the divorce with my estranged former wife was dragging along. We bought a new home beginning of 2013, in which we undertook major works (I mean, really major ones ), then I bought new premises for my company, in which again I undertook major works (   ). Both build works were finished in the late summer 2013, just in time for 1) our wedding and 2) moving the company to the new premises ... all within 2 weeks in September 2013  (     ). Needless to say there was simply no time available for any modelling duting this period :frantic:
 
This is when the old body decided to flash a big red warning light, and for a good measure say "Sir, you're burnt out !" I finished September 2013 in Intensive care   ... Not quite the honeymoon Patricia had envisioned ...
 
Since then, I have been very very very slowly coming back, whilst in the meantime catching up all the bacteria and viruses the environment could throw in my path. Needless to say this has left me with no energy for modelling during all this time ! Which means I had not finished any kit for the last 8 years , to the point where it has become a running joke with my buddies of "La Comète"   (some of whom are members here, like Warbird, Frankey or SuperMario )
 
So I have really come back to active modelling in the last few weeks, and decided I needed a "small" project I would finish. I have others unfinished projects scattered around LSP, but they will come later. At least, the good news for them is that they are on the Shelf of Doom, not in the Bin of Doom ... (can you imgaine that when I started my scratchbuilt Aichi "Hansa", the WnW W-29 was not even a rumour ... )
 
End of the background story, and thank you for bearing with me and being the group LSP has always been since I joined : friendly, heart-warming, and always nice to others !
 
So my"small" project was going to be Paul Fisher's lovely Ryan ST-M / PT-20. The idea was that it would be an OOB build, a real mojo mender.
 
It's a very nice kit, and others like Kevin and Eric have shown how great it can look when finished. Because I love Yellow Wings, it will be finished as an Army trainer. And for a good measure, I'll have a go at foiling the fuse.
 
Paul has done a good job with his kit, but he has in some areas re-used the work for his former (just as great !) PT-22, which in real life was based on the ST-M (PT-20), and this is not always accurate for the PT-20.
 
For instance, the control sticks of the ST-M were not S-shaped, like on the PT-22, but straight, and of chromed steel. I used pieces of sewing needles to represent the sticks, with handles made of white Milliput, suitably turned to shape with files after inserting the new sticks in the chuck of my mini-drill.
 
As the fuselage is now all buttoned up, this the best pic I can show you of the new sticks :
 

 
Of course, I never managed to butt-glue the new sticks to the kit's original support bar. I had to fabricate one, using a 1mm dia brass tube. Where the sticks were affixed to the bar, I sleeved on a bigger diameter (1.3 mm) tube, thinned-down from the inside with a 1mm drill. To ensure a good solid joint, the tubes were drilled transversally (carefully, as drilling a 1mm hole at 90° to a 1.3 mm tube is  an interesting exercise )
 
On the upper right corner of the seats, you can also discern another chromed bar. This is the flaps control lever, which has been forgotten by Fisher, but is a prominent feature of the ST-M cockpit. It was also chromed steel on the real ST-M and they were done with a suitably bent 1mm piece of needle.
 
The instrument panels did not match the pics I had. I made new ones in thin plastic card, duly punched according to my reference pics. The dials are Airscale's ones (you may notice that, as per original, the artificial horizon is not located in the same place on the front and rear IP), and the bezels, painted gloss black, come from an old Photocut PE set.
 
To replicate the cracked-paint effect of the IPs, I first painted them silver, then applied with a paint pen some thick black paint, which was stressed before it was dry, using a very stiff paint-brush. A clear acetate film (the kit's one) was used to replicate the dials' glass.
 

 
Sorry for the not-so-good pics, guys. On top of my unremarkable photographing "talent", it is not easy to get something from very close with my bulky camera without creating a shadow with the camera lens.
 
I am not sure the ST-Ms has a wooden floor, but with the solid wing, there is no real way to represent the fuselage, and it would have made fixing the (very nice) seats very complicated anyway. So I used the kit's floor, painted then weathered to represent stained and dirty wood.
 
The foot-pedals need some brake-pedals added at their inner extremity. Done with thin plastic strips and punched micro-discs.
 
The whole interior was painted Interior Green on a silver base, and worn and weathered using a fiberglass-eraser, and some brown and black pastel chalks' powder.
 
The seat-belts are HGW's "US Navy" belts (132085). They are good, but in fairness this particular set is lacking on the instructions' side. It took me a trial set to guess more or less correctly how to assemble them.
 

 
Other mods have been done on the kit: the ST-Ms did not have a padding running all round the cockpit openings, as on the PT-22. The padding was just on the front of the cockpit sill, under the windscreen. I scraped the superfluous part of the paddings, but, as there still are some difficult seams to fill, I will probably remove them completely, to make new ones out of a Milliput roll.
 
After assembling the fuselage halves, there were some seams to fill. I used some CA, then Mr Surfacer 1000 for a first round. There are still more seams to clean up, especially around the wing to fuselage joint. I want to make the best use of the way the kit is designed, i.e. paint the wings and stabilators before assembly, and foil the fuselage seprarately. This requires however that the seams are taken care of as best as possible before joining the wings to the fuselage. A critical area is the front lower fuselage to wings leading-edge joint (See Kev's own build if you want some pics of the area). To ensure a good mating of the wings, the cockpit floor is a hindrance, pushing the wing down. Fortunately, there is enough material to remove from the center wing, and this is what I'm working on right now.
 

 
Finally the flaps and ailerons have been glued to the wings. On the kit, the flaps protrude behind the (virtual) trailing edge, when there should be a straight line with the ailerons and the rest of the wing. I scraped the extra material from the flaps trailing edge, and sanded them back to the proper thickness, being careful not to destroy the very fine surface rendering of the kit.
 
The wing has been primed with Tamiya's spray-can white primer, a fantastic product.
 

 
That's all for now, folks.
 
I'll try to take pics of the future progress in the proper spirit a WiP thread for the future posts.
 
Hubert.

It would be a delight to work on a real one, Craig.  At one point I thought of becoming an Aircraft Mechanic as a second career.  Thank you.
 
Thank you, Peter.
 
Thank you, Wolf.  This is indeed overdone. Part way is best.  I get caught up in things sometimes and this is one of them.  There is a LOT of stuff that was overdone over the entirety of the kit.  It's too much to visually absorb.  There comes a point when your eyes just can't take anymore.
 
Where was I.  Oh, yes.

Piecing the puzzle together, right side.  Left side free wire goes into Magneto bottom.  Something I see now that won't be seen.  Time for it to go.  Nice idea, though.
 

Left side.  Right side Magneto wire needs to tie-in.
 

Left side, showing Generator wiring.
 
Many thanks.
Sincerely,
Mark