Fvdm

This is looking really great! Good job on the wheels.

You have some really nice legs 

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Hi all,
Time to rig the wings!!
Mike

Some photos with where I'm at...
 
Roundels are now sitting nicely - albeit with a few cracks that will need touching in on the fuselage roundels.
 
Model loosely put together - with dry fitted undercarriage - and, for the first time - test piece canopies in place to test fit (these are not the final quality ones!).
 
Excuse the dust on the model - will just wipe off!
 

 

 

 

 

 
Have fun!
 
Iain
 
 
 
 
 
 

I spent the morning on the Silhouette Cameo drawing up the markings and codes for Peter Spoden's Stieglitz, I really enjoy doing this part of the build:
 

 
Then starting to paint them:

evening ladies & thank you :)
 
have been sorting out more of the basic structural elements so ultimately I have the airframe ready to skin in one (long) go, rather then the Spitfire where I did it bits at a time and had trouble protecting finished work as I did some pretty violent things like those I am doing now...
 
starting with the tailwheel well - I started byu cutting just the doors out, but soon realised I could not detail the inside through the small aperture - I won't go mad in here, but I will replicate most of what I can see - here is the real (current) Lopes Hope..
 

 
..I started by cutting out the section between two fuselage stations in between the whole structure and getting rid of all the solid foam inside - painted it black so none of this is seen...
 

 
..then from many scaled plan parts I assembled the main structure from litho, with brass strengthening where the wheel leg will mount...
 

 
..added some details and skinned the sides of it so it can drop in as a complete pod...
 

 
..this was then added and CA'd into position ready for the fuselage section to be added back & filling..
 

 
..and after cleaning up, the basics are in there I can come back to later..
 

 
..I also added the airscoop and got the shapes in this area where I was happy with them..
 

 

 
..the next bit of surgery was around the wing fillets - they seem quite complex on a P51 with the top edge sitting over the flaps and a lower fairing cut away right back to the fuselage wall..
 

 
..the moulded fillet is a bit ugly and will need quite a bit of work..
 

 
..I made a slit in the fuselage and added a brass template from a scaled plan - I also faked a flap from bent litho so I could get the dimensions right...
 

 
..then lots of filling & shaping and trying hard to work around and not damage the skinned part of the airscoop...
 

 
..and finally after a shot of primer to see whats what, the basics seem to be coming together...
 

 

 

 
..the skin panels that have to go over that lot are quite distinctive so looking forward to that when the time comes :)
 
TTFN
 
Peter
 
 

Well all good things must come to an end.
This is the finished Hasegawa 1/32 P-40E.  
Let me recap.
-Scratchbuilt interior minus seven kit parts, one resin engine, and one resin seat.
-Scratchbuilt tail wheel assembly.
-Scratchbuilt wing framing.
-Scratchbuilt .50 cals.
-After market decals.
All told way to long to finish.  But I will take it.  









Again the pictures are much too faded but this time I know why.  There are some issues/omissions, glaring to me.  The ones I did not fix are the ones that would require me to tear the build apart and start over.  
Thank you for looking in.  
All comments, critiques, and criticism are encouraged.

Joe

Thx Anthony, very much appreciate the  encouraging words!
 
Here's a better pic of the ACMI pods, since there was some discussion about it:
 

 
Also, I did finish the Sniper pod. This is the Eduard version, which is nicely detailed and very tightly produced such that the gaps around the windows are kept to a minimum. However, the window and leds section seems very undersized. I initially tried using the front section of the Academy pod but the fit of the lens to the body isn't the best and I ended up making a hash of gluing that together.
 

 
As you can see from those pics I am about finished with the model, next update will be the done deal!
 
Cheers,
 
Marcel
 
 
 
 

Yes Gaz, those cannons are really cool, now I must scratch a trolley for it
 
Thanks 1to1scale, there is a lot of aftermarket and if you find the resin canopy you will spare a lot of time to rework the kit one
 
Now it is time for new air-brakes :
 

 

 

 
Also scratch the nozzle cover :
 

 

 
Well, the main parts of the bird are done.
We will continue with painting the cockpit and assemble the front part of the fuselage.
 
Cheers guys

I like the paintjob.

Fuselage Bracing Points
 
The first step for me in adding detail to the fuselage frame was adding the bracing points the rigging wires hang from.  But first I had to sit down and research where these needed to go.. this was done with a combination of looking at photos of the reconstruction built in Germany (by a friend of mine, (Achim Engels) and the only surviving original that is in the British Science Museum in London.
 
This photo is from Achim's reconstruction:

 
...this photo is from the original.. there were some differences between the reconstructed aircraft (above) and the one in the Science Museum, and in those cases I defaulted to the Science Museum photos as it is an original aircraft.

 
This is my drawing... showing in red, all the locations of the bracing points for the fuselage rigging

This image is a detail showing the rear of the fuselage being worked on (fuselage TOP is facing down on the building board):

 
Next step for me is to "weld" these in using some home made old-school plastic-putty:

 

That is really tough luck with paint. On the other hand, you know the reason so next time will be without paintlifting. This looks great and you did some nice restoring.

I once spent about a year on a Tamiya 1/32 F-15C Eagle, I fixed it up with just about any and every piece of aftermarket out there, reference books and photos, etc. and then when I was at the end putting the decals on I got greedy.  I decided to apply a heavy duty decal softening agent that has a VERY short amount time to work with before it starts to soften the decal.  Well the decal got destroyed and then my attempt to fix it made it even worse.  Luckily the decals were still available (for $35.00) and I then had to wait about a week (a small eternity at the time), and I had to strip the paint down to bare plastic and then redo the intricate paint job using a large variety of colors (otherwise it wouldn't match), lucky enough again I had plenty of paint available and fix it.  It took all I could not to smash the damn thing to pieces, lots of screaming, swearing, and violently throwing objects around (plus a pack of cigarettes long after I quit) and it was fixed and turned out wonderfully, but at the time I had a complete meltdown.  One of the things I've learned with modeling is the there will ALWAYS be problems with building kits, whether big or small but learning how to fix and overcome the problems is what modeling is all about.  Sorry you had to go through that, set it down, have a cigarette and a drink and then come back to it.  Let us know how it turns out!
 
Dan

Some progress..
Painting mostly done:
Colors are RLM81/82 over RLM76
 

A little less than a year ago I built Nichimo’s 1/20 Cessna Skyhawk. A modeling friend saw the finished kit and asked me to build the one which had been in his stash for several years.
 
completed model here: 
http://www.coldbasementmodels.com/?page_id=2175
 
The problem was that his kit was missing its engine. (The original owner had mysteriously absconded with both the engine and nose gear strut.) But guess who had made rubber molds of that engine during construction of that first airplane? As it happened, I had enough spare resin castings to cobble together a Lycoming O-320 to replace the missing components.

 
Not as as good as the original metal components, but more than adequate. 
 

 
Patching holes in the floor plate. The original model dates to the early 1980’s and has a lot of weird “features”. 
 

 
We’ll be going with the dark blue interior on this one.
 

Thanks everyone for the welcomes and kind words. Thank you David for the detailed set of tips, much appreciated. I'm sure those will save me some hassle.
I decided to go ahead and do the engine, what a shame to spend the time and yet it will be mostly hidden from view. In the end I figured it would at least be good practise for this newbie and after all, I guess I would always know that I had cut a corner had I left it incomplete.
 

 

That is some bad luck. Good that you don't put it on the shelf of doom.

That is some bad luck. Good that you don't put it on the shelf of doom.

So I'm moving along just great on my phantom when I knocked it off the desk onto the floor.  Not just any fall but a hard disasterous fall!  It broke both wing tips off, broke the nice seal from the wing to fuselage, broke the HUD off and the seam to one of the exhausts busted open.  This came the day after I dropped the canopy frame on the floor.  No big deal except when I moved my chair back and rolled over it with the chair wheels!  So this thing was destined to the shelf of doom but I'm one of those that can't just let if go.  I have a few unfinished models but only because I got bored with them.  So I took a break for a few days and decided to get back to it.  
 
I had a hard time deciding if I should display the wings extended or folded so since I had to start over, I decided to fold them.  This is taking a lot of work to clean up the parts and remove the evergreen strips I added on to get the correct wing angle.  The wing fold mechanism broke into several pieces on one of the wing tips so that is proving a challenge to fix.  I got the HUD glued back on but the join just doesn't look as clean.  
 
I had to separate the wing to fuselage join to clean it out.  I used superglue last time which I think may have caused it to separate on impact.  This time I used extra thin cement and the join seems fairly strong.  I just need to re-fill the small gap with surfacer.  
 
Here is some work that I had done before the disaster:
 
The little intakes near the nose are too long.  They are even with the nose which isn't the case with the photos I've seen.  I cut off about 2mm but I probably should have taken off 3mm.  At least it's better than it was.
 

 

 

 
 
These don't have a hard line where they attach to the fuselage, they have a blended look.  There is also an AOA that goes in this panel for the Naval version phantom.
 

 

 

 
 
Not sure how this happened but the splitter plate was in the way of the sparrows.  The only option I had was to sand them down a bit.  I also thinned the little intake part to the splitter. 
 

 

 
 
Oh and thanks for the photos of the rocket part of the sparrows guys!
 

 
 
Hopefully things go a bit smooth from here, this model is fighting me every step of the way.  I'm gonna have to build another corsair just to get my mojo back haha.  Thanks for stopping by fellas...
 
Bryan
 
 

First coat of stain on the first three sets of wing ribs.  Went with English Walnut - wanted something just a little dark so that the brass and aluminum work will pop.
 

 

Before I could prime the fuselage i had to place some more parts. One of this parts was the lower center wing. And man o man, did I mess this up 
When I glued this part I saw something strange. I looked at the model, I looked at the manual , I went to the wall en hit my head against it. 
 
In the manual you will see at the end of the toothpick some sort of adjusting.
 

 
Now look at my piece
 
eal
 
Something did not go wel here. While cleaning this piece i must have tought this were some kind of sprue or something so i cut it off..........
 
A well, after realising what I had done I had a good laugh en fixed it with some styreen rod and a piece of a earbud.
 

 
This will do for me. After this I sprayed the fuselage in the primer and went on with the wings. I had the idea of cutting out the ailerons but there seems to be a different between the top side and the bottom side.
 

 
The piece of tape is of the same lenght. When the aileron moves upwards, the pivotting points are at the black stripes. (Is it called pivotting points or is it called hingeline?)
But where are the pivotting points when the aileron moves downwards??????????
 
I really have no idea and I can't find it in the references so I think I will leave it as it is
 
Thanks for watching.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

small progress
fit was so far great
after I have attached the nose I have realized that I dont like the shape of the lower part of fuselage behind the nose, will check some reference pics 
fuselage taking the shape


 

30mm cannon, it will be almost completly hidden

 

 
wheels wells

 

 

 

 

 

 
thanks for looking
jan

Before I could prime the fuselage i had to place some more parts. One of this parts was the lower center wing. And man o man, did I mess this up 
When I glued this part I saw something strange. I looked at the model, I looked at the manual , I went to the wall en hit my head against it. 
 
In the manual you will see at the end of the toothpick some sort of adjusting.
 

 
Now look at my piece
 
eal
 
Something did not go wel here. While cleaning this piece i must have tought this were some kind of sprue or something so i cut it off..........
 
A well, after realising what I had done I had a good laugh en fixed it with some styreen rod and a piece of a earbud.
 

 
This will do for me. After this I sprayed the fuselage in the primer and went on with the wings. I had the idea of cutting out the ailerons but there seems to be a different between the top side and the bottom side.
 

 
The piece of tape is of the same lenght. When the aileron moves upwards, the pivotting points are at the black stripes. (Is it called pivotting points or is it called hingeline?)
But where are the pivotting points when the aileron moves downwards??????????
 
I really have no idea and I can't find it in the references so I think I will leave it as it is
 
Thanks for watching.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wow, what a details. Great work.