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    Trak-Tor reacted to LSP_Kevin in 1/32 Sea Fury from DBMK just announced at Telford   
    Here's the box art for the Sea Fury kit, as posted by DBMK on their Facebook page:
     

     
    Kev
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    Trak-Tor reacted to BradG in Let's get to know each other a little better. Show a photo of your   
    I've been here along time so here's my mug - back row center in the blue and yellow shirt. Me and the boys taken yesterday after winning the flag off the last ball of the match. Go the Doggies!
     

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    Trak-Tor reacted to Miloslav1956 in P-38L-5-LO, s/n 44-26412, "Shady's Lady", August 1945   
    Trumpeter 1/32 model,
    Kagero decals,
    Reskin wheels set,
    Phoenix cockpit, 
    All colors MRP
     



     








     
     












     
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Pete Fleischmann in 1/16 scale scratch built AT-38B Talon-The Smurf jet is back!   
    The long slow march towards the front of the jet continues-





     
    cheers
    P
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Pete Fleischmann in 1/16 scale scratch built AT-38B Talon-The Smurf jet is back!   
    Tail position light. The master for these was turned on a lathe by Timmy! Years ago. I used the aluminum master to make clear resin copies for the wings and vertical tail. 

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    Trak-Tor reacted to kkarlsen in Silver Spitfire 'The Longest Flight'   
    First tests with foil...
     

     
    I did some initial testing with chrome paint, but decided to go for the aluminum foil. 
    It's a lot of work, but I think it's going to pay off in the end.
    The shininess isn't too much, it has scratches and ripples, the rivets are barely visible as
    on the original aircraft. Overall the Foil adds to the 'illusion' of the aluminum surfaces.
    There will be some imperfections, but overall I'm satisfied with the result.
     
    Cheers: Kent
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to patricksparks in What is the diameter of the B-17 top turret?   
    Best I can tell the plexiglass dome is 40 inches in diameter and the ring it mounts to is 40 3/4 inches.
    Hope this helps !!!
    Pat
     

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    Trak-Tor reacted to ChuckD in "Bit of a rough go today, eh, chap?"   
    Hi, everyone.  I guess it's time to get my membership card to the Kotare Klub as there seem to be about a million of these in the WIP forum right now. 
     
    Since finishing my Corsair diorama, which took months, I wanted a quick, straight forward build as something of a palate cleanser.  My son said he thought it'd be neat if I did a Spitfire, I had the Kotare Mk Ia (mid) kit in the stash, I've never build a British aircraft before, and so, fate was decided.
     
    I departed from my usual MO of recreating an historical photograph and decided to just do a fictional, but feasible scene.  I've wanted to depict battle damage on an aircraft since I was kid, but never really had the skills or practice till now.  So, being that this kit has a low parts count and went together really nicely, I decided it would be a good platform to try my hand at damage.  I thinned the interior plastic walls with a low rpm rotary tool, carefully punched and pried holes in the weakened area, then painted and streaked the area to look the part.
     
    Aside from the rigging wire (EZ-line), figures (Black Dog Resin, out of the box), and the base (el cheapo panel board), the kit is presented out of the box.  I even used the decals in lieu of my usual gig of cutting masks and painting.  This experience reminded me that I'm way out of practice working with large decals, but after a few minor scares, they turned out okay.
     
    This is a Spitfire Mk Ia of 610 Squadron sometime in the summer of 1940 before it was damaged beyond repair that August.
     
    "Bit of a rough go today, eh, chap?"




     















     














     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to CraigH in Airfix 1:24 Ju87B - Airscale Saves the Day-A Great Kit is Waiting   
    Members  209 Gender:Male Location:Sheffield, UK Author Posted just now It's been a while. Redecorating the hall and a little trip to London got in the way and we're off to Portugal on Sunday so I thought I'd better get a little update up on the meagre work I've done in the last few weeks.
    Just to top it all off, my laptop (steam driven and I DON'T mean the games platform!) crashed on Saturday last week so I've just finished a re install and putting all my dodgy software back on, just joking Microsoft and Adobe.
    So first up, the floor was fastened to the port fuselage. This isn't strictly Airfix instruction manual but I'm figuring it'll pay off later....I think.

     
    Next up was to add some general dirt and grime then start to look at the gunner's area.
    I'm using the ammo racks from Airscale's kit, of course, and it differs from the kit parts in that there are two extra magazines which fit on the starboard wall which I'll sort later but also the two main racks are considerably larger than the kit parts. So large in fact, I had to take off the rear portion to get a reasonable fit. I may even need to take more. I'm thankful the crew aren't being fitted.
     
    The next major issue is the waste cartridge storage bag/box. I've seen so many conflicting images and even the contemporary manuals themselves concerning this damned bag.
    This diagram comes from the 1938 manual for the JU 87B

    It clearly shows a metal frame with a hessian type bag slung from it, as does this lithograph type picture from the 1939 B1 manual

    This also shows the magazines we'll come to later.
    But then, same manual, very next picture down the page is this, which approximates the Airfix kit part of more of a metal box affair

    If I had hair, I'd be tearin'. I've decided to go with a bag type arrangement as I can't really see how they'd empty the box unless it had a bag inside it.
    The Airfix kit has the whole fixture fastened, wrongly, to the stanchion holding the magazine racks in a very flimsy way. 
    It does fasten to it but the holder for the bag is much more substantial and bolted to the rear of the fuselage as well. So I fashioned this as a rough approximation.

    NOTE: Below the bag, you can see a map holder and a gas mask cannister. I've added them to the fuselage as they aren't in the kit or moulded to the sidewall, and made a scale map from an actual bombing map from August 1940.

    It fits here

    You'll notice I've done some, hopefully, subtle dirt and grime and grease additions as well as some chipping in worn areas. The wiring's been replaced with real wire and the Morse key added. The red and white bar takes the cables from the rudder pedals aft.
    Also corrected is the trailing aerial winch. On the kit it's all one part as here:

    Whereas, in actuality, it was split as in the photo
    Before fitting the bag structure, I needed to make a little cover for the rear of the fuselage. The kit is very rough and on the real aircraft, it was a much neater arrangement with a few info plates on it. I'll marry everything up when the two sides come together.
     
    Next in came the magazines for the rear gun. They're a vast improvement on the kit part, if a bit of a tight squeeze 


    They'll be levelled up later of course
    Onto the other side. The Airscale kit provides the oxygen bottles for pilot and gunner and the 1939 manual gives us the routing of the oxygen pipes which run to the oxygen filling port on the starboard side of the fuselage. Anything oxygen was blue on Luftwaffe aircraft. The regulators, I chucked together from a couple of bits from the spares box.

    The oxygen pipe to the masks is a wire core, wound with thinner wire then covered in shrink tubing and painted olive green. I've scratched up the circuit breaker panel as well.
    Lastly, I've decided to fit the inner wing sections before closing up the fuselage as it'll be easier to clamp them together to get a good fit than it will if I'm clamping a completed fuselage.....CRACK!!!!!
    Hopefully I'll get another update in before hols. Thanks for looking
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    Trak-Tor reacted to tomprobert in 1/32 Short Stirling   
    More transparency work of late, this time huge steps have been taken with the canopy. 
     
    The kit part was always suspect in my opinion - it just looked too big, windscreen shape was totally off and the sides too vertical:
     

    Something like this would really bug me, so I was thinking about making my own by either doing a master and vacforming it or alternatively doing the framing, much like the bomb aimer’s section, and dropping in the clear pieces using acetate.

    Then I had an idea… why not get in touch with one of the greatest model makers of our time, Peter at Airscale?
     
    And low and behold…
     
     
     
     
     
    And a comparison with the kit part:
     

    Here we now have a beautifully printed cockpit framing that will sit on top of a new vac canopy. As the pictures show I originally cut the fuselage to fit the kit part so some work is going to be needed here to get the fit right, but I’m delighted with Peter’s handy work!
     
    I’m currently working in finishing off the gear bays so the cockpit will have to wait for a while, but for once I can’t wait to get started on the cockpit and it’s interior - which is usually a job I hate!
     
    More when there’s more…
    Tom
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Marcin_Matejko in Brown B-2 „Miss Los Angeles” 1/32   
    Thank you :-)








     
    To be continued
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Marcin_Matejko in Brown B-2 „Miss Los Angeles” 1/32   
    I got the drawing from a friend
     
    That's what I've done in the last week:














     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Marcin_Matejko in Brown B-2 „Miss Los Angeles” 1/32   
    The main drawing on which I base the model comes from the book R. Hirsch „Aircraft of air racing’s golden age”
    But this drawing is also very helpful:

    And photos showing some of the hull structure:


     
    I did the rest of the internal details,some are in the implied shape:

     
    I'm also continuing to work on the base:

     
    And I also started coloring:



     
    To be continued
     
     
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Marcin_Matejko in Brown B-2 „Miss Los Angeles” 1/32   
    Thank you
     
    Test print of the engine:



     
    Initial fitting for the model:

     
    I'm making small details, now the control system:

     
    This is what it looks like at the moment:


     
    To be continued
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Marcin_Matejko in Brown B-2 „Miss Los Angeles” 1/32   
    Thank you very much
     
    I'm still working on the interior details:



     
    I made a fuel tank and a pilot seat:

     
    Pre-assembled for fitting:


     
    And as a way to relax, I started working on the base for the model:

     
    To be continued
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Marcin_Matejko in Brown B-2 „Miss Los Angeles” 1/32   
    Hello everyone
    I recently started a new modeling project, a Brown B-2 race plane:



     
    I make the model from scratch using traditional polystyrene processing methods. Based on these drawings:

     
    I carved some elements from fragments of other models that I managed to fit. For example, I made wings from the upper wings of a Fiat CR.42 by Smer, in a scale of 1/50. In my plastic scrap I found an unused front from an alternative version of the 1/32 Williams Bross Firecracker, which I managed to fit to the Brown. I cut out various fragments from four halves of hulls from the Black Widow P-61, probably made by Monogram in 1/48 scale and glued them together slightly differently to create a base for the hull. I made a propeller cap from a 1/72 scale Corsair fuel tank. A wheel of unknown origin found in plastic scrap was used for the chassis. The rest was made of polystyrene plates of various thicknesses. Yes, this project can easily be considered modeling recycling.





     
    To connect all the elements of the model together, I made a special mounting base from cardboard. It allowed for the mutual adjustment of the position of individual elements relative to each other and maintaining the appropriate geometry of the whole.



     
    Then I cut off the engine cover to create a characteristic ventilation gap between the hull and the cover.



     
    I made the chassis legs from plastic reinforced with steel wire.

     
    I decided to open the top of the fuselage to show the internal structure in the model



     
    I would also like to show the engine because it looks interesting


     
    Since no company offers a miniature of this engine, I decided to make it myself. But to make it easier, I drew it as a 3D model.


     
    I also started modifying the engine cover.




     
    And I also started doing the inside of the fuselage


     
    To be continued
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to fozzy in Super detailed cutaway of a JU87B "Stuka"   
    Good morning to all
     
    I would like to share with you my super detailed cutaway of the old Airfix 1:24 scale Ju87B.
    I just love this kit and decided that I wanted to do something a little different.  I wanted to make a cutaway of the Starboard side plus the wing. After searching dear old Google for hours to get some sort of info I started.
    I built this many years ago and sold it on, so the photos are from way back! ....so apologies for the quality of them!
     
    I haven't been active on here for a long time as I have moved back to the UK from Bulgaria.. so I do hope I remember how to load the photos! 
     
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    Thanks a lot for taking a look!
     
    Cheers
     
    Fozzy
     
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to LSP_Kevin in What's New - 10 March 2024   
    Howdy folks,
     
    I've just published this week's What's New update.
     
    Enjoy!
     
    Kev
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Gazzas in Galland, His E4... and Some Friends.   
    Hi Everyone!  These are the final photos taken of my recent completion from the Aces High group build hosted by LSP.  The kit itself was sold to me by a fellow LSP'er and I'm glad to get it done.  Yet these aren't the pictures I wanted.  These are pictures saved from the recycle bin.  I wanted pics with perfect lighting taken perfectly.  Alas, the perfect lighting didn't present itself, and the model itself suffered a gravity related catastrophe and awaits repair.  There are a lot of pics.   I hope you like them.
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    More to come...
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    Trak-Tor reacted to kensar in Williams Bros 1/32 Gee Bee R-1   
    Here I am showing my Williams Bros Gee Bee R-1 which I have just finished after several years on the shelf of delay.  It depicts the 1932 Thompson Trophy winner and was flown by Jimmy Doolittle.
    It's made OOB except for the propeller hub, which I remade from aluminum.
     

     

     

     

     
    I did not include the thin black pinstripes separating the red and white colors as I could not think of a way to produce them in scale.
    The pilot figure is from Immense Miniatures.
     
     
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    Trak-Tor reacted to Erwin in Antwerp/Belgium convention 16 th Sept.   
    Nearly time for the Antwerp convention...
     
     

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    Trak-Tor reacted to airscale in 1/18 Supermarine S6B - S1595   
    thank you chaps, you are all so very kind
     
     
    Well Jay, having just done the wings I do have pains from RSI - it will pass, but yes sometimes I just have to push through the pain
     
     
     
    Exactly Chuck, it is an adjustable trimming tab, but only on the ground - suits me, as it makes it easier to build
     
    So, lots has gone on the last few weeks...
     
    ..the propeller was made as a 3D print which I found very hard to do as it's a complex shape which has oblong roots and quite a twist.. - the spinner cap is machined from solid aluminium so it can be polished like the original..
     

     
    ..I started the wings by filling the plastic frame with foam & filler - this was then refined many times and note they are complete with the ailerons in place so they can be cut out later...
     

     
    ..after a lot of finishing, the ailerons were removed...
     

     
    ..and so to the skinning... I drew out the plans that copied the layout of all the fastners that cover the entire surface.. by the time I finished I selected all objects in the drawing and for the four wing surfaces there were 8,962 rivets... that is bordering on the ridiculous and likely as many as I have done on entire airframes before..
     
    ,,nothing to do but get started, so here is a typical panel - the small dots are one rivet depression, the big dots two, which was even more demoralising..
     
    ..also seen is a template to score out a hatch with a pin in a pin vise..
     

     
    ..after 3 days and a very sore set of muscles they were done...
     

     

     
    ..no time to rest though, and the ailerons were completed..
     

     
    ..the wings were added using JB weld and given a day to set, then I could start the fillets - I have not done the front ones as they need to also cover the forward strut mount..
     

     

     
    ..with the wings on, I could add the belly oil cooler assembly - as with the fuselage sides this was a 3D printed buck over which the metal sheet was fomed..
     

     
    ..in two parts, it stretches all along the lower fuselage..
     

     
    ..with so much skinning going on, I fancied a change and so started on the beaching trolley - well at least the wire wheels of the trolley..
     
    I 3D printed a hub, a rim and a jig..
     

     
    ..and then bent a lot of piano wire spokes and started to populate them
     

     
    ..and the finished wheels, along with some Pratts petrol cans I have seen in pictures with the airframe..
     

     

     
    ..and so before the painting starts next week, some final shots in all her nakedness...
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     
    ..time to start thinking about the finish...
     
    until next time
     
    TTFN
    Peter
     
     
     
     
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    Trak-Tor got a reaction from MikeC in 25th Anniversary Group Build Announcement!   
    Where's 1:25 scale when we need it?

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    Trak-Tor got a reaction from chrish in 25th Anniversary Group Build Announcement!   
    Where's 1:25 scale when we need it?

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