Wurzacher
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Good detail and progress for a week! I have seen a re-build instrument panel at the Dornier archive last sunday! What a surprise! I hope to get a picture to post this.
Your IP looks great; I only would have used the single instrument decals for a better fit. The red knobs will be primed in white and then given a red colour when I do mine.
Really, you made a promising start! Following with interest!
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This is a good restoration job done by Dornier, but regrettably not perfect. I am in close contact to the Dornier archive and got this reply on the job done back then:
The restored aircraft now in Washington doesn´t conform the original paintwork in many points. Only stencils still recognizeable after the very long storage in the open and prior to paint stripping have been taken over. Many service notes have not been re-applied because they have already been missing, due to the storage or by having been being painted over after capture.
Propellers and spinners have got a wrong gloss black colour, they should be painted in matte RLM 70 Schwarzgrün (black green). The rear spinner is not original, it´s a glass fibre replica.
Filling pressure information for tyre and damper of the front landing gear is applied on the the left side landing gear door only (seen in direction of flight) in 20mm tall black letters.
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The landing gear legs are not really skinny. I have no doubt that these are beefy enough to support the finished kit.
The front landing gear of the Zoukei-mura kit. It has a diameter of 4.7 mm at the left end, with 3.72mm at right. Not bad!
The main landing gear. 4.37mm at left, with 3.40mm at the shock strut at right.
I will try to get my hands at the metal landing gear, too. But looking at the picture on ZM´s website these are re-casts of the kit parts.
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When it's possible, putting weight in the front wheel is a good idea as it's a bit less heavy on the front gear leg. Even if it's only 10g on a total of 50g, it's still 10g less on a single rather skinny rod of plastic.
Putting some weight into the front wheel is indeed what I have done:
I fixed the weight with drops of super glue, then assembled the front wheel.
After this I was curious how much weight I could get into the front engine:
Even the small space at the pistons was easily filled with Liquid Gravity. It broke my heart, but I also removed the moulded-in piston rods from the engine parts and filled the crankcase with pieces of lead and more Liquid Weight. I have no scales here, but having the ZM engine and the HKM engine at hand I am pretty close to the last one´s weight. I am astonished to notice that the HKM crankcase is about 3.3 millimetres wider than the ZM one?!? Maybe to get more weight in?
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Breathtaking!
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Mine's on order!
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I take a guess here that Nick has complained about this offer only being made to CONUS customers:
Free shipping is only offered to customers in the continental United States.
Vulcan32 has already mentioned some really good offers here in Europe.
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Well spent two years! Top!
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Like it! Is this metal foil on the engine inlet?
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One thing I like about the HK kit is that it includes nose weights. In reading the Old Man blogs on ZM's website, he clearly mentions we're on our own there or use the included stick to prop up the rear. Which if I'd known about before my preorder, I might have gone with the HK offering.
Carl
Indeed no nose weight(s) are given in the Zoukei-mura kit. Also no stick is provided to prop up the rear fuselage, at least when I check the assembly manual on this.
Having no weight(s) given in the box is no omission in my eyes, as many kits are sold with out them, leaving it to the modeller to add weight where needed. The assembly manual advises of adding about 50gr of weight to prevent a tail sitter. No big deal adding this.
I already have filled the front engine block with lead and "Liquid Gravity". Same with the front landing gear wheel. Comparing this with the weight provided in my HKM test shot it should be fine.
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Ho-229
I guess you think about the Zoukei-mura Ho 229? Well, I don´t think so. I did build my test shot for the Concept Note book about 1+ year ago. Since then the finished build has been shown on some model shows here and there. The remaining time the kit is placed on a glass plate (no stabilising friction from the glass) and the landing gear and wheel axle are still straight as a ruler.
Same with my Revell Ju 88A-1. Placed on glass, too. No bending on the LG so far. On the other side when doing a conversion as offered by AIMS I would go for sure and get Ernie G´s metal gear. Great stuff!
Now, that´s just my experience. Other´s mileage may vary.
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I am with you, Norm. I don´t get why people buy direct copies of a kit´s gear cast in a rather soft alloy.
I don´t have this 1/24 scale kit, but I am pretty sure the kit´s plastic gear hasn´t broken down too often...
IF a kit needs stronger LG parts then I hope G-Factor will do them! Top quality and very (!) strong!
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You did a fantastic job to get this design over onto decals! Your Photoshop skills must be amazing!
How did you cut those masks?
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Sensational, Nick!
Following this one with exaltation!
What Eduard belts did you use?
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Pure art!
Peter, this is as if one would watch a real Spitfire being build! Such a perfection, such an endless talent. I am blown away!
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Interesting idea to do the fuselage stringers using fine wire!
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Nice work so far, especially on the rear wall!
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AIMS NEWS ....nearly March! Soon be Christmas folks!
Ju 388 L
Having received replacement paper thin vacform canopies I had already rejected samples of twice I asked for the moulds. These arrived yesterday and I have sent them on to a contact that I have used before. I hope yet replacement suck into vacs can be made for the first 50 kits I sold. These kits have clear parts you can use but one side of the nose clear part needs pulled in which makes things difficult as the vac is strong. Suck into vacs of the part rather than suck over reduce over all dimension and make the fit much better as I had originally designed. Sales after the first 50 are not effected as the factory broke the front of the cockpit and in the process of fixing inadvertently made the original style suck over vacs fit much better. That being said I have asked for a number of suck into vacs of a thick enough material so as to cut out what could be the master for clear resin casting but please do not consider this a promise - I just continue to try.
Thank you, John!
Slow, Leisurely Arrow Z-M Do-335, 7/05 Update
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Really nice, Bill!
May I add that you could paint the four valves in red? Middle section of the IP, at the bottom?
This is a re-build Do 335 instrument panel, preserved at the Dornier archive. I have seen this (and other stuff) last sunday and got permission to post this picture in public:
See the four valves and their "Auf - Zu" (open - closed) marking?