JamesHatch
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No one's heard of odourless/non-fuming CA?
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Fantastic work so far James. You're making it all look far too easy.
Too bad about the window masks! I've been masking both inside and out on my canopies for quite a while now but on the '189, that's a real job and a half. Thank goodness the corners of the windows aren't very radiused.
Cheers,
Wolf
Absolutely! I ignored the radii. I don't think it will be noticed. I do admit that after this, masking canopy interiors seems easy. I may well continue.
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James,
The Pit looks incredible. Love those belts and harnesses. Are you going to weather them to any degree so they blend in with the Pit a little more?
Joel
A little Klear and some oil will be added before I fit the numerous canopy parts. This is still a WIP at the moment. I also need to fit the pedal straps and a couple of hydraulic lines to the actuators.
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Just to prove this isn't another HpH Fw 189 that has bit the dust (and there are many online!), here's a recent shot.
I'm currently manually masking both the outside AND inside of all glazed areas, and it is taking ages. The masks were awful, and all undersize. I ended up doing this with strips of tape and infilling the centres. Very disappointed with the masks....the only real turd in this kit.
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This last week or two has been slow due to the nature of this build. Most work has been done with 24hr epoxy. I have cleaned up a few other parts for future assembly, such as undercarriage and bombs etc. but I but post those yet or things will get confusing. The current state of play here shows the basic airframe complete, and the brass PE straps added to the booms. The forward upper ones hide the boom to wing joint nicely. Also added is the lower rear part for the crew nacelle. A small shim of plasticard was added here to create a solid underside edge into the area where the landing flaps will fit.
Control surfaces are now fixed with 0.9mm copper wire and CA.
My next post will show the engines installed and cockpit floor sections in situ. Things are now really starting to roll!
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Any movement on this?
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Hi John,
I have a stringer from the fuselage of a Me 262A-1a/U3. A very rare bird. These machines were converted from regular Me 262A-1a machines, at Cheb, CZ.
I'll display this with my 262 and your conversion.
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The battle continues, and believe me, this has been a battle in places.
My replacement boom arrived from HpH and allowed me to continue this bird. Again, the booms seams were sanded flat. A couple of spots where the resin dipped in a little required filling. As this would later be scribed along the joint, I opted to do this with epoxy glue instead of putty, as this would be more stable and less likely to break away under the scriber. Undercarriage bulkheads are now installed within the booms, ready for paint.
There is a problem with the curvature of the wing panels and that that is cast onto the boom wing root fairings. On the outboard side, the wing root simply sits a little high and the joint needs sanding down to match the wing panels. However, on the inboard fairing, the wing profile of the inboard panel is almost FLAT!! As the fairing is curved and site far higher than the wing, this had to be significantly reduced to match the wing along the joint. Sounds bad, but only took about 30 mins to fix, prior to re-scribing lost details.
This is where I am at the moment. As you can see, she's finally coming together. The upper fuse section is only temporarily sat in position here, and the model is only held together with tape, prior to the gear bays being painted.
I'm not going to say the hard work is done, as the canopies need to be fitted, but I do feel like I'm getting somewhere now.
- monthebiff, MikeC, Kagemusha and 1 other
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I've gathered that the nacelles have taken a few goes to get right.
Rog
This has been one of the main points of design contention and a massive factor in the delays. The cowls are currently undergoing a rework.
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There's not been much to update here because I've been waiting for the replacement boom parts, so in the meantime, I've completed the boom I have and built the camera unit.
All gluing is with slow cure epoxy, and when cured, I needed to scribe right down the upper and lower boom joints. This is to insert a full length strip that represents the rivet joint of the real thing. It's also quite a neat way of hiding a joint.....without actually hiding a joint! For scribing, I used the Mr Paint tool, run along Dymo tape.
For the camera unit, all connections were drilled out and then connected with plastic rod. The result is nice and sturdy.
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We seem to live in an age when every consumer needs to know when the developer has farted.
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Not much I can update at the moment as I'm waiting for a replacement port-side boom from HpH.
The wing is nigh on complete now, except for a little epoxy putty that needs to be shaped under the wing root cannon fairings. Any lost detail from sanding is now complete, such as rivet and panel line detail.
Engine cowls are opened up to accommodate the brash bushes for the prop shafts. Those are now epoxied in place.
Starboard boom is complete, except for the later PE details and rudder. Panel line and rivet detail is also replaced here. The boom was glued over 2 x 24hrs sessions using the slow cure HpH stuff. Sanding is amazingly easy.
A small wooden spacer pushes out the top of the boom joint so that it spans the gap in the wing and leaves no gaps.
I couldn't resist a test fit of the boom and front canopy. Really getting a feeling for the size of this thing now!
So far, so good...
- Mirek O, Anthony in NZ, Jan_G and 4 others
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Slovakian Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-1
It's been a while.
I've had a serious run of bad luck with forum builds in the last couple of years, with the ones that I try to feature being more prone to screwing up, such as the awful P-39 Airacobra kit from Kittyhawk. My bin can certainly overfloweth. In an effort to buck the trend, I thought I'd build perhaps my most ambitious project yet....the HpH Fw 189A-1 resin kit. What could possibly go wrong!
If you want to take look at the review I wrote for this, check HERE
This is a very new project for me, and I'll post a few photos in the next days. Work so far consists of cleaning up the main components, such as the boom halves, stabiliser, wing, wing centre section, engine cowls etc. I have also glued the steel reinforced spar to the centre section and the outboard wing spares. For this, I'm using HpH's own epoxy glue with a 24hrs waiting time. CA will be used for everything else.
This kit is supplied with an amazing set of 'Wet Transfer' decals which contain no carrier film. All that is left on the model after application, is the ink. All I will use here though are the stencils, as this model will be finished in a scheme over than what is supplied. For this build, I will depict a Slovakian machine. I've always had a hankering for a Slovakian scheme ever since seeing it supplied with the old Matchbox 1/32 Bf 109E-3 kit. Markings on this will be airbrushed, with masks courtesy of Miracle Masks. The Slovaks operated the A-1, as well as the A-2 versions. This is what I aim to achieve.
This one is progressing nicely, and if you take your time in measuring, measuring again, and measuring once more, and then even checking your last measurement, then you should have no problem. Casting block removal takes a few evenings, but it's not too bad a chore.
There is so much geometry in this model that you need to ensure that a good number of parts align under test fit before committing to any glue. For example, you need to ensure that you make sure the nacelle sides align with the front of the lower centre section. You also much make sure that the leading edges align and that the rear trailing edges of the wing are in line. On top of that, the lower nacelle fuse section must dry fit properly and the recesses for the centre section landing flaps must the same width along the length of it. If you fail, the PE parts won't fit. Test-fitting the upper nacelle deck must also show the width is correct there.
Lastly, mocking up the tail booms and stabiliser should prove a perfect fit to the assembled wing, with the stabiliser being horizontal and the wing tips angled equally on each side. It sounds a nightmare, but a few evenings of preparation and care will pay off.
Oh, I also get kit No.003!! So this is either production kit #3, or the third to have popped from moulds, including the tests. Either way, this is pretty cool.
HpH epoxy is also excellent and can be mixed in minute quantities. You can also manipulate several hours later, allowing for last minute tweaks.
So far.....so good.
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Rumours seem to be saying that it has been shelved/delayed in preference to other projects, is there any truth in this?
Not true, categorically.
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Glad to know it.
I've seen your review on the other site. Are your build-up models online?
Cheers,
Quang
I'm adding camo right now. When done, I'll ship you a few pics by PM if you pop me your email address.
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Just saw Doogs 5th video online:
https://doogsmodels.com/2016/05/24/review-132-fly-hawker-hurricane-mk-iic/
Oh boy, more turbulent waters ahead!
Q
I've built two without any real hassles. IMO, there's nothing in the build that remedial modelling techniques can't overcome.
- quang, Iain, Blenheimboys and 1 other
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Looking at my Ju 88 gear, made my G-Factor, I have to say it's crap. Nothing like the stuff that he used to make.
So if it's a choice between SAC and G-Factor, I'll stick with the kit parts. The stuff supplied in the ZM kit is perfectly good enough without spending extra money, IMHO.
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Very nice. I've always wanted to see one of these built.
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I thought the niggle wasn't what was actually being released, but the rhetoric that we should sell our Kit-X on eBay because an unseen Revell was going to trump it....
- alaninaustria and Jack
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I used Gunze paints for the exterior and blue checks. The white checks are Tamiya Flat, with Klear sealing it before masking up.
This one will be in Military Illustrated Modeller, out in 2 to 3 weeks.
Glad you like it folks. Such a cool kit.
Slovakian Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-1
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Ok, only a little update as I go into fitting the canopy parts. The mid upper fuselage section required a 0.6mm shim of plasticard on either side so that it would come up to the height of the fore and aft clear resin canopies, so no step resulted. This section is glued with odourless CA so that nothing nasty lingers when I fit the clear resin parts. At this stage, progress seems to be slow, but I'm hoping to have the canopies and cupola guns installed within the next 48hrs...if I don't go mad first.