Guest Ta152H1 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 (edited) oops! No need to be....this way our man will brink back his ### to the workbench! :wicked: :wicked: Hey....it's my 400th post! Edited August 26, 2012 by Ta152H1 Jim Starling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 DOG! You serious. Great, great, great! Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 *update 29/08/12* Hi everyone - here's my latest update. I've made a start on the cockpit - the most logical thing to start with was the instrument panel. In my last update I showed you the instrument panel with holes punched out for the various instruments - I've now completed that. My method is this - cut out a duplicate fascia from thin, white plastic card, and give it a coat of gloss varnish - this will give the instruments a nice surface to adhere to and make them show up more against the black of the panel itself. Once dry, place the I.P. over the top and mark out the position of each instrument onto the plastic sheet underneath. I then added instrument dials from Airscale, Mike Grant & Waldron - they are not exactly right, but a close facsimile of what I could see in my reference pics. Data stencils are Airscale again. After sealing these in with a coat of varnish I glued the pre-painted I.P. over the top, and replicated the glass in each instrument with a coat of Micro Kristal Klear. Here's a pic of the real thing, and then mine - the slightly 'frosty' look is what happens when you inadvertently use acrylic varnish over the top of enamel paint! Oh well - it wasn't completely disasterous and looks OK to me: There's some more dials and bits and bobs to add but this represents most of what needs to be on there. Nest up was the throttle quadrant. There's a million pics of this on the net, and in reference books, but once again I will use the excellent images of the restoration of the Duxford B-17G provided by David Whitworth & WIX forum member 'Bomberflight' on the Warbird Information Exchange website - thanks again for allowing me to use them. Here's what I need to reproduce: and the top: You can see it is fairly complex.............directly behind it, butted up against the instrument panel is the mag box. Here's mine - plastic card, strip and rod and fine metal wire for switches, along with some spare Verlinden resin boltheads I had lying around: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 mag box: at the front, underneath the throttle and mixture controls is the autopilot - here it is: I also made the pilot & co-pilot's seats from plastic card, with milliput cushions - I'll add some Radu B. seatbelts at a later date as well as any other details on the seats themselves - I needed to make them so I could figure out how big other things needed to be in the cockpit. I checked the size by using the discarded lower half of a 1/35 figure - and then made the seats a little larger to scale them up to roughly 1/32. bear in mind I'm doing everything by eye here! Finally I chucked a coat of paint on the back of the instrument panel. more things need adding, such as a data stencil on the fire extinguisher...plus a load more wiring etc...I can only add this later once the I.P. is glued in place. This is by no means finished, but you get the idea.... More updates soon! Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ta152H1 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: O U T S T A N D I NG ! ! ! ! ! :punk: :punk: :punk: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 awesome work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 No Way! Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Rich Simply brilliant work. :thumbsup: Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbetty Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 rich, your scratchbuilding is pretty unreal!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timvkampen Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 That is indeed unreal!!! Respect! Don't think the HK model will be better... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marek Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Fantastc scratchbuilding again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ta152H1 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 That is indeed unreal!!! Respect! Don't think the HK model will be better... It surely won't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptorman0 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 This is outstanding stuff, following with huge interest :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Starling Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 agree with all the previous comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted August 30, 2012 Author Share Posted August 30, 2012 hey thanks a lot for checking out the build guys! Glad you like it & thanks for the comments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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