dodgem37 Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Yesterday I had the opportunity to go to an American college football game between Yale and Georgetown, eat a burger, dog, cole slaw, and potato salad, and rub elbows with the intelligencia. Alas, it is my wife who is the member of the Washington Yale Club. I'm a member of Large Scale Planes. In spite of the game being, what, Division III, it had its fair share of thrilling moments. For Georgetown, a 45 yard interception return for touchdown, and an 80 yard broken play punt return for touchdown. For Yale, a 98 yard tipped pass for touchdown and, with Yale up 24 to 21 with 33 seconds to play and Georgetown first down and goal-to-go on Yales' 9 yard line with neither team having timeouts, Yale intercepted the fade pass to the right corner end zone to seal the win. The fans went as wild as an Ivy League fan can get. A good time was had by all. I've been doing a lot of itty bitty work for the past few weeks. But first off a couple of pics of the office, so to speak. After dusting with pastell chalk. The left side of the cockpit sill is indented to receive a projecting element of the canopy which assists with canopy alignment. Lost the emergency canopy release handle. I'll make a new one. I removed the pull-handles in the IP to make it easier to test fit. Not well seen to the left are the two retainers to hold the rear-most canopy in place. Locating the tropical air filter and trying to get the angles matched up between it and the stand-offs. Bad fit between the the top and side panels. Aligning each arm so they are parallel. It's larger in diameter than the kit part but I'm going with it. A few more below. KiwiZac and Greg W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 Cockpit lights. Insulation threaded thru insulation I made 'clamps' by cutting the side of an insulation strip, stretching it open a bit, then glueing in place. Windshield framing. In place. .020 x .020 strip, .010 rod hand holds. Rear canopy framing. .020 rod and .020 x .020 strip. Still working on the framing here. Framing strips are similar. Other side. Located the tabs for the rudder. In place. I needed to add a shim to even things out a bit. Hmm, the tail light must have fallen out. Many thanks for stopping by. Sincerely, Mark KiwiZac and Greg W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martinnfb Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Very Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 (edited) Mark Stellar work. your precise level of work and detailing is both amazing and inspiring. Glad you enjoyed the game and the chow Peter Edited September 16, 2012 by Peterpools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Impeccable work as always Mark! Always inspirational work, flawlessly executed and it's always a pleasure seeing your up-dates. Keep at 'er! Cheers, Wolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted September 19, 2012 Author Share Posted September 19, 2012 Thank you Martinn, Peter, and Wolf, for your good words. I appreciate you stopping by commenting! Apologize for being so late in responding, I was away for the Holiday. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted September 19, 2012 Share Posted September 19, 2012 It is always fun when my phone dings that I have an email and it is your thread! As always, your work is fantastic and your skills are at the top. Superb attention to detail that is then beautifully crafted. Keep it coming Mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanAugust Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Looking good! I like the engineering on the new F-series kits, for example, the gun cowl, now one piece, eliminating that joint in front of the windscreen! Cockpit seems a little better as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geedubelyer Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Hello Mark, I hope you enjoyed your holiday. The cockpit of your -109 looks tremendous under a coat of paint and weathering. All of the extra detail and hard work is surely paying off. This is a fine looking model. Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Mark I always seem to learn something new, pick up a new technique or idea from each update. Keep 'em coming. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) Thank you, Bud. That is so nice of you to say. Thank you, Evan. For the most part I'm happy with the changes Hasegawa made to this kit as compared to their G's and K. The single fuselage is nice. The cowl drop-in is nice. It matches up well to the gun cover nicely and one doesn't have to rescribe the handholds. But!, The cowl fit could be a lot better on the model I'm working on. Also, I think it inexcusable of Hasegawa to charge full price and to not have supplied either an early F wing for the Marseille aircrafts, or a complete drop-in for the top of the F wheel well with a correction for the wheel well opening to make it an early wing, instead using the G wing with an inaccurate wheel well opening (for the cover art) and having one drop a patch into the inner side of the wheel well bulge. I have to give Hasegawa credit for their effort on the inner detail of the windscreen, main canopy, rear canopy, and handholds and cockpit light detail. Inner detail is nice to see. But!, To include such arcane, minute, and unfortuneately shallow, detail when the wheel wells are in such need, I think is problem-solving in the wrong direction. This kit should have an early F wing. By comparison the inner clear parts' detail is insignificant. But apparently Hasegawa thinks differently G- I did enjoy my Holiday, thank you. Thank you ever so much for your compliment. At times I feel as if cockpits are my bane. But I figure if I build enough kits I'm bound to get to a point where it's not so onerous to do. I'm glad I can help, Peter. Some of the stuff I do is because that is what I would like to see within the make-up of the model. Such as the open tropical filter, and horizontal stabs and rudder. For the rudder and stabs I took a lesson from Tamiyas' and Tumpeters' hinge solution. I modified it by squishing solder to appear as their solution within the hinge opening. The project I'm working on now is the center canopy section. I want the windows to be open and yet I don't want to drill the kit part for fear of messing it up (I need a back-up in case this project doesn't succeed). So I'm building it. The windows will be able to slide. I just try to build that which I want. Thank you for your very generous compliment, Maru. My apologies for taking so long to respond. I seem to be getting busier and busier and don't have as much time to drop by as I have in the past. Thanks for stopping by! Sincerely, Mark Edited September 24, 2012 by dodgem37 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceofClubs Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 I love the instruments panel and canopy frame! Terrific work Grandissimo Ciao Filippo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 (edited) Mark Just inspired by the way you solve problems and bring the details to life. Keep 'em coming Peter Edited September 24, 2012 by Peterpools Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanAugust Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 I know what you mean re: the wheel wells. I built the F-2 and ended up using a PE insert from an Aires set for the upper surface of the wheel wells. Had the complete wells, but the resin parts were broken in the package. Oh well, works well enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaffyMan Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 Mark This truly amazing stuff - Its been a pleasure and for me a brilliant learning experience – bring on the next bit - Taff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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