tucohoward Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Trying to get this thing finished up. Added a strip to the canopy to be able to mount it in the open position. Added a few rivets to try to make it look like it belonged. Antenna wire from EZ line. Pitot tube made with Minimeca tubing. DF loop made from my trusty Mountain Dew can. I think I have been using the same can for at least 5 years and there is still half left. I think all that's left is the shoulder belts and the canopy tether. Jay alain11, Mal_Belford, mywifehatesmodels and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomv87 Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Beautiful work! Thanks for sharing! tucohoward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Very nice! tucohoward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegallacci Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 A little FYI on the open canopy. The real thing pivots on a pin into the forward windscreen frame and into the bar (the canopy ejection linkage) that goes across the rear of the cockpit. tucohoward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucohoward Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Thanks Steve, I always appreciate the info. I am not trying to represent this as accurate, just my solution to Trumpeter's lack of any provision to mount the canopy in an open position. I would have gone with a closed canopy except the fit was very poor. My goal for this build was just to see how the Trumpy K-4 was. I fixed a few things but I never intended for this to be an all out effort. I will save that for the Hasegawa 109's that I prefer, and I am sure I will still miss things. I really admire the guys that can and do reproduce every detail accurately like Wolf and Alain and Eric to name a few, but for me, I am too impatient to get to the painting and weathering phase which is what I like the best. Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 This looks really awesome, Jay! The pitot and DF loop especially so. Kev tucohoward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 (edited) That's the look and just the right amount of sheen I'll be aiming for. Good work, Jay. Do you have a frontal shot showing the asymmetrical cowling? Edited January 1, 2016 by Chek tucohoward 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucohoward Posted January 2, 2016 Author Share Posted January 2, 2016 Thanks guys. Here is the front cowling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardcore Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 On 12/1/2015 at 4:11 AM, tucohoward said: Thanks guys! In the end I decided on "White 10". I liked the green band of JG27, but it was pretty much a coin flip. I still want to do "Black 8" and have started on a Hasegawa K at work so it will probably happen. I work on doing the rivets when business is slow. Anyway, back to the Trumpeter K-4. Early K pattern of 75/83, so a fairly high demarcation. Paper masks were used for the wings and fuselage to get the tight lines of the late-war stuff. Not much in the way of pictures to see any mottling, plus the aircraft was quite dirty as well. Added a little mottling of 83 mixed with a little 70 so it would look like it was done later. I have seen in a lot of pictures of 109's that the paint looks fairly worn, almost sanded, so I wanted to try to get that effect. Rubbed it down quite a bit with micro-mesh sanding pads. The fuselage crosses were filled with 83 so I have guestimated where they will go and painted accordingly. Just the fin and rudder left to paint, but I ran out of gas for today. Jay What brand of paint did you use for this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 This is looking real good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tucohoward Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 That’s a while ago but I can’t imagine it would have been anything but Mr. Color. Jay MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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