mozart Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 And the finished (at least on one side!) rudder with a coat of fine primer on it: Max MikeC, Rick Griewski, Shaka HI and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Fantastic results on the rudder Max. The interior trusswork is coming along very nicely as well. Carl mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 Dead clever, and very effective. Cheers Dennis mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 The rudder looks great! HÃ¥kan mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClumsyDude Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 That's ingenious Max. Most impressed. Jim mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Very subtly done Max, Cees mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Great solution, Max. Looks terrific! Kev mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 Thank you one and all, as the expression goes "there's many ways of skinning a cat" (though why you'd want to is beyond me!). I'm sure it's as time consuming as Cees strips of tape but the advantage with this method is that the layered paint can be sanded back to the degree of prominence that you want. I've been reading through Alex's Hampden build to pick up further tips or ways of countering the inevitable problems that occur with vac builds, but hey, who wants kits which fall together! . More work on the cabin framing at the moment but no pics today, off to a golf match. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Really awesome work, Max...One day, I will tackle one of these, but I definitely lack the patience and skill for such an endeavor. And having personal connection to the aircraft is a great motivator...waiting for the next update. mozart and Piprm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 Hi Max, Just stumbled upon your thread... Good stuff so far! Will be following with great interest! Phil mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted June 1, 2016 Author Share Posted June 1, 2016 Really awesome work, Max...One day, I will tackle one of these, but I definitely lack the patience and skill for such an endeavor. And having personal connection to the aircraft is a great motivator...waiting for the next update. Shaka, it's more about planning, thought and technique than skills as such. This is going to sound like heresy, but I actually got bored modelling the Tamiya Spitfire because everything fits so perfectly, much preferred the Revell one with all its flaws. Vacuform modelling is like a blank canvas; be prepared to experiment, think laterally and to fail at times but it's great fun! Hi Max, Just stumbled upon your thread... Good stuff so far! Will be following with great interest! Phil Thank you Phil! I've been keeping a careful eye on your Canberra, as with Alex's Hampden, looking and learning! Regards Max Piprm, mikeblack and Shaka HI 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) Shaka, it's more about planning, thought and technique than skills as such. This is going to sound like heresy, but I actually got bored modelling the Tamiya Spitfire because everything fits so perfectly, much preferred the Revell one with all its flaws. Thank you Phil! I've been keeping a careful eye on your Canberra, as with Alex's Hampden, looking and learning! Regards Max ["Vacuform modelling is like a blank canvas; be prepared to experiment, think laterally and to fail at times but it's great fun!"] Yep!.. got it, in One Max! Shaka... { One day, I will tackle one of these, but I definitely lack the patience and skill for such an endeavor.}... I don't agree... if you are capable of assembling an injection kit...reasonably well .. in my books, you are qualified to build a vac! You will find your skills improving 4-fold as you progress... at your own pace... because you will be finding yourself (as Max correctly stated before)... thinking - planning more laterally and in ways you never did before! This will become obvious to you once you go back to the injection kits... your skills will definitely be 'improved'... I think you should give it a go - now! Phil Edited June 2, 2016 by Piprm Shaka HI and mozart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted June 2, 2016 Author Share Posted June 2, 2016 (edited) I decided I couldn't live with the bulges on the fuselage as they were so I've cut them off, I'm going to fill these spaces then make some new more accurate ones, probably out of Milliput or similar. I'll be able to make door now that looks correct: The Connect-o based internal framing is just about complete, it'l need a bit of truing up once set but it seems to have come out quite well: Just about to do the other side of the rudder, then it could be the horizontal tailplane which just comes as one surface with no demarcation for elevators. Max Edited June 2, 2016 by mozart Piprm, BloorwestSiR, BradG and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaka HI Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Just notice how "soft" the detail is on the fuselage halves..way too much work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 It is but you should look at it as a blank canvas. Vacforms may look daunting but it's only thecutting out and sanding of the parts that are more work. Apart from that it's just a short runbasic eastern european Novo kit. Cees Piprm and MikeC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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