dutik Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 (edited) Hello! Just got one resin model finished, the Arado E-377 Mistel bomb. So it's time to start another one No props, I stay with jets The first jet of the world, to be correct: Ernst Heinkels He-178. Kit is made by Planet models from Czech. Box image: Whats inside? A fistful of parts in cream colored resin. Nice casting, no bubbles. Fuselage halfes, one-piece wings, elevators, rudder, some interior bits, wheels. UC is provided in white metal. A small decal sheet, just the "Heinkel" writiing. Two vac canopies. Two pages of instructions: First things first - building the cockpit, as usual. Not a lot of parts here. Also not a lot of details... Added some styrene as lower side consoles, a rear bulkhead and a new floor. Glued the jet pipe and tail wheel bay into place. IP needs some paint to bring out the details. The seat is nothing to write home about. Too small. Quarterscale only... I have to look into the bit box for a better one. Thats it for now. Enjoy! - dutik Edited May 2, 2016 by dutik Hardcore, Zero77, Chris Wimmer and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Not seen this one built. I will follow along. Nice start..........Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericg Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great! This sort of stuff is right up my alley. Will follow along. Eric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Paul Posted April 20, 2016 Share Posted April 20, 2016 If anybody can make an obscure little plane look real it's you my friend. Keep up the great progress. Paul dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 Great! This sort of stuff is right up my alley. Will follow along. Eric. Hey, I know that story! You will start later and get it finished long before I am ready... Gimme your adress, I will send you the kit... :rofl: No issue. We shall see how it works. Latest news: The intake ramp (instruction image 3) does not fit very well. Especially after I moved the floor down to the bottom of the fuselage becase the whole cockpit was too shallow for a 1/32 scale pilot. So I will make a new one and also smooth out the whole intake to get rid of that inner "lip"... Regards - dutik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 A seat, a seat! A kingdom for a seat! Found a leftover resin seat for a Bf-109. Much better. Also some sets of RBs harness. Much worser. Boy, they look nice, but making them is incredibily fiddly! Nothing for people with short fuze, indeed Time to join the meeting at Luebeck. Will wrestle with the other half of the harness next week. Regards - dutik Zero77, Uilleann and Out2gtcha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero77 Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Nice to see that build ! I had the same conclusion about the seat. I did not understand what they wanted to do. I tried to convert the kit seat dimension to full scale, and only a small children would have been able to sit ! dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Great project! Iain dutik 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 (edited) Didn't go ahead with the seatbelts, cockpit and intake. There are only the walls, cross-walls and the floor inside. But I did a LOT of other work. Glued the fuselage halves together. Filled and sanded the seam. Rescribed the paneel lines. Re-sawed them, to be correct, with a smal resin saw. Much better than fiddling with a scribing tool. Drilled holes into wingroots and across the fuselage to fit a long 3mm thick steel nail acting as wingspar/ alignment pin: Dryfitted and adjusted the wings to the fuselage. Glued them and filled the seam. Re-sawed more paneel lines. Latest achievement are the rudder and elevators. Added steel wire instead of nails. Now it's up to fill and sand the seams, close a gap between one elevator and the fuselage, rescribe as required. To be continued... Enjoy! - dutik Edited May 1, 2016 by dutik Out2gtcha, Uilleann, blackbetty and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 What happened to this build? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 It got a new task: Gathering dust on the shelf... Any modelling activities stalled last year due to job related overwork. Was only this year capable to re-start at least the Texan build. Anything else is still on hold. Regards - dutik Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 It got a new task: Gathering dust on the shelf... Any modelling activities stalled last year due to job related overwork. Was only this year capable to re-start at least the Texan build. Anything else is still on hold. Regards - dutik Ahhh, ok that's a pity I kinda like the 178 and you were going along nicely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dutik Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 Well, this one is a nice litle resin kit, indeed. Good fit, good surface details, lacking in the cockpit, but no hassle with the wheel wells - this one had a fixed undercarriage. The intake is empty too. I made my own intake duct using a rolled sheet of paper to get the right shape, then using it as a template for cutting some styrene.Looks fine. At least one more photo: Enjoy! - dutik TorbenD, Hardcore, gregair and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Very enjoyable! Torben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregair Posted July 4, 2018 Share Posted July 4, 2018 Very nice, a nice clean simple design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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