HPH PBY-5A / OA-10A s.n.44-33876 / 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron

[Gene]

Stunning work on the engines - suitable for framing at that point!!! - thanks for posting!!!

[Iain]

Beautiful work Jan!

 

Iain

[Jan_G]

Thank you guys! I really appreciate all your kind words.

 

On 8/14/2019 at 11:56 PM, dodgem37 said:

So are we!  What color blue/grey did you use?

Thanks Mark. Regarding the color I was trying to get some blueish engine grey. I mixed Mr. Color 306 Gray and Mr Color 72 Intermediate blue in ratio around 3/1 and lightened with few drops of white. I was trying to get similar color as onthis picture

 

On 8/15/2019 at 7:04 AM, kkarlsen said:

Could you elaborate a little on how you did the ignition cables?

 

On 8/15/2019 at 3:08 PM, Out2gtcha said:

 I too would like to know a bit more about that, as that is a sticking point on my two HpH R2800s, as I can't seem to work out with ease, how to get all the needed wires in the ignition ring realistically. 

Brian, Kent, thanks a lot for your words.

I was just trying to make it as good as possbile but honestly the ignition ring and cables are the poorest parts of my engines. 

Ignition ring supplied in kti was not the best part and required some sanding to get nice surface. I was trying to drill holes for ignition cables but just destroyed the ring more. 

I made the ignition cables from 0.3 lead wire, glued in position with CE glued followed with epoxy for strength. The issue was that even I have applied small dots of epoxy it dried in form of a drop which is quite visible but it was beyond my motivation to try to correct it somehow.

cable painted with mixture of MRP Gold / Copper / Exhaust soot with ratio aprox 3/1/1 to achieve such metal brownish look

ignotion ring painted with MRP super silver

Connectors between the cables made from alu foil. I have used mainly these few pics as reference.

HTH a little

jan