monthebiff Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Bit of a pain with those resin windows David but lucky you have a good working solution to the problem. Regards. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Those resin windows as supplied aren't acceptable at any level, but I've no doubt you'll solve the problem David, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 The goodies from Werner’s Wings are now in transit and should arrive this week. I have been busy masking all the openings and filling the gaps large and small with putty and/or CA on the fuselage. I have also worked on the rotor. It took several hours to just prep the parts because Trumpeter gives rotor blades which are nicely curved but also full of panel lines which do not exist on the MH47G where the blades are smooth as baby’s butt. Out comes the CA and the sanding sticks. From this: to that: I have now coated the blades in Alclad gloss black and I need to let them cure. Cheers, David LSP_Kevin, Gazzas, mozart and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted September 27, 2018 Author Share Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) The vac form windows have arrived together with the Chinook stencils, so I gave it a go I chain drilled all the windows The Radu micro saw to cut out the windows then diamond files to clean everything then dry fitted to the fuselage and more sanding to make it comform as much as possible to the fuselage, will save time later on. then painted the interior and exterior of the nose in Tamiya NATO Black. I will let it cure overnight and then the hard part, fitting the vac form windows. That being said I am happy with my progress, the fit of the nose is actually very good and I manage to cut the windows and all the sanding with braking any of the frames. Hopefully the vac windows will allow me to get a much more realistic look not on’y In terms of transparency but also the aspect of the windows which smoothly blend into the fuselage as seen on this pic More progress soon. cheers, David Edited September 27, 2018 by Dukie99 BradG, BloorwestSiR, Alain Gadbois and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 Made very slow progress on fitting the vac form windows. I am glueing them with 5mn epoxy, and I glue them one at time, there is a total of 13 windows and I am half way through, so far so good but I will have a bit of sanding to blend everything. To keep things interesting, I have finished the power eggs and glued them on to the fuselage. I painted them before glueing as some parts would hard to reach after glueing. The forward parts are sand filter which I bought on Shapeways. I had to do a bit of carving to fit around the engine base but otherwise the fit was very good. I still need to install the shrouds but that’s for later. Pics: and a 1/1 bird with the sand filters installed: cheers, David Gazzas, LSP_Kevin, BloorwestSiR and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 David, Just a superb couple of updates may I say. The work you have done on the engines and preparing the nose is outstanding! Will you be tintingbthe windows at all as you can see on the picture you posted? Regards. Andy Dukie99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 Thanks Andy. I had not planned to tint the windows because I don’t know how to achieve the right effect. Viewed straight through the windows have no tint but head on there is indeed something of a reflective film So I will probably leave them untainted. Cheers, David BloorwestSiR, Out2gtcha and BradG 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted September 29, 2018 Share Posted September 29, 2018 Great progress David and nice, clean work on removing the resin windows. Carl Dukie99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 Thank you Carl. This afternoon I finished installing the vac form windows. From a distance it looks OK but there are a lot of little blemishes and areas where the joints to the windows need improvement, but I think it is already better than the resin windows. More pictures soon. Cheers, David LSP_Kevin, BradG, Out2gtcha and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Superb work David, lots of real challenges in your build but you're clearly equal to them all!! BloorwestSiR and Dukie99 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Your new nose section is a huge improvement over the original resin one. The clarity of the windows make it worthwhile for all the work involved. Carl Dukie99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted October 8, 2018 Author Share Posted October 8, 2018 (edited) Time for an update. I am still fighting the nose to improve the appearance of the joints between the windows and the resin frame, lots of masking and sanding and puttying, taking it slowly as I do not have any spares. To keep this moving, I worked some more on the engines and finally installed the shrouds around the engine exhausts. The shrouds are glued at the root of the engine berth with epoxy and the braces are made of hypodermic needles. I still need to paint the needles in airframe color but I think they look the part. Happy with the results, these shrouds make the bird look even more badass, especially looking from behind. The next challenge, completely unexpected, is the aft landing gear. Trumpeter gives you landing gear made of metal, the problem is that metal (at least in my copy) is completely crumbly. Upon installation the entire metal landing gear broke in four pieces. No way to repair it, the metal has no structural integrity. All I can do is use the pieces as a model to scratch build new aft landing gear from styrene. I will not aim for 100% accuracy because you will not see much there and the model is so large and heavy that once it will be in the display cabinet I don’t think I will ever turn it to look at the wheel bay. A few hours of work will take care of that issue... Cheers, David Edited October 8, 2018 by Dukie99 Out2gtcha, LSP_Kevin and BradG 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 White metal presumably then David, no load bearing strength at all in that stuff. Good luck with the scratch build, I'm sure it'll be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 wow, whatta bummer about the gear! Should be pretty straight forward to build new ones out of brass or styrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukie99 Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 Time for an update. Major milestone this week-end: after lots of prep work, I was able to glue the canopy on and the forward pylon. Still some seam clean-up to do, but it is really taking shape now. Lots of bits and bobs to install on the fuselage once the seam sanding is fully done. Some pictures: inside the canopy, will not really be seen but I know it’s there pilots installed canopy installed overall shot, this bird is massive Cheers, David BradG, LSP_Kevin, Out2gtcha and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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