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Trumpeter Swordfish 1:32


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I decided not to cut out the ailerons so I went on with the wings. I cut away the brackets at the rigging because these were more then 0.5mm thick which is way overscaled. I will replace these with 0.25mm styreen. Also the holes were filled en I will make smaller holes because Trumpeter made a mistake with the rigging. In the picture below you will see that Trumpeter wants you to place PE1, PE2 and PE3. In all my references I can't find these and Thomas Lund also warned me about this.

 

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I decided to glue the rightwings and leftwings but I'll glue these to the fuselage when everything is sprayed in color

 

The handle for folding the wings is replaced with PE

 

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When you glue everything together (without the rigging that is) it looks like this

 

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A litlle putty is still needed.

Upper center wing with some PE

 

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The fuselage after priming. The oilcooler is till dryfit. This wil also be glued after spraying.

 

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At last a dryfit because i want to place the rigging with everything in place. Just to prefent some misallignment.

 

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I also had a little setback. I wanted to make the torpedo but when I wanted to take the sprue out of the box I noticed there wasn't any sprue P. I looked very carefully, I searched my hole room but I couldn't find it. Bummer. I went to the LHS and told the problem. They will contact the importer to see if they can get a replacement sprue. I also contacted the customerservice of Trumpeter. I don't have high hopes but you never know. So, if you own this kit please check if sprue P is present before you are going to build it. 

I will check the net for measurements and will try to make a torpedo from scratch because i really want a torpedo under the plane.

 

Thanks for watching 

 

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Last 2 weeks i spent time building but forgot to take pictures. I rigged the wings, made the landing gear and the the tail wheel.

The landing gear got some PE.

 

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The wheels are from Mastercasters and i think they look real nice.

 

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The tail wheel however is not so nice. The axel looks crooked.

 

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This was not acceptable so i drilled a hole through the wheel and the bracket.

 

Then I took some 0.6mm brass tube and made an axel

 

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When assembled itlooks much better. ( For such a small part)

 

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Then I sprayed everything in mr surfacer grey. I'm looking forward to spray some color.

 

Some small parts

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Some bigger parts

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And a dryfit

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I will try to make some more in progress pics

 

Thanks for looking

 

Ferry

 

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Painting has started. First I sprayed the oilcooler. I use Hobby color as paint and I really like it. I can spray indoors, even when it's cold because you don't really smell the paint.

For the cooler I used steel with a drop or 2 copper. when you turn it in the light it gets different shades,

 

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Then I went for the exhaust ring. I wanted to try to paint some heat stains. The exhaust is made of copper so that is the first layer.

 

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Then I toke some clear blue, 

 

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Followed by clear orange.

 

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Finally i did some layers of grey smoke to darken the copper and try to blend the colors a bit. All it needs now is a coat of matt clear to get rid of the shine.

 

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For the first try i am happy with it. If you see something to do better the next time, please tell me. Every comment is usefull and appreciated

 

Thanks for watching

 

Ferry

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When I was looking at my references I saw that the exhaust was way too light. It had to be much darker.

 

Below my reference warpaint series nr 12. I am going to do the 4H

 

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So I took some matt black en made the exhaust darker.

 

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I am still seeing the copper, blue en orange so I am very happy with this.

 

Yesterday I sprayed paint on the wings and the fuselage. It seems like a strange color but I think it is the correct one. This is sky (duck egg green)

 

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I let this dry at least till tomorrow before I wil mask it and spray another color. Better save than sorry.

 

Thanks for watching

 

Ferry

 

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