Fvdm Posted March 1, 2019 Author Share Posted March 1, 2019 On another forum someone thought the tapered end was rough. I can tell you that it isn't. I took a sandingstick, a 100mm macro on the camera en made the following photo. Here you can see the sanding marks over the whole surface. I think some primer will do wonders. Thanks for watching. Ferry Anthony in NZ, Trak-Tor, BiggTim and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCRATCH BUILDER Posted March 1, 2019 Share Posted March 1, 2019 Love it when people think out of the box like this....... Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chek Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Nice torpedo! On my wooden one, I built up grey cellulose primer as used in car painting until it could be sanded and polished to a high shine, before applying Humbrol metaliser. Not sure about painting PVC, but a similar process should work just the same. Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 I went fruther working on the torpedo and there are some grooves wich I had to make. I did this on my millingmachine en it worked great. I had it working yesterday so this was a great exercise. The grooves are a bit large but I don't care. I'm very happey my millingmachine is working great. And here an impression for those who are interested. Here Thanks for watching. Ferry TorbenD, Fanes, Trak-Tor and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 I promissed some pics of the decals. In one way or the other I have always kits with a few decals so it was quickly done. Each wing gets one decal. De right side of the fuselage gets 5 decals. The decal on the vertical stabiliser cracked a little so this one is a littlebit shorter then the left side. And theleft side also gets 5 decals Here I was a little impatient and didn't long enough to let the sol do its work and so de roundel got a little damaged on the upper right side. Great, only 12 decals and I managed to damage two of them Thanks for watching Ferry Trak-Tor, sandokan, MikeMaben and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 When the paint dryed I could tape the wings and fuselage. It looks like this after quite a while When this was done I could spray the smoke I also installed the control cables, and fiwed attached the wings to the fuselage Finally it's looking like an airplane Next is the torpedo. The longer I looked at it, the uglyer it became. The grooves are way way to big. So I decided to make a new one. Now that i finally have a cnc-millingmachine i must use it. Thanks for watching Ferry Trak-Tor, Madmax, Alain Gadbois and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 13, 2019 Share Posted March 13, 2019 Oh my! That looks lovely. Press on sir! Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Nice Nice ! Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCRATCH BUILDER Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fab Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 The definitive built for this kit. Ahhh the proxxon mill Mf70...it's my new GF... Amities Fab Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) As said, the torpedo had to be replaced. First I had to make new proppellorblades. I found a nice picture on the web, and made a dxf file of it. I loaded this in the software of the millingmachine and then i had this little propellorblad. They where very small so i made quite a few off them. I made some smaller and shorter grooves in the torpedo and assembled everything. Eventually I got this. Much better then the first one if I may say so. Then I assembled the landinggear to the plane and the motor. Here are some pics. Now i can give it a wash and a final coat of matt. This week I got a reply from Trumpeter on my mail for a replacementsprue. They have the replacementsprue I need and with shipping it will cost me 10 USD. I think this is quite a lot of money but better expensive then not available. I decided to order the sprue and now I will see how long I have to wait. I will use the brackets for the torpedo so i hope the delivery is fast Thanks for watching Ferry Edited March 17, 2019 by Fvdm Trak-Tor, Alain Gadbois, Out2gtcha and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 After 5 months and the help of Paypal I finally got the extra sprue from Trumpeter so I could finish this one. I only made this dirty with the Flory models weathering wash wich I applied with the airbrush. After drying I filled the airbrush with water and cleaned up the model. I only let it drip from the model en didn't wipe it aof except for the bottom. The pictures can be found in the RFI section. Thanks all for watching and commenting. kkarlsen, Madmax, Alain Gadbois and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdthoresen Posted September 6, 2019 Share Posted September 6, 2019 Wow, that looks great. Beautiful work, sir! THOR Fvdm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted September 6, 2019 Author Share Posted September 6, 2019 Thanks Thor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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