Landrotten Highlander Posted January 19, 2020 Author Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 hour ago, Troy Molitor said: The Caudron 714 is certainly a sexy looking machine. Are the internal canopy masks custom made? Lovely efforts on this one. Troy Perhaps I forgot to mention that. I got the Montex Maxi Mask for the Caudron C714 (item code MM32117) which has the masks for the canopy (inside and outside) and wheels, as wel as for the French and Polish schemes - unfortunately, these will not work for the Finnish scheme - only the fuselage roundel has the same diameter, those on the wings need to be larger than the largest I got in this masking set. Need me thinking cap for this one, but it is still some way of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Looking good, I must get around to building mine Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Love the look of this one. You’re doing great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) Long time since I put an update here, but I have not been idle. Instead of manufacturing the bottom wing with the two upper wing halves, I decided to fit the bottom wing first without the top wing halves, so I an be sure of a smooth and aerodynimically sound line underneath the airframe (dry fitting showed there would have been a significant step near the front of the wing halves). A minor flaw near the back of the wings and fuselage junction was rectdified with some careul puttying and sanding. The next step asked for fitting and gluing of the resin guns in the gun bays located in the wing. Unfortunately I was a bit hamfisted and broke of both guns on one of the two sets. Long period of thinking what to do next (the carpet monster of the non-existing carpet managed to gobble both of them up) until I remembered I replaced the guns of a 1/350 ship with brass guns. A bit of checking showed me some were the same diameter as the guns of this kit, so a bit of canibalism and I fitted 4 ships gun barels into both gun bays. Not ideal, but good enough for this build - and it strengthens the old saying: waste not, want not). Fitting of top wing-halves needed a slight correction near the wing root which I solved by adding a thin strip of sheet material. Careful puttying and sanding and I was happy with the overall look: Little additional detail on the wheel bays - some electrical and hydraulic pipework: Edited February 10, 2020 by Landrotten Highlander missed WIP step Azgaron, Out2gtcha, LSP_Kevin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 (edited) I decided to make a little presentation board just so I can place the airplanes I am making next to a repesentation of a human. This is the aircraft after priming: I continued by painthing the bottom of the plane with the standard French sky-blue. This allowed me to then mask things off so I can paint the wheel bays. While photographing this half-build plane I realised that the bottom antenna is too long and would be lower than ground surface even when the wheels were mounted. This aircraft has the ability of retracting the antennas (top and bottom form a single antenna but has to be retracted when on the ground and during take-off/landing) and I think Azur created the parts of the antenna to fit the height when fully extended - i.e. in full flight. So if you are building this plane as in full flight leave the antennas as they are, but when sitting on the ground they should be shortened. I left the top one fully extended as I did not want to damage the clear canopy throuh which this antenna is glued, but cut off about 6 mm from the bottom one. The plan is to paint it so thay appear to be half-out as could have happened during a ground check. Edited February 10, 2020 by Landrotten Highlander BradG, LSP_Kevin and Azgaron 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 Unfortunately I forgot to take some pictures of the next step. For improving the landing gears I fitted a hydraulic pipe to the brakes. and installed them before painting the underside of the aircraft and the wheel bays. The top side of the airframe is in the French 3-tone camouflage. It should be noted that there was no standard pattern to apply the camouflage, so that leaves a fair bit of freedom to make you own interpretation. So first I painted the lightest colour - a grayish blue (or bluish grey depending on your disposition) then airbrushed some green irregular stripes amounting to approximately 1/3rd of the total surface area. Completed the main painting phase with the reb-brown colour of the camouflage. Appologies for the different temperature of the colours - I took thesse pictures at night under a yellow-white light. A note regarding the painting instructions that came with the kit. According to the instructions all 3 versions should have the spinner in the greyish blue and the bottom colour across the entire bottom, including the front engine cover. Pictures of the time clearly show that the camouflage pattern was continued onto the spinner itself, while the front engine cover looked like it came from a different aeroplane and does not have the light blue at the underside. Refer to the picture of the side to see what I mean. This made masking a bit easier, as I could leave the front cover and the spinner off the airplane when painting without worrying if it would mach the camouflage pattern as my documentation shows this is not applicable. Last pictures show the front cover, spinner and propeller fully fitted. The stencilling on the propellor comes from the kit's decal sheet. That is all for now, folks. Gazzas, LSP_Kevin, BradG and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Looking good, to me the French camouflage are very attractive and yours look great, your photos though are a bit small to see the details. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Excellent work! I too like the camo a lot. The French camo colors have always been attractive to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 2 hours ago, dennismcc said: your photos though are a bit small to see the details. Not sure what happened here. I uploaded the images directly from camera onto Imgur and pasted the link exactly as I did before, but now they are smaller than before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red baron Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 very nice ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Nice update. More picture if you can please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Very nice progress! Looks great! Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 I consider the kit completed. Here the link to the topic on the RFI forum. A bit wobbly while taking the picture, but this close-up of the office does show the effect of painting the inside of the glass on the inside and the outside on the outside (for a smaller scale I just painted the 'inside colour' on the outside of the cockpit before painting the camouflage). What I like about this approach is that you get an increased sence of glass being encased in a framework. Some thought about the kit - the basic building blocs are good in shape nd general fit, however, some of the details are not entirely correct. I am now considering making another verwion of this plane - this time with the Polish forces in France - but working out all the (minor) errors in the kit. We will see. Thanks for all who followed , commented and liked. Slainte ghu mhath L.H. Out2gtcha, Lothar, Trak-Tor and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Wow! That turned out really brilliantly. The camo is really different and combined with the unusual shape of the Caudron, it really makes for an eye-catching model. Well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 Hi Out2gtcha, thanks for your praise. When I had finished painting the camo and while the paint was drying the sun came out, and I had the impression I was looking at the kind of dappled shade you see when sun shines through leaves. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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