chrish Posted September 3, 2020 Share Posted September 3, 2020 Thinking there's time, I may try this kit as possibly Yellow 11 Werner Schuller or Black 5 Helmut Bennemann (most likely yellow 11) It'll be an OOTB build for the fun of it. Thank you for looking LSP_Kevin, LSP_K2, D.B. Andrus and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 8 hours ago, chrish said: It'll be an OOTB build for the fun of it. Suuuurrre it will chrish, Rick Griewski and coogrfan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Griewski Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Ooo. Ooo. I have this kit. I will be watching for sure. chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted September 5, 2020 Author Share Posted September 5, 2020 haha no pressure then hey?! I've begun to make some progress in the office; thanks for looking Landrotten Highlander, Fanes, Dany Boy and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Wonderful paint work, Chris! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted September 5, 2020 Share Posted September 5, 2020 Lovely paint work is right. Well done Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 Thank you very much! I'm adding some bits and pieces, figured I'd take a couple of pictures because once I close the fuselage it'll never be seen again. thank you for looking Alain Gadbois, MikeMaben, Dart_Schatten and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted September 6, 2020 Share Posted September 6, 2020 Great looking cockpit! One note: the map case (part C1) should be placed lower on the right side of the cockpit. Alain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 3 hours ago, Alain Gadbois said: Great looking cockpit! One note: the map case (part C1) should be placed lower on the right side of the cockpit. Alain Thanks! That's where Dragon put the locator for it. a big old tab that the map case slots into. My bad for not fixing it I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 I managed to fit the cockpit to the fuselage and close the assembly up, after breaking off and relocating the map case (thanks Alain) I should note here that the electrical box on the forward right side of the fuselage (in the cockpit) also locates too high up and if installed using the supplied locators it will foul the instrument panel...too far down and it fouls the floor panel...about 1 mm up or down in place will do it. thanks for looking Fanes, ADP22, Erwin and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Very impressive, Chris! That cockpit looks excellent. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakai Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Really like your work Chris, neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Thank you very much! A bit more progress accomplished between marathon watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix. back to work now... Thanks for looking Daniel Leduc, Landrotten Highlander, ADP22 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 A few hours fighting with Dragons instructions and photo etch and the wings are now closed up. I tried...I really tried to get all that p.e. Dragon include to make the control surfaces movable. I finally admitted defeat ripped it all apart and glued the control surfaces solid. Not like I take my models down off their dust collection points and move the controls anyway. The first problem with all this is Dragon illustrate the p.e. being attached to the upper wing half when it should show the lower wing half, partly my mistake for not noticing this (Anybody else have issues with Dragon kits instructions?) so all the p.e. components were installed upside down. once removed and corrected the flaps flopped around loosely and the pivot pins for the ailerons gave me fits trying to get them in! (They're bloody tiny!) deciding enough is enough I pulled the ailerons and flaps off the wings destroying the pins and loops holding them and glued everything solid, doing myself a solid and hitting the elevators and rudder with glue at the same time. The flexible plastic wheel bay liners were quite warped but by fitting the top part and clamping the wing halves together and manipulating the lower joint with long thin blades and scribers I was able to get a mostly acceptable fit. Enough whining... Thanks for looking nmayhew, Landrotten Highlander, LSP_Kevin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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