tomprobert Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 (edited) Oh for crying out loud! This is insanely good. I really get the feeling you’ve got the bit between your teeth with this one, Peter! Out if interest, are you still planning on releasing the 1/18 cockpit set for the Fw190 as I was really hoping for one - the kit is crying out for the Airscale magic touch. Tom Edited November 19, 2020 by tomprobert Rockie Yarwood, daHeld, Derek B and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 I can't believe the speed this is going together! Seems like you'll have this one nailed by Christmas! I know that is completely not the case but you're making spectacular progress. Craig airscale, Rockie Yarwood and daHeld 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted November 20, 2020 Share Posted November 20, 2020 If you said you were building a full-sized Hawker Fury from scratch, I'd believe it. Absolute next-level building Peter Matt airscale, Alain Gadbois and Rockie Yarwood 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted November 22, 2020 Author Share Posted November 22, 2020 evening chaps On 11/19/2020 at 9:34 PM, tomprobert said: Out if interest, are you still planning on releasing the 1/18 cockpit set for the Fw190 as I was really hoping for one - the kit is crying out for the Airscale magic touch. Tom Hi Tom - thanks for dropping in Good question... I have a lot of the design done as I did make some for my 190, but in all honesty I can't see a way to integrate anything accurate with the HB kit - it is a bit all over the place. Maybe just a replacement panel might work, but that is a bit incongruous when is sits alongside totally incorrectly sized / aligned sidewalls & the rest.. The alternative is a full cockpit, by which time you are talking a big set which would soon get expensive and to be honest I don't think they are in any way mass-market like the old airfix 1/24 stalwarts.. ..not a priority, but not impossible either.. sorry ..still bimbling along on the Fury - got a good bit of time this weekend so thought I would at least start the panel.. ..pressed metal, silver painted, wierd gizmo's either side of the upper central part and quite an interesting shape - basically it occupies the only remaing space looking forwards and allowing for the gun breeches... long before any sense of order or anything like a blind flying panel.. ..I have made up the decal sheet for the model & this is with Ray at Fantasy with my pending airscale restock order... ..I started by adding plastic strip to the back of the PE panel to make it look like a pressing... ..also made up the wierd gizmo thing that sits behind the top out of kits of tiny PE parts... ..then painted it & added all the pre-painted bezels - also glazed some but will wait for the decals before doing the coloured (blue / yellow) bezels as these are like little slivers of coloured tube so I need to figure out how I will do those... ..it sort of goes here... ..next up I thought I would try the gun breeches.. I found some useful pics of the Vickers guns, though these have the big cooling jackets whereas the Fury has the thinner holed ones like a 50 cal you would see on a B17.. ..I used this image to scale & design the PE and actually reversed the design for a left & right, but as it turns out they both have this mechanism on the same side so luckily I had a brass set PPD made by mistake so I could combine both PE sets to get two right handed guns.. the core is a block of thick plastic card, with laminated PE sides & folded PE tops.. ..then added some of the details and started to make up the charging handles from wood laminated on a PE part with brass pins through each - this was then doused in thin CA before shaping.. ..then they were finished up.. I won't be adding the barrels, they will be added from the outside when the fuselage is done way into the future.. ..need to make up the mounting frame for these now which is a pretty complicated tubular structure.. TTFN Peter KiwiZac, R Palimaka, nicolas96 and 26 others 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkTR1 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 The quality of the work on show is just jaw dropping. It really us a different class. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I can't believe the speed this is going together! Seems like you'll have this one nailed by Christmas! I know that is completely not the case but you're making spectacular progress. I still can't believe the foresight that you have when finding then designing all these tiny details in PE before you get the sheet sent off. I can't even work out what I'm doing the next day!!!! Craig airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Amazing update again Peter. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockie Yarwood Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Just fantastic! Loving being able to tag along. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I have 3 words for this: A. Ma. Zing. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Absolutely amazing! I love the mix of different materials in the Fury cockpit. I think the gizmos might have to do with the synchronizing mechanism. Also, with all the apparent brass and copper, do you use a clear finish to prevent eventual oxydation of the surfaces? Alain Rockie Yarwood and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 This is so far beyond anything I will ever achieve... wow. Just wow. airscale, Out2gtcha, Rockie Yarwood and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 here we go again!! Superb start Peter Rockie Yarwood, airscale and Derek B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Damned nice problem-solving. Execution is other-worldly, Peter. Great stuff. I'm inspired. Love what your doing. Sincerely, Mark Rockie Yarwood, airscale and Derek B 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonH Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 Yeah, I've seen worse. Sadly, it's on my workbench. airscale, Derek B and Rockie Yarwood 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 It's getting better and better with each update. Stunning work, again, Peter Rainer airscale, Derek B and Rockie Yarwood 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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