Greif8 Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 8 hours ago, Archimedes said: Ganz ausgezeichnet Ernest! Vielen gruße, Paul Vielen Dank Paul! MfG, Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Wolf Buddee said: Ganz ausgezeichnet Ernest! Exactly. I couldn’t have said it better. Eduard stepped up their game, IMHO, with regards to this instrument panel. Lately it seems that their instrument faces are very generic looking but those look very nice. The rest of your work looks fantastic as well Ernest. Cheers, Wolf Thank You Wolf! I agree that Eduard has improved their IPs. I see one this one the instruments come with clear covers that are slightly domed. They look pretty convincing. Sincerely, Ernest Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 3 hours ago, Uncarina said: It’s taking shape, both impressively good and fast! I remember fiddling with those 14 throttle levers: a real test of patience, but you pulled it off nicely. You might want to double check the access railing color. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the yellow color was a postwar addition for restored warbirds. I’ve been wrong before however! Cheers, Tom Thank you Tom! Being semi-retired allows me a lot of time at the bench. Of course it also allows a lot of time for my spouse to come up with "honey-do" lists as well! I will a look at the railing color and fix it if required. Thank you for the heads up. Sincerely, Ernest Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 5, 2021 Author Share Posted July 5, 2021 59 minutes ago, Gazzas said: Ernest, when I saw your IP my chin hit the floor! Very nice details! Thank you Gary, though to be fair Eduard did the hard work designing and manufacturing the IP; I just assembled it. Sincerely, Ernest Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 I joined the fuselage this week and spent a fair amount of time cleaning up the joint seam. The seam at the rear on the inside had to be filled as this can be seen when viewing the cockpit from the rear. I did that with a combo of evergreen strip cut to size, and then a few tiny pieces of the same stuff melted into place with Tamiya quick setting glue. It was then hand painted. All that took a surprising amount of time to do and as it is pretty boring work, I did not take any photos of the progress. I also "made" the forward escape hatch. I will explain the process I used in the photos below. First up though is the buttoned up fuselage. Not much to say here, it looks the part I guess. The opposite side. View from the rear. It is out of focus, but you can just make out some of the filling I did to the seam. Also, unsurprisingly the interior is fairly dark. The maps turned out well. So the escape hatch. I thought a lot about how to replicate this. Until fairly late in it's production life, the Lancaster escape hatch was 26.5" long x 22" wide, 67cm x 56cm for us metric types! That scales out to be 2.09cm x 1.75cm. Part P13 is where the forward escape hatch was. You can see in the above photo I traced the hatch in the correct scale dimensions with a pencil and flexible ruler. I forgot to take a photo of the next step for the exterior, but I lightly scribed the outline. I'll explain why below. And here is the interior of the hatch traced in. I then cut up some wing walkway boundary decals, as well as the rounded corners of some handle outline markings and applied them over the traced area - all this is still drying. Photos I have seen show "No Step" or "Do Not Step" in red and white lettering at the front denoting where the ummm Opening Handle is. As you can clearly see in the macro photo I ended up using the German "Do Not Step" as I don't have any red lettering in English. Fortunately you can't read it at normal viewing distance given its location in the aircraft. The white lettering is a decal from a Dauntless decal sheet, and of course say's something else then what was actually said. Again, you won't be able to read the words at normal viewing distance, and you might not even be able to see much after everything is in place. I plan to replicate the exterior in similar fashion, hence the light scribing to give me reference lines to decal after painting. Macro shot of the part test fit in place. I am sure once the turret is installed much of this work will disappear. Macro photo from the front. It is pretty clear that the turret is going to cover the majority of this up, which is good as there was a bit of silvering in a couple of areas! Landrotten Highlander, chukw, scvrobeson and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 Nicely done Ernest, I’m sure the crew will appreciate the irony of the escape hatch’s “Nicht Betraten” warning, LOL! Cheers, Wolf Alain Gadbois, Pete Fleischmann and D.B. Andrus 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 11, 2021 Author Share Posted July 11, 2021 Thanks Wolf, I thought the "No Step" in German would be a bit of fun - of course if I had the decal in English I would have used it! I have installed the front turret and nose Perspex; and as I suspected you can hardly see the escape hatch, so the language turned out to be a total non-issue. Ernest Uncarina, Bomber Command nut and D.B. Andrus 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Very nice detailing, Ernest! Love the creative decal usage. Greif8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) Hi guys, its been a few months since I posted anything. In mid-August I got broadsided by a person who ran a stop sign. I suffered several broken bones and lots of cuts and gashes, but nothing life threatning fortunately. I has taken some time to heal up and it has only been the last few days that I have been able to get back to the bench. The first order of business is to finish this project which is coming down to the final phases. The photos are pretty basic but show the base paint job on the exterior, as well as, the support dolly. It is good to be back! Ernest Edited December 6, 2021 by Greif8 Uncarina, zerosystem, D.B. Andrus and 12 others 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncarina Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Ernest! I’m so glad you are on the mend, and sorry to learn about what happened to you. Your build is proceeding very impressively, and looks to be on the home stretch! Welcome back. Sincerely, Tom Alain Gadbois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Glad to see you back Ernest. Nice progress as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 15 hours ago, Uncarina said: Ernest! I’m so glad you are on the mend, and sorry to learn about what happened to you. Your build is proceeding very impressively, and looks to be on the home stretch! Welcome back. Sincerely, Tom 4 hours ago, Troy Molitor said: Glad to see you back Ernest. Nice progress as well. Thank you guys! It is good to be back. Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 The build is just about finished; I just need to remove the tape from two windows that I forgot before I took the photos! This was a fun build and my scratch building skills got a work out. I will post some better photos tomorrow in the "Ready for Inspection" section. Ernest I kept weathering to a minimum, just a couple of chips and some scuffing of the paint here and there. Man, that black is a dust magnet; believe it or not I cleaned it about 5 minutes before I took the photo. Frontal shot, showing one of the two windows I forgot to unmask! The scratched cabling turned out pretty good. The sharp eyed among you may have spotted a black rectangular object in the bomb bay area. It is a painted 9 volt battery to power a red light. I thought it might add something different to the build. Oops, same pic! Hope you liked the photos! LSP_Kevin, Greg W, Madmax and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Really nice build going on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 Fantastic stuff, Ernest! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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