Daniel Iscold Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 First time posting an Work In Progress, ever!!! For this bird I'm using PE fret from Eduard for the interior. The quadrants control levers are made from melted cooper wire. The Instrument panel is from EDUARD PE fret. To reshape the control surfaces are not so a wise decision, they need some more refinements. Hope yoi like it and soon I'll come back with more pictures Rocat, mc65, John1 and 24 others 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rato Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Excellent start, Daniel. Looking forward to see this one finished! Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Nice work, Daniel! Kev Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Nice start Daniel. Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Iscold Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 Thank you fellas. Next up date, I'll try to do better pictures. I need to improve the engine weathering Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasha As Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Good job! Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernut Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Nice job so far. Just an fyi in case you’re ever inclined to do it; aircraft reciprocating engines (most, if not all of them after the WWI era) use two spark plugs per cylinder. That means a 14 cylinder engine will have 28 spark plugs and 28 ignition leads. Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Iscold Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Juggernut said: Nice job so far. Just an fyi in case you’re ever inclined to do it; aircraft reciprocating engines (most, if not all of them after the WWI era) use two spark plugs per cylinder. That means a 14 cylinder engine will have 28 spark plugs and 28 ignition leads. Juggernut, Thank you for your consideration, But according some pictures taken from google there are only one sapark plug per cylinder on the Nakajima Ha-45 Homare. Or... maybe the other spark plug is hiden on the back side of each cylinder???? Yea I dont know. For sure I can do a better job on this engine. Maybe in a next model with a radial engine... Again thank you Edited April 5, 2022 by Daniel Iscold Juggernut, Greg W, Rocat and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juggernut Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) Yep, you cannot see the plugs on the rear of the cylinders in that photograph but they're there. Won't really matter anyway since the cowling will hide all but the very front of the engine. LOL, If I remember correctly, Hasegawa only provides the fronts of the cylinders anyway so any wires going to the rear plugs will get trunkated at the back side anyway. Whoops, I miscounted the cylinders.... 18 cylinders = 36 spark plugs and wires. MY error What did you use to melt copper wire? Lord knows I'd like to know how it gets a nice ball on the end like you've shown. Edited April 5, 2022 by Juggernut Martinnfb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Iscold Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Juggernut said: Yep, you cannot see the plugs on the rear of the cylinders in that photograph but they're there. Won't really matter anyway since the cowling will hide all but the very front of the engine. LOL, If I remember correctly, Hasegawa only provides the fronts of the cylinders anyway so any wires going to the rear plugs will get trunkated at the back side anyway. Whoops, I miscounted the cylinders.... 18 cylinders = 36 spark plugs and wires. MY error What did you use to melt copper wire? Lord knows I'd like to know how it gets a nice ball on the end like you've shown. I did use a tip of hand torch. Just place the end of the cooper wire at the tip of flame, and let the gravity do the job, of forming a cooper blob. After cooling use a jewlery flat plier to flaten the wire, and then you'll have a tridimencional quadrant lever. In my opinion much better than a PE quarant lever, they are bidimencional. Greg W, Juggernut and Martinnfb 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Stambaugh Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Great start. Looking forward to seeing more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Iscold Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 More from cp today. The Aotake blue was made using a layer o model master buffing metalizer aluminum, and a mix of clear blue and green from Tamiya. The idea was to achieve different color variation, since this color varies according the layers of stained varnish. The details was painted using a fine paintbrush and vallejo colors. Tomorrow this offive will take a PE seat and the gun sight will be build. Hope you like it fellows. Vince Blackburn , MikeMaben, Rockie Yarwood and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Iscold Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) More progress. The pilot's seat comes from Eduard PE fret. The fitting of cockpit tub and fuselage halves are flawless. Tomorrow I'll be back with more pictures Edited April 8, 2022 by Daniel Iscold LSP_Kevin, Greg W, Sasha As and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Nice modelin'. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Iscold Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) More progress. After sanding the internal side of engine cowling, I glued styrene strips following the external panel lines. Despite the lack of references, I think it is plausible, what you think? I put together the wings an fuselage. Some wing root gaps where treated using streched sprue an CA glue, this method is simple, fast and provide a good bed material to re scribe the missing panel line during the sanding process. Now I´m preparing the model for the paint process. Edited April 8, 2022 by Daniel Iscold Landrotten Highlander, scvrobeson, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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