WNW Sopwith Pup RNAS

[docdodj01]

Started a build of my second WNW kit. This will be finished in the markings of Lt Dunning's Pup used in experiments of flying aircraft on ships, basically the birth of the carrier and naval aircraft.

 

Started on the cockpit sides and turtle deck. Painted a cream white, wood grain done with oils, and sealed with mix of clear yellow and orange from tamiya.

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Painted the cockpit floor using cream white lacquer paint.  I also detailed painted the other wooden rudder pedals, and wooden foot plank. The stick was painted with silver metallics.

Edited April 19, 2022 by docdodj01

[Bobs Buckles]

One of my favourite Pups!

Good luck 

 

Cheers,

Bob 

[docdodj01]

Painted the parts, and started to divide into different subassemblies

 

 

Engine built and painted

 

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Seat and belts built and painted

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Cockpit built up

 

 

 

Dry fitted the detailed Instrument panel onto the cockpit

 

And decal instrument faces placed on after

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Some detail painting on the pulley on the wings

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Before the build, I of course researched on how the kit goes, and the report was the cockpit parts, when mated to the fuselage then mated to the wings, will cause alignment issues, in which the fuselage won't fit flush with the wing bottom, and that you have to shave of or and the cockpit floor. After doing some dry fitting, I found a solution:

 

The cockpit floor, has circular notches at the bottom:

 

That fits on the lower wings, which has the circular pegs:

 

If you actually fit the cockpit parts, WITHOUT trapping it in the fuselage first, the cockpit floor sits flush over the wing bottom. It seems that the trouble stems partly when you glue in the curved spars on the cockpit sides that causes the problem, since mounting the part misaligned even by a few millimeters, will cause fit issues.  There are 2 solutions: either mount the cockpit subassembly to the wing, then build the fuselage around it (which may add to effort in painting the kit later, OR

 

 

Glue the cockpit subassembly to the fuselage  half at the rear locating part CAREFULLY. Then dry fit this fuselage/cockpit subassembly on the lower wings. Once the fuselage half and the cockpit has been solidly mated, you can remove this subassembly from the lower wing, and then glue the other half of the fuselage to close everything up

 

Note at this point, I haven't glued the fuse together, and only held in place with tape

 

But you can already see that the fit is flush and exact.

 

One way to check it is look inside the cockpit. From the front of the lower wing, there is the lowered area where the cockpit floor should sit flush.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 20, 2022 by docdodj01

[LSP_Kevin]

Good work - and a great tip on fitting the fuselage, too.

 

Kev

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On with the build.

Since based on dry fitting, the cockpit, fuselage and lower wing should align itself without any effort, so I glued the fuselage and cockpit subassembly

 

Also, if you plan to build the trainer or the RNAS carrier trial pup with lewis guns, obviously you won't install the vickers gun. But they don't clearly indicate in the images of the build to leave out the ammo container for the vickers. They mention it in passing, but can be easily missed since we usually follow the pictures to check our progress.

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The 3 subassemblies dry fitted. To be fair, you can fit all the rest of the parts, if you're confident enough, with PVA glue, and use the rigging to hold em all together.

 

 

[MikeC]

This is coming along at a cracking pace, and looking very good.

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decals are started on the fuselage and stabilizer

 

 

 

 

 

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Built up the landing strut subassembly, dry fitting it to keep the alignment of the struts

 

[KUROK]

Sweet!  You're making me want to start my Pup kit!