Memphis Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 8 hours ago, Drunax said: I will stay with the info I have by the moment, because I don't want to go overkill on this. Yes, so I don't build big scale models. They have really many things, that I can do when I see photos of real planes. This is very long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 There are some details on the cockpit rear bulkhead. As you can see, I added styrene at the base, in order to do It a bit deeper. Otherwise, the seat will be touching the cockpit floor. This is inherited from the original cockpit design by Hase, and It is wrong to me. I added as well some structure, and the bulkhead with a hole, made from a discarded piece of the Hase kit. Those bars are in the wrong position in the first pic, but corrected in the others.. I finally can put the pics correctly! :-D denders, HB252, LSP_Kevin and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Drunax Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 By the way, this is the boxing of the kit. It's very nice. My intention was to do It as a -5... I think it's beautiful in overall blue + white markings. And It saves you some otherwise visible glitches. With the Verlinden Cockpit+ gun bay, And the Squadron Vac-form canopy for the -5.... Very nice, but... D'oh! Look at the top of the windscreen.... I had no chances of replacing It with another one from the seller. Maybe, I still could use It or even repair it a bit... LSP_Kevin, Out2gtcha, Landrotten Highlander and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 Also, although the vac canopy is much much better than the kit one, It is molded with the same flaw in size. I think one of the biggest problems with the Hase kit is a too bulbous or big windscreen (the kit provides both -3 and -5 windscreens , and none of them are correct). And I thought it sits too high on the fuselage. This is one of the main things that make the Hase Hellcat look wrong, although in general it has very good shape. First, I made something with the fuselage (please, remember that some pics are from weeks ago, before I decided to open this thread, so there are some not-very-linear stories). I cut a portion of plastic where the windscreen sits, and where the instrument panel hood should be. This allowed me to relocate the canopy, but back then I had not bought the vac one yet. The red line shows the original profile. The windscreen is another story I Will explain later. Also you can see the poor rescribing I made, years ago I think. Cheers Landrotten Highlander, Out2gtcha, LSP_Kevin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 So, I had an idea. What if I tried to correct one of the kit canopies...nothing to lose, really. The kit windscreens are very thick, giving a chance to reduce them. I grabbed one and sanded it till I thought It was enough. My mind had already turn to the -3. I drew approximately the frames with an ink pen. Started to add some plastic stripes, with no worries about the glue on the canopy! This is how it attaches now... LSP_Kevin, coogrfan, Landrotten Highlander and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Great work in the canopy! I have 0 luck with clear parts and generally make a mess of them. From the looks of things, I'm thinking you are well on your way to a much better situation. Drunax 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 30 minutes ago, Out2gtcha said: Great work in the canopy! I have 0 luck with clear parts and generally make a mess of them. From the looks of things, I'm thinking you are well on your way to a much better situation. Thank you, and I hope to give some small solutions to the kit issues. I' m always afraid of clear parts breaking or glue stains. But in this case I had nothing to lose, and that allows you doing new things. And in the kit you have two diferentes windscreens, and none of them is right, but any could be your base. It's the first time I do something like this. Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 This is how It looks at this moment. Still not very good.. If everything goes wrong, I have the vac form but I would change to a dash 5... Landrotten Highlander, HB252, scvrobeson and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 22, 2022 Author Share Posted December 22, 2022 Hi, I made some progress as well into the wheel well....I corrected some pieces that were not good, or very simplified. It was like this: And now: And some bits.. Maybe not super accurate but at least more convincing! patricksparks, denders, LSP_Kevin and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drunax Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 Justo to compare original and scratch: Model_Monkey, scvrobeson, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Nice scratch work! Kev Drunax 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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