From the work bench
Rescribing and riveting
More sanding of raised lines to prep for rescribing
Test fit
Kit instruction sequence starts with interior floor and radar operators station. Will be deviating because both kit and Eduard instructions are not accurate representation of this section.
Detail removed from this part. The radar operator station did not have these details, scratch building my own representation with styrene and some of the PE parts in the Eduard set.
Operations manual reference of the radar operator station with equipment removed
Used this PE part with a cube of styrene to represent the oxygen instruments. Beside is the kits part of the radar screen hood, cut off from the part No. 27, may use this later
Added what is supposed to be the radar indicator hood and radio control equipment box port side, upper.
Slow on updates 🙁 more detail added into RO compartment
Some good progress this weekend, Cockpit floor mating to port-side fuselage half. Close ups of the photoetch and details coming into the cockpit
Small detail added, this would be the landing gear valve selector shroud, the eduard set doesn’t have it on the B model upgrade.
Leveling the canopy joint and nose gaps from fuselage halves coming together. There was a nasty step here
Area to be filled to smooth the canopy/fuselage join
Comentarios
15 17 August 2021, 23:39
Nathan MInterior coming together more, primed painted, washed and some detail touch ups. Still have to apply flat coat and then more chipping, control levers and colors etc.
1 October 2021, 01:46
Bart Teunisfunny to see that we are building the same kit and running into the same issues
24 March 2022, 13:28
Nathan MHi Bart yep I'm sure you encountered that bad nose joint... my answer was building up the low side with sprue goo I made from cut sprues from this kit. I let it gas off for several days and it was rock hard by the time I came back around to working on it again. I just gently feathered it down to meet the high side and split the difference. I then added some plasticard to the instrument panel hood and blended it again with sprue goo.. it was an after thought because when I tested the canopy fit there is a gap in the forward windscreen and where it meets the nose you have to fix... the sides are built up with plasticard strips to raise the height of the canopy to meet the rear canopy/fuselage joint. I never took a good photo but I'm sure you'll see the same.. if you test fit the canopy to meet at the nose and rear you'll find the bottom is raised off the fuselage several mm high. I hope yours is going well.
24 March 2022, 13:48
Nathan MCurrently have this on hold while I plan how to address the join of the canopy to the fuselage. I have built up the gaps in the rear portion with styrene stock, however the blending of the front to the nose will have to be addressed.
My plan so far is to protect the canopy itself with foil, and build up the curve needed between the canopy and then nose with CA & dental acrylic powder (need to purchase) and blend the transition. Hoping the canopy will then seat down into this built up curve, and when ready will secure it with extra thin cement/fill seam as normal.
15 October 2023, 09:50
