Travel Air Mystery Ship R614K - completed
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Reworked trailing edges (1,3 mm thick in the kit, see upper wing for comparison.
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Ailerons separated. 0,3 mm plastic added. Recesed panel lines as margin between black and red filled with CA.
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Ailerons separated and finished to shape.
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Attachment points for the wiring. Ailerons (covered with fabric) incl. structure & attachment points/hinges completed.
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Streamlined wheels corrected in shape (too long in the kit). New struts from flattened 1mm brass tubing.
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Elevators reworked, overdone fabric structure corrected.
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Recessed panel lines as margin between red and black filled with Mrcolor 1500 Surfacer.
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The quality of the engine is astonishing for a kit that is more than 50 years old!!
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Only the outer wing sections have dihedral (4,5').
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Corrected wing.
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Sheet covers for the gaps between the wing sections. Cooler from half round rod.
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Corrected (added) "fin” on the wing trailing edge.
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Semigloss varnish in place.
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Rigging minus spread bars on the lower side completed.
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"Self designed" etched flat rigging in place.
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Minor imperfections on the vacuum formed windshield fixed (with a fine brush).
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Kommentarer
6 4 May 2019, 10:06
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OMG, your projects just keep getting better and better! Can't wait to see what you do with this one.
9 May 2019, 21:22
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Bernhard, in the time I think about a solution of a problem you nearly finishes a whole project😎 Great work again 👍
30 May 2019, 19:51
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I was wondering how you were going to tackle the masking.....very clever solution with the circles....paint job is already looking awesome!
2 June 2019, 08:46
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Thank you Mates for your comments. It was worth to spent yesterday two hours for exactly masking. I used Tamiyas white tape and I'm very content with the results. The last task today was the applying of narrow black decal stripes and the kit decals (very good quality).
2 June 2019, 15:07
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Magnificent masking and paintjob, absolutely invisible connection between painted and decal stripe !
2 June 2019, 15:30
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I really like your interpretation of the aircrafts of that times 👍 Impressive rigging!
4 June 2019, 20:19
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Just watched a documentary on Pancho Barnes. She really loved this plane.
5 June 2019, 23:30
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Looks fast even in scale & stationary! Great work & beautiful result!
6 June 2019, 11:21
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Thank you for the nice comments. It was an unusual modeling project based on a 55 years old kit. It's stunning that Hawk released an entire series of planes which were built only once or very few. Some of them I have built already, for example Supermarine S6B, Howard Ike and Laird Solution and I remember that I had a lot of fun.
7 June 2019, 04:20
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splendid result... maybe an old kit, but a very beautiful one, and very nicely enhanced...
7 June 2019, 06:33
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Definitely not a project for the faint-hearted... the result is absolutely perfect!
12 July 2019, 08:00
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Just reviewed this again... Still puts a big smile on my face - such a thing of beauty this is 👍
12 July 2019, 16:32
Album info
Winner of the Thompson Cup Trophy 1929.