DONE ! ....Pilatus PC-6 Triple Build

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December 27, 2019
The application of "Fred's" decals went good,....
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January 1, 2020
...the decals film is of good quality and transfer from paper to model went good.
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January 1, 2020
Dispite to Fredi I had my challenges with Elise's paint scheme,....
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January 1, 2020
...The film was pretty old and during application it broke apart in "1000" pieces. Finaly the flash in the back is a kind of flash (20+ segments) but applied too far at the rear. Bad luck.
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January 1, 2020
The straight military paint scheme went easy and was necessary to calm down after the screwed Blue Elise. 🙂
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January 3, 2020
A pic of the sprue - as you can see: short run quality of course 🙂 that's why we love modelling, right?
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January 3, 2020
original tyres vs resin tyres from IPMS Austria conversion kit
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January 3, 2020
changed to PE antenna parts as well
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January 3, 2020
also propeller and spinner from resin conversion kit
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January 3, 2020
my 3 NEW prop's
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January 3, 2020
PE action....
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January 3, 2020
the cabin air vent exhausts
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January 3, 2020
drilled a hole on my antenna socket
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January 3, 2020
dry fit of antenna & socket
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January 3, 2020
spare cabin windows,.... vacu-formed
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January 3, 2020
bottom fully equiped (PE's on,...yes, tyres still missing)
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January 8, 2020
Also bottom side of Blue Elise quite finished now,... pilots door steps not on yet.
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January 11, 2020
A view on Fredis bottom....
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Comments

1 27 December 2019, 17:48

Łukasz Gliński
Following! I think I wrote it on the project page too 🙂

27 December 2019, 18:57

Juergen Klinglhuber
Lukasz, 🙂 thx for your interest.
I will put together the progress on painting/decal and photo-etched parts. Unfortunattly I have made less pic's during the challenging assembly. ....

30 December 2019, 10:13

Juergen Klinglhuber
All decals are on! I had my troubles with Blue Fred. The film was already old when the kit went on my stash 10 years ago. A surfacer prior to giving the sheets in the water bath did help a lot, but still the scheme broke in pieces during transfer. I was close to run for the airbrush to apply the flash on the rear section with paint instead of decals. ...

1 January 2020, 09:48

Łukasz Gliński
That green looks great, what colour is it?

1 January 2020, 14:58

Stefan Fraundorfer
I'm in Jürgen. I love the "bunte Fredi". Have fund and good luck!

1 January 2020, 15:19

Thomas Bischoff
I love your porters - the interior in picture 11 looks great!

1 January 2020, 15:27

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx mates.
@Lukasz: the base is Humbrol 150 forest green, some panels altered with Humbrol 102 army green blurred in. Preshading with black (lines) and yellow (panel center).

2 January 2020, 07:36

Łukasz Gliński
Thx for the info Juergen 👍

2 January 2020, 08:20

Erik De Smet
Same advice as for Donald :. Scan your special decals before using them, so that you can print a replacement if you have trouble.

2 January 2020, 12:13

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx Erik -I will give it a try next time. I hope my scanner is doing an acurate and detailed enough job.

2 January 2020, 15:19

Treehugger
Btw, Roden has this (Pilatus Turbo Porter) kit in 1:48 scale, and they are ok, but some fiddling is required. I've built two of those from Roden.

3 January 2020, 13:41

Juergen Klinglhuber
Bottom side of "Blue Elise" - done. "Fred" is still waiting,.... looking forward to attached the last details (antennas, exhausts,...) on the upper side of my 3 birds to finally finish this project.

8 January 2020, 21:37

Juergen Klinglhuber
Fred's bottom. Finish line is getting closer... 🙂

11 January 2020, 12:50

bughunter
Oh, den "Bunten Fredi" mag ich😉 Sehr schön 👍

11 January 2020, 13:33

Łukasz Gliński
Your Fredi looks grand 👍

11 January 2020, 21:48

Juergen Klinglhuber
Ready for Take off! PC6 triple build done. Was fun.
I added a few snapshots.

17 January 2020, 18:08

Thomas Bischoff
a great looking trio!

17 January 2020, 18:17

Dave Flitton
I love the result, nice set of three

17 January 2020, 18:26

Gordon Sørensen
Great looking Porters, Juergen! I especially like Der Bunte Fredi!

17 January 2020, 22:46

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, they look stunning! Now everyone wanting to build another PC-6 will have a problem deciding which livery to choose (like me) 😄

18 January 2020, 10:28

Stefan Fraundorfer
A very spectacular trio. Great work Jürgen!

18 January 2020, 12:48

Juergen Klinglhuber
@All - thx for your motivating comments. It seems that Der Bunte Fredi is our favourit.

18 January 2020, 16:26

Album info

Building 3 PC6 Turbo Porter operated by Austrian Airforces in one go.
a) 1x in a regular paint scheme
b) Blaue Elise: Celebrating 20 years of operation with the 4th squadron in 1996, 3G-EK was painted in a special livery as "Blue Elise"
c) Der bunte Fredi: Since July 2007 3G-EL is showing the special painting "the colourful Fred"

#P16 Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter

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