Short Crusader, 1/72, Karaya

Ben M
cool!

Stefan Schacht
corious 🙂

Gordon Sørensen
Very interesting little plane. Looking forward to watching your progress, Dmitriy!

Dmitriy Andreeshchev
Hello, friends! An update. The trickiest moment of the kit lies in proper alignment of the struts. Since the have no corresponding holes in fuselage and floats, and do not even have angled edges, I've decided to create a small jig for this purpose. Using the plan from the kit, which is, luckily, of the same scale as the model itself, I've made all the needed measurements, and designed the jig, then - printed it. And it works! To be sure that attachment points are sturdy, I've used a 2 component epoxy glue. When everything is dry, I will shape the top edges of struts, so they could correspond the fuselage belly.

Dave Flitton
Nice!!

Łukasz Gliński
Wow! What a professional approach 👍

Dmitriy Andreeshchev
Thank you, friends! Even with all the engineering, attachment of struts was a still rather hard task - but it was completed. Added photos of the assembled model, ready to receive some paint and rigging!

Alec K
Great project! I love the 3D printed jig, very clever 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Cool! Very clever engineering for sure! What's the figure in picture 8 and 9 by the way?

Víctor Rosas
Lovely!

Dmitriy Andreeshchev
Thank you, friends. Patrick, it's a 3d printed resin figure of some woman, I've found 3d model on the thingieverse website and printed it on my Anycubic Photon. In my previous project, Cobalt Co50 Valkyrie, Amodel, 1/72 | Album by RoggyCGD (1:72)), figurines of two women are from the same source.

Patrick Hagelstein
Alrighty! Thanks for the information! 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
I like her pose, just relaxed and staring away.

Slavo Hazucha
Stylish job with the figure & pose 👍 - and another cool machine from your workshop!😉

Greg Baker
oh, now I really like this. great work.

Christian Bruer
Following, intersting aeroplane and a great start on it👍

Dmitriy Andreeshchev
Thanks everyone! I've added photos of the base in process.

Dmitriy Andreeshchev
Hello, friends! The model was completed.

Christian Bruer
Excellent work and finish👍

Dave Flitton
Totally Cool finish!!!

Patrick Hagelstein
That was quick!!! 😮 What happened to the clear water? I really liked how that turned out.

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, I haven't thought it's so tiny 😠 Brilliant work 👍

Slavo Hazucha
Great machine + cool details & dio 👍 Although I too miss the tropical flavor of the earlier water pics and the wing-sitter - hope she joins the dio at some point...!

Chris Greathouse
That is beautiful!

Dmitriy Andreeshchev
Thank you, friends! About water. There are two reasons. First - I've used not very good resin, yellow in nature, so I've had to colorize it heavily, and it isn't very transparent. Secondly, even after three layers resin was still very green, so in the end I've poured a layer of blue varnish on top of resin, then acrylic gel to imitate the water movement. It may not seem so beautiful and transparent, but, at least, seems more natural.
About the girl - yeah, she looks great, but her outfit do not correspond with the epoch at all, so I've decided to get rid of this figure, since this is no fantasy work 🙂

Greg Baker
Now that's good stuff. I really love those racing seaplanes. What a great job you did.