Closed… No detailing added on this one. Just wasn’t in the mood after the months of work on my 109 dio project.
The process to paint (mask… the painting is easy!) the borders is a little tedious, but worth it IMO. First lay out the stripe widths across the fuselage. They are about 10mm wide each. Paint them white and leave that mask in place. Then cut your tape in strips, filling in the white to allow about 1-1.5mm around the border and then paint your black. Just be sure your edges are tight and spray relatively dry, straight perpendicular to the tape. This avoids running black under the tape and onto the white.
Looks great Doogs! The pe seat is really a big improvement. Neat feature on the transparent cowling to show off the giant mill, I assume you’re going to just paint over it?
Doogs… That thing is huge! I must admit to having an issue building and dealing with interior stuff that would never be seen… But impressive to say the least!
The thing is a beast, for sure! And yeah, I’ve got issues having to build things that can’t possibly be seen. That’s why, when I discovered that the plumbing wasn’t required to hold the cockpit in place, I literally threw my head back and laughed like a supervillain!
Sorry I haven’t been around much, Sandy did a number on our area; we were without power 12 days. I’m in the home-stretch of finishing up my jug. It was pretty cold in our house for almost a week and I hope the paint bottles survived.
Hey thanks guys, actually I surprised even myself. As I said Lawdog posted a tuturial over on the aircraft section with a complete walkthough. I’d post a link but I’m typing on my phone right now.
G-J : hang n there. Been praying for you guys, hopefully things will straighten out before too much longer.
Gamera, nice job on that R-2800! I’m glad someone has gotten use out of the rigging technique. Doogs, heres the link to the tutorial when you start the mill on your Trump kit. BTW, the brass micro tubing has become a permanent staple on my bench for all my machine gunning needs[Y].
Awesome - yeah the Trumpeter mill is going to be an epic thing when the time comes…figure I’ll tackle it right after the cockpit. Too bad there’s no styrene tubing to be had that small…it’d be nice to have something to trap the wire into.
And yeah, that microtubing is the bee’s knees, isn’t it?!?
The Le Jug continues apace…got a lot done in the pit last night. Think I’ll probably be mounting up the seat and harness this evening. Still a ways to go on the IP and the gunsight (got a resin Mk.VIII on order), but it’s getting there.
More work on Le Jug this evening. First up, the gunsight.
The Mk.VIII gunsight Trumpeter provides is way overscale. To the point that I noticed, which means it’s huge. Probably like 1/24. So I sourced a resin replacement from Master Detail. But I liked the mounting truss Eduard packs with their interior set, so I cobbled the two together.
Then primed and painted the whole thing Vallejo Black.
In the office, I got the seat mounted, the HGW harness installed, the oxygen hose finished up, and the rudder pedals attached to the instrument panel.
