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ccoyle
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Welcome aboard, Paul!
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Next bits. For reasons which I will not rehash here, I tend not to include internal framing on my canopy glazing, but for this model I will. Like the Curtiss P-40, the Ki-61 has glazing behind the pilot, and it also has two small glazed panels at the bottom edges of the windscreen. The internal framing provides additional substructure for gluing down the faux glass cut from an overhead transparency sheet. The frames are painted silver on their reverse sides just in case any should be partially visible once the exterior skins go on. You have to squint hard to see that the glazing is finished in this image, but it's there! Believe it or not, I can FINALLY start work on the cockpit walls now, hooray!
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Love it, Greg! Lots of details for the viewer to search out.
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Jan, I think the squares are 2.5 cm on a side, but I could be wrong. The entire mat is about 11" wide, so about 28 cm. I plan to build the Hien with its canopy open. Here's the finished gunsight. It's not built exactly as in the diagrams, partly because there were a couple of parts whose positions I couldn't figure out precisely, and there were one or two really tiny bits that just wouldn't fit and/or would not ultimately be visible. For an idea of size, the smaller of the two reflector panels is 2.25 x 2.5 mm.
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Welcome aboard!
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The next task is to turn this pile of itty-bitty parts into a gunsight. 😵💫
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Why a Halinski build takes so much time: 1. A piece of cockpit framing (3 pieces); 2. two piston-like structures for the guns (5 pieces each); 3. a center instrument panel (20 pieces). Thirty-three pieces in all -- slow going.
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Oh yes, multiple times! But the worst was when I absentmindedly grabbed the business end of a hot planking iron. 🙄
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That's what my current Hien project is like -- a seemingly never-ending sequence of tiny cockpit parts. I wish I could say the end was in sight, but I think it's more like one of those "not even the beginning of the end, but perhaps it is the end of the beginning" things.
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Very nice!
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Wow! Very nice work! The actual car, a one-off racer, is very interesting, even for us non-car types. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Mephistopheles
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Machine guns have been added. This construction sequence was much more difficult than it should have been. I'm convinced there are some errors in the diagrams, including misnumbered parts. Quite a bit of surgery was required to get the guns fitted and aligned. The success or failure of the operation will be determined when the cockpit area gets skinned.
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HMS Beagle by Tecko - OcCre - 1:60
ccoyle replied to Tecko's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1801 - 1850
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This. 👆
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Odd. You should be able to easily copy & paste photos into your log. That's how I do it using Firefox.
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I just now noticed that you went with black for the ironwork instead of red as suggested in the instructions -- a good choice, IMO. Red might be more correct, but it doesn't look 'right' to my eye.
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Well, there can be no engine detail, because no engine is included. I have seen 1/33 scale in-line engines offered as after-market options before -- perhaps at E-Card Models? But I have no interest in adding one. Not having to build an engine is one of the attractions of building planes with in-line engines! It is also possible to build models with access panels here and there open, if the internal details are included in the kit, otherwise such details must be scratch-built. I have shown panels in open positions before, such as on my DH.82, but it's not work that I find especially appealing. So, if anyone wants to see one of these card models with a super-detailed, visible interior, you're going to have to petition Dave E to build one for you! 😉
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I'm trying to decode your title. Are there two names in there? One for the sloop and one for the designer?
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