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Welcome aboard! I attended university with a fellow who was putting himself through school as a technical illustrator. He did all his work in pointillism.
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Got the cockpit skinning all done. As you can see, there is a small gap along the bottom on the port side. Hope that doesn't come back to bite me in the butt! 😬 Next it was on to the fuselage cowling! Here are the two sides and top all prepped and assembled. These are some of the nicest machine gun channels I have yet built. The three sub-assemblies have been glued together and are ready to go on the fuselage. One thing you absolutely cannot do with a Halinski kit is simply throw the frames together and start skinning them. Every Halinski kit I have ever worked on (and, to be fair, this is true of many other kits as well) has required some fairing of the framing before skinning, and some Halinski kits have required a lot of fairing. This is one of those kits! So, it's a case of sand-fit-sand-fit-sand again-fit again-repeat. Finally, though, the job was done. I noticed after I got this finished that one side is sanded down a little more than the other, but hopefully this will not be too noticeable on the finished model. And yes, all of my man-handling of the fuselage broke one of the frames where the wing will eventually slot in, but that will be easily repairable. Thanks for stopping by!
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Welcome aboard!
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Starting to skin the cockpit section -- not all the way done yet. It is very tight, as per usual with Halinski kits.
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Speaking for myself, I think it's a real treat to watch this historic warship being modeled twice on our site by very competent builders -- one model in peacetime colors and the other in her wartime gray.
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Thanks for the compliment and info! Generally, I don't worry too much about the what the doohickeys are and what they control -- for me, the outside of the plane counts far more than whatever detail happens to be on the inside. That being said, I do look for info online regarding appearance, color, settings, etc., and if that doesn't help out, then I just go with whatever positions are indicated in the diagrams. This is why, for example, my Spitfire Vb, has its gear selector in the 'up' position, even though the gear are very obviously down! Cheers!
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Big milestone today! Take a good look, because it's now time to zip up the cockpit. At long last we can work on something different for a change! The forward fuselage framing is next. Cheers!
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Joelle, every time I check on your build, I am blown away by your skill. I'm curious if you have any plan in mind for having this model on display somewhere once it's finished, other than a shelf in your house somewhere. It seems eminently worthy of a public display somewhere, even if it is not a scratch build and thus not up to some museum standards.
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This topic will give you some ideas on how the finished gratings should look. I'm assuming you're using the typical interlocking combs supplied in kits. The important part to remember is that the fore-and-aft pieces (the battens) ride on top of the athwartship pieces (the ledges). Also, the finished grating should always fit within its coaming so that the coaming's inside edges abut a batten or ledge; the edge cuts should never be made through the grating gaps themselves. Cheers!
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I used it almost exclusively back in my early days. It does the job well, though it is thicker than the canopy glue I prefer these days. Since it is water-based, it can easily be thinned to whatever consistency one likes.
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Congratulations, Russ, that is really some very nice workmanship!
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#4 is not an option. Even incomplete builds can be useful to someone looking for information on that kit. In your case, I'd go for #3. Everyone understands that there are reasons why someone might lose interest in keeping a log updated, but it'd be nice to see the finished model and be able to mark your log with the highly-prized "finished" tag.
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This is why I never, ever let my guests backlight my models when viewing them! 😂 offset printing
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I found the review. It's in the March/April 2006 issue of Ships in Scale, Vol. XV No. 2., page 92. The author rated the kit's written manual 2.5/4 and photo manual 4/4. Overall he had this to say: The kit's final score was 2.5./4. Keeping in mind that the review was written 20 years ago, I think it's safe to say that the Constructo kit was similar in overall quality and design to other kits of that era, but that those designs are typically dated in comparison to what's available today. Cheers!
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Every time I see a cool plastic kit being started up, and it's a subject I have in my card stash, I always feel the urge to start another project! 😂
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Novice: AL Sanfrancisco II or OcCre San Martin?
ccoyle replied to Arnie-75's topic in Wood ship model kits
Welcome, Arnie! The first question to ask is: do you really like these particular ships? You'll be making a significant time investment, so liking your subject is important. Second, whereabouts is "here"? Access to kits can certainly affect your decision, but if we know where you are located, we may be able to suggest some alternatives for your consideration. Other members may chime in with more kit-specific comments. Cheers! -
Here are the remaining port-side cockpit parts. Fun, eh? And here is half of the port side completed. Onward!
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Johnny has provided a great overview of the kit. I remember maybe twenty years that one of the modeling magazines (might have been Ships in Scale) did a review of the newest Constructo version available at the time, and the reviewer's verdict was that it wasn't a bad kit for the money and represented a step up in quality compared to earlier Constructo kits. That being said, I don't think you'll get much argument against the Constructo kit being several steps down from the Caldercraft kit, and even the Caldercraft version is a bit dated, since kit design in general has advanced significantly in recent years. Cheers!
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Remember the old adage about treating every sub-assembly as a separate model? Takes time, but it works. Here's a bank of setting levers. What do they control? No idea. 😂 Merry Christmas to all of you merry model makers!!
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That sounds like a fun job!
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Vought F4U Corsair by PeD - Tamiya - 1/48
ccoyle replied to Danny_CZ's topic in Completed non-ship models
Amazing work and a great memory of your Dad! Thanks for sharing!
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