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Welcome back, Don!
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I stumbled across this old photo of mine, for folks that lamented the dearth of VVS aircraft among my builds. This is a Yak-3 built from an Orlik kit. Photo taken with one of our very first, if not the first, digital cameras we ever owned.
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Um -- wouldn't that create even more legal reasons? 😂
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That sounds pretty non-committal -- but I guess we can content ourselves with whatever hints are tossed our way for the moment!
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The kit never received a name. Is it a generic type or a specific vessel?
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Swift 1805 waterline
ccoyle replied to petehay's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Yes, that's the waterline. It looks about right to my eye. Those pilot schooners did not have a whole lotta freeboard! -
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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Welcome aboard!
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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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