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One of the things I have always wondered about this kit is whether the flat 'carvings' represent historic practice or are simply a concession to less-skilled modelers -- I suspect it is the latter, but I don't recall ever reading anything to that effect. The kit looks great finished out-of-the-box, obviously, but I wonder if anyone has ever tried to add some depth to the carvings by taking off some of their sharp edges with needle files. -
Welcome aboard! Oh, there is an RC segment in this hobby, too, to be sure! RC builds are tagged with the word RADIO. Have fun!
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Really looking forward to watching this come together, so good luck with it! This practice is not unheard of. Many Halinski kits include corrected parts for previous issues. The downside, of course, is that one has to buy that issue in order to get the corrected parts in addition to already having the original kit, even if the buyer has no interest in the second kit other than obtaining the corrected parts. And this assumes that the buyer of the original kit is even aware of the errors in the first place, which may not be evident until the defective kit is already under construction.
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I can't help with the wood, but I like all three of the paint schemes.
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If it hasn't been said already, make sure your child is actually interested in models. I had a keen interest in all things military at a very young age, and modeling was a natural outlet back in the days before video games and the internet. Many years later, I tried to get my son interested in model building and even bought him some pretty nice kits - beginner stuff, but nice. He never built them. He was far more interested in Call of Duty and such. Just make sure you're not on a fool's errand.
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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! -
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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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