ccoyle
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The Big Reveal! The last few bits went well enough. The only annoying part of the experience was when my AC kicked on and blew my tiny, fragile, and extremely light scratch-built gun sights onto the Carpet Monster. Happily, I was able to find them after several minutes of exasperated searching. I even found some tiny parts from previous models! In summation, this early Paweł Mistewicz design is, as usual, a very nice kit, albeit not quite as nice as Pawel's later, more evolved designs. Enjoy the pictures!
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Welcome aboard! Your Niagara looks very nice.
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And now, just for fun . . . Several days ago I noticed that the photo editing software on my Google Pixel phone had changed, and today I received the email from Google notifying me of the update. Gee, Google, thanks for the heads-up, I guess? 🙄 Anyways, the updated software includes a new AI assistant. Well, of course this latest update demanded that we test the limits of what the fancy-shmancy AI can do, so I loaded the photo seen in my previous post and asked the AI to redo the photo in a cubist style. And this is the result: I dunno, but I'm thinking the new AI assistant is confusing cubism with a Rubik's cube. 😂 Color me unimpressed!
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Getting close to the end now! Just the landing gear, propeller, and a little bit of rigging left to do.
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Welcome aboard!
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Odd. All of my parcels from WAK have just shown up in the mail box. 🤔
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Things are moving right along now. The vertical and horizontal stabilizers have been added, along with the struts for the latter. All of the parts for the rudder and elevators have been cut out and prepped.
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What, not even with spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam? 🤔
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The top wing took several days. You won't believe what happened! I was cutting out the skins one evening when suddenly . . . . . . I got bored. 😮 Yeah, weird, right? So that was it for that particular night, but the task is finished now. First a shot of the framing: This is pretty substandard framing by Kartonowa Kolekcja standards, so I added a strip of scrap card atop the two spars to stiffen everything properly. The main skins were not difficult, and lozenge camouflage does a fantastic job of um, well -- camouflaging any tiny mistakes. The biggest issue was with the wingtip pieces -- these ended up being too small to pinch together neatly. I tried filling the gaps with pieces cut from the kit's spare color swatch, but I didn't like the look of the repair, so instead, I filled the gaps with layers of glue and later painted them with AK colors. You can't really see anything in this shot, but I think the repairs turned out okay. That's it for now!
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The Fokker is armed! I left off the gun sights for now -- they are delicate, so they'll be added toward the end. I also added the exhaust pipe. The stock part is a flat piece, but with some careful shaping I managed to add some flare to the end of it. That's it for now!
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You're doing a great job! Seeing all those issues brings back memories -- hope my log helped a bit.
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The Germans may have lost, but at least they lost with amazing fashion sense!
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The lower wing had to be mated to the fuselage before the lower fuselage skins could be added. That's done now, too.
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Hello, @gemes.attila Please note that posts to MSW must be made in English. Also note that Michele has not visited the site since October of 2022, so an answer to your question might not be immediately coming.
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Wow, I got an entire wing built today! Of course, there's a whole 'nother wing to build, so let's not get too excited. BTW, the wing framing for this kit is significantly less rugged than in Pawel's later designs.
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Welcome aboard! Wooden ship builds are categorized by year of launch, so your Bluenose will go in the "Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day" sub-forum. That's where you'll find the new topic button. Make sure to read the "starting and naming your build log" pinned topic at the to of the sub-forum. Cheers!
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Fuselage is done. Not bad for a week's work. Remember what a week's worth of work looked like on the Halinski Zero? 😂
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Half of the louvers are done. The other side will be harder, cuz I have to remember not to squish anything on the finished side!
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