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P-51D Mustang by CDW - FINISHED - Dragon - 1:32 Scale
ccoyle replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Depends on how one defines "hottest". The Mustang might win the award for best-looking, but there are still Hawker Sea Furies flying today, and the production Fury was 20 mph faster than the P-51D. (For what it's worth, I think nearly all piston-engined, propeller-driven fighters are beautiful.) -
And your satisfaction is justified! I really like how all of the colors you have chosen, along with the patina you have achieved for the metal pieces, work so well together. Your model has a lot of visual appeal!
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Hello from British Columbia!
ccoyle replied to sixtythousandbees's topic in New member Introductions
Welcome aboard! I, too, write for a living, but I write textbooks, so it's not terribly exciting work. -
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Well, after all that doom-and-gloom reaction last night, I think I hit on a solution that will work. First I took a short break to finish off the cockpit canopy rails. Then, moving on to the aft fuselage skin, I cut a slit from the forward edge back to one of the small boxes printed on the spine. There I cut in two small perpendicular slits, creating two flaps. The two flaps can now spread apart when the skin is added to the cockpit section, forming a dart that will need to be filled in with scrap card. I will add a joiner strip between the two sides, so that the dart will have some subsurface to adhere to. There will be a visible repair after the job is finished, but at least I won't have to round-file the entire project -- yet. Cheers!
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Ironically, I was actually planning to have the canopy closed on this model. I have one idea left to try on this train wreck before I throw in the towel. We'll see how it goes.
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Well, my friends, it looks like this will be yet another well and truly screwed attempt at building a Halinski model. As you can see in the photo, in spite of all my best efforts to anticipate tight fits and sand the frames accordingly, there is still a nearly 2 mm height difference between the aft cockpit and the upper fuselage skin of the next section. No amount of gentle shaping has been able to coax that skin into place, and the joiner strips on the cockpit are degrading with the effort. Maybe I should just learn my lesson and leave the Halinski kits to the Poles, who alone among the peoples of the earth seem capable of regularly completing them. After all, I only have like 22 left.🙄 This is just so, sooooo frustrating and depressing -- makes me feel like the rankest amateur all over again.😑
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Welcome aboard, Louise!
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Congratulations on completing the set! They look good together.
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The next fuselage section is ready to attach. You may notice that it is not actually attached in this photo. That's because the two sections have an incredibly tight fit. I'm not even 100% certain that I can get them to go together. But I decided to wait until the next session before working further on this conundrum. (BTW, I have been sanding down all of the bulkheads in anticipation of just such fit issues as this. It hasn't gone quite to plan. Also BTW, that's not a tear in the aft section -- it's a cut where part of the piece folds down to create part of the cockpit canopy slide rail.)
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I can think of many things that are more "fun" than doing rigging in 1/250 scale -- like licking a cactus, prepping for a colonoscopy, or being forced to sit through a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie marathon. 😜
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If you go back to the photo of my new shelving, you'll notice that all of my models are angled to starboard.
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Hey, @Shipyard sid. The photo links in this build log are all broken. Any possibility of getting them fixed?
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So, here is the forward fuselage glued together, along with the patch of the "hideous seam." It is really hard, for me at least, to get a close match for four-color offset printing -- tinted paint just can't replicate exactly the tone and saturation of all the variously colored dots of a printed part. This is about the best I could do, and the result doesn't look too terrible to my eye. It looks worst when viewed straight on, as in this shot, and looks less obvious at other angles.
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P-51D Mustang by CDW - FINISHED - Dragon - 1:32 Scale
ccoyle replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I don't build "cars model", but If my granddaughter bought me something like that, you bet I'd find a place to prominently display it! -
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