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Thanks! I am not competitive these days like I once was but thought entering some models will help a local club who is sponsoring the event. The club has been putting on this show biannually for the past couple of decades, maybe longer. It's always been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to it regardless. -
Thanks Ken! That’s a wealth of information. I need to take the time to absorb it and hopefully, remember what you have provided. Ejection seats must be a very expensive part of an aircraft, both initially and over time with maintenance.
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My ejection seats lack highlighting, a gloss clear coat, decals, and a flat varnish. After these will begin detailing and painting of the cockpit tub, instrument panels, and side consoles. Because I have entered five of my finished models into a regional IPMS show coming up this next Saturday, much of my available time will be spent getting my models ready for the show. Updates to this thread may be sparse.
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Turning out a magnificent piece of history. I admire your work on it.
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In general, I almost always prefer lighter shades to darker shades on my models, regardless of what is the subject. Not saying it's right, it's just what I prefer. I seldom ever look at one of my finished models and say to myself, "gee, I wish I had painted that a little darker shade." I do often say the opposite to myself.
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I failed to do this on the first seat, but it’s important to follow the sequence found in the belt and harness instruction photos. Particularly parts pe7, 8, and 9. The belts get in the way if you don’t.
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He’s been helping me with the seatbelts and harnesses. He finds anything I drop on the floor. And I mean anything. Then he attempts to eat it. 😀
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I think the complexity of the harness system illustrates the challenge it would be trying to create your own vice buying them as aftermarket. Finding reference material to learn how it all fits together would be no small task as well. In some cases nothing short of an actual visit to see and photograph the real thing would suffice
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Seems counter intuitive that no padding is better. The alternative to no ejection even worse. Got to be one of those things you hope you never have to do. What about the straps hanging off each side of the headrest. What do those do?
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Not sure if they are leg garters, but it looks like the 2 straps labeled “pe 12” could be what you are referring to. I have those and one other piece (strap?) yet to add. See part pe 6. Not sure what it is.
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Thanks for the kind comments.
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Hey, I got your back. Been there and done that many times in the past. Momma and children always come first cause it’s the right thing to do.
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Tom Petty was from my state of Florida, up around the college town of Gainesville, in Allachua County.
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From what I can see, saving the money and sticking with the kit parts in this case would be a viable option. What little differences there are will get buried and mostly hidden from view once the cockpit is assembled and resting inside the fuselage. I have made my own seatbelts and harnesses before and they turned out presentable, but I still prefer aftermarket ones to my own. Laser printing isn't what I think of as art, but it does require a high degree of skill and knowledge to create the shape files and successfully print them. If I was a young man again, learning 3D file creation and printing would be high on my list of things to learn for this hobby.
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The kit ejection seats are very well molded it appears to me. A side by side comparison of the Eduard seats next to the kit seat sides shows the Eduard ones slightly more detailed, but not by much. I needed seat belts and harnesses, and that’s the primary reason I bought the Eduard set as the set vs the belts alone was a small cost difference. Kudos to the Airfix molds. Very good so far IMO.
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It’s interesting to me the way this hobby has progressed. Seems like not too long ago, a cottage industry appeared where someone would create a master part to upgrade an existing kit, then fashion a limited run mold to manufacture replacement parts from cast metal or resin. Later on, the molds improved significantly and resin upgrade parts got a whole lot better, those first ones being pretty crude sometimes. Today it’s a new ballgame. These resin upgrades are drawn in 3D cad then printed out using 3D resin printers giving just an incredible level of detail, practically flawless. I plan to build the kit supplied plastic seats just to compare them to these 3D printed resin ones. Very fine details are visible in the replacement seats.
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I bought all the Flory items a few years ago direct from Flory in the UK. Now, he only sends them to a distributor in the USA. Right now, this shop carries the Flory stuff: Flory Models Products — High Altitude Hobbies I have not ordered from them as my stock is still in good shape. I like the sanding sticks and will probably place an order for more of those soon.
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I should have said the only carrier based aircraft operational were the stringbags. All other carrier based AC were "grounded" in bad weather in the North Sea.
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Those rechargeable airbrushes are quite popular and I have read some very good things about them. Glad you're not having to do all that by hand/brush. Would be an enormous job on a model this size.
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During WW2 in the North Sea, they were the only aircraft in the air during bad weather. They did it all. Radar equipped, too.
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My poor wife has been inundated with my model building habits over the past decades, but even she was very impressed with this masterpiece. When she got to the last photo and saw your eyeglasses next to the model for scale reference, she was stunned.
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You're doing a fine job of rebuilding this one, Mike.
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