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Handley Page Heyford by RGL - FINISHED - Matchbox - 1/72
Danstream replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
At the beginning of your build, I wrote: Actually, you greatly surpassed my prediction! You have an awesome model, full of lovely details. Congrats, Dan -
Dear all, I am not very responsive in these days, because I am busy with my 'other' work and I will be also busy with repainting the rooms of the house (which FS no. I am going to use, you might wonder). Hence, my modeling output rate, which was anyway very slow, will go down to zero for the next couple of weeks. I will continue to read about your progress though. Best regards, Dan
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Handley Page Heyford by RGL - FINISHED - Matchbox - 1/72
Danstream replied to RGL's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Great! With some care, it should turn out a beauty. Does anybody know the reason for that 'inverted' configuration? Cheers, Dan -
Hi all, after my post above where I referred to Tamiya XF-54 for the RAF ocean grey, I searched on internet and found that this color is not a good match because apparently it doesn't have enough blueness. Not wanting to give you wrong indications, I am writing this correction. However, Tamiya is now producing their XF-82 which is supposed to match specifically the RAF OG. Perhaps, you could search for this paint just to get some clue about how it looks like. Obviously, I will get this latter color for my model (or the equivalent Gunze). Cheers, Dan
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Back to my Tempest, I finished the office which took some time because composed by many small parts and photoetched included in the kit. Cradle made of tubes, typical of Hawker of that period (stressed skin, frames and stringers from the tail to the cockpit rear bulkhead, tubular truss for the cockpit to firewall and engine bearer made also with a tubular truss). Unfortunately, I forgot to thin the edges of the seat which are obviously too thick. Now it is too late and I will have to live with that. Then, the nice photoetched IP made of five parts: (excuse my big fingers dirty of paint). The cockpit posed inside the fuselage: Probably, not much will be seen once the fuselage is closed up. This is a dry fit: That is all for now, preparing the chin radiator that needs to be included when closing the halves. Cheers, Dan
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Thanks Mark! That's the reason I took that pictures. I had momentarily put the model on the sill and it looked so cool that I quickly took a picture of it. Thanks Andrew, I spent an awful lot of time with that model, I also riveted it, enlarged the diameter of the rear fuselage, added new vortex vanes, etc., etc. Practically there wasn't a single piece of the kit that I didn't not scratched or modified. But at the end of the day, I was quite satisfied with the results. Dan
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Indeed, Re-scribing is a real chore, usually I do the strict necessary to restore panel lines after filling and sanding of junctions, but this time I re-scribed everything and corrected some inaccurate paneling pattern. In many cases, I had to redo lines because slipping and scratches, not always l had luck at the first attempt. Thank you for your compliments, Dan
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Hi all, not great progresses to show, but many small parts that need some preparation. Finally, I completed gluing the plates on the tail, only one remaining, but that will go once the fuselage is closed. Interiors received some colors (XF-71 interior green and XF-69 NATO black): Pedals made by folded PE and black wash applied: As said, not much to show. However, I finished another model I was working on and OC showed some interest in it, so, if you don't mind, I would like to propose few pictures of it. The subject is the small Italian tactical jet Fiat G.91 R and the kit is the very old Italeri/ESCI kit in 1:48 scale. This is a moody picture of it quickly taken on the sill of my window in a rainy day: The kit was with raised panels and I rescribed the entire airframe. I addition, I made numerous modifications to some incorrect features (but I did not corrected all of them). With a blue background showing the nice lines of this aircraft typical design of the early '60s. By the way, the colors used for the early NATO camouflage are exactly the same ones that I am going to use on my Tempest: I hope you like my model. Now I will continue full time on my Tempest. Best regards, Dan
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Dear all, while posting, I got an error message with the following details: Your IP: 84.25.194.193 URL: modelshipworld.com/topic/33879-hawker-tempest-mk-v-by-danstream-eduard-148-scale/?failedReply=1 Your Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Block ID: XSS015 Block reason: An attempted XSS (Cross site scripting) was detected and blocked. Time: 2023-03-05 05:51:09 Server ID: 19006 Is this requiring an action by me or you can do something on your side? Thanks for your help, Dan Update: apparently, I resolved the issue by deleting the content of the editor and rewriting anew my post. When I submitted the new post, I didn't get any error and the post is now uploaded regularly. Kind regards, Dan
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Thanks OC, I spent quite a lot of time and work on the very old and inaccurate Italeri kit of the G.91, but I was committed to get a decent replica out of it, being my memories (related to aviation) as a kid associated to this small jet. Furthermore, I started working as a young engineer, more than 37 years ago, in the factory in Turin, in Italy, where these planes were designed and built. At that time, the company was called Aeritalia, not Fiat anymore, and G. Gabrielli, the chief designer of Fiat (the 'G' in the name) had retired, but documents of the plane were still around. If you are interested, once finished, I will post here some photos of my G.91. Kind regards, Dan
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Hi all, although I am quite enthusiastic about this kit, I had not the time to do much. I am posting few picture just to show that the build had started. This is a preliminary dry fit which showed a very good precision of the main parts: I am working on the cockpit parts, but I also started a subject that the instructions defers to a later stage. It is about gluing a number of fishplates which stiffens the tail assembly of the real aircraft. I thought that it would be easier to do that with the fuselage halves flat on the table. The work is very tedious and I can do only few of them at the time. Eduard provided the fishplates in the photoetched fret (thoughtfully, they provided them in excess of what is strictly needed). So far, I glued on only half of them (I only glued every second one) and I still need to complete it. I used a thick CA glue which fills in the irregularities of the surfaces and I bought the tweezers showed in the picture that were really useful to position the plates. I degreased the plastic with IPA and activated the back surface of the plates (which is a fancy way to say that I sanded the back of the fret with a very fine grit 🙂). Not much, but this is all for now, greetings to all, Dan
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Sea Harrier FRS1 by AJohnson - FINISHED - Airfix - 1:72
Danstream replied to AJohnson's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
One of the most distinctive British jet ever, yes of course I will follow. It is one of the kit that I would like to have. By the way, I am late, but I would also like to congratulate for your neat Sea Harrier and the family portraits. Cheers, Dan -
Not sure I have got the right sense of your line. Is it a criticism to the real aeroplane? Or a deficiency of the model? In the former case, we can do very little about it and anyway it is arguably difficult to get a good combat plane without a great engine. In the latter case, see the post from @Egilman listing possible options. Anyway, it is not my intention to include the engine. I will be satisfied with rendering the feel of the original, buttoned up airframe. If you are interested, I will be glad to have you following. Kind regards, Dan
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