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Dan Vadas got a reaction from druxey in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to maaaslo in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
I might still have a Merlin with the engine mount somewhere in my computer. I could have a look if you want me to...
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to kirk in Atlantic Conveyor by kirk - JSC - 1/400 - CARD - auxilary aircraft carrier
thanks danny!- i have a ton of different scalpel blades- they are indeed far superior to x acto- anyway i've been swamped at work so i'm stuck in a holding pattern- i will be back soon and bugging you all for advice.
kirk
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Dan Vadas reacted to popeye the sailor in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
really nice detail in the cockpit......I built the Guillow's Spitfire MK 1. of course, there is no comparison to the level of detail your doing, but I've had thoughts of trying to detail one of those bad boys out seeing what tiny parts your dealing with........I'd definitely have my work cut out for me
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Dan Vadas reacted to Canute in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
Excellent work, Danny. And yes, Halinski kits are worth the cost.
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from gjdale in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Richmond in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Canute in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas reacted to pontiachedmark in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
Gidday Dan.
Impressive work. The level of detail is amazing.
I am also impressed by you being able to assemble these miniscule items.
Wishing you all the best.
Mark.
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Dan Vadas reacted to mtaylor in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
Besides magnificaton, Danny, what are you using for tools? Microsurgical type??? Those are some serously small parts.
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Dan Vadas reacted to Old Collingwood in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
Amazing work again .
OC.
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from cog in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from lmagna in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from thibaultron in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from omarcs in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from mtaylor in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from CiscoH in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Thanks for the comments Christian, Carl, Ed, Maury, Alex, Mike and Greg. Much appreciated as always.
Christian - 1050 long (from tip of Bowsprit to tip of Driver Boom) x 740 high x 355 wide.
Jib Net
This is one of the fiddliest parts to make on the whole ship. It took me 2 1/2 days.
It starts by making the two spreaders from English Box. Then the two Horses were threaded through the holes in each end of the spreaders and an eye seized into the inboard end of each horse :
To tie the netting together I constructed a simple Jig :
Five double lengths of the netting were hitched around one spreader :
Then the tedious work of tying together every 2nd pair of the longitudinal netting began. The first couple of rows didn't turn out too well under magnification, but look OK to the eye :
Two days later (I had to wait for the glue to dry on the seizings before continuing on the next row) the second spreader was hitched to the free end :
The net fitted to the bowsprit. The forward ends of the horses attach to the eyebolts in the sides of the cap :
The aft ends of the horses are attached via lanyards to an eyebolt in each knighthead :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from tkay11 in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from JohnB40 in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from vossiewulf in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Landrotten Highlander in Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - Halinski - 1:33 scale - CARD
It's very detailed Popeye, but no engine unfortunately. The cockpit more than makes up for that however, the thinking behind this kit is that all actually VISIBLE details (without removing covers) are included. Here are pics of the first section to build, the cockpit, under construction. Halinski's method of building this kit is really great - there would be no way of including this amount of detail if the outside of the plane was built first :
The Oxygen cylinders were tightly rolled from thin paper and the ends sanded round. The smaller one hasn't been sanded yet :
Some of the ridiculously small pieces. This lever assembly is only 4mm across and consists of 10 pieces. The knob is 0.6mm diameter :
The Gunsight has 15 parts and took me 4 hours to make. It is 2mm at it's widest measurement :
The seat was quite a lot of fun to build. Here's another 1 1/2 day's work :
The scrap of white card under the seat is purely a support for the pic, not part of the seat .
As I've come to expect from Halinski the parts fit is excellent. The two halves of the cockpit were very complex, with a lot of areas of possible problems, but they virtually snapped together seamlessly when it came to gluing them together :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Catheads Fitted
Both Catheads have now been fitted - only "dry" for the moment. I will cut the sheave holes and fit the sheaves off the ship before gluing them in. I also need to make the Cathead Caps, more about them shortly.
I surprised myself with how accurately they finished up - not even a fraction of a millimetre difference from the centre line or the baseboard :
The notch for beam #2, and the beam dry-fitted :
Danny
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Dan Vadas got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - 16-gun Swan-class sloop from TFFM plans
Thanks Janos. I bought them from shipmodels.com.ua in Ukraine. It took over three months for delivery, and they weren't cheap .
Sjors, I'm making them SHINY BLACK :
Danny
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