popeye the sailor

no dispute intended........I've seen it before as well basically, it's a production number and the additional 'artwork' was put on after it was delivered. I've also seen it on decal sheets thinking it was a misprint. it's a small bit of detail that I sometimes didn't follow. my thinking for the obscure, even though I think it would look better the other way around, turns out to be detail missed. I'll keep that in mind I still think you produced a fine looking model..........that needs no adjustment at all!

looking very good!

Hi all........finally put together another update.........I'm looking into three facets at this point, as well as getting the fuselage to the point of painting. I'm still juggling a design in my head. the engine being too small was a minor set back......but definitely not a deterrent. I did make the crankcase larger........and with that, the sleeves needed to be enlarged as well. debating how much detail to put into it, since only a couple of the sleeves will be seen. I do have to properly space it, given that I have ample room in the cowl. with hardly any room and how short the sleeves are, it doesn't give much for cylinder heads {I'm throwing ideas around}. another aspect are the machine guns........I made up a pair of cooling chambers now.......I have a nice pair of 1:48 machine guns, but they just don't seem to catch the scale of the model I think they need to be a bit heftier......your thoughts? the third aspect is the cockpit..........I wish I had round stock that small. I do but limited on what I have on hand.......so I created the box from balsa stock and will round off the corners. I did a little sanding......still fragile at this point in time. I need to beef up the frame. using smaller size balsa strip, I fleshed out the supports. more sanding was done after it had set enough to do so, and it was fitted into the fuselage. there is more to add. the nose former is out of round........I left it that way until I made the cowl. now that I have a good idea what needs to be trimmed off, I can start to make up the top cover to the fuselage. there is a template on the instructions that I cut out, and used it to cut the panel. the cockpit hole was cut out and it will give me a sense of where the instrument panel locates. you see the long slot that was to be cut out of the panel for the wing support....these are the parts that I eliminated to produce a more accurate model. more to come

looks really nice

the only thing I see are the anchors on the side.......I feel the lettering should have been over them. all 'n all though, the camo is really good....nice streaking. I think it's why I love this era of planes so much.......especially the German planes. each jasta had their individual camo and art work..........flying canvas you need another one to keep it company

superb model Patrick! beautifully weathered!

very nice........the camo looks especially good

OMG!!!! you didn't go to bed and dream about me did you?!?!?! poor man..........must have woke up in a cold sweat! yep.......I am aware that there are decals for this camo. I'd be concerned about time.......cracking shrinkage and peeling.......I wonder if there's a way to paint it on. something to think about really spiffy progress........she's look'in super!

I've never done a Wellington.........Lancasters and spitfires are the only British planes I built in the past. any plane can be it's own rabbit hole ...just depends how far you wanna go.

found a fairly good reference site on the D VIII........too bad that the pictures are all in black n white. Fokker D.VIII (English) now that the feasting and napping is over....................on with the Christmas rush!

hi Andy....such a superb job your doing! your log is quite informative also.......being an American bomber nut, it's amazing how much info is out there! really cool upgrades too!

the landing gear was done about a week ago.........I did manage to get some wood putty in the meantime. I bought a couple different types.......the water soluble type and what they call plastic wood. I prefer the water based type mainly because it can easily be diluted to a more malleable cream, rather than a paste. done smooth enough, it can reduce sanding, and does stretch it out to cover more surface. I did a little on the fuselage, but I tried the plastic wood.......smelly stuff, but it works well enough. still needs a little more sanding and finish the rest of the fuselage. I hadn't checked on the wing either........that was also about a week ago. it should be totally dry by now. today, I had some time to putt around. I started to think about the engine. the Fokker Dr 1 has a wingspan of 20 inches.......1:14 scale. it features a vacuum form radial engine, to replicate the Oberursel Ur.III. the D VIII was equipped with the same engine, and had the same result as the Dr 1.......poor engine performance. there were experimental engines used in these aircraft, and was later fitted with either the Goebel or Siemens / Halske engines. unfortunately for the D VIII, only 380 were ever produced during the war, and around 85 actually saw combat. most were destroyed after the war, except for the handful that got snuck out of the country. I gathered the parts to start this little task the outer cowl part, the crank case button, and the piston sleeves that were cut from dowel. the sleeves were cemented to the button......of course, I could only get eight of them on, since nine is an odd number for the pie fraction. all I need are the ones that poke out from the bottom cutaway, so it will do. if I had beveled the base of the sleeves in two places, it could be done. now to sand it circular, and round off the sleeve heads a little.......clean the mess up. I may add some tubes on it to further detail it. next was to cut a length of basswood across the grain long enough to go around the cowl face. cutting it in this fashion will make it flexible.......even more so after getting it wet {dried and left damp}. the CA will adhere even when wet, which is a great property for a cement to have the seam was filled with plastic wood filler. the filler doesn't take long to dry.......being made up with Acetone and N-butyl acetate. it appears to sand fairly well.....I think I'll stick to the good 'ole water base though.......less smell and it don't have cancer written all over it before long, the outer edge of the cowl was nicely rounded off. ....and now for the bad part........the engine is too small I think going for a larger button, will allow me to glue on all nine sleeves without having to bevel them. so back to the drawing board for the engine.......but I'm on the right track. hope you all had a great day

looks awesome mate! looking forward to more !

hoping your day went super.........we finished our feast a short time ago..........now this is all can do the only thing left for me now, is to become a paper weight for the couch! happy Thanksgiving one and all!

continuing with the session, the axle was routed through the pad and then cemented to the fuselage. I want to take the time to wish all of you a veery happy Thanksgiving. my small jobs are done for the moment, so I thought I'd sneak in here and see what you folks are up to. time and time again.........I am NEVER disappointed! all of you have a scrumptious holiday!

sounds like a good tip, but I don't normally use CA on these planes, I use white glue. the plans are laid over a build board and then covered with clear saran wrap. I use pins to set the parts in place, since the plans are 1:1 with the model. I really should start a log on my Dr 1 { I even made a mistake in it } I'm sure folks would get a kick out of it {it will be static as well for the curious}. anyway.....I haven't been idle, but here is some more progress I've already done. I did have to laugh a bit with your comment Chris.........after I was done sanding the wing, I had to get a coat of paint on it. one to seal the wood, and two, since it is the basswood side, I wanted to see how much 'hair' would come up. I do need to sand it, so it will be easy to change the color.........still batt'in it 'round in my head what color scheme to go with one thing I didn't give any thought to though.......was the ailerons. I should have marked them with marker pen, like I did with the stabilizer the landing gear got it's change over as well.........I made up a couple of ribs, sanded them to shape, and cemented the cover on it. balsa on top, since it shows where the struts go. from here, the leading and trailing edges were fleshed out. the leading edge had a slight gap, so I added a strip to it. hopefully, I will get some filler soon.

super job so far CW...........and a huge congratz on the homefront!

that's one sweet looking Corsair your working on there I love those gull winged planes........working on a couple stukas at the moment........nowhere at the level your at though. very nice work indeed!

yea, some of the parts led to be desired, but other model companies did {and do} the same thing....even more so now in today's kits. some of the metal stuff kind bit the big one too........the metal ornament for the Sergal Thermopylae is so thick, that it is near impossible to bend. I haven't done it yet.....nor have I binned the model.....it sits on my table still {one day I'll get back to it}. I've gone to far to trash it back it the early day of my being a member here, I use to hear of so many who didn't like the plastic stuff..........now, not so much. when I was helping Tom, in the days of the 'real' Billing USA, I would field some of the customer service complaints, and actually I heard more about the printed wood, than anything else. Tom passed along my name to a gent who was having issues with the masting of the Cux 87 {mainly the aft mast, because there wasn't a hole provided for it}. as I did, I connected it to the back of the pilot house with a bracket and made a pot for it in the back of the pilot house base. I hear from him from time to time.......... the plastic blocks aren't that bad actually. on a sailing vessel, they would look ugly, but on fishing vessels, they seem to fit better. that is what I use the for. the 'power' reel blocks used to be metal.....a good look for them.......but in today's kits {and in the fitting kits}, they are the metal pulley spool with wood sides.......you assemble them..........YECH! the wood used is also a good barometer as to the age of the kit. the first Nordkap I built had basswood parts panel billets that the parts were printed on. the second Nordkap that I'm building the Progress from, had mahogany billets. the Cutty Sark that Peter is building was produced around the same time frame as the second kit. the parts that I'm not using, I'm saving for when and if, I ever purchase the the recent production of the Nordkap.........curious to see how much of treat it is, to build it with laser cut parts the other reason, is that I will be able to trace out the hull parts and build a ship that looks almost identical....the Nordepic she's a bit longer than the Nordkap, and making doubles of the mid ship bulkheads should do the job. the parts I saved are for the aft cabin structure. I also have the wrap around parts in the hard plywood, that is seen in these kits. I also have some of the helm parts that I recut using basswood. you can see the deck pulley parts on one of the thin plywood pieces.......I didn't do well with the other pulley parts, so I sourced out some of those 'power' pulleys....I think from Cornwall Model Boats. they still need to be assembled, but they are made of metal for the Zwarte Zee, the parts are printed on plywood, instead of regular basswood....I believe them to be pine. the crane parts are here....there are other parts elsewhere on the billets. on this particular model, the dotted lines are a reference to where structures go...........some dotted lines are done due to any sign of shrinkage. I don't see nay here.....as mentioned, the wood is in pristine shape for the wood sections of the deck, I will have to measure how wide the planking is and go from there. note that there isn't that much cast off wood in these billets.........utilized quite well! and there is one small sheet of thinner plywood........this stuff is hard to cut. this is a smaller scale than the Nordkap, being 1:50 scale. one observation I've made, is that I will need to bevel the cabin parts, since the billets are plywood in nature.....the outer corners will look terrible if I don't looking forward in starting this one!

once the ribs on the wing were sanded to the proper shape, the top cover was laid down. I really should have created a jig to do it, but I was concerned that some CA would bleed out and cause problems when it was time to remove it. so I laid it down a section at a time. there is a sign of warpage....not real bad, but it's noticeable. then it was the effort to round off the leading and trailing edges of the wing. I tried to straighten the wing, but it popped the bond in the center and I had to reglue it. most of this session was in sanding the edges. note the crack at the wing tip.........that was another result from my trying to straighten it. I'll see what it looks like when the time comes to put the wing on........make a decision then. I tried to give you a good view of the edge shaping.......hope you can see it. I will do this to the landing gear pad too.

thanks Ken.......I have some balsa sheet, but it's too thick. I got it for that Wright Bros. kit my son gave me......I need to cut quite a few ribs given that some are missing. basswood has been my go to wood in all my wood builds. I designated the slotted part of the wing the bottom, since it has the slots for the struts. I added the inner and outer ribs and will sand them to the shape they need. next, I added the engine firewall former to the fuselage, bending the side walls to conform to the shape of the former. the slots in the center of the wing will not be used......I will close them up. wasn't thinking, or I wouldn't have opened them up in the first place. this won't be the first boo boo I'll make and need to rectify the bottom of the fuselage was closed up....you might notice the slight bulge on the port side. while all this is going on, I've been sanding........trying to maintain how much repair work there is to do.....I got to get me some wood putty. the slots for the landing gear needs to be done still,

I'd love to try camo work like that........'fraid I don't have the patience most planes rolled off the assembly line with that camo......it wasn't till they hit the field, that they got 'dolled' up

I've built Voss's plane before.......I have the revell D VII in my cabinet.....should be a log for it here very nice job on a lesser done subject........I like the more obscure as well very interesting underbelly paint!

hey there as Chris said......it's up to you. I looked in on a couple of other forums {real boats and sailing}..........sounds rather confusing to me. then again, I'm not a real sailor {I play one on modeling sites}. they appear to furl for the majority of the time in use......only taken down for repairs. running rigging via blocks at the top of the mast and at the end of the gaff...thinking there ought to be a fastening at the base of the gaff for the bottom corner of the top sail, but not sure how that is done. a model always looks good under full sail

I started with the rudder, since the triangular part was loose in the box. the rudder part itself doesn't look anything like the era tail rudder, that these early planes sported. I assembled it anyway and will add to it later. it wasn't too hard to guess which former went where.........I started from the tail and will work forward on the fuselage. I didn't bother to punch out for the rubber band. the fuselage lacks formers for the front section, so I will have to make some for it. the split towards the front is intentional, since it needs to wrap around the nose former. the slots are so darn big.......I will need to get some wood putty {I ran out}. the bottom is basswood......I went only so far with it for now. I have done some sanding as can be seen......trying my best to keep the dings and scratches from occurring in the balsa. I may do some form of inner framework and a seat once the fuselage is formed....I'll leave the top open. normally, the top is a paper cutout on the diagram sheet.......I will make it out of basswood. there are no machine guns either.......I will be making a pair. I have a pair of plastic ones from another model that I had gotten an upgrade for........but I don't think 1:48 will work for this scale. in fact......there is no scale listed for these older models, they only list the wingspan. this one has a 14 inch wingspan. I'm sure that scale classification was in play around this time. early in the modeling history, there wasn't one........everyone made their models from scratch. trains modelers suffered the most, because they couldn't sell or trade their models with other train enthusiasts...they wouldn't fit their tracks. when plastic modeling {using molds} came into being, scales became more crucial, and odd scales at that. later, the more common scales we know today came about when the scale classification equation came into effect. I went back to the rudder and added a piece of balsa, rounding it off to look something like what it should....not exact, but good enough that's one of the wing ribs next to it........scary huh!?!?!?! I rounded the outer edge of the rudder, since I won't need to thicken it up. neither will I need to do that to the stabilizer. this is what I got for the main wing. since this part has the strut holes......oversized .......I took a sheet of 1/32 basswood and traced the outline for the top. once the ribs are in place, I'll sandwich the top over them. we'll see how that works out more on this tomorrow thanks for look'in in!