Bluethroat - Scherft - 1:1

[amateur]

Not to be started for a while, but just to let you know that Johan Scherft did another of his wonderful birds.

 

This time it is a bluethroat. I think that it is a European bird, not known in the America's or Australia. The blue is very blue indeed, size of the bird is about 'finch'

 

 

for those who want to give birdbuilding  a try: www.johanscherft.com

 

Jan

[Javlin]

I like these bird projects Kevin

[amateur]

Sorry, for the time busy with something else ;)

Jan

[popeye the sailor]

you should post on it  

[amateur]

I’m no match for Danny. 
i dont’ dare to......

[popeye the sailor]

you don't need to....we are all in our own class      hope you reconsider.   we have this bird on our calendar this year.

[amateur]

I know what you're after, but I have a couple of things to do (work amongst others  ), and a couple of models in variousstages of completion.

there is a wooden Prins Willem, three paper ships (evertsen, de ruyter, v108), a small steam loco. I will not start this bird before I finish at least one of these models.

The loco is not without a build-log, but that log is not at modelSHIPworld, but at a german forum  ( die kartonmodellbauer: http://www.die-kartonmodellbauer.de/index.php?thread/9468-preussische-t13-pirling-1-55/). I will not start a log here (I think)

 

Jan

Edited February 21, 2020 by amateur

[amateur]

But as in the german cardforum guys started their corona-trigered spring-building, I couldn’t resist.....

 

First the flat paper:

 

 

 

Resulting in a nice curved body. Closing was a bit fiddly, but worked out OK

 

Next came the tail section. Getting it properly inside the body proved to be a bit difficult. IN the end the section matches up with the tabs, but the tail is not completely level with the body....

And the preparations for the wings: the downloadkit does not provide the skewer, but the skewer is needed to get the wings in the prober angle, and to give them some firmness, preventing them to get loose.

 

 

The wings itself were rather straightforward, although in the end not without a small problem:

Upper and underside

As the surface is quite large, and need to be glued, I placed a line to help me align both parts without having the need to adjust two quite soft, sticky surfaces.

And all parts together: the two outmost feathers are modelled as separate parts.

And there the small problem arose: bending over the underside of the wing turned out problematic: at the elbow the card tended to kink: no way to get the underside aligned with the indicated gluing area, getting the front side at the right angle and the card flat.

Ah well, perhaps I wil do it again.

 

Next the first part of the head:

Clever construction: as the bird is singing, you need a way of aligning its beak (inside and outside). This rather stiff, four-layered card is a template: it has to be glued inside the head, then the beak is cut out, its throat glued in place, and the outside modelled, building it up to the desired thickness using layers of glue. Will see how that works out.

 

Jan 

 

(to be continued)

 

Edited March 23, 2020 by amateur

[amateur]

Yesterday my mobile's battery went flat.

So, no pics of separate pieces, blobs of glue, just the result of an evenings work.

 

wings are on

 

and here is the birds head, with an open (still unpainted) beak

 

the beak is a cleverly shaped cone, placed inside the template shown in the previous post:

 

the outside of the beak is build up using a couple of layers of glue (took me some time to realize that PVA worked better than normal paper glue: PVA has gap-filling properties. Paper glue has not.

Also the sides of the beak have been filled using PVA.  Some paint nedded to get the thing in the correct colour.

Gluing the head to the body, two legs to be added, and two flaps to hide the gluing tabs on the wings. Should be possible to show you the flying thing tomorrow.

 

Jan

Edited March 28, 2020 by amateur

[amateur]

And nowit is done.

 

the beak is a bit too dark. The instructions said black, and I already toned it down a bit with wome white. I think it should be grey, with some brown added. At least, now it is too stark.

 

 

the two parts for connecting wings and body. They proved to be a bittrickyto get i the rightlocation. I have some remaining gaps in the front edge of the wing. 

 

 

And all done. I tried to take some pics in a more fitting background (garden), but the wind turned out too strong, so the bird flew away too quick toget some decent pics. But youget the general idea of thefinished product. As usual, small amount of parts, not much time needed (couple of hours, and you're done), but great run, and rather convincing result.

 

 

Thinking what bird will be next....

 

Jan

 

[popeye the sailor]

came out really good Jan