Curtiss Mohawk by ccoyle - TERMINATED - Answer - 1/33 scale - card - H-75 export version of P-36 Hawk

[Matt D]

On 11/27/2020 at 12:01 AM, Old Collingwood said:

if they make it - we will build it

This seems like if should be a motto or maybe even a way of life.  I feel enriched, OC.

 

Chris, I’m sorry this one didn’t work out like you hoped.  I’m looking forward to your next one.

Edited December 8, 2020 by Matt D

[Egilman]

Sorry to see this Chris, But I understand, there is a point where we have to regroup, when it stops being fun, it's time to move on....

[Old Collingwood]

13 minutes ago, Matt D said:

This seems like if should be a motto or maybe even a way of life.  I feel enriched, OC.

 

Chris, I’m sorry this one didn’t work out like you hoped.  I’m looking forward to your next one.

Thank you Matt,    and  like the rest  Sorry it didn't work out Chris   - some times we are  up against a brick wall with some builds.

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

sorry to hear as well......either you have a model that is of poor design,  or one that is so ridiculous,  that it becomes a chore to build.   perhaps one day you'll bring it back out

[lmagna]

Sorry to hear that it didn't work out Chris but it is true that at some point the pleasure can be lost and it is time to move on.

 

Please explain the use for shellacking the formers on a paper kit. I am a complete dummy on paper models. The closest I aver came to doing one was the folded notebook paper flying type made back in grade school when I should have been using the paper for school work. Not very scale but some of them could put your eye out from across the lunchroom!

Edited December 8, 2020 by lmagna

[Edwardkenway]

I can understand your decision, when instructions baffle instead of helping it's time to move on. To steal a motto from UK tv, "when the fun stops, stop!"

[ccoyle]

11 hours ago, Egilman said:

Sorry to see this Chris, But I understand, there is a point where we have to regroup, when it stops being fun, it's time to move on....

 

Yep, agree.

 

10 hours ago, popeye the sailor said:

sorry to hear as well......either you have a model that is of poor design,  or one that is so ridiculous,  that it becomes a chore to build.   perhaps one day you'll bring it back out

 

As I said in my introduction, I have finished a model from this designer, so I'm a little taken aback by the overall quality of this kit. Not his best work, and the diagrams -- or lack thereof -- certainly didn't help. I have one other kit from this same designer, and a study of its parts and diagrams suggests that it is more up to the gentleman's usual standards.

 

2 hours ago, lmagna said:

Please explain the use for shellacking the formers on a paper kit. 

 

It's a technique for stiffening the internal formers that I have read about but never tried. I'll discuss it more in my intro for the next build attempt (subject as yet undecided).

 

2 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

I can understand your decision, when instructions baffle instead of helping it's time to move on. To steal a motto from UK tv, "when the fun stops, stop!"

 

Amen!

[Canute]

Sorry to read of the demise of this build. Understand the stopping when it's not fun. You'll be back, better than ever.

[Landlubber Mike]

Sorry to hear Chris, but sounds like this was the right decision.  This is supposed to be a fun hobby.  I terminated a wooden ship build and was disappointed in doing so, but either it or myself was going to be thrown out the window so better to just leave it where it stood.

[ccoyle]

Well, I'll wrap up this topic by letting you all in on a plan I have been mulling. Since I have two PWS-10 kits and essentially two sets of formers, one printed and one laser-cut, why not just build both of them? 😯  One of the biggest obstacles for me for starting a card model is getting the edge-coloring media correct. With these two kits, the primary colors are shades of gray, brown, and olive drab. I already have most of the paint on hand that I anticipate I'll need to mix the correct shades, so not too much difficulty there. These are also nice kits that I was blessed with gratis by their designer, so I have little in the way of capital investment tied up in them -- nothing to lose, so to speak. Might be important considering my current dreadful run of form on card models. 🙄  Here's a few photos.

 

Three-view of the PWS-10.

 

"White Tail" markings.

 

Spanish Nationalist markings.

 

Laser-cut formers.

 

Of course, if I move forward with this, I will start up a new topic with more details about the plane and kit.

 

Cheers!

[Canute]

Choices, choices. Plus laser cut formers. The White Tail intrigues me more.

[popeye the sailor]

look'in forward to it...........wow!  .....a two-fer  

[ccoyle]

Sad epilogue ...

 

I recently discovered that this kit is not new -- it is a repaint of a kit first published in 2005. Only the livery is new; the design and diagrams are the same. I actually knew that the 2005 kit was not a good one, but I didn't know that this version was a repaint. Had I known this, of course, I wouldn't have bought this kit.

 

Now I'll just have to wait until Halinski or Kartonowa Kolekcja produce a P-36 kit.

 

[Egilman]

39 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

Now I'll just have to wait until Halinski or Kartonowa Kolekcja produce a P-36 kit.

I don't  believe they are planning on designing one...

 

But there is Murph's models version and the Thai Paper Works version...

 

Not quite up to Halinski standards though.....

[ccoyle]

I have resurrected this pathetic, long-dead topic only to share with you what can be done with this very kit by those card modeling wizards over in Poland. Oh, that I should ever possess such skills!

 

Curtiss H-75

 

P.S. Stumbled across that thread quite by accident while searching for info on an unrelated kit.

[popeye the sailor]

something to experiment with perhaps? 

[ccoyle]

31 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

something to experiment with perhaps?

 

Nope. My kit is already boogered, and I have no great desire to take a second crack at one.