Tuesday at 09:02 PM5 days This is the current build on my bench and I'll try and get all the lost posts reinstated to get things up to date.All the interior parts were primed and ready.
Tuesday at 09:03 PM5 days Author Got all the interior parts painted and ready for some light weathering.
Tuesday at 09:06 PM5 days Author Got the cockpit installed and joined the fuselage halves. Fit is excellent other than the deck at the back of the cockpit which is a square part which needs to fit into a trapezoidal space, so a bit of trimming was required.Painted the fuselage sections around the gun barrels so they can be masked off later for the main painting.
Tuesday at 09:09 PM5 days Author And to bring us up to date, the lower wing is on and the tailfeathers are fitted. Again, everything fits really well with minimal need for filler or sanding.The canopy parts are masked and I'm waiting for the AIMS rigging set to arrive before I plan the next move. Having never built a biplane before it's a big step but I think installing the cabane and interwing struts seems to be the logical thing.
Wednesday at 08:27 PM4 days Author Fit is really good, with basically minimal clean up and filler required. It's the first ICM kit I've done and I'd definitely recommend them.
Wednesday at 08:46 PM4 days 18 minutes ago, GusMac said:Fit is really good, with basically minimal clean up and filler required. It's the first ICM kit I've done and I'd definitely recommend them.Good to know. Not built ICM yet and my first will be a 1:48 Do 217K
Thursday at 05:52 AM4 days Looking forward to watching you transform this Gus.Very nice indeed .Good start Sir.👍
Thursday at 04:53 PM3 days Looking really god Gus, I can´t wait to see, how the PE rigging will work, as I do plan that for mine as well. I rigged a lot of biplanes, but never with PE and I heard mixed opinions about it. Some claim, that expansion through warmth may lead to sagging wires. I hope that is not true.Cheers Rob
Thursday at 08:10 PM3 days Author Thermal expansion shouldn't be too much a problem up here in Scotland, Rob! 😆I also suspect there may have been a lot more 'sag' if I'd tried to rig it with some of the elastic type products from Infini or whoever. For a first attempt I thought this might be easier and I've seen a couple of builds on LSP using these which seemed to work out.
Friday at 10:16 PM2 days I think the way would be to use fishing line and tension it with a little heat. Although the wires were flat i dont think this would notice on this scale TBHThis 1/32 WnW, to be able to tension after assembly makes things much easier .
Saturday at 02:00 AM2 days I use a flat elastic string for the Tripe, oddly enough when tightened it did align aerodynamically. I don't recall having to fiddle much with that, I think it's because the pivot point of the eyelets sort of forced them in the proper orientation. Edited Saturday at 12:23 PM2 days by Moon Puppy
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