cgutzmer Posted June 20, 2010 Report Posted June 20, 2010 I have this build going elsewhere but decided to post it here as well :) I am using this build to work on a couple new skills I plan on using in my p-51 build in the steeds of the aces group build! This will be a few posts wrapped into one.... Everything fit together guite well. I had to make a couple of the slots a bit longer for everything to flush up and I have to trim the cockpit walls a bit shorter for some reason. I dont know how you guys cut out stuff as small as the yoke handle.... I tried twice and wrecked it both times. I ended up using my paper drill and made a 1.5 mm hole then used the 2.5 mm bit to make a donut that I squashed a bit worked well for me! I used water color pencils for edge coloring. I am very happy with it. here is my main issue with it though... its WATERcolor. Glue is WATER based. Get a bit of glue on the parts you "painted" and its easy to spread it around. I am particularly pleased with the edge coloring on the instrument panel - see how well it matched up with the color of the parts. I am thinking black here may have made a better deliniation on the panel though Also the last two pics show the thickened top of the fuselage. I showed a pic from the top to show how well the water colors matched up and I showed a pic from the bottom so you can see how well it covered. cockpit and former pics These next two pics show the nice coverage I got from the watercolor pencils - note how the edge looks nice and red even though its 1mm cardboard under there And here is where I currently am with the build. I have the skin on.... First I cut off the tabs on the bottom part - I figured I could get a better clean edge along the bottom by doing an edge join. Result - passable. I did not do a great job on the edge join. I think the result would have been better had I left the tabs on. But this is the kind of practice I need Second and more advanced upgrade was replacing the gray area with red river silver paper. This had the same failure point as the remainder that I did not get the edge glued very well. particularly noticable where it rounds up into the front forms (see pic 3) I will be able to trim that a bit and use the silver sharpie to cover it up I do believe so nothing major there for me to fix. As noted by Billy (on papermodelers.com - RR paper is EXTREMELY susceptible to the slightest bit of glue on the printed (silver) surface - its definitely different to work with than other types of paper. Chris
adfogel Posted June 20, 2010 Report Posted June 20, 2010 Very nice work! Thanks for posting this up. Later, Lee
ghodges Posted June 20, 2010 Report Posted June 20, 2010 Looking good! What scale is this paper Eindekker? GIL
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