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[Profa]

Unfortunatelly, Guynemer's plane won't be a prime-class model , but I'll be always happy to see it on the shelf, since he's one of the pilots I admire most...
As the matter of fact, his Nieuport 17 is also in the building process but that's for another topic...

[Profa]

Yesterday I played a little bit:

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...and this morning everything was prepared for the most fearsome operation – making a biplane:

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First I mounted inner interplane struts, then cabane struts, and at the end outer interplane struts...
Here I've used scratchbuilt outer struts mentioned before, but it seems I made them just a little shorter than needed... Therefore lower wing bent a little This I corrected by disassembling inner struts, trimming them and putting them back on, with everything else left in place. Luckily I used CA glue for this assembly, so parts were not melt together and the operation was easy to do.
Didn't notice it, but it took me something more than 3 hours to get the following result:

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Eduard S.P.A.D. S.XIII Dual Combo 1/72

A "dihedral" is still there, although not as big as before, but that's something I'd have to live with...
Actually the biggest problem was mounting that PE part behind outer struts – somehow I simply couldn't get it strong enough with tweezers, and it just kept slipping...

Something about my tools of the trade for this operation:

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From top:
- tweezers – the only ones I use – were used by my dad, were made in Czechoslovakia   Very old, but really reliable
- the best tool for adding CA glue – »the eye of the needle« keeps really small amounts, and I bring it right to the point where I need it
- ever tried to move part some part that is already glued for just a width of the hair? This is the best tool to do it...
  with this I moved strut ends into the guide holes in the wing, pressed lower ends of cabane struts into the fuselage...
- needle – another way of introducing CA glue to the point, but with this you can also draw thin lines
- the bottom one I think I don't have to represent

So, the stage is set for tomorrows' play :

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[Sall]

Looks...Splendid!

[draken35]

Excellent work!!!

[No.1]

Very precise work, this is regular for you

[Profa]

Working the same way as yesterday, and learning from my own mistakes, I was quickier today:

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Eduard S.P.A.D. S.XIII Dual Combo 1/72

Eduard S.P.A.D. S.XIII Dual Combo 1/72

Also have checked if I became rusty in »threading« wires :

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... no, not a sign of rust on my hands and tweezers

[Sall]

Excellent work!

[Letipapa]

Profa  they look wonderful, great job

[Profa]

Yesterday in the evening I started "wiring" Guynemer's plane, and after one hour this was the result:

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Eduard S.P.A.D. S.XIII Dual Combo 1/72

For this morning I've left right wing. First thread went well, and then, just starting the second thread, while trying to keep both ends of the thread using one finger, I've pressed wings together with second hand just a little too much - the upper wing went astray and everything broke Furthermore, elastomere was pulling what was left attached, bending it, so I couldn't fix struts because it would just like to follow the elastomere. Therefore I just separated everything and cleaned off the elastomere:

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Excersizing extreme patience in order not to throw another model to the bin (for the second time in just one week !!!), I've put it back to the box to cool down - not the model to cool, actually, but me...

With this settled, I've decided there's no point in rushing to finish anything for Zrenjanin competition (07.05) , and that now there's just a room to start building Fokkers a liitle earlier than planned

[No.1]

[samuraj77]

With this settled, I've decided there's no point in rushing to finish anything for Zrenjanin competition (07.05) ,

That is the answer why these things usually happens. Never rush to finish a kit for competition, you will never get it right.

and that now there's just a room to start building Fokkers a liitle earlier than planned

Now these are great news

[Profa]

That is the answer why these things usually happens. Never rush to finish a kit for competition, you will never get it right.

I didn't rush to finish it, only now, after this mishap, it would require quite a rush to fix everything back and return to the yesterday evenings' starting position...

[No.1]

Ooooooo yes- you rush!!! Two years work on kit is rush in your work style as I know!!!

[javier_planells]

Don't let this kind of things let you down. I recently dropped a brazilian Waco CSO to the ground (a very rare resin kit, to rub salt on the wound), while taking pictures of it. Nasty little habit I have, that of dropping modeling items (kits, tools, you name it) but I've come to live with it. You just have to be a bit more careful while moving around a model kit and that's it. If I learnt to do it, sure you can.

Besides that, I love the way your kits are being finished. Really cool.

Take the SPAD out of the box, give it a look and I'm sure you'll find the way to fix it. How about the Baracca machine?

[Profa]

Thanks for kind words, Javier - I've just put it to the box to cool down a little, give myself some more trouble with Rodens' Fokkers, and than to return and finally finish these. Baracca's mount is in the same box, although in far better shape, and waits as well...
Also Albatros dual build is to be finished afterwards (if I don't start anything new, that is )