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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 10, 2011, 05:40:20 PM »
Excellent result, as usual. I'm going out now to spray the underside of the larger version as the temperature here is much warmer......

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Warplane Art / Re: Short Stirling
« on: March 10, 2011, 07:33:11 AM »
One captured Stirling flew in Luftwaffe markings!

With a patched-up, taped-up forward fuselage, also!  :-cool

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Zvezda MiG-21Bis 1/72 + BalkanModels
« on: March 09, 2011, 06:23:59 PM »
Sall, you might be able to use .005 sheet styrene for those vanes. I've used it for similar items over the years with good results.

Keep up the good work on this project!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 09, 2011, 05:31:48 PM »
It really is a "therapy" kit in that you could probably build one all the way up to the finished model in a day with no interruptions. I have another single-seater just waiting to be built and I look forward to finding a two-seat version for the future. I can highly recommend the 1/48th scale version and No.1 will probably agree about the 1/72nd kit.

I'll probably spray the undersides this morning if it gets a little warmer in the shop.

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Warplane Art / Re: Short Stirling
« on: March 09, 2011, 05:23:06 PM »
If I were a billionaire one of the first things I'd do is resurrect a Stirling to airworthy, from scratch if necessary! The airplane's performance may have been less than the Halifax and Lancaster but I really find the Stirling fascinating, especially that undercarriage!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 09, 2011, 07:25:39 AM »
It's fun to watch your progress, and hard to believe that we're working in two different scales from the photos. Everything is identical between the kits including the areas that need a bit of filler.

One item I did differently on mine was to attach the aft landing gear struts to the wing structure before I installed the fairings. I was concerned about getting the fairings on crooked (even though there is an engraved outline on the wing) and then having problems with the struts later. I will probably do it the way you did on my next one.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: SBD/A-24 Group Build
« on: March 09, 2011, 07:18:39 AM »
I'll give that a try, Profa. Since the flat overcoat is somewhat porous I am pretty sure your idea will work.

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Warplane Art / Re: Halifax MkBIII
« on: March 09, 2011, 07:15:47 AM »
All beautiful!  :-ok The Halifax is another of my favorite four-engined machines.

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Warplane Art / Re: Curtiss Hawk 75
« on: March 08, 2011, 07:33:10 PM »
I would very much like to build that Iranian marked airplane someday. If we can ever confirm the fuselage striping (I would bet your profile is correct) I'm in for that one!

I've always had in the back of my mind to build one of the fixed-gear Hawks that the Chinese Nationalists purchased.

A very interesting aircraft type operated by many nations!

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 08, 2011, 07:01:26 PM »
Very nice progress. It's rather a fun build isn't it!?

When I was working on the landing gear I found that modification was necessary. It's called out in the AM instruction sheet, so it pays to read ahead during construction. The main struts include the cross-axle for the skis. You must cut this axle off but leave stubs on each strut leg for the wheel to attach to.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6433.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6434.jpg


Here are the landing gear fairings after assembling them. The left one didn't fit all that well when I offered them up to the wing. Nothing a bit of filler and filing won't fix, though. I rather like having the gear doors molded onto the opening in this case.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6432.jpg


I had the air compressor in use this morning so I got a first coat of primer on these two projects.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6435-1.jpg

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: SBD/A-24 Group Build
« on: March 08, 2011, 06:52:46 PM »
Looking great! :-ok

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 07, 2011, 04:47:40 PM »
Yours is definitely the little brother of the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 kit--I can see the fuselage sides through the bag in your third photo! Hopefully your landing gear fairings will be more cooperative than mine were. The left one on my larger example has some fit problems. Nothing that some filler couldn't fix, though.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 07, 2011, 05:29:38 AM »
A further update with some pictures of the upper wing joining. I was a bit concerned with how the fuselage, lower wing center section, and upper wing panels were all going to fit together when I started looking at this model. I'm happy to report that it fits VERY nicely and doesn't appear that any filler will be needed except in a couple of small areas. The photos are pretty self explanatory.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6422.jpg


http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6424.jpg

The fit is so nice that all I had to do was to apply glue to the indentation on the fuselage side and to the mating surface between upper and lower wing skins, then slip it all together.

This is the bottom of the airplane before installing the outer wing panels. They also fit very cleanly and won't need a lot of work.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_6431.jpg


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Warplane Art / Re: Fokker C.5 drawings
« on: March 07, 2011, 05:21:54 AM »
We send our congratulations along also! It is great to see the recognition of the aviation community for this important historical work.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Il 2 Group Build
« on: March 06, 2011, 04:54:37 PM »
No worries, Profa. I am like you--I don't really need to go out and buy new kits, I need to start building the ones already in storage! If the "group" is one of twenty it won't be a problem. I rather like the idea of having several group builds going at the same time so that more of us can participate in the ones we have kits or resources for. I may have a Corsair in the shop somewhere.......

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