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Warplane Art / Re: WM-21 Sólyom

« on: November 16, 2013, 11:18:36 PM »

WOW, looks great, a friend of mine is working at the Szolnok AF Base, he is in the museum, his work is to dig out crashed airplanes during the ww2, but his knowledge of HUF is very big, so if you need some info or something you think he can help be free to ask

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Strike Eagle

« on: November 15, 2013, 06:48:17 PM »

Looks nice !

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 11:07:41 PM »

All the moving/canvas surfaces are almost done, it's about 90% done, it just needs a little fine tuning.....

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 11:06:56 PM »

I joined the upper and lower halves of the wings and joined them with the fuselage,  Well, I will not say to you anything, see it for your self :

The first phase is to fill the gaps with styrene :

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 11:05:28 PM »

Thank you, glad you like it !

more detailing of the wheels wells :

Well to be honest the landing gear follows the quality of the model so I had to scratch it as well. The base is Evergreen styren :

The hydraulic on the landing gear have an leather protection which I also had to made. The first step was to put a few rounds of copper wire around the landing gear which will provide me the wrinkle :

Then I crease some chocolate paper to have better texture look, cut it on wanted sized and then glued over the wires. The clamps " holding " the leather on place are made from Tamiya masking tape :

And how does it looks so far :

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:31:13 PM »

Well, this took some time, first I had to find out which hose goes where and then to make the " plan and order " of building the hydraulic system in the wheel wells, had to figure out where to start.....

The hydraulic system in the wheel wells :

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:30:09 PM »

Well, the wheel bay is totally wrong, no details what so ever and apsolutely don't doesn't fit, so I have to scratch it.
What you find in the box :

The start of the all new wheel bay :

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:29:18 PM »

So, I joined the two halves of the fuselage. Well, the proper word to describe the fit is maybe disaster......

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:28:26 PM »

The cockpit is finished, I didn't payed too much attention to it , very little will be visible after the two half of the fuselage is glued together.Some detailing and weathering of the visible areas of the cockpit will be done in the late stages of building....

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:27:10 PM »

I'm glad you like it, no I don't have decals, I will paint the markings. Moving surfaces which are made from fabric are very poor on the model, so I had no other option except to made by myself. For the first I made the rudder, it's made of styrene and a so called " Japan Paper " RC modelers used this material for wings on the gliders in the early days.

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:15:55 PM »

Well, here comes the cockpit. The manufacturer give it i resin and photo-etched combination but it's all wrong, and to be honest when I looked up in the documentations that I have it's not to detailed up too....So I had to scratch

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Aircraft Modeling / Arado Ar 96B 1/48

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:14:51 PM »

Best introduce of a modeler is to show his work, so I present to You my latest work, it's still WIP.

It's an Arado Ar 96 B of the Hungarian AF but with mixed german-hungarian markings, Klagenfurt end of the war

From the box it's possible to make both versions, A and B. The box and the content :

At the first stage I riveted the model and cut out all moving surfaces :

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Forums Works / HI to you all

« on: November 12, 2013, 09:10:15 PM »

Hi, I'm new on the forum so I wish to introduce myself, my name is Dejan, my greatest passion is modeling, you will see my works here, Modellius is a modelers club in my hometown which I founded in 2000 and still president