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Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 9th, 2017, 9:13 pm
by Crashpilot
:) Your kind words are welcome here.
Look, I just got buzzed by a Caravelle!

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....it made me start so, that the kit almost fell out of my hands ;-)



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...my hand on the pics shows how small this model is! Had to use Super-zoom to get decent photos of it.
I´m surprised that it´s looking so decent now, cause I still remember the time I had the first look at the sprues!
In the box it really looks toyish!
I didn´t do so much to better it: biggest thing were the scratched windows, there were only holes in the fuselage!
What else? I shortened the pylons of the engine nacelles, were a bit too long.
And quite a lot of filling and sanding on the wing-to-fuselage seams!
some cutting on the boundary layer fences, but they still look funny :???:
Some sanding down of the too prominent rivets all over, that are so typical for 1960ies kits.
Scalemates tell you this kit originates from 1964???
If that´s true, the lead/ trailing edges of the wings and elevators are very good for such an oldie.
This was not the last airliner kit that I built, really make some difference with their colourful decoration :-)

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 10th, 2017, 5:47 pm
by Crashpilot
So now, I turn my attention to my Mig:
To my big disappointment, I had to notice the lack of deep trenches on the kit, so I just had to add some of my own trenches, to great skill:


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the air brakes were only faintly scribed in by Matchbox, so I deeeeeepened the scribing " a bit" :oops:
only noticed later, that I over-did it....

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 10th, 2017, 7:01 pm
by Crashpilot
Now I´m thinning down the leading edges of the wings. Have to do this, cause I reduced the wings in size, used wings of a KP Mig-21 as template for that (KP´s 21 is said to be very accurate in outline).
I did cut off of only the leading edge, so I only have one edge to work/repair on, now.
I was crazy enuff to decide to change so much about this kit, but back then, I was still adventurous :lol:
Back then, it was like: "let´s see, what I´m able to do with this!"
This lay on my s.o.d. for more than 2 years, now it´ll be finished for sure.


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Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 10th, 2017, 7:14 pm
by Crashpilot
...have to thin out the leading edge of the rudder, as well, was oversized, too - like the elevators (did trim them already,
was far more easy, much less plastic to thin out)

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Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 10th, 2017, 7:32 pm
by gnomemeansgnome
Nice work so far, and scribing the air brakes seems to have worked out rather nicely. I still see this kit turn up once in a while but have enough Fishbeds in my air force for now!

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 10th, 2017, 7:47 pm
by Crashpilot
I wouldn´t buy it a third time (have to admit I have another one in the stash).
With this, I mean PK-19! One day, Matchbox re-worked their PK-19, and sold it as PK-41, now declared a MF-version.
The outline of PK-41 is far better then the one of PK-19.
Some things got worse in this version, though, f.e., the jet intake.
Makes some work to look alright, too, that PK-41..... :-|

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 10th, 2017, 9:33 pm
by gnomemeansgnome
Looks as though you have it under control. Still really digging that Caravelle too. Sooner or later I have to have a go at the one I just bought.

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 11th, 2017, 12:37 am
by celt
Not a fan of civils but that Caravelle is well tidy mun.

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 11th, 2017, 1:49 am
by lancfan
After a slight delay here are my final pair of builds, two zeroes left over from the Zero GB.

A conversion of the NT Airfix kit into the A6M2-K trainer.
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And an OOB build of the Academy A6M-5
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David.

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 11th, 2017, 2:49 am
by gnomemeansgnome
I always enjoy your build progress reports David. Nice work so far on that Zero trainer.

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 13th, 2017, 6:34 pm
by IronMan129
Ok I'm just gonna put it out there, how about a finish date of 1st June haha!
A year long shelf of doom Shared build sounds good to me.

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 13th, 2017, 10:11 pm
by Crashpilot
Til June? That would give enough time to make the sod empty :lol: !

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 14th, 2017, 1:05 am
by lancfan
Work has slowed down things this week so I have used most of my free time at the bench and not online. A catch up report will follow on Saturday morning.

David.

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 14th, 2017, 1:23 am
by IronMan129
Thats a good thing Crash leaves more room for new projects :).
No worries Lanc we look forward to your report!

Re: Shelf Of Doom SB *1st June - 1st October*

Posted: September 14th, 2017, 10:50 pm
by Crashpilot
I want me Mig to get some bumps on her fuselage, so them big wheels can fit in her belly.
So I raided my spares box, then I remembered I have some lousy looking wannna-be Sidewinders/Atolls, that I´ll never use as such, so I´m cutting ´em up, to become those funny looking bumps:

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Then it´s time to fit in that "nose exhaust for the boundary layer air" (?? I really don´t know about aerodynamics??) which I scratched.
After this I´ll draw some sprue, to become "odd rods", cause I broke off the ones on the kit a long time ago!
( I really want to finish scratchbuilding on this kit asap :frown: )
....But, then: it´s time to prepare for priming and painting!
Smoothing out the filler, washing, to get the grease (and old dust) from the kit, and then the colour!