*** 'Nick' the Dragon-Slayer - DNF ***

[despondman]

Good work so far - your efforts are paying off and its looking mighty fine.

[Jagewa]

Wrangling this one into shape Martin, it's a sleek looking airframe.

Cheers
Jim

[Sissel]

Splendid work so far. And good thing those are recessed lines and not rivets.
Seeing that plastic just makes me think of the dreaded Revell B-26 Marauder from the 60s I built. With tons of rivets, puttying, pieces soft and brittle that would break by the touch. I remember gluing up the prop blades more than once.

I believe the kit you have was released in the early 70s. Treat it like a porcelain doll.
I also like the 'translucent' look of the interior, neat effect.

[Martin R]

Thanks for your comments, folks.

I got the wheel well bays sprayed Aluminium tonight, joined the wings when it had dried and added them to the fuselage. No photo, I'm afraid, as it looks much like the last photo from last night's post, but with more glue and less tape.

regards,

Martin

[Titan]

That's what I like about GB's sometimes you get to see kits being built that you just have never seen before, this being one of them Martin.

Regards
Mark

[ShaunW]

This is a great subject Martin, something a little different from the usual twin-prop fare of Mossies and Beaus. It's a great looking aircraft and a challenging old kit by the looks. You're doing a good job of showing it who's boss though

[Martin R]

This is a great subject Martin, something a little different from the usual twin-prop fare of Mossies and Beaus. It's a great looking aircraft and a challenging old kit by the looks. You're doing a good job of showing it who's boss though

Thanks, but there's a ways to go yet, though

I added some filler onto the major joints, cleaned up and painted the prop blades, and filled a nasty recessed ejection mark on the tyres. I then painted and assembled the engines / cowlings. She's on her wheels, although the undercarriage legs are merely blu-tacked in position and the engines / cowls are dry-fitted in place. Still and all, she's getting there:



And here's an instructive size comparison. To quote Travis Bickle: "You lookin' at me?"



regards,

[Chris]

Nice progress on her.

[gnomemeansgnome]

The Toryu is coming along fine, Martin. Well done so far.

[Martin R]

Thanks, chaps.

Hopefully I'll get a bit more done this weekend.

regards,

Martin

[Martin R]

And I have!

Last night was spent mostly filling the many large gaps in the engine cowlings. I believe the blame for having such large gaps is shared 50:50 between me and the kit but, whatever, I fixed the gaps various with lengths of thinly cut sheet styrene cemented in place then sanded when dry. You can see them in white in the pics. I also scratch-built the missing cowling access panel (on the nearest nacelle in the first picture below). This wasn't too difficult. Just treat it as a single-curvature piece, with curvature achieved by attaching the sheet around a suitable radius mandrel with tape, then dipping it into boiling water for a while. the curved shape was then cut and sanded to approximate shape and a thin piece of sheet glued inside the front edge to ensure I wouldn't sand through the thickness of the sheet when sanding in the compound curvature after attachment to the cowling.



Here's a shot from t'other side:



I have also painted props and spinners; I'll wait until the yellow band around each prop blade has dried before removing the masking.

As you can see, I've also added the panel through which the dorsal cannon poke. This is a bad fit; I have had to shim the edges of the piece with more styrene sheet and have added tippex from a pen to fill in the remaining gaps. I'll let that cure before sanding.

Here's a shot of the underside to show the amount of filler required at the wing roots. If I had taken more care, I could have reduced this considerably:



So, after some further sanding and masking off of the various orifices, I'm now within spitting distance of adding an initial coat of primer.

I hope to get more done during the week, but it depends on how work is.

regards,

Martin

[ShaunW]

This is moving along very nicely Martin, good bit of work on those cowlings.

[Jagewa]

Slick work Martin.

Cheers
Jim

[justplanecrazy]

This is looking great Martin, I will be looking for one soon.


Nick

[Sissel]

Coming along great.