Clunkmeister

Moving right along, just endless gap filling and rescribing stuff. She’s looking better and I’m starting to think about the first color coat

The engine is just hand assembled and being used for spacing… No dullcoat yet until the entire cockpit construction is finished. So again, I’m sorry about the “toy” look.

The levers are a bit overscale, but for this, it’s good for me. It looks good when looking in. I guess I could build a panel out of Airscale stuff, but I’m just not feeling it right now. Plus, that seat cushion looks BLACK in the pics. I’m gonna lighten it up with some liberal amounts of dry brushing. The camera does goofy things to colors

Can I post this on the LSM Facebook page?

Flawless build, Carl! Can I post it on our Facebook page?

I apologize for the dust in the pics, but I didn’t blow it off. Gonna set the seatbelts, then rig the cage, followed by the rear MG mounts, and a bit more cockpit bracing. Then some light weathering and a matte coat.

Been puttering away at this as the 29 waits for stuff to cure, and he it is as of right now. I’m having a great Time with this, I haven’t built a Wingnut kit since I finished my Felixstowe 5 years ago. They’re great fun, and if you take care, are very easy to build. As y’all can see, it’s pretty much an OOB build other than Aviattic decals. I’m even seeing if I can use the kit seatbelts. Jury still out on that one, however.

A Mukker?

Assembled the basic interior frame and glued it together. So, what better way to assure alignment than to use the fuselage halves to hold it in alignment… Everything is so precise on a Wingnut kit that we can safely use the model itself as a jig when necessary. Construction of this is fast. The model is positively brilliant in execution.

Seems we have some very pesky join lines. Time to break out the board sander.

Yup. The first one lasted a few days, the send lasted a couple weeks.

Great project, Bill. She’s gonna be impressive. I always wanted a B-70 in my cabinet, but there’s no cabinet big enough. 😂

And now BOTH elevators requires steel rods to reattach them. Very, very uncool

Yes, it required a bit of corrective work. Nothing too crazy though.

One other reason, Mike is that I trim ALL my decals close or right to the color line. Simply because I DETEST any clear edges around a decal. Call it a pet peeve of mine. Once you get hooked on WNW, you’ll never be able to stop. They’re amazing kits in every way.

We’re off again.. this’ll be decent. A few gaps to fill.....

Nicely done, and first blood. Very, very nice build. I’d have NO idea if it was right at all, but it certainly looks like a BTR to me

Well looked what showed up today. Hoorah! Onward and upward.

Thanks Rob. I had used Aviattic and Pheon decals on my Felixstowe build, and it was a revealing. I had to cut and piece every part on the airframe, those wings are HUGE. Definitely not for the faint of heart.

We’ve fettled with a bit. Barring no issues, this’ll be a sweet little bird. I have been already clucking up a storm on this, so of course, a lot of tedious crap’s been completed..

Decals are standard Aviattic: flawless.

So I’m at a bit of a standstill on my Mug-29, waiting for the DN Models digital masks to arrive from Bulgaria, so we’ll do something a bit offbeat from all the jets being built. I’ve built a lot of Wingnut kits, including the Gotha G.lV and Felixstowe flying boat, but I’ve yet to build a D.Vll. So we’ll put some time into this for a bit. The RCAF and US Army Air Corps flew Fokker D.Vlls into the 1920s, so it’s not surprising that other militaries used them as well. This will use the limited edition Aviattic decal set on a Wingnut D.VllF. Extras will include Gaspatch guns, and a Proper Plane wooden propeller from Alexey Belov in Kyiv. I’ll also use a REXX exhaust pipe if I have a correct one here. Internal and control rigging will be EZ Line, while structural rigging as needed aill be my standard Maxima .012 mm mono line