Hawkwrench

Last night I was able to do a little bit more work on the 172. Nichimo gives you 2 sunvisors, and wants you to just glue them the the top of the fuselage, but I opted for some more detail. I scratchbuilt an overhead light/map console with the speaker from sheet styrene and PE from my spares box. The speaker grill is a seat cushion decal from a 1/48 F-14. I also uses some lead wire and L shaped styrene for the sunvisors and finally glued both of them together and onto the cockpit ceiling. That's all for now! Tim

Thanks Peter! Hopefully more progress this weekend! Tim

After a long absence and a forced change of jobs due to my plant closing the doors, I found a new job and finally some benchtime. The cockpit is completely done FINALLY! Until next week! Tim

Can't wait for the new-tooled hawk myself. Hopefully the detail is even better than the Kitty Hawk kit! Tim

After looking at the baggage compartment more, I decided to add a little more detail to the back of the 172. I scratchbuilt a storage case and painted and weathered it to look like a well used wooden box. I found some 1/24 3d printed prepainted oil quarts on ebay and the shop rags are painted lead foil. I also scratchbuilt the fuel sample tool. Now the back looks alot better!!!

Love the toolbox you've made. You got the people at evergreen working overtime to make more styrene! Lol Tim

Thanks, hopefully it doesn't get crazy again. Peter, does Maru still get on here??? Tim

Tonight, I scratchbuilt a tow bar using .035 lead wire bent to shape and painted red and glued it to the baggage compartment floor(where it usually goes). Afterwards, I painted the exhaust headers a hot, rusty look and glued them to the exhaust box. I can finally say the engine assembly is ALMOST done! Comments and critiques welcome! Tim

Wow, 5 months since my last post! Sorry, but life and work has gotten in the way. For now, I'm back. I've been SLOWLY working on the interior of the 172, having to custom mix the interior colors to match the customer's colors. More updates tomorrow night. Comments and critiques welcome! Tim

I'm back from being AWOL. Life just got really busy and they changed my work schedule, so modeling got pushed to an every once in awhile thing, but for now, I'm back working on my builds. Will be posting more WIP pics of my Cessna 172 soon! Tim

Myself, Floyd and Ray from Wernerswings along with several other H-60 pilots and crew chiefs were the research and development team for KH's line of H-60's. Our team made numerous callouts and corrections for the models. When it came to looks and getting it close to the real thing, KH listened. We tried to get these kits as close as possible to the real helicopters. One place they went on their own was with color callouts and the instructions. Tim

I'm definitely gonna follow this as well. I hope someday, the Kitty Hawk H-60 kits get rereleased. I love my hawks! First Oliver, then Pete and now you! Tim

I Set the engine aside for a few and decided to tackle the instrument panel and center console. For the instrument gauge glass, i used laminating sheet. The layout of the panel is different than the kit part and was supplied by a fellow Cessna 172 model builder. Thanks John!!! The radio stack was custom 3d printed by Arms Corps Models and his work is amazing!!! That's all for now! Tim Tim

Finally rounding third and heading for home on the engine. I finished wiring the spark plugs and wires and made the engine baffles from construction paper and tamiya tape. It looks rough, but all baffles are like that from the cowlings being taken on and off repeatedly. I also scratchbuilt a oil dipstick tube from spare parts and glued a Anyz 1/32 WW2 knob onto a punched disk to make the oil cap. Just a few more hoses and wires and she'll be done. The firewall is about done as well. I just have to figure out from actual pics where the hoses go. That's all for now! Tim

I thought she was over here now. Did she leave??? Tim