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GazzaS

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  1. With this kit, you can look in from the front or below until you install the engine. So, I did all of that before I even considered gluing. The IP's are all measured from real IP's, so are very accurate... However, no WWII fighter plane had fuselage walls as thick as a plastic model. So you're left with the choice of where you want to lose from. On my first PCM kit, I elected to remove from the Fuse-walls. It was scarily thin and I spent the rest of the build afraid to do anything in that area. So, this time, I attacked the IP instead. Easy peasy.
  2. I really was merciless in trimming the pit to fit instead of thinning the fuselage walls. I probably went 1/2 mm too far... but you can't really tell.
  3. Please pardon the not-so-crisp photos. I was lazy and took them with my phone instead of breaking out the tripod and wife's Canon Olympus. Anyway... I'm closing her up. Say 'bye-bye' to the cockpit... And Hasta la vista to the rear landing gear details.... Also... I've attached the new S.O.W landing gear struts to the mounting points on the kit gear. The kit gear are in the photo for comparison: Somehow, someway, I got things a bit tweaked. You can se the small discrepancy at the rear edge of the wing. It was quite difficult to glue the halves together. I decided to start from the tail and work my way forward, using the rudder seam as a guideline. I used CA to quicken the process. Torquing, squeezing, and applying sloppy lines of CA along the seam as I advanced forward trying to align tail LG and cockpit tub in the process. The first time I installed the engine, perfectly with the guide lines inside it was painfully obvious that either my tweaking of the fuselage, caused it to be pointed somewhat down and forward. So, I had to break the engine joins and do it it a different way. I ended up cementing the large forward cowl first so that I could align everything with fan, propeller, and copper shaft dry-fitted. So, despite all of the bad angles that I have created, the prop spins easily without too visible a wobble. The white tabs are to keep the upper cowl parts from falling through once I try to fit them. My disaster of the day: I spilled Tamiya Ultra thin on top of the MG 17 breech cover part... I immediately set the part aside and allowed it to dry. Fortunately, not too much detail was lost to my clumsiness. I really had to fight the temptation to try to wipe away the spilled cement.
  4. I would like to do a sub, myself. But I'd want to make certain I had a good weathering plan. Otherwise, they can be a bit plain, or you can go to the far end and highlight every weld line and end up with the dreaded checkerboard look.
  5. Looks Like Italeri want to sell more versions of the Tornado? https://issuu.com/italeri/docs/previw_italeri_2021/8 Honestly... I don't know a lot about modern jets. So, I can;t just go buy any old Tornado and chop it up to make the version I want.
  6. That is a great detail there! Nicely done! I'm a big fan of annealing. Obviously, if a piece is flat, I don't bother. If I have fine parts, I have an old pan that I anneal in. I have melted parts by mistake before using open flame... I wept bitter tears.
  7. I just got some fantastic looking LG legs from Synthetic Ordinance Works. They are of composite construction with a stainless steel oleo and steel guitar wire used to add strength. The detail is very sharp!
  8. I had too much bourbon one night. My USMC buddy was filling my glass... especially when I left the room. Memories are sketchy. I remember stumbling back towards the squad bay quite merrily. Then I remember the duty NCO handing me a mop handle and telling me to mop up my puke. ... I had ribs for dinner... The next morning I woke up feeling strange, but not particularly bad... then I noticed a 6" wide puddle of vomit next to my pillow on my still-made, but rumpled bunk. We had barracks inspection that day, being Friday, so I rolled up linens and pillow and blanket and stuffed them into my wall locker. On my way to the communal head, I realized that my mop-up job of the previous night hadn't been particularly successful. I went to work and by 0800 felt like death hounded by a jackhammer with Mike Tyson pounding on my guts. I begged my gunny to go to the 7-day store on base, and he let me go. Three aspirin and half a bottle of Pepto Bismol later, I felt good enough to work the rest of the day. It took a few months for me to learn the rest of the story... I had been picked up off the floor, never too far from the not-separated toilet bowls (think of Gomer Pyle's toilet salute) and led back to my bunk a few times. The next weekend I got a wiff of somebody else drinking bourbon, and it made my stomach heave. I still don't drink the stuff.
  9. Louis XVIII... one of the last Bourbons
  10. Those guys look great, Kstadt! From me... more warship. The Artwox deck gives a splash of color to the seas of gray. I'll probably tone it down with a wash later. What's with the red arrow, you ask? The ship is crooked. The red arrow denotes the curved line where I separated the the fo'c'sle from the battery deck. Otherwise, getting a decent fit would be improbable. I don;t know if the crookedness is my fault, or the kit's. Either way, I didn't want to have to suffer the consequences of having the battery deck fully installed and then have to fill and sand places on the fo'c'sle. I also began to rig the torpedo net system. If you get to see close-ups of warship with torpedo nets, you'll see it's quite busy between the torpedo net shelf and the waterline. ...but you'd need the patience of a saint to try to get everything there in this scale. For the rigging, Uschi line sold under license by MiG Ammo.
  11. Remember this shiny thing? This was my Ta-152C repurposed post war as a racing plane. If you wanna make rivets... PCM is for you. You will either have to shave the IP to get it to fit... or make your fuselage sides perilously thin. Or both as I've done Here: Not sure why a me-262 is showing there... but it is my PCM FW 190 WIP. Just think of it as an upscaled 1/48 kit... and you won't be too disappointed. LG detail is soft, and worst of all for a 1/32 aircraft.... the tailwheel and strut are molded together.
  12. It's either the 1/350 scale Seydlitz, or WNW Albatross Trilogy.
  13. I haven't used AK Extreme metals, yet. But I am looking fora replacement for Alclad. Alclad just seems to fly out of the airbrush.
  14. Thank you. I'm sure you'll find more pics of them in RLM 66 than you will in 02. The colour call out was for 02 so I went with it.
  15. There's only two things I've done for more than 6 years. My marriage and my job. I'm not sure which shits me more.
  16. I haven;t done a lot. Mainly cuz I've been working on that warship and doing other banal things like mowing the lawn every few days since we're getting a fair amount of rain. Anyway... here are my sloppily rendered inner bits. There's absolutely no reason to do any more to the engine. The plastic isn;t conducive to showing inner detail. I trimmed the hell out of the IP to make it fit. Last time, I spent hours trying to shave the cockpit walls thin enough without going through, thank goodness.
  17. Battleship fun. I just feel this kit is gonna take me forever.
  18. Looking good so far. Every time I have a model with drop tanks, I tell myself I'm going to mill it thin from the inside, and then dent it up from the outside. Hopefully I'll actually do it someday.
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