JeroenPeters

Preparing to close the fuselage. Some weird issues bit nothing i can’t fix. Luckily. It’s Special Hobby and not Tamiya. Just need to keep that in mind. Opened another small hatch to give room to the filler cap of the red small tank on the right side, situated below the fuel tank. Can’t remember what it was for.

I have been warned by Cees Broere and am expecting a battle :))

Basic colours are on the oil tank (interior green) and self healing fuel tank (brown. Should be black, but brown is more interesting in the overall scheme i think.)

The cage is closed

Seat installed. the HGW seatbelts in this case were no treat. Bad fit of buckles, not matching instructions to actual parts. Made them work with spare Luftwaffe buckles.

And more.

Taking shape

Still working on the pit. The seat is a resin seat from CMK. Adding wiring to the instruments now. Can’t wait to close the fuselage and move on!

Bit further.

It doesnt look like much yet, but at least i’m making some progress. Additional wiring will be added and lots of weathering.

To be able to proceed with the cockpit, i need to paint some sub assemblies. The black is just a primer. Also added the photo etch canopy rails.

Only a few moments a day to spent at the bench. Happy with only doing small things. Resin seat, photo etch compass bracket.

A lot of care and time is needed to properly clean the parts from flash. And to cut of detail that will be replaced by Eduard photo etch.

Hi Kevin, Cees is doing fine! We live closeby and frequent model shows together. One of my best friends. Here’s the fuel tank coming along. Ofcourse, also here a part is missing, so had to scratch this.

Cees Broere gifted me this kit. Started cutting it up to show the fuel tank. A lot of staring at the different instructions that come into play and the order of things is crucial. Eduard cockpit, CMK fuel tank and Special Hobby plastic.

First subassemblies ready for paint. Had to use the resin exhausts sadly. The Moskit exhausts are not designed to be shown all the way since they don’t have the attachment detail at the base. I have to paint these parts first before mating them and add more wiring and hoses.

Haven’t clocked much benchtime lately, but today managed to clean up more resin parts and glue them on.

Forum member Towerpower gifted me a set of Moskit metal exhausts. These come on a square tube. To install them on a bare engine they need to be seperately sawn off. Looks like i can make it work. Thnx!!

The tolerances on this kittle kit are tiny. There’s a lot of cleanup and dry fitting. I clean up about 3 or 4 parts every session and see this engine block slowly growing.

Adding lead wire. There was a day when i didnt need magnifying glasses.

Really not a set for the novice. Lots of parts missing, broken or short shot. The size between the RR Peregrine and the Napier isnt even as different than i expected.

It’s becoming one big chunk of resin.

Another sub assembly done. And i fixed one of the misalligned parts with light curing putty.

A bit frustrated with the Special Hobby engine which turns out to be special indeed. In the sense that the back of the replaced engine block is completely misformed and also a little misalligned. I have decided to even use the original block which i had replaced. A lot of careful filling and shaping will need to be done. Also: some small parts are missing of the casting blocks. I will have to scratch those. Pretty dissatisfied with this expensive set. I’ll fix it but it will take a lot of time.