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WNW Royal Aircraft Factory RE.8 "Harry Tate" WIP


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Francisco, thank's mate.

 

This weekend i had some time to work on my Harry Tate, so at the moment this is how he look's.

 

The engine is now completed with adding of the two exhausts.

Maybe some more work is needed regarding wheatering of the exhausts.

 

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The pilot seat is glued into the cockpit, and the seatbelts are also installed. Seatbelts are HGW.

The fueltank is also glued in place.

 

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Pilot seat and seatbelt's are wheatered with a wash, that explains the glossy shine.

 

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Next step is painting the inside of the fuselage

 

The inside of the fuselage is painted with Tamiya XF-55 Deck Tan, and the woodwork was done with oils.

 

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Time to dry-fit the cockpit into the fuselage, just for the photoshootwicked.gif

 

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That's all folk's.

 

Greetz

 

Danny

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Today was the day that all these beautifull details will never be seen againoops.gif sorry.gif .............because the two fuselage part's enclosed the cockpit and where glued together.evil_laugh.gif

 

I previous did a dry-fit to be sure that the internal bracing wires where no problem to the assembly of the two fuselage halfs, and today all went well together without a problem.

 

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The fit is very good.

 

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The engine, was again dry-fitted to see iff everything is still glued the right way, and oh yes, no problem at all with the install of the engine.

 

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The engine will be kept seperate from the fuselage until all is painted.

 

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And some details into the cockpit that still will be visible.

 

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Greetz

 

Danny

 

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Today, i did some work regarding the seam's where the two fuselage half's came together.

 

First, some taping, so i can get a nice thin line of putty.

 

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For this i use Tamiya putty mixed with Revell Contacta Liquid, this micture give me some drying time room, and i can pin-point my putty to certain places.

 

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After 15 minutes i remove all tape,

 

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The putty on the fuselage needs to dry some time, so meanwhile i take a closer look at the bottom wing.

 

The Constantino pump has to be removed from the wing, so with the help of an improved electrical toothbrush this was done within five minutes.

 

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After removal

 

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Two panellines needed some attention after sanding, i think this will be the only two panellines that i will have to rescribe on the entire plane.hmmm.gif

 

Ok, time to sand the putty on the fuselage, again, with the help of my electrical toothbrush.

 

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The vertical fin on the bottom of the fuselage is allready glued.

 

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The inner part of the bottom wing can be seen into the cockpit, so, some painting and a wash gave this a rather dirty appearance.

 

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That's all for now.

 

Greetz

 

Danny

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Hellfire Danny! That is gorgeous.

 

You nailed the wood effects. This is one of my favourite British types.

Thank's James for the kind word's. :)

 

It's a great plane, strange looking in my opinion, but that makes it just very intresting and beautifull.

 

Greetz

 

Danny

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Today, i finnished cleaning the most of the components before priming. Some part's where a little brought up to life and realism.

 

All part's where lay down to a piece of A4 paper sheet with the proper numbers for recognition.

 

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Some part's where a little enhanced regarding the look and realism. First thing to do was the square holes at the back of the fuselage, where the steering cables passed. For this, WNW provided some PE, but in my opinion, the PE is a little to thick, so i used for the upper square holes some paper tape. For the square holes at the side, i allready used the PE, so i let it be.

 

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On the horizontal stabelizer, upper side are two tubes installed to guide the steering cables. WNW provide this as two solid (bloc's, pin's....) i don't really know how to call them. I cutted these two and replaced them by two brass tubes.

 

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The Vickers gun in the kit is a nice part that is very usefull, still, some extra detail can make the difference.

The busy end of the barrell isn't really very realistic, so some 15 minutes of work was needed to give it another appearance.

 

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The barrell was drilled out, and a little piece of brass tube was installed. Together with some PE, this Vickers became a more realistic kit-part.

 

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I couldn't resist, so i dry-fitted the Vickers gun on the fuselage, this beast got his teeth, but still.....before it's usefull, there's a long way to go.popcorn.gif

 

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And finnaly, the landinggear, i glued it together and dry-fit it to the fuselage for a proper alligment.

 

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That's all for now folk's.

 

Greetz

 

Danny

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Starting to see the Beautifull lines of the Harry tate....

Still crying out for not getting one while It's was available....

 

Great work Danny!! Please keep sharing your work!!

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Thank's Francisco for the nice comment.

 

Today i did some priming work on the Harry Tate part's.

 

Now it's time to search for the proper colors.

 

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Some proof that priming before painting is always a good thing.

Some scratches and some sink's where detected.

 

After some sanding and filling the scratches and sink's all seems very fine.

 

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The Vickers machinegun.

 

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Greetz

 

Danny

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Today i've airbrushed the propellor and the wing struts.

 

For the base color i used for both propellor and wing struts Tamiya XF-78. Regarding the wood-grain color i used for the propellor Burnt Umber and for the wing struts Raw Umber.

 

To make my choice of wood-grain color a little bit easy, i made a sort of a color chart, based on two different base colors and 4 oil colors. For this i used pieces of plastic cart.

 

Base colors are : Tamiya XF-59 Dessert Yellow

                            Tamiya XF-78 Wooden Deck Tan

 

Oil colors are : Transparant oxide yellow

                        Burnt umber

                        Raw umber

                        Van Dycke brown

 

This gives me 8 different wood-grain colors of wich i can chose from, and it look's like this:

 

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OK, time to give the propellor some color.

 

Base color XF-78

 

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and with the wood-grain color Burnt Umber

 

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Wings struts with base color XF-78

 

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And with the wood-grain color Raw Umber

 

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Greetz

 

Danny

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Hi Danny. This is a stunning build from you again.

 

Looking at your latest post I wondered where you got the little clamps for holding the struts from? They look ideal for small pieces and not to strong.

 

Many thanks and keep up the good work.

 

Aaron

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Looking at your latest post I wondered where you got the little clamps for holding the struts from? They look ideal for small pieces and not to strong.

Thank's Aaron,

 

years ago i bought them in a flower shop. They where ment to hold plants to a wooden rod or stick to guide them straight up. They came in two different sizes inside the package.

So i think, iff you go to a garden center or flower shop, that you will find it.

 

 

 

Some great work here!!  You got a very realist wood!! Congrats!

Thank's Francisco.

 

it go's better and better everytime. It's a very simple technique, and that is just the wonderfull aspect about it.....everyone can learn it in no time with great results.

 

Greetz

 

Danny

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Today i taped the wing spars and rib tapes. I will go for a 3D effect, rib takes and wing spars in different color to simulate a translucent effect in dept.

 

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Greetz

 

Danny

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Danny, looking good so far. I'll be looking in closely to see how your 3D effect on the wings turns out.I have several of these wnw jewels n my collection that I hope to build someday. So, y'all here doing great work on these WW1 subjects are my modeling teachers ;)

 

Mike

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Thank's Mike.

 

Last weekend i painted the Harry tate in it's PC10 color.

 

First, undersides where taped.

 

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And the, airbrushing started. For this i used Tamiya XF-62. It took about 3 houres to achieve this result.

 

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That's all for now.
 
Greetz
 
Danny
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After some delay, because of a clumsy modeller (me)BANGHEAD2.jpg  i finnaly manage to put some decals onto the Harry tate.

 

First a gloss coat was needed. I'm used to the Tamiya gloss coat, but i ran out of it, so last saturday i went to my local hobby store to purchase some bottles of Tamiya gloss coat.

Offcourse, they ran out of supply, so i looked to another brand......Mr. Hobby...but also sold out.....ok, Vallejo Air gloss......sold out, last breath.......Humbrol......sold out.......blowup.gif BANGHEAD2.jpg BANGHEAD2.jpg BANGHEAD2.jpg BANGHEAD2.jpg BANGHEAD2.jpg BANGHEAD2.jpg

And in this situation, you have to keep calm.....ok, next step, what kind off gloss coat is still in theire stock.......Ok.....Mr.Hobby Top Coat gloss in a rattle can, in far way my favourite methode, but with no other possibilty i had no choise.

 

Finnaly, the gloss coat is sprayed onto the Harry tate, not my best work, but it's fairy good in my opinion, so whe keep going.

 

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Then, decal time, first underside of the lower wings.

 

Not good at all. After the use of the Micro Sol, and the drying time, the decal still showed wrinkling. I repeated the procedure but nothing changed. It's the underside and the wrinkling is not so vissible with the naked eye, so i leave it like it is.

 

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Upper side of the upper wing. Here the decals are very smooth after drying, so me happyfrantic.gif

 

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Vertical tail, No silvering and a smooth decal setting, so again me frantic.gif

 

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Same for the fuselage and middle part of the upper wing, again i'm still frantic.gif

 

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After all problem's regarding this project, i'm very happy with the result. More then 40% of the painted part's needed to be repainted after i poored a cup of X20A thinner over most of the freshly painted part's. Like whe all now iff that happens the paint work is FUBAR.

 

Greetz

 

Danny

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Today a little update.

 

I did some detail painting to the fuselage and tail unit.

 

Also glued the vertical and horizontal stabelizers to the fuselage.

 

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Greetz

 

Danny

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