Gern's 1/32 Trumpeter F-105G - A Sad End.

[Gern]

Thanks guys.

Forgot to mention. The seatbelts are moulded on to the seat cushions. With my shaky hands I didn't fancy trying to paint them even if I masked them off. Instead, I cut a long length of 1mm masking tape and stuck it down on a glass plate. Then I painted it dark grey, cut pieces to the right length and stuck them over the raised belts in the kit. Not perfect but good enough for me - vision through the canopy won't be perfect so it should hide the imperfections.

[boatman]

HI Dave lookin forward to this build but whats the plan ? can you give us a clue ?
chris

[JR]

Shows how much I don't know!

I wouldn't worry about that Dave, some of us no nothing about these strange metal birds.

Those seats, I think the term is office look good so you appear to know a lot more than your letting on :nerd:

[grumpa]

Excellent work there Dave, you know, this plane stuff is starting to wear off on me a bit.
I have always liked the look of the A10 Warthog and the Hawker Hurricane, bristling with all their weaponry.

Maybe one day I'll have ago at one of them.

Jim

[Gern]

HI Dave lookin forward to this build but whats the plan ? can you give us a clue ?
chris

Wot! And give away all my secrets! You'll just have to wait and see like everyone else Chris.:smiling:

[Gern]

I wouldn't worry about that Dave, some of us no nothing about these strange metal birds.

Those seats, I think the term is office look good so you appear to know a lot more than your letting on :nerd:

Not really John. Just copyin' what everyone else does.

[Gern]

Excellent work there Dave, you know, this plane stuff is starting to wear off on me a bit.
I have always liked the look of the A10 Warthog and the Hawker Hurricane, bristling with all their weaponry.

Maybe one day I'll have ago at one of them.

Jim

Thanks Jim. You wouldn't have any problems building wingy thingies - but I'm not sure I'd recommend starting with the A-10. There's a fair few Hurricane kits around which would make a good starter though ....

[boatman]

HI Dave well whats happin on this build as im still waitin to see what your plan is ? as my spies have all met with failure an have paid the price of ultimate failure - lol
chris

[Gern]

HI Dave well whats happin on this build as im still waitin to see what your plan is ? as my spies have all met with failure an have paid the price of ultimate failure - lol
chris

Sorry for the delay Chris, I been working on other stuff (Just to tease you further, one of the things I'm on is a small dio called 'Rendezvous', the other is a moving object. Tee hee! I do love a good tease!). I've done a bit more on this though and will get pics up later today.

[tr1ckey66]

Nice start to the 'Thud' Dave. Looking forward to the update.
Cheers
P

[boatman]

Sorry for the delay Chris, I been working on other stuff (Just to tease you further, one of the things I'm on is a small dio called 'Rendezvous', the other is a moving object. Tee hee! I do love a good tease!). I've done a bit more on this though and will get pics up later today.

YOU ROTTER Dave this aint just a tease i need to know your plan an i will find out so get the pics up sharpish lol

[boatman]

Sorry for the delay Chris, I been working on other stuff (Just to tease you further, one of the things I'm on is a small dio called 'Rendezvous', the other is a moving object. Tee hee! I do love a good tease!). I've done a bit more on this though and will get pics up later today.

WELL TODAY HAS COME AN GONE AN STILL NO PICS WHATS GOIN ON are you still on the tease as now im not the least bit instrested in your plan you can use your plan to your hearts content im not in the least intrested LOL :smiling4: :smiling::smiling::smiling:
chris

[Gern]

As promised, a bit more progress.

Anyone who's seen any of the Trumpeter 1/32 kits will know that many of them use PE brackets and steel pins to attach flaps, ailerons etc. This one is no exception.



I have no intention of playing with this when it's built so I can fix all these parts with glue and ignore the PE stuff. I thought I'd be OK to fit the front wing flaps to each half of the wing and then just have maybe a tiny seam to fix at the front edge of the wing. Wrong!



Bit blurry but as the gap is approximately half the width of the grand canyon you can see it OK. Fortunately, I tried the fit before the glue had totally set so I managed to adjust things to get a better fit. Still a bit of a gap, but now nothing a bit of Squadron Green won't fix. This is probably my fault for not following instructions and maybe they would fit OK if I used the hinges and pins.



Talking of Squadron Green, how are you folks getting on with the new wishy-washy formulation? I think it's b****y awful so can anyone recommend a good alternative?

The rear flaps and ailerons (or whatever they're called) have gone together nicely and test fit shows no issues so hopefully I'll get those done with no problems.

Something I have absolutely no understanding of. In their infinite wisdom, Trumpeter decided to mould parts of the U/C bays to both halves of each wing and also have separate parts to be attached to the top half.




This has left some really awkward shapes to have to join. Not a major problem, but I wonder why they didn't mould the bays as separate boxes to be simply fitted to one half of the wing? I found one side of the bays, the squarish panel moulded to the top half of each wing, was badly bent on both sides which has needed a lot of fiddling around to get sorted - the bends in the plastic had distorted and stretched the plastic so I had sanding as well as straightening to do.

My pictures have shown up some paint errors which need to be fixed. Doh! Back to the A/B!

You can also see the gaps around the individual flaps on the trailing edge. I suppose it's nice of Trumpeter to give us the option of having these open, but it's made fitting them closed a bit of a pain.

When I fitted the cockpit, front wheelbay etc into one side of the fuselage, I taped the other side into place to hold everything square until the glue had set. No problems until I removed the side and added glue. Now for some reason I have a step in the fuselage join at the bottom.



Again. not a problem as I think I'll be able to clamp it straight when glued. Meanwhile, I'm gluing the two fuselage halves together in sections to eliminate any other gaps/steps. I'll leave this bit until the rest of the join has fully set. That way, I hope my clamps won't disturb the fit elsewhere.

This is due to something I've done so I'm not blaming Trumpeter. Despite the issues I've mentioned, I really like this kit - and apparently so do my cats!



That's it for now.

PS Chris. I know this hasn't satisfied your curiosity as to the eventual destination of this, but it's all you're getting for now! I have mentioned I also write crosswords as one of my other pastimes. You need the same sense of sadism to do those too!

[Gern]

WELL TODAY HAS COME AN GONE AN STILL NO PICS WHATS GOIN ON are you still on the tease as now im not the least bit instrested in your plan you can use your plan to your hearts content im not in the least intrested LOL :smiling4: :smiling::smiling::smiling:
chris

Hey Chris, it might be tomorrow to you, but to me it's still today as I haven't been to bed yet! So when I promised pictures yesterday I've kept my word! I got to take my motor round to the garage in a bit and when I come back, I'll be off to beddy byes, so when I wake up later today, it'll be tomorrow for me as well as you. All clear now?

[Jim R]

Hi Dave
Certainly a very big hairyplane. Cockpit looks very nice. Got your work cut out with some fit issues. Got me wondering about this fiendish plan of yours. Nice of Trumpeter to make the box "cat bed" size although I'm sure Puss would prefer a bit of blanket to lay on rather than a load of uncomfortable sprues.
Jim