Top work andrea , the engines look superb . Im in the same boat as yourself - cant seem to find the time to get to the bench . Keep the updates coming , cheers tony
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Thank you (peut etre un merci beaucoup pour Jean-Marc?) for your interest and kind words.
As I've been struck by COVID (but now I'm "negative" again) the build has come to a sudden stop (which is the real reason for injuries, not eccessive speed as many suppose...:face-with-head-bandage: :rolling
as well as almost all of my activities. I'm recovering slowly but steadily and hope to be at the bench as soon as I manage to redress the backyard jungle into what it is supposed to be our garden.:tongue-out3: It's incredible how 3 weeks without care in springtime can transform a decent lawn into the Serengeti after the rain season.:surprised:
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..I'm sorry to hear that it stroke badly but at least you are recovering that is the good news.. over here spring as arrive as usual but lots of rain and still more cold days, no point for cleaning up yet ..I,m crossing my finger so we could see you next step into the modeling world shortly ...Go,go,gooooooooo..Thank you (peut etre un merci beaucoup pour Jean-Marc?) for your interest and kind words.
As I've been struck by COVID (but now I'm "negative" again) the build has come to a sudden stop (which is the real reason for injuries, not eccessive speed as many suppose...:face-with-head-bandage: :rolling as well as almost all of my activities. I'm recovering slowly but steadily and hope to be at the bench as soon as I manage to redress the backyard jungle into what it is supposed to be our garden.:tongue-out3: It's incredible how 3 weeks without care in springtime can transform a decent lawn into the Serengeti after the rain season.:surprised:
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Oh,, très délicat de ta part ..having 'SHAUN the sheep' as avatar I sense a french girlfriend behind those french word ..BBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAA ...lolComment
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Sorry to read you've been struck down yet again Andrea .
Although I tested negative twice I still feel so tired after a short while with anything energetic.Comment
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Hi Andrea
I hope you make a full and speedy recovery.
Last week I felt totally washed out on Monday and the feeling lasted until the end of the week. I retired to my bed on Monday dinner time and slept for almost 24 hours. Like John I also tested negative all week.
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Been the same with me. Took about three weeks to get the exhaustion shifted…..still got the cough though…..sound like I’m on sixty a day!Comment
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Boy am I ever late to the party........Great forward momentum on this Andrea.......and the rest of you lot get back to bed before I call Matron on you......bunch a Dam Superspreaders anyway!
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After a month of slow progresses, a lot of masking and sanding and filling and sanding and filling and.... you all know better than me
she got her wings and this is the state of the art
Unfortunately the engines lost the correct alignment within their nacelles while glue was curing and now it's too late unless drastic and possibly fatal surgery :sick:... lesson learned for the future:rolling:
Next few weeks outlook: more masking and filling and sanding and filling and sanding and, hopefully, primer.
Anyway, it's a lot of fun and that's what really matters. :tongue-out:
Questions and comments are always welcome.
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Andrea, that is a great project, just read all the posts.
Love the wires for engine lines.
Can you explain about engines shift? :sad-face:
How did you secure them?
I am afraid my nose cone on SU-27 will shift as well, keeping fingers crossed.
After I lined it up, I taped it over on the seams so let's hope it will stay.
I see canopies are masked and glued temporarily, I guess.
What is the purpose of it?
Sorry for a newbie question but you know... I am total newbie, hahahaha. :tongue-out3:Comment
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Andrzej, the engines moved within their nacelles because I was too impatient and moved them before the glue properly set; being the propeller's shaft protruding from the nacelles, when I left them on the bench they sat on their shafts and their own weight dislocated the engines from the correct position... Lesson Learned: never be hasty.
Here are two pics I took this morning that probably will explain better the problem:
That "box" you see in the upper inner part of the engine (those looking like a sort of Maya pyramid) should be at 12 o'clock, not at 2 or 1 o'clock as here.
Canopies: they are already glued with Humbrol ClearFix after a painful masking process. Another Lesson Learned: buy pre-cut masks, if available, you'll live longer without awakening your bad words vocabulary.
Today I painted them in USAAF interior green before priming. Being transparent parts, this will be the colour that will be visible from inside, whatever the external colour will be. This is a lazy (or smart) way of avoiding painting the canopies from inside, thus halving the chances of messing things up with the most unforgiving parts of a kit.
Having unchained the hissing stick I also painted the props with Tamiya acrilic Flat Black over Tamiya white primer (yellow tips still masked in the pic below)
Next steps: sanding again then re-scribing and, hopefully, priming . The fuselage/wings junctions are still not as good as they should be and the engines area still needs some attentions.
Sukhoi nose cone: the nose of the P70 has been glued with a generous quantity of UHU plastic glue, reinforced by a light touch of TET after a couple of minutes while I was still keeping it in the right position with my left hand (wishing I had a third hand to properly manage the glue bottle...). Then the fuselage was left in vertical position for 24 hrs. If your nose cone is weighted (to avoid having a so called "tail sitter") the weight itself could help keeping the cone in the right position if the fuselage is properly positioned.
Disclaimer: any suggestion that will lead anyone to disaster is because they misunderstood it.:rolling::tongue-out3::smiling2:
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Hi Andy,
I understand about engines, well, as you mentioned somewhere, we learn all the time. :smiling:
You said: "Today I painted them in USAAF interior green before priming" I do not get it, shouldn't priming be the first one one?
"you'll live longer without awakening your bad words vocabulary." .... :tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy::tears-of-joy::smiling6::smiling6::smiling6::smiling6::smili ng6:
"Having unchained the hissing stick I also......" I love the way you name things. Cracks me up. :tongue-out3::tears-of-joy:
Questions, you said to avoid painting canopy from inside, you will still see the paint being outside instead of on both sides, no?
I know nothing about it anyway.
Where should I look for precut masks for 1/32 SU-27 from Trumpeter? Any idea?
I have read the disclaimer and I take the associated risks.:tongue-out3:
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On the real plane, the inside of the canopy frame was painted interior green. The simple way to do this on a kit is to mask the outside of the canopy and then paint it with the interior colour, and then later applying the plane’s outside colour over the top of it. This will save you having to mask both the inside and the outside, but still looks convincing, especially if it’s hard to see the inside because of the small windows. With a large-scale kit of a modern aircraft, with a big bubble canopy, painting both the inside and outside separately is going to be more convincing, but with a model like Andrea’s, painting the interior colour on the outside will look good enough.Comment
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Looking good, don't think you'll really notice the engine issue when the props are on :thumb2:Comment
Not as severe anymore as two, three months ago, but it’s certainly not totally gone yet.
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