Revell 1/32 H145M LUH KSK

[Jim R]

Hi all
John - thanks. Maybe neat but snail's pace slow.
Simon - cheers. I have sort of cobbled it together. Virtually not seen.




The front piece for the engine cover just did not fit - now there's a surprise :confounded:


However by cutting off the lip, which was supposed to locate the part, and a bit of sanding and it went together fine.


Gave the underside a mist of primer to see how the filling had turned out. Not too bad and it is underneath :tongue-out3:


Those Archer rivets are very effective.


Progress is slow but steady. Thanks for watching :thumb2:
Jim

[Guest]

Very unusual to see a modern kit that requires so much good old modelling skills to put together. I wonder what the generations raised on kits of the last few years would make of this one

[Jim R]

Hi all
Jakko - I was surprised. I would have thought that it was me but Peter found similar issues when he built the kit.

One of the problems is that to get the fit ok in one place you kinda make the fit worse somewhere else. The front windscreen is a case in point. It is big and curved and my bodging the fuselage halves meant it really didn't fit. I fitted 1mm strips of styrene on the sides and top of the frame. I also remade the tip of the 'nose' With a load of sanding and dry fitting it is now reasonable. Gaps are small and they may fill with the glue although I may still have to fill some areas.


This original kit is 2005 but the new sprues for this model are 2017. The tail assembly is new parts and fits like a dream :thumb2: :smiling: :thumb2:


Feeling a lot happier. Revell are back on my Christmas card list - maybe!
Jim

[stillp]

Jakko - I was surprised. I would have thought that it was me but Peter found similar issues when he built the kit.

I did indeed Jim, and it's interesting that we had problems in such similar areas, so it seems like the moulds at fault rather than the process. It sounds unkind I know, but I'm rather glad you had trouble with it, so I know it wasn't just my incompetence!
Pete

[Jim R]

Hi Peter
The article in the magazine did not mention any fit issues and so without your earlier build I would definitely have thought the problems were down to me.
Jim

[Jim R]

Hi all
Just a bit of progress on this. Mostly just cleaning up parts and dry fitting.
Tail boom is painted and bits added.


Main doors glazed and insides finished


The skids(?) did not want to fit correctly on the main struts. Lots of filling and sanding. A coat of primer shows its a bit rough but I can live with that. The little spreader plates were sanded off when sorting the fit and new bits were scratched.




Jim

[Wouter]

Looking more than good there jimbo!

Cheers

[rtfoe]

Shaping up well Jim. :thumb2:

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Jim,
Looking good mate, you are making great work of the fit issues.

[Jim R]

Hi all
Wouter, Richard and Scottie - thanks guys for sticking with this.
" "That's one small step for Jim, one giant leap for helicopterkind." - that is how I feel having got the main canopy and the two footwell windows fitted. Loads of messing about and still a bit rough but painted up I think I can live with it.




A bit of the gubbins underneath fitted poorly and needed some fettling and scratching.


The next big worry is the masking of the windows but I think the worse is over and it may see the finish line.

Jim

[Guest]

Definitely looking helicopter shaped now Jim.

Despite the issues it's turning out very nice indeed.

[Wouter]

oh my masking that canopy is dreadful stuff. But I'm confident you'll manage it mate. With the canopy added it sure starts to look like a heli now. Keep up the good work!

Cheers

[scottie3158]

Jim,
Really taking shape now. Good luck with the masking.

[stillp]

Loads of messing about and still a bit rough but painted up I think I can live with it.


A bit of the gubbins underneath fitted poorly and needed some fettling and scratching.

I know the feeling!
Pete

[JR]

Jim " Still a bit rough" !!!!
B***dy Nora mate there's nothing rough about it.


I remember seeing a TV program where I think it was Airfix were due to bring out a new model. Surprisingly they gave it an outsider to do the first build. It turned out that he was unpaid and just loved building.

I would have expected a manufacturer to develop a product before just releasing, seems to me that the modelling community just accept cock ups and work around them .
It's not as if these kits are cheap, does a manufacturer ever make changes to tools when a fault is noticed or pointed out ?or is it just ignored.
We have no power to ensure that a kit fits, I think this is completely unacceptable with today's modern design and production methods to accept crap !
Any other product would be recalled and or altered.
Personally I would send some of these manufacturer's to the Gulag for retraining !