Vought XF5U-1 "Flying Flapjack" (Kitty Hawk 1:48)

[Sasha_Be]

Thanks, Nigel!

 

I was palnned straight OOB build,but I can not stop myself 

Probably somewhere should be some pills against this desease

Edited March 21, 2017 by Sasha_Be
some misspelling

[Janremco]

Great work, you are adding lots of detail to it. 

 

Jan Remco

[Sasha_Be]

Thanks, Jan!

 

And short update:

 

I began to rework the stabilizer attachment points:

 

Finalized painting of engines mockup:

 

Started painting the cockpit:

 

 

 

 

[David H]

Very Cool, Sasha.

 

-d-

[Martian]

Looks great! I can see me getting another one of these iin the very near future.

 

Martian

[Sasha_Be]

David, Martin - thank you, mates!

 

22 hours ago, Martian Hale said:

I can see me getting another one of these iin the very near future

Hope this future is realy very near )

 

Continued cockpit assembling/painting:

 

 

 

 

 

At the same time, remade the pilot seat:

 

So, left some final touches to PP, after that mat varnish - and cockpit is ready for assembling

 

[Sasha_Be]

Cockpit finished:

 

 

 

[Sasha_Be]

Very short update (hope that soon I can close the fuselage):

 

 

 

 

Blanks for exhaust pipes:

 

 

[Sasha_Be]

And little more photos:

 

 

 

 

 

[Sasha_Be]

And some more photos (fuselage already closed):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sasha_Be]

Cut parts of the fuselage at the point of attachment of stabilizers and made brackets:

 

 

 

 

[Sasha_Be]

I'm keep going.

Added some units to fuselage:

 

 

 

I cut the blades on the air intake ventilator:

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

Outstanding detailing! 

[Martian]

Good idea with the fan blades, I wish I had thought of that one.

 

Martian

[Nigel Heath]

Nice work on the fan blades. What did you use to cut them out?

[Sasha_Be]

Thanks mates!

 

3 hours ago, Nigel Heath said:

What did you use to cut them out?

Please see the photo below:

 

So:

1. For sanding - sanding sticks

2. For initial cut - Tamiya 0.1 mm etched saw

2. For second cut - RB Production etched saw

3. For finishing - Olfa AK1 knife with new blade (it's hell sharp so very usefull)

[David H]

Wow that is some cool stuff. Be-Eautiful.

 

-d-

[Gorby]

Fascinating to watch a master-modeller at work. Very interested to see the final result.

[Sasha_Be]

David, thank you a lot!

Gorby, thank you too. But I'm not a master, only learning.

 

Made a test painting:

 

 

The instruction advises to paint the aircraft in GS C71 "midnight blue". But it's too dark from my point of view. Probably will use C14 "navy blue" instead.

[Sasha_Be]

Intake ventilator masked and painted (separate masking of each blade is so boring thing):

 

 

 

And glued on place:

 

As you can see, fitting is not good. So it'll be lots of puttying and sanding.
So I masked canopy and also glued it to preserve cockpit from the mess:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nigel Heath]

Terrific work on the engine fronts, they look really smart.

[Mike]

Some lovely attention to detail there Alexander - keep up the good work

[Martian]

Glad to see the engine fronts getting the attention they deserve, they are so prominent on the real thing that it is really important to get them right and you seem to have got them spot on.

 

Martian

[Sasha_Be]

Nigel, Mike, Martin - thanks mates!

 

Sanding, surfacing, puttying - it'll be long road:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Martian]

This is progressing very nicely. You may want to check the fit of the spinners to the drive shafts as this is where things turned difficult on my build.

 

Martian