JWM Posted December 25, 2017 Author Share Posted December 25, 2017 1 hour ago, pheonix said: Blimey Jerzy, you will have finished three builds for this GB in the time it will have taken me to complete one! And all of yours are beautifully detailed too! Phoenix, nothing of mine, three or ten of them are comparable with your "Alte Dornier" masterpiece... Cheers J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) Hi, For whole day yesterday and majority of today I was not able to connect to BM. Was it like that in general? I worked on Hoever First I made float struts riging I worked a bit on re-surfacing of floats The inspection openings I made of alu foil Then I made some detailing of lower sideof upper wing - fuel tubes etc. I made new exhaust collecter (from Airfix MIG 15 jet engine inlet) - not finished yet And started detailing fuselage and glued floats. Especially rear canopy requires some additional work since it is too shalow. Current state: Bottom is painted with Humbrol 128. The blue on insignias will be wider - made of decal strip intead. To be cont. Regards J-W Edited December 26, 2017 by JWM removing of duplicate photo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 Excellent progress, Jerzy! It's shaping up very well! Yes, BM was down on the 25th and most of 26th. Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 (edited) Hi, I decided to replace original ("box") glassing by a scratchbuild. I was not happy with how it looked. Model has rear canopy moved too much forward (if you compare to photos). Moreover, the movable part of gunner canopy was removed during campaign of April-June 1940. All photos from this time shows only rear windscreen. Next of today activity was mounting exhaust. It was a bit dificult but went on. I made some initial painting. Then I drilled 0.4 mm holes for rigings of wings. It was 64 (!) openings. I used electric drill. (as usually) Then I glued upper wing... I have checked the distance beteween wings, it is exactly as on drawings Some remarks on scheme. It is known from two photos (seen in the background on photo below) A general idea about top is visible. Lower wing has mottled scheme. On upper wing I see three colours (white and two shades of green-grey?). If you look in book (much better quality then in this photo) you cannot exclude some mottled spots in one place. The fuselage has also interesting mottled scheme. I do not know what to think about the dark one. Is it black? - since "8 is black. Or just dark green-grey? It is for some reason much darker than any colour on He 115...I have to decide. To be continued Regards J-W Edited December 27, 2017 by JWM corrections of mispelings 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 More about the painting scheme. In net there is a profile of "8" from those two photos: However - it is a mirror picture (with some errors) of what is seen on photo. Number 8 is remains of "328" hich is apparently roughly overpainted with 8 painted around with white colour (traces of original grey remained). So on right side "8" is close to gunner position, but on left is much more closer to the end! Conclusion is that above profile is wrong... Regards J-W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Hi Jerzy, Good progress again! The colour scheme seems to be very interesting but I agree it's difficult to decipher from the B&W pictures. I guess a certain degree of artistic license will be called for Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 Hi, Now riging. Yesterday evening I started and today I continued. So - only one side completed: So it was about 4:30 h (up to 5 h) for one side. To be continued J-W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Excellent rigging again! Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Riging completed (both sides). What is left are control cables to tail. Painting (brush as always) started To be cont. Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Looking excellent! This is turning out to be a superb series of unusual and interesting builds Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 4, 2018 Author Share Posted January 4, 2018 Hi, I did some painting job. In background two photos, I've based on: Two more photos. Some details could be seen like control cables on floats, MGs,... Not too much left to finish To be cont Regards and have a happy New Year! Jerzy-Wojtek 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Excellent paint job! Very well done! I really like that scheme! Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Hi Jerzy Lovely job, it's really coming to life now. Do you mind if I ask what you are rigging the planes with please ? cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learstang Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 That is a striking-looking camouflage, J-W! Very nice! Regards, Jason 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philp Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Love the camo. I actually have the decals to do the He-115 in that second pic. First time I have seen an actual pic of that one. Phil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Looks fantastic! It's also nice to see someone else spending time resurfacing their floats Regards, David 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 Many thanks, gents for comments. Those Norwegian camos from campaign in 1940 are attracive indeed. I did He 115 last year and now I've started work on Fokker CV with also iteresting scheme. 58 minutes ago, philp said: I actually have the decals to do the He-115 in that second pic. First time I have seen an actual pic of that one. This was discussed about year ago on airplanes WWII section here on BM. Interesting is that the scheme on He-115 was changing during month of action - there are photos showing differences for example of pattern on tail (for the same machine with "52"). There is a thread from my build of this machine 5 hours ago, JOCKNEY said: Do you mind if I ask what you are rigging the planes with please ? Pat, this is EZ cable. The most nice feature is elesticity of it. 57 minutes ago, Dazey said: It's also nice to see someone else spending time resurfacing their floats Thank you David for noticing that... Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 Hi, Today I did some more detailing like control cables to tail, gunsight for gunner gun, final correction of national Norwegian insignia and prepared bombs . Some photos from today: Please note oil cooler: Bombs (modified Revell Lancaster) Hope to finish tomorrow Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 As one who is used to lots of rigging I must write that this is really very impressive work indeed. The whole model oozes quality, just waiting to see the gallery photos. P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Excellent details, Jerzy! @JWM If you haven't noticed already, the GB deadline has been extended one week, till 14 January. No need to rush now Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 8 hours ago, jrlx said: If you haven't noticed already, the GB deadline has been extended one week, till 14 January. No need to rush now Thank you Jaime. I have not notice this change. I hope to finish today anyway... Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Magic modelling there Jerzy. I've just had a catch up on this after letting it get away from me in the run up to Christmas. I'm glad I did, your work & rigging especially is a reward in itself. I hope the festive season treated you & yours well. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Steve, many thanks for your comment. I am fighting right now with varnish... Still hoping to finish today, but likely I will not able to do daylight shots. Sunset is at 4 PM this time of year. Regards J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 Hi, It seems to me that I've finished the third one: Hoever MF 11. Tomorrow daylight photos will go to gallery. So far beloe few shots with bulb light The END Thank you for watching. I hope it was at least partially enjoying to watch as was enjoying to built. Regards Jerzy-Wojtek 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Excellent job, Jerzy! The camouflage on this one is really something special and the model display the same care and attention to detail as the previous two entries! Congratulations on an excellent trio! Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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