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  1. Chief Cohiba
    And, finally, the doors are installed (of the canopy, not those of perception) - it was of course a bit of tinkering, but with the help of some Q-tip was manageable. I think these are a bit too wide open, but I'd call in a fair shere of artistic freedom. Hope you forgive... 😏
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    Some more things I've worked on: The tail rotor: which was easy, and the lights on the stub wings; Same method as before; a small silver spot, topped by a small transparent red or green spot. For the light on the engine cowling I will place a small silver spot and a drop of clear resin atop. But first I have to close the existing hole: (Reason I do this and not use the small, provided clear part from the kit; I lost them. Even the spare part SH is providing. I definitely need some high quality tweezers).
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    I think there was a chapter in the Hitchhikers Guide about it, and how this is not entirely unlikely. In order to break out from this vicious circle, I decided to neglect the concept of "readiness" by leaving out some parts, which technically will prevent it ever from getting finished, even though I might declare it finished. In consequence, if I wouldn't tell you, which parts I leave out, you wouldn't be able to decidie if it's finished or not. Kind of Schrödingers logic... But I will tell you: I left out at least some of the PE handles, as I found them too hard to be mount and risk of damaging the canopy with some spoiled CA was too high. So here's the sole handles... (Yes, those little yellow thingies in the canopy doors. Some little darker thingies should be there as well, but aren't. Well...) Also I will drop or rather not mount are those eyelets spread across the Cobra - simply because I didn't find them on any picture around the web. I guess these wheren't only visible when it was lashed down. As this is in some standing-around-on-an-airfield-state, they're in. And not visible.
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    Sounds reasonable! 😄 What a great excuse to wait until there is a bit more progress visible. Which is, at least by my wee standards. But not only did I finish and mount the weapon pods (red microdecals on green plastic - absolutely invisible), I also started on the canopy... It starts too look like a Cobra: Also, I scratchbuild the small fin on the tailboom - although the term "build" seems somewhat exaggerated. I cut a piece of styrene into shape, sanded it a bit to a rough profile and painted it. Done. Fine enough for me.
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    I see what you mean. I usually use picr.de, that works quite fine for me, and is quite a simply thing to use. Only issue for a lot of our fellow modellers here; it's in german, aber das sollte uns ja eher wurscht sein. Concerning your other hobbies; I'm more into civil cars, but the nation of origin of you Landy is quite right for a start. 😉 Liebe Grüße aus dem Süden!
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    It's true, I don't find my way to the workbench that often, so not that many news to post. But I wanted to share the outcome of the recent (almost) desaster with you, be it just some minor spots. In fact, I think these are the slightest pieces of progress I ever posted. Yes, I painted *drumroll* the lights on the tail: It seems, the closer I come to an end, the smaller the progress is. Is there a physical law that describes this phenomenon?
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    Shame it didn't happen with the green bottle which I used on the other side. 😄 (Sorry, I currently have a discussion which turned into some cosmic/alien/lovecraftian shenigan over at the membership number thread. Would have been apt.) But no, just paint, everyone's safe and sound, even the model could have been safed. No being of whatever manifestation has been hurt in this.
  8. Chief Cohiba
    Nothing really relevant to post, as I was not much close to the bench. Some hastily attempts of doing minor things led to almost-catastrophes: In this case it was the plan to paint the starboard red light on the tail. When opening the new bottle of transparent red, trying to squeeze a single drop of paint out, a clot burst out and - yeah. Luckily only a few spots hit the model and could be easily removed. The very faint leftover stains add to the weathering. I'll return to the bench when a bit more time is available. *cough*
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    And, talking about pieces that time (or rather me) forgot; I apinted rather randomnly the missing lights on the tail, or at least gave a silver foundation, as well as the landing light: Another part I forgot (and trashed, when dumping some seemingly empty sprues) is the small fin on the tail boom. I might as well leave it, though, as I've noticed this is not present on all models.
  10. Chief Cohiba
    Here's the weapons load, painted in Olive Drab and with the tips of the gun pod as well the rocket roll in metallic silver. Again, the look I try to achieve is; ot shiny and new, but not trenched in mud either. One thing that's new to me when modelling in 1/72; the pieces are so tiny, that the unavoidable macro photography reveals a level of detail that's unforgiving. While in reality it looks rather okayish, the pictures are cruel.
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    And, when painting is done, a few of these wonderful pieces are to be mounted: I think #23 are handstraps, like there where in my granddads VW Beetle, and should be painted a dark brownish black, according to what's found on the web. The other parts are #45, my guess is should be grips, and therefore in a dirty yellow. Oh, and of course; these things are tiny!
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    And here's where it's at at the moment. Random pieces of armament, waiting for a (hopefully final) layer of Vallejo Olive drab: Odds are, though, that there will be another round of sanding, painting, sanding, painting, sanding... *cough* Here's some canopy pieces: Frames are painted by hand in dark grey, also, some additional steps are to be expected.
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    So, while slowly have found my way back to the workbench, I thought about it and made a plan. Plans are important; you need something to ignore, to deviate from and which finally can be abandoned - and it's the reference you can measure the level of disaster. Yes, I'm a fan of the plan. Here's mine of the finalising steps: Canopy: painting the glasshouse pieces, installing the tiny PE handles and glue them together. Before that, think of a reasonable sequence to do so. Oh, I want to make the canopy open, so this has to be considered as well. Armament: sanding (as good as possible - I'm currently amidst it and it's boring as XXXX lunch in a vegan canteen), painting, applying decals, and mounting it at a suitable step. I plan to mount the M18 gun pod on the inner points and the XM157 rocket launcher on the outer. Leftovers: find the steps and pieces not mounted yet, decide what to mount of those and mount them. Scratchbuild stuff that's lost (like the stabilizer on the fin). That's something to cook from, right? Let's see what arrives on the plates.
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    I started this while doing WWI biplanes - and I found myself avoiding to apply decals after having attached some fiddly parts, like the upper wing. Some disasters may happen... From that on it was from rough to subtle steps - and decals is usually pretty save. (Might be different if there are big, say wooden structure decals to apply but here...) It has is benefits, and it's more my own clumsiness that dictates this procedure. To often have parts already installed be sent into unspeakable dimensions while applying roundels or stencils. It works better for me that way...
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    If it's only half the quality of this one it sure is fun - and even more chance for some super detailling. It is. And the unavoidable consequence: not learning and improving, but create even bigger disasters...
  16. Chief Cohiba
    Sorry for the longer absence here, but I'm sure you found another places to watch builds go wrong... 😉 But you know there's one thing about us Austrians; (mimicking styrian accent) We'll be back! No, I won't start yodelling, or try some ridiculous poses, but after some time where work asked for mere attention, I plan to finish this here.
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    Don't mind. It just reads much nicer than http-error 500, or something similar. Just reload and enjoy that some problems in our lives can be fixed so easily. 🙂
  18. Chief Cohiba
    That was how it was operated from non-carrier vessels.
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    Honestly, I wasn't aware of them, so thanks for pointing at them. A bit more effect would still not look oversized, so I guess I give it a try on the next riveting project. Whenever that might be... 😉
  20. Chief Cohiba
    Thanks, I think as well that they look correct in scale. They can hardly be seen from say half a meter away, but I think that's fine. Only thing that I have no Idea how to fix properly is the gap on the top, with all the mesh structure. First I think I'll just close the gap and then see how it looks.
  21. Chief Cohiba
    Over the weekend I also closed the fuselage halves: You see it resting by its sleek brother in it's current state, waiting for the work on the glasshouse to be started. Here's the detail with the vents: The mesh was a bit fuzzy to glue in, so it looks a bit shifted and displaced, but this can hardly seen in this scale. Also the fit was quite good, no putty needed so far, just a few drops of Mr Surfacer 500. This kit is a bit of a positive surprise as far as fit is concerned. Let's hope that follows through to the glass pieces...
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    Slowly moving on, a little detail before I close the fuselage; I opened up the vent holes for the turbine, to add a bit of detail: I Hope it can be seen here, for whatever reasons I didn't make a zoom photo. Also I reshaped the steps on the skid tips, here in it's pure styrene guise:
  23. Chief Cohiba
    Hi Jölle, Grüße aus Wien! May I recommend Picr picr.de as a pichosting site - it's not very common here, as it's in german, but that shouldn't bother us, I guess! 😉 With tattoing I'm only passively involved - would be interested in some of your works as well. Looking forward to your big Bismarck, myself I tinker around for quite some time on a small Emden, but can't really find the groove here. A bit of motivation can help maybe. 😉 Alles Gute aus dem Süden, Günther
  24. Chief Cohiba
    And, after a while, the first layer of paint over the rivets. Thing is, they they are visible, if one looks close enough, but at poor light or from a slight distance they dissappear. Which I think is in scale, as one wouldn't notice the rivets on a real chopper from a few meters away. But it looks odd when you have another kit with rivets molded standing besides. Here's from close, and from a distance:
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    But before that; a look at the now finished cabin: I'm thinking of placing a single lead pellet between the front strucure pieces (do these have a name?), just to make sure it's not sitting at the tail.
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