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Hello fellows! Here, my new project: the Tiger Moth, British training aircraft, from ICM in 1/32 scale. This is the boxart: : And a pic of the sprues: According to the instructions, I opened several holes in the fuselage and wings, in order to put the rigging. I passed through the holes standard sewing thread. After this, the fuselage was painted in green cockpit: Here, the two halves glued together: After, I assembled and painted the engine: Also, I added a couple of wires...I want this part be visible. For this, I'm going to use small magnets to fix the cover in place, without gluing, but allowing to remove it if desired. This other side, will be closed after assembly: A couple of pics of the engine and the cover open. The black arrow shows the place where the first magnet is glued: And here, the magnets in the cover side: Here, notice the magnet put in the front part. Finally, I needed four small magnets, in order to fix the cover properly: And this is the final result. The cover can be easily removed to show the engine: And close after. That's all for the moment. I hope you like it, and thanks for watching! Josep- 19 replies
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This is the new mould kit, which now sits alongside an old mould kit built as G-AHIZ (see http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234956327-tiger-moth-g-ahiz/ ) The new mould is streets ahead of the old one, but I still had to do a few tweaks to represent G-AOEI, and there's still a few more that I wimped out on- the nose panels are missing a vent each, and the twist fasteners. I took off the ribs on the nose cowling and used some decal for the anti-slip area. I added the tail-skid spring from fine copper wire wrapped around a needle, and scratchbuilt the generator under the nose. I removed the wedges that represent the aileron actuating rods and replaced with stretched sprue. I added the two short tie-bars that connect to the rear undercarriage legs. It's partly rigged, as I thought transporting to model shows was going to rip off the rudder and elevator controls on the first trip. I practiced on the old G-AHIZ model first, and that went much better than on the new mould kit, I think because the new one is less rigid and the stretched sprue rigging doesn't stand up to the flexing of the wings too well. The markings I drew up and printed on my home printer. I still need to make some of the Flying Group logos for the nose, the radio aerials and fuel guage There's one thing I would do differently when I build another- cut off the cross brace on the wing struts and fit each strut independently. Cutting off the brace after assembly is tricky, and cleaning up the struts after is a delicate task. Steve The real thing broken image links fixed 18Aug2015
