AnonymousDFB1 Posted September 16, 2014 Share Posted September 16, 2014 Nicely done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Removed the EZ line and rebored the holes, clear-coated the SE5a tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted September 18, 2014 Author Share Posted September 18, 2014 It actually looks a little bit better in real life, he said, lamely. Too anxious to work on it more tonight, and I expect that, one way or another, I'll be too drunk to do anything tomorrow night. But I'm taking Friday off, so perhaps progress then. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousDFB1 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 You're getting there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Brilliant work. Really like the rigging on the Camel. The se5a is looking the dog's too. The linen coat on the wings really sets it off. Reference your comment about it looking better in real life, I think it's due to the lighting which doesn't do the green justice. On a personal note I'm sorry to hear about your father. Can only reiterate Stew Dapple's words. It's my dad's birthday today so my thoughts are with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted September 19, 2014 Author Share Posted September 19, 2014 Tom - I think you're right about the lighting: I model in a basement grotto, which though convenient for obscuring the true size of the stash, is heck on my cell phone's camera. Here she be in daylight: As you can see, I've added the Roden decals for the inspection panels in the wings and tailplanes. The difference in quality between these and the lovely Pheon decals is like night and day. They didn't want to settle, were thick, oh, it was awful, awful, I tell you. Pheon, on the other hand: dream. You can also note my incredibly cheap plastic lawn furniture on our tiny, truncated front deck, and the lush, long-unmowed grass of my lawn. Thank you all for your kind words about my father. I've been quite depressed this week, but am feeling immensely better now. If indeed my father has cancer, it's been detected early enough that they can intervene medically with a high chance of success, and if he doesn't, well, so much the better! The Camel, I sadly must report, has suffered a disaster: while trimming the rigging, I forgot that not all of it was glued, and much of it came undone. While cleverly attempting to remove a recalcitrant remaining strand with my teeth (I am a clear thinker in times of strife), I managed to wrench the wings apart and lose a strut. I'm not unduly worried, as Roden kits are cheaply obtained here, and I have a second Camel, but it was another growth experience. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted September 20, 2014 Author Share Posted September 20, 2014 So, thanks to a series of frustrating misadventures, I ended up putting the top wing and interplane struts on. The cabanes I'll have to insert later, which I'm sure will be fun. Roden's cabanes don't actually have any locating pins, although they should, which is a more than minor annoyance. After knocking the interplane struts off five or six times, I just said to hell with it and put on the wing. I also started rigging, which was not a great idea, but you gotta start sometime. This is not the best order of operations to rig in. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Hat duly doffed PC good luck with the cabane struts - hint: probably don't use your teeth for this Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousDFB1 Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Very nice rigging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonR Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Great work on the rigging, I struggle with 1/48, cant imagine doing it in 72nd! cheers Simon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted September 20, 2014 Share Posted September 20, 2014 Much better under natural lighting. Sorry to hear about the Camel's sad demise. However, it's sacrifice is not in vain, it will live on by way of experienced gained and put to use on the SE5a. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Wonderful work Procopius. You're well ahead of me now: resin AND rigging in 2014. Hope all is well with your father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 The rigging is now about half-done. Slightly less, if I add the side rigging to the cabanes. I'm not doing the very small lines that come off the ailerons and elevators, because the very small projections the lines pass over aren't molded on the kit and I'm much, much too cheap to fork over nearly twice the model's cost for a PE set. I had contemplated trying to stretch sprue and making them thus, but I couldn't get it thin enough and anyway my innate fear of fire is strong. So far, I feel like I'm now qualified to weigh in on some of the pros and cons of EZ-line and invisible mending thread from the perspective of an adventurous-when-fueled-by-strong-drink-but-below-average modeller. There's no question that the nylon invisible mending thread imparts a good deal more structural strength to a kit; indeed, on the Camel, I first rigged it and then glued the wings in place. That wouldn't be possible with EZ -line, which is skittish and can be tugged out by an errant hand, causing a stream of language which might, if not carefully directed, melt the kit you're working on. The invisible mending thread is harder to tension, however, since it has no elasticity, and at 0.1mm, it doesn't bend as sharply as EZ-line. EZ-line also, despite the claims of the manufacturer, definitely can and does fray. Not cool when it happens. EZ-line, however, is much, much easier to add as an afterthought, a huge and decisive advantage if you are, like me, prone to getting well ahead of yourself and not very good at planning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted September 21, 2014 Author Share Posted September 21, 2014 The last decals are drying now, and tomorrow, sunlight providing, I'll snap some shots for the gallery. There are about a million things wrong with this build, and some of them are even visible in this photo. But this is probably the first model I've built since starting up the hobby four years ago that I'm genuinely proud of. I tried my absolute hardest on this, and [warning, emotional, overwrought bit coming up] in its wholly insignificant way, I hope it serves as a tribute not only to Jones, who is one of my heroes and who was a brave and good man, but also to all the thousands upon thousands of Britons stolen by the war and the war which came after. Our love for the dead is a heavy and unwieldy thing; it's hard to make manifest, but with us always. For my own part, scarcely a day goes by when I don't think of them. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I can't seen anything wrong and I can see a lot to be proud of. Good job PC Cheers, Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousDFB1 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Nicely done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Sterling work. Prop and the rigging set it off well. Good pros and cons vis-a-vis EZ line and invisible mending thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bengalensis Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 I think it's looking great. A job well done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 That's a beauty, and thanks for the rigging tips Procopius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted September 22, 2014 Share Posted September 22, 2014 nice work that well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Good job Procopius - them things is tiny in 1/72. Looks grand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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