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Curtiss H75 Captain Jean Accart GC 1/5 May 1940


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For this Gb I have started today the new Curtiss H75 by Azmodel that I recentkly received

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The building instructions l
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The 2 decals sheets
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The kit is composed of 45 parts in grey plastic and 4 crystal parts for the canopy
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A few details
Cockpit
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Engine
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So I will represent the aircraft flown by captain Jean Accart

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Accart

 

 

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I am going to use a Yahumodels Instrument panel and Eduard PE seat belts

 

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I started by painting the interior of the cockpit s
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I have painted the seat and placed the Eduard PE seat belts and glued the  Yahuumodels instrument panel on its support
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I also prepared hte engine
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Good evening

 One of my friend told me that the seat was painted in green so today I repainted it

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then I placed it on the right half fuselage

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I also placed the instrument panel on the right half fuselage
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5 hours ago, AaCee26 said:

Hi Patrice,

Have you compared this kit with Monogram? If so how does it dfiffer in main dimencions? Especially interesting is the fselage width.

 

Greetings,

 

AaCee

Good evening AcCee26 

I did not take the time to compare this new kit with the Mongram one ..

 

Today after some dry fitting tests of the wings I decided to place the lower part of the wing to the fuselage first

 

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These dry fitting tests showed that I will have to use some putty ..

 

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Good evening

This morning I placed the upper parts of the wings and horizontal stabs

 

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As you can see I will have to use some putty and even some plastic card to fill the gaps (I must admit that I was expecting this ) ..

 

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Good morning

 Yesterday evening I tried to fill the gaps and after all the putty was sufficient of course I will have to do some sanding today (if I have enough time  ..).

 

Patrice

 

 

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Good progress on these two, shame about the gap under the wing but thats what we expect from AZ. Got a couple of these on order and having built the old monogram and heller H75's im looking forward to doing a comparison. I still love the Heller kit so if you have any views between the two, id greatly hear them.

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12 hours ago, Hardtarget said:

Good progress on these two, shame about the gap under the wing but thats what we expect from AZ. Got a couple of these on order and having built the old monogram and heller H75's im looking forward to doing a comparison. I still love the Heller kit so if you have any views between the two, id greatly hear them.

Good morning Hardtarget

 My modelling time is currently spent on finishing the SH Mirage F1CR but as soon as I have completed it I will concentrate on the H75 and I will try to do some comparison as I have both Heller Mongram and Revell kits in my stash along with the AML H75 A4 ...

Best regards

Patrice

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Good evening

I forgot to post pics of the filling and sanding phase ..

A few days ago one of my friend told me that AZmade a mistake on the acces hatches to the gun

 Here are the right design

 

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So Yesterday  according to the plans above I tried to rescribe theses acces hatches but with the paint my work is hardly visible

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I filled the upper hatches
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And today I started to paint the underside in blue Humbrol  65
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 I also started to paint the upper side in Grey Hu 106

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Patrice

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1 hour ago, Grandboof said:

Good evening Patrice

Looking good I will be taking notes If you don't mind 

Martin H

Good morning

 With great pleasure in fact I hope that my build will help everyone interested by the Curtiss H75 ...

Best regards

Patrice

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