Courageous Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Small progress is better than no progress...please continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted December 26, 2017 Author Share Posted December 26, 2017 (edited) I filled in the panel lines that did not exist on the real airplane, scribed other ones that did, and worked on the undercarriage a bit. I used the photo-etched legs from the kit and scratchbuild the axle. You can see Mk. II on the photo. For the Mk. I - that ended up in thrash - I used plastic pieces glued by Tamiya Extra Thin in order to represent the ribs. I did one side, let it "mature" overnight, and in the morning the axle was nicely bow-shaped, quite probably by some overreaction of the axle plastic to the glue. So I changed to aluminium foil and CA glue for the Mk. II, and the result looks really nice in my opinion, The original photo-etched axle from the kit is in forefront for comparison. Edited December 26, 2017 by Patrik 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted December 28, 2017 Author Share Posted December 28, 2017 Added a few more scratchbuild details on the undercarriage. The extra wide track is clearly apparent from this picture. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Glad to see good progress Patrik, very useful for when I get round to doing mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Most recently I was occupied with construction of the prominent gun shelves. Is it just me, or do more of you hate scratch building parts that come in pairs (triplets, quadruplets, ...), and need to look almost identical? OK, here they were at least mirrored, in this case meaning I managed to start the second shelf assembly exactly the same way as the first = the other way round than needed. However I am nearing the first round of painting, the fuselage + lower wing are more or less complete. I just need to add a few details on the upper wing central section before I start with the brush. All the best in 2018 for all of you Patrik 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Patrik, do you have a close-up shot of the underside or can you you tell me the wing shape...concave? The kit being a vacform implies that the wings will be concave but I don't see this in any of your images, this also applies to the tail section. Happy 2018. Stuart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted December 31, 2017 Author Share Posted December 31, 2017 Tried to make a photo of the upper wing profile for you. Concave it is, but in fact much less apparent than the photo may indicate. The lower wing is of the same profile and the tail is flat, so the tail underside profile depends on your sanding skills. The leading edge is on the right. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Some splendid controlled work Patrik; a real pleasure reading through the progress you've made so far. Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 That's looking extremely tidy, Patrik. Great work! Happy New Year! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 The wing section was probably RAF 15 (BE. 2 /RE.8, or a close version. I'll have to look it up. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 21, 2018 Author Share Posted January 21, 2018 Not that much to show in past few weeks except slow painting progress. I am almost through the first round, small corrections still needed, but I am ready to upgrade the kit to its biplane form. By the way you can guess which marking I selected for my Nightjar. Small hint - I hope I survive decorating the wheels without permanent brain damage. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Looking good. I don't envy you painting those wheels! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldone Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 Looking really good and nice, best of luck with the wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 What the others have said. Looking pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Two more steps down the road. The propeller is a temporary installation only. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Lovely work. How do you propose to tackle the wheels - a series of round masks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 28, 2018 Author Share Posted January 28, 2018 The plan for the wheels had been like white first, then mask the white circle, then blue and the tyre black, and in the end the red circle as a decal (not forgetting the silver dope on the inner side). Working so far! Just that the oblique conic section is from principle not a circle, but an ellipse - so hopefully not only the matematicians among us understand the problem of masking a circle over a cone in an oblique position. The wheels of H8537 have been shown as red-white in older references. Also the kit instructions and decals have it in the same way. Whereas the Datafile No.160 does not in my opinion bring a 100% proof H8537 wheels were not red-white only, it on the other hand shows without doubt that other airplanes of No. 203 Squadron from the same period had the wheels in blue-white-red combination. So it is most probably safe to assume H8537 was no exception. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted January 28, 2018 Share Posted January 28, 2018 Those wheels are looking good. Circle or ellipse, nobody will notice in this scale. Carry on Patrik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted February 18, 2018 Author Share Posted February 18, 2018 Skiing vacation combined with business travelling reduced my modelling to the "watching the work of the others over the internet" kind in past three weeks. And the task I was facing did not help either. But now, when all 8 interplane struts have been measured, carved, tested, shortened, tested again, ..., masked and painted, I am on the best way to be able to present you the Nightjar in its biplane form next week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Welcome back Patrik. Nice to see some more progress with the Nightjar, nearly at the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 Biplane at last. The only real mistake I made was not cutting the pipe under the central section before the upper wing was on. It was quite a pain to get both the shape and the size right in the small gap afterwards. Just a few more details and I can go on painting the wings. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkSH Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Fantastic work on something so small, very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Looking very nice Patrik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 A really nice job you're making on this, now that I've found the thread. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Worth the wait, she's looking great! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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