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It's a HOG! 1/72 Italeri A-10A Thunderbolt II - Completed! Pg.32


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18 hours ago, theplasticsurgeon said:

All fitted perfectly.

Different distances between locating lugs on aircraft and weapons, to avoid putting the pylon upside-down.

Thanks Tim :thumbsup: 

 

Bank Holiday yesterday in Italy, so despite of the lovely sunny weather, here's a small update 😃

 

Exhaust halves glued, and the turbine faces too

 

 

dav

 

The outside was then primed with Vallejo Grey Primer thinned with Future; once cured, I airbrushed them with Tamiya Gun Metal

dav

 

I couldn't find anything conclusive about the color of the protruding part of these exhausts, although I narrowed the choice down to the dark green tone of the camo scheme or dirty flat metal. Any hints?

 

The top starboard side of the engine nacelle needed some reworking, see the red circle in next pic

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This looks like a permanent mould fault, since I spotted the same thing in Ramon's pictures from a few posts back.

After reworking with a round file and some sandpaper

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Still a bit more to do, but I'll complete the job once joined with the bottom part

I sprayed the innards with Lifecolor Gloss Aircraft Grey

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These are going to be masked later, so that I can spray dark green on the back section.

 

While all of this was curing, I completed the canopy opening mechanism, drybrushing Dark Gull Grey first followed by Light Gull Grey (and a final flat clear coat )

dav

 

That's it for the day, comments welcome

 

Ciao

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5 hours ago, giemme said:

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I couldn't find anything conclusive about the color of the protruding part of these exhausts, although I narrowed the choice down to the dark green tone of the camo scheme or dirty flat metal. Any hints?

 

Hello Giorgio, again very interesting progress pics!

A few suggestions to treat the engines and engine nacelles.

I would paint the engines in a dark grey like in this picture that shows it very well.

 

The Hogs with the current light grey scheme, however, have these engines in a light grey color.

 

I'm not 100% sure but the dark grey could be FS36081 as used in the Euro 1 (or lizzard) scheme or a close match. Note that slight trace of one of the camouflage greens (probably accidentally) can be seen on the engine exhaust of the pic.

 

The interior of the engine nacelles have two different colors: The larger center of the nacelles is painted in gloss white on all planes (lizzard and ghost).

The aft third section of the nacelles are very likely FS36081. I'm not sure here, as there are very few good quality pics of this section. All I know is that this aft nacelle section is removed during engine repairs, exchanges and maintenance. Look at this sample picture.

 

Although of a poor quality, here are a few further pics of the engine nacelles of a damaged Hog.

 

Hope it helps!

 

Cheers

Ramon

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On 26/04/2018 at 21:46, TheBaron said:

That seems like a sensible use of a Bank Holiday Giorgio. The canopy opening mechanism looks particularly impressive!

Thanks Tony :thumbsup: As I said, BBQ + sun bathing + modelling - defintely a good use 😄

On 26/04/2018 at 22:48, Sting67 said:

 

Hello Giorgio, again very interesting progress pics!

A few suggestions to treat the engines and engine nacelles.

I would paint the engines in a dark grey like in this picture that shows it very well.

 

The Hogs with the current light grey scheme, however, have these engines in a light grey color.

 

I'm not 100% sure but the dark grey could be FS36081 as used in the Euro 1 (or lizzard) scheme or a close match. Note that slight trace of one of the camouflage greens (probably accidentally) can be seen on the engine exhaust of the pic.

 

The interior of the engine nacelles have two different colors: The larger center of the nacelles is painted in gloss white on all planes (lizzard and ghost).

The aft third section of the nacelles are very likely FS36081. I'm not sure here, as there are very few good quality pics of this section. All I know is that this aft nacelle section is removed during engine repairs, exchanges and maintenance. Look at this sample picture.

 

Although of a poor quality, here are a few further pics of the engine nacelles of a damaged Hog.

 

Hope it helps!

 

Cheers

Ramon

Interesting stuff as usual, Ramon :thumbsup:

As for the engine interiors: are you positive about the white? With this scheme, the interior surfaces are either Gloss Aircraft Grey or yellow (except the cockpit, of course).

Dark grey seems logical, as emerged at the beginning of this thread while speaking about the ailerons interior color; dark green is also an option for them, and I wondered if it could be the same for the nacelle terminal part.

 

From the link you posted, the exhaust looks camouflaged at the very end - I can see both dark grey and dark green -, while the rest looks like dull metal, with burnt and dirt streaks. 😕  :hmmm:

 

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1 hour ago, giemme said:

As for the engine interiors: are you positive about the white? With this scheme, the interior surfaces are either Gloss Aircraft Grey or yellow (except the cockpit, of course).

Dark grey seems logical, as emerged at the beginning of this thread while speaking about the ailerons interior color; dark green is also an option for them, and I wondered if it could be the same for the nacelle terminal part.

 

From the link you posted, the exhaust looks camouflaged at the very end - I can see both dark grey and dark green -, while the rest looks like dull metal, with burnt and dirt streaks. 😕  :hmmm:

 

Ciao

Hi Giorgio,

 

last subject first. The exhaust is, as you see well, dark grey but NOT green. This green you see, seems to be a little accident from a poor masking job when the aircraft was re-painted or retouched with its three camouflage colors. You will see that other aircraft don't have green on the exhaust. For the rest I agree with you that it looks like dull metal. Maybe a dark type of a matt gun metal is a good match, plus the weathering.

 

Regarding the first subject, I'm very sure that on all aircraft (Lizzard, Ghost etc) the middle interior section of the engine nacelles is gloss white. All other interiors, including the gear bays etc are in the so called ADC Grey FS16473 on all old lizzard camouflaged A-10As. Later they switched to gloss white for the landing gear and wheel bays. But I'm sure about the inside of the engine nacelles (see page 24, Colors & Markings #24 - A-10 Warthog ;) )

 

These reference pics of a (ghost grey) Hog has open engine nacelles that clearly show the white interior.

It seems that some pictures don't show the color well, but I will take white on my kit. That seems to be the official color for the middle section of the engine nacelles. However, I have a theory. Maybe in some rare cases the paint ran out and they took the next closest matching color as a replacement for the gloss white. That's only a theory and can, of course, only be verified by ground crew members that worked on the engine :D .

 

Ramon

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Thanks Ramon :thumbsup: 

 

Very long WE because of Labour Day, so here's an update with a bunch of pics; following Ramon's indication I sprayed every modeller's favorite color inside the engine nacelles - gloss white :frantic:, then masked with the cheapo kabuki tape

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Can you tell I sprayed Gloss White (Tamiya, BTW)? Well, it just need to give an idea of the color, not much is going to be visible once buttoned up 😉

 

I then airbrushed Lifecolor Dark Grey FS36081, and after de-masking:

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The small paint creep you see on the right part of the left nacelle half was later touched up by brush.

 

Time to glue the exhausts in, but first I wanted to knock back the shiny gun metal effect, as mentioned earlier. Next shot shows before and after the treatment, which consisted in some Dark Grey drybrush, a flat cleat coat and a black tempera wash

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Here are the two done

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A dryfit with the exhausts in place shows that there's an alignment tab that has to fit into the groove of the nacelle bottom half

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so I glued the exhausts in with the nacelle halves dry fitted, and secured them in place with some CA gel

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Then I proceeded gluing the two halves; how was the fit, I hear you asking? Standard Italeri, I'd say :frantic:

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Gaps, ridges, misshapes ... nothing dramatic, but in need of a lot of TLC. This will have to wait till I receive the resin intakes, though.

 

So, in the meantime, here's some random tasks I completed: detailing the ailerons hinges, for instance. I used a tape mask to cut a template out of clear acetate

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that allowed me to trace 8 reinforcement plates on alu tape

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which I then positioned and secured with some TET

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then I glued these "thingies" on the top ailerons:

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Any idea of what they are? I have no clear pics of that area :shrug:

 

Next up: nose wheel strut. Here's what we're looking at:

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and here's what Italeri supplies

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First off, I removed the actuator arm as it was already going to break off on first handling; I will pin it back using steel rod (from a paper clip)

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The wheel bay cover link is simply incorrect: the kit sports a single bracket piece, the real thing is made of two separate brackets. So this came off too

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The triangular reinforcements on the top part of the leg are incorrect too: they are not solid body as in the kit part, but hollowed out in the middle, so I cut them away

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This allowed me to reshape the bottom segment, which should be rounded and also the back part of the main segment (round as well)

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Reinforcements re-built using styrene sheet, 0.5mm thickness

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I also reshaped the middle supporting plate

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I cut off the lamps as well, pinned with steel wire and hollowed out 

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Glued them back in place

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This was left to cure before doing anything else. Meanwhile, I pinned the actuator arm and replaced the tiny bracket on top of it with brass pipe

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Bay door: I glued in two small strips, cut from a beer can 😉 

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Once properly cured, I reshaped them using a Dremel sanding disc, and filled in the gaps with PPP

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Now I need to add all the cabling and the links to the bay door, glue the actuator arm back in and set it aside waiting for primer. Next time, though :smile:

 

All comments welcome

 

Ciao

 

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I think the term is fits where it touches Giemme.

Nice details on the flaps sir.

And your usual eye for detail on the nose wheel leg, micro surgery.

 

Looks like you got some good time at the bench.

 

Simon.

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1 hour ago, Spookytooth said:

I think the term is fits where it touches Giemme.

Nice details on the flaps sir.

And your usual eye for detail on the nose wheel leg, micro surgery.

 

Looks like you got some good time at the bench.

 

Simon.

Thanks mate :thumbsup: Not as much time as it seems, I've been pretty lazy over last 4 days 😁

 

4 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

The mystery aileron bits look like mass balances to me 

I was thinking the same, Crisp - but couldn't find any pics to confirm it 🤷‍♂️ 

 

Ciao

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Great progress there Giorgio. Always following with much interest, even if not much posting.

 

Those mass balances are actually connected with the trim tabs.

In the "manual reversion" (hydraulic failure) they are a big help to move the aileron.

Bye

Eugenio

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14 hours ago, Sgt.Squarehead said:

Your tank has very small wheels.....The suspension is very nicely done though.  ;)

Thanks Sarge :thumbsup: It also has big wings ... :whistle: :rofl: 

 

12 hours ago, 72linerlover said:

Great progress there Giorgio. Always following with much interest, even if not much posting.

 

Those mass balances are actually connected with the trim tabs.

In the "manual reversion" (hydraulic failure) they are a big help to move the aileron.

Bye

Eugenio

Thanks Euge, good to hear from you :thumbsup: Looks like I finally found a pic showing it 

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You are Welcome, Giorgio.

Perhaps I had to be more specific.
The mass balances, fixed to the trim tab, make easier to move the tab itself.
The tab movement generate the aerodynamic force that move the aileron, so for example:
- the control bar moves the trim tab (say) upwards and the trim tab moves the aileron downwards.
The tabs act as servo-actuator for the ailerons.
Those tabs are present only on the upper part of the aileron and iirc the Manual says that the airbrake function of the split ailerons is deactivated in “manual reversion”.

Bye

Eugenio

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Great work Giorgio - I really like the effect you achieved on the exhausts and I'll certainly be trying that :thumbsup:

The fit of the nacelles is a pain eh? I wonder why some manufacturers seem to think this is 'good enough' - is it the design, old moulds or just bad moulding? Who knows :shrug:

 

The work on the u/c looks good too - can't wait to see it after it's had the 'full Giemme treatment' :)

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7 hours ago, 72linerlover said:

You are Welcome, Giorgio.

Perhaps I had to be more specific.
The mass balances, fixed to the trim tab, make easier to move the tab itself.
The tab movement generate the aerodynamic force that move the aileron, so for example:
- the control bar moves the trim tab (say) upwards and the trim tab moves the aileron downwards.
The tabs act as servo-actuator for the ailerons.
Those tabs are present only on the upper part of the aileron and iirc the Manual says that the airbrake function of the split ailerons is deactivated in “manual reversion”.

Bye

Eugenio

Thanks Eugenio, great insight :thumbsup:

 

7 hours ago, CedB said:

Great work Giorgio - I really like the effect you achieved on the exhausts and I'll certainly be trying that :thumbsup:

The fit of the nacelles is a pain eh? I wonder why some manufacturers seem to think this is 'good enough' - is it the design, old moulds or just bad moulding? Who knows :shrug:

 

The work on the u/c looks good too - can't wait to see it after it's had the 'full Giemme treatment' :)

Thanks Ced :thumbsup:  I don't know either about the nacelles, but for sure the mould isn't in its best conditions, looking at other dents I had to sort on one of the top wings 

 

Ciao

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1 hour ago, giemme said:

looking at other dents I had to sort on one of the top wings 

  

 

Ironic, isn't it Giorgio? Italeri give you dents in the wing tops that you have to sort out, but then they give you a nice smooth nose that you then go & dent....!! :rofl2:

 

Keith

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3 hours ago, keefr22 said:

 

Ironic, isn't it Giorgio? Italeri give you dents in the wing tops that you have to sort out, but then they give you a nice smooth nose that you then go & dent....!! :rofl2:

 

Keith

:rofl: But wait: the nose had fit problems and wasn't the right shape, so being there ... :whistle: 😄

 

 

31 minutes ago, massimo said:

Sorry I missed your update and saw it just now!!!

She's looking really good! and the last details are impressive!!!🤩

Thanks Massimo, much appreciated :thumbsup:

 

Ciao

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Hi everybody;

 

no update today because I was away from home during last WE.

 

However, I do have something to show, as this arrived this morning from the UK

 

dav

 

So I'm now ready to complete the nacelles job  - and very close to primer stage :yahoo:

 

Ciao

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15 hours ago, Azgaron said:

Excellent build so far! :)

 

Håkan

 

Thanks Håkan, glad you like it :thumbsup:

 

Ciao

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Great work Giorgio.

Your rework of the front u/c reminded me of this:

 

Glad to see you've got your correct blades but help but notice they are for the Hobby Boss kit, let's hope that they fit :police:.

 

Ciao

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4 minutes ago, Courageous said:

Glad to see you've got your correct blades but help but notice they are for the Hobby Boss kit, let's hope that they fit :police:.

Yes, this is something that has already come up - in fact, I bought them because Ramon @Sting67 had already tried them and posted a pic of the fit a few pages back.

Even if they shouldn't fit perfectly, an Italeri-like kind of fit would still be good :devil:  😏

 

Ciao

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They have not a perfectly tight fit. But I find that the margin of fitting is still acceptable. Still a bit of room to move the fans around a bit. It's always a bit difficult to show it on pics well. At least to my view they are good enough. I bought enough of these Intakes for all five kits (4 Italeri, 1 Hasegawa) I have. At the moment I'm fighting with more serious problems of the kit.

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