giemme Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 3 hours ago, Spookytooth said: That joint was a S.. , I had to fill and sand on the Airfix one. Difficult area to model I suppose. Looking good mate. Simon. I guess this is a week point in any Eurofighter kit, Simon. Not so difficult to deal with, thanks to the milliput: a few swipes with a round file, sandpaper and nail polishing stick. And milliput takes rescribing very well too. 55 minutes ago, CedB said: Looking very good Giorgio - good save Thanks Ced Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, keefr22 said: Making great progress G! 👍 K Thanks Keith Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 15 hours ago, keefr22 said: PS re the Stuka, what does Picchiatello mean? Sorry Keith, didn't see your question at first. It's a sort of joke on the dive bomber role: in Italian it would be "bombardiere in picchiata", but "picchiato" or "picchiatello" also means slightly crazy (you could sort of translate it as beaten up, referring to a hit on the head) Ciao 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Why are the intakes so difficult on Typhoon kits? I have the Revell 1/48 version and according to builds I’ve seen it’s a nightmare. I bought a resin seamless intake set for it but I don’t think it’s going to make it much better, I’ll probably just go for FOD covers if I ever build it. Keep on keeping on. John 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basket Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 4 hours ago, giemme said: Sorry Keith, didn't see your question at first. It's a sort of joke on the dive bomber role: in Italian it would be "bombardiere in picchiata", but "picchiato" or "picchiatello" also means slightly crazy (you could sort of translate it as beaten up, referring to a hit on the head) Ciao Thx for explaining , funny indeed since it's exactely the same joke in french !!!! In this case , the aircraft is qualified as a " bombardier en piqué " ( dive bomber ) and the pilot of the aircraft ( le bombardier ) might be called " bombardier piqué " which can be translated by " nuts" !!! BTW , will this original beast be the ne t on your bench ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlaStix Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Hi Giorgio. Hope you are well. Lovely progress although it’s a shame the fit isn’t great in places. The cockpit with the resin and your lovely painting looks excellent. Looking forward to seeing more. Kind regards, Stix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 2 hours ago, Biggles87 said: Why are the intakes so difficult on Typhoon kits? I have the Revell 1/48 version and according to builds I’ve seen it’s a nightmare. I bought a resin seamless intake set for it but I don’t think it’s going to make it much better, I’ll probably just go for FOD covers if I ever build it. Keep on keeping on. John Is it the Olympus Resin set? I did look for their 1/72 version, but it's out of stock everywhere. Anyway, IIRC, also the Hasegawa kit has the same engineering for the intakes, so I guess there's no better way to reproduce it in injected plastic - then again, I'm under the impression my sample is a Friday afternoon job: I keep going back to @The Spadgent 's build of this same kit, and he had no problems in fitting the splitter plate, as well as the wing to the fuselage (later for that). See below for another small issue, BTW. There must be something self induced, too. And yes, I'll keep on 1 hour ago, basket said: Thx for explaining , funny indeed since it's exactely the same joke in french !!!! In this case , the aircraft is qualified as a " bombardier en piqué " ( dive bomber ) and the pilot of the aircraft ( le bombardier ) might be called " bombardier piqué " which can be translated by " nuts" !!! BTW , will this original beast be the ne t on your bench ? I don't think it's going to be the next, it's just that I had read a review of this kit a while ago and once I spotted it in my LMS, I couldn't resist ... It's a bit early to think of next build, but I think I've made up my mind already. It's going to be another jet, and a pretty easy guess too .... 26 minutes ago, PlaStix said: Hi Giorgio. Hope you are well. Lovely progress although it’s a shame the fit isn’t great in places. The cockpit with the resin and your lovely painting looks excellent. Looking forward to seeing more. Kind regards, Stix Thanks Stix, I'm good and I hope you are too Glad you like her As I mentioned above, I started dealing with some small issues; yesterday I've been fettling a lot around the fuselage to lower wing assembly, which also involves the exhaust cans and the intakes. Mostly dry fitting (no gluing at all, anyway), but I still needed to take care of something else before jumping into that. So here's one of the small issues: The rear end of the fuselage halves aren't flush; furthermore, there's some sort of sensor not provided in the kit, in place of that sort of protruding small cylinder on the upper rear end of the spine, see here (source primeportal.net): So I snipped the kit part off and sanded everything flush Here's a dry fit of the tail parachute cover The whole process took no more than five minutes; easy, right? Well, can't you spot the problem? No? Maybe with some help: The difference in level between port and starboard fuselage ends is very visible in real life; port looks to be the correct one. So out with a flat file, ETS and polishing stick, and finally Of course, during the process I put some dents into starboard rear fuselage, which I had to fill in with CA and sand back, etc etc.. all good fun Next task will be dealing with the intakes - meanwhile, all comments welcome Ciao 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Problems with your back end sir? Fnar. Things don`t look to bad from here G. Good luck with those intakes mate. Simon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Some great updates since I last checked Giorgio, progressing really well indeed. The cockpit is looking especially good. Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 1 hour ago, Spookytooth said: Problems with your back end sir? Fnar. Things don`t look to bad from here G. Good luck with those intakes mate. Simon. You naughty boy! Thanks anyway And I'm gonna need all the luck and patience with them intakes 1 hour ago, Terry1954 said: Some great updates since I last checked Giorgio, progressing really well indeed. The cockpit is looking especially good. Terry Thanks Terry, much appreciated! The resin cockpit has nice and crisp details, I'm pretty happy with it - worthy AM Ciao 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Nice work Giorgio. No doubt you’ll be producing your usual level of detail on the bottom! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 10 minutes ago, CedB said: Nice work Giorgio. No doubt you’ll be producing your usual level of detail on the bottom! You naughty boy #2! Thanks Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 10 minutes ago, CedB said: No doubt you’ll be producing your usual level of detail on the bottom! Are we even allowed to say that! 😳 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 2 hours ago, giemme said: It's going to be another jet, and a pretty easy guess too .... F-104S.... K 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 1 hour ago, keefr22 said: F-104S.... K Ah, no. I don't feel like I'm ready for that (long story). It's easier than that, anyway... Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andwil Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 2 hours ago, keefr22 said: F-104S.... K 1 hour ago, giemme said: Ah, no. I don't feel like I'm ready for that (long story). It's easier than that, anyway... Ciao Judging by your Avatar, a Phantom. AW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 At least you don’t have tailplanes to fit to your uneven rear end! john 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 12, 2019 Author Share Posted August 12, 2019 6 hours ago, Andwil said: Judging by your Avatar, a Phantom. AW Told you it was easy.... 33 minutes ago, Biggles87 said: At least you don’t have tailplanes to fit to your uneven rear end! john No, thank goodness I don't Ciao 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 18 minutes ago, giemme said: Told you it was easy.... I had guessed, but was hoping it really wasn't that easy.... K 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spookytooth Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 A Phantom,!!!! Never!!! Simon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 (edited) On 12/08/2019 at 08:47, keefr22 said: I had guessed, but was hoping it really wasn't that easy.... K On 12/08/2019 at 15:10, Spookytooth said: A Phantom,!!!! Never!!! Simon. Simon, Keith, I've started having withdrawal symptoms from not building Phantoms ... Anyway, time for some progress report. Where were we? Ah yes, intakes. Two warnings before I start a) lots of pic to follow b) I didn't intend to replicate the full intake trunking, just something that would give the illusion of seamless intakes at this scale So out came the Stabilo eraser gum This can be easily shaped with blades and the usual sanding tools, so after marking the outlines with a fine marker, I carved out and sanded a vacforming template I inserted a rod in it (it's actually a straightened paper clip) to give it some rigidity and keep the curved shape then used some 0.3mm styrene sheet for the vacforming, obtaining these (2 good out of 4 attempts ... ) First dryfit to get something like this The trunking was held in place with some blue tack, so I could glue it to the kit intake with TET As you can see, I glued them in proud of the kit part, and reinforced the join with CA, as a filler. I then used a rounded file and sandpaper to get this Another dryfit with the fuselage showed that the trunking side edge would be pretty visible so I decided to add a length of styrene (this time 0.2mm and hand bent against a round brush shaft), kept in place by an external reinforcing "plate" (all glued with TET) Of course this edge was also visible I intended to blend it in once fuselage and wings were mated, but then I thought it would have been complicated (not an easy spot to reach, also for airbrushing), so I decided to add another length of styrene, enough to reach out to the intake external side edges I determined the shape of this additional segment by placing some tape inside the intake outer sides and running a pencil on the edges; I then removed the tape, stuck onto the styrene sheet and cut accordingly. After a few more dryfits I got this Some filling and sanding was in order, so I applied milliput along the joints and again, after some sanding and polishing (and some PPP to complete the job, especially towards the front part of the joints) Seamless "intakes" ready Well, not quite: there's some sort of sensor inside port intake, visible here So I scratch built it What I did was to punch out a 2mm plastic disc from very thin styrene (from a yogurt cup, hey it's the first time I bring that out in this build ) and glued it in place with TET. Then the sensor was built from 0.1mm brass sheet, bending a strip around a short segment of thin copper wire and soldering it to fill in the voids. The resulting chunk of metal was reworked with a Dremel sanding disc, and glued in place with CA. You can probably see it better here Here's another shot of this dryfit with regular light Looks good enough for the scale to me. Of course the fore parts need to be glued to the kit sides and then blended into the outer edges, but that is going to be quite easy, once I glue the fuselage to the wings. Here's a pic using flash Again, it looks good enough for me, but I'd really appreciate your comments on this. Ciao Edited August 15, 2019 by giemme 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Very nice intakes Giorgio - amazing job 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andwil Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Brilliant work on those intakes. AW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 That's a bit brilliant. After seeing you do this & the Sea Vixen, I'm thinking there is something in this idea, quite a lot in fact. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I don’t think you would have achieved anything better with the resin set, another ‘ brilliant! ‘ from me. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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