Mirage Models 1/48 Lublin R.XIII Ter

[Moonlighter]

My build for this GB is this kit I found on Ebay while looking for something I'd never come across before. Should be an interesting build, I think. I've also got myself a PE set from Part in Poland, and a Yahu control panel as another option. 

 

 

Not too many parts, and they look pretty good. Not sure about the deep lines on the floats though...a bit "padded cell":

 

 

 

Also not many decals for a 1/48 kit. 1930s aircraft had fewer markings though, I guess. 

 

 

Only one page of instructions, along with a black and white painting guide:

 

 

Thanks for looking in - I'm excited to join in the GB as I've not joined one for ages. I've made a start on the fully PE cockpit so far, but I'll post that later on. 

 

Let the fun begin! 

Edited September 24, 2019 by Moonlighter

[Thom216]

Looks like a promising lil kit.

[dnl42]

Nice! 

 

I've got those same bits in the stash. The land version went together reasonably well. 

[Courageous]

Looks interesting and as you some of those panel lines are a bit 'padded cell'.

 

Stuart

[Davek72]

21 hours ago, Moonlighter said:

My build for this GB is this kit I found on Ebay while looking for something I'd never come across before. Should be an interesting build, I think. I've also got myself a PE set from Part in Poland, and a Yahu control panel as another option. 

 

 

Not too many parts, and they look pretty good. Not sure about the deep lines on the floats though...a bit "padded cell":

 

 

 

Also not many decals for a 1/48 kit. 1930s aircraft had fewer markings though, I guess. 

 

 

Only one page of instructions, along with a black and white painting guide:

 

 

Thanks for looking in - I'm excited to join in the GB as I've not joined one for ages. I've made a start on the fully PE cockpit so far, but I'll post that later on. 

 

Let the fun begin! 

Looks fun.  Never seen one of these before.

 

Dave

[jrlx]

Hi Moonlighter!

 

Welcome to the GB! Very interesting aircraft, looking forward to seeing it built!

 

Good luck!

 

Jaime

 

[Moonlighter]

Thanks for all the replies, I hope the build doesn't disappoint!

 

So like I said, I made a start on the PE cockpit. It's all quite fiddly, and the instructions are not very clear as usual. Also there isn't much online in the way of reference material, so I'll just have to make an educated guess at the positioning of some parts. Anyway, here's what I've done so far:

 

 

Edited September 30, 2019 by Moonlighter

[jrlx]

Great start with the PE cockpit! Very well done so far!

 

[Moonlighter]

Please excuse the radio silence - I've not had a lot of bench time recently, but finally managed to get the cockpit pretty much done. The fiddliest part was holding the side frames in place to glue them, but I managed to lean them up against a bottle while I lined up the floor section. 

 

In the absence of any reference photos, I just painted it with Vallejo Metal Color dull aluminium. I'll have a go at fashioning some seat-belts out of masking tape, though I'm not sure what configuration they would have been in, so it'll just be guesswork.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 25, 2019 by Moonlighter

[Courageous]

That looks very nice if a little fragile.

 

Stuart

[Moonlighter]

48 minutes ago, Courageous said:

That looks very nice if a little fragile.

 

Stuart

You're not wrong! I hold my breath any time i'm near it. Can't wait till it's glued in place!

[jrlx]

Excellent work on the cockpit!

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

[Grandboof]

Great work so far 

Martin H

[Moonlighter]

It seems I'm not taking as many photos as I normally do. Since my last update I've buttoned up the fuselage and built up the wings and pontoons. Here's a photo of some seam work being done on the fuselage - just a bit of vallejo plastic putty which I'll sand down once it's fully dried out.

 

 

Not too many issues so far, I'm just trying to do a better job than I normally do on the seams. I actually think I'll be ready to paint soon - I figure I'm best to paint the wings and pontoons separately from the fuselage.

[Moonlighter]

Here are the subassemblies ready for primer:

 

[CliffB]

I'm just catching up with this one Moonlighter.

Your PE cockpit looks superb and hopefully will be nice and visible when all is done.

 

Cliff

[Courageous]

Primer and paint, that's what we like to see.

 

Stuart

[JOCKNEY]

Wow this is coming along a treat. Given the size of this kit, and how its turning out im amazed we haven't seen more of them being built.

Thats likely to change after you have finished this one !

Cheers Pat 

[Moonlighter]

With the wife out with a friend tonight I had an incredibly productive evening painting and assembling. Not many photos as I went along, but here are a couple:

 

 

 

Quite a big wingspan!

 

The only parts I still need to assemble are the prop and the gun, then add the windscreen.

 

Thanks for the comments so far - and thanks for looking! 

[AdrianMF]

Looks like a good result with the fiddly cockpit and all that strutwork to align. I'm not familiar with the type - I had to scroll back to the beginning to see if it is a biplane or not!

 

Regards,

Adrian

[bigbadbadge]

Ooooh this looks lovely, great work so far, cockpit details look great .

Keep up the good work

All the best

Chris

[Moonlighter]

And just like that, it's finished!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to everybody who had a look and commented.

[JOCKNEY]

Wow, ive seen this one for sale but this is the first built one.

Congratulations it looks the business 

 

Cheers Pat 

[PeterB]

Nicely detailed kit - I presume the things on the upper wing are what are sometimes called "bench type" aileron tabs? I have heard about them but never seen them before - like the "paddle balances" under the wing of my Clog, yet another early variation on control tabs.

 

Pete

[Johnson]

Lovely work, well done!