JWM Posted November 8, 2019 Author Share Posted November 8, 2019 52 minutes ago, jrlx said: Great progress! Thank you! I glued together wings with upper center part of wing As well as floats Used Tamiya rattle can with silver to paint engines and propellers After setting pieces together I made first sanding of floats fronts and add some filler fo the end of the day To be continued As trial I fill all openings with cleairfix, just to check how it works. I am going to remove them to make painting easier and then apply new back Cheers J-W Cheers J-W 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 That looks very good. Interesting modifications that you have made too .. I guess that that is a fairly large model - probably too large for me as I only have limited space, but because of it's odd shape I would be willing to have one in my collection! P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 9, 2019 Author Share Posted November 9, 2019 6 hours ago, pheonix said: That looks very good. Interesting modifications that you have made too .. I guess that that is a fairly large model - probably too large for me as I only have limited space, but because of it's odd shape I would be willing to have one in my collection! P Thank you! This is size of Sm 81 Pipistrello (I suspect they share the same wing, like Northrop Gamma and Delta do...) , so roughly a bit smaller than Wellington Namely: Sm 55 Length: 16.5 m (54 ft 2 in) Wingspan: 24 m (78 ft 9 in) Sm81 Length: 18.3 m (60 ft 0 in) Wingspan: 24 m (78 ft 9 in) Wellington Length: 64 ft 7 in (19.69 m) Wingspan: 86 ft 2 in (26.26 m) Regards J-W 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 9, 2019 Author Share Posted November 9, 2019 I drilled out new windows in front of floats and lorge holes on top of wings for additional gunner positions in Savoia used in SCW (as one can observe on photos of that machine). I glued also booms and tail! The booms are not glued with rest of machine, I will not do this before end of intense sanding of floats and wings. Here it is attache just with tape, the booms are a bit too long it has to be adjuste, to keep booms stright, not a bit arc shape: Above you may see, that I protected "side walk" on wing with tabe, not to damage it by sanding. Similar protection I made on sides of floatas. I started to drill openings for riging with 0.7 mm drill (the smallest unbroken I have now ). Some filler and sanding is required in tail/boom junction and between tail parts themselvs as well. The position of riging cables and control rods in tail are different in model and in drawing which I have, so I have again to look at photos to judge which is closer to truth... To be continued Regards Jerzy-Wojtek 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Interesting looking machine! Pete 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 (edited) Report from today: I had to move outside elements controling elevator. In model they are much to close to middle. So I have to blind current position and cut new openings for those elements. Below is again model set together with seen also elements like: 1. beech buggy (I m not sure if machine in SCW operating from Balear island had beech buggy on site, and if how it looked like, anyway on shelf it will look better with buggy) 2. Clear canopies for rear position - I cur them from a laboratory probe made of styrene 3. Elevator 4. I have to check if ailerons control element are correct, I have doubts. And a close up with engine tower on position (not glued) BTW - I painted bottom of engines: Cheers J-W Edited November 10, 2019 by JWM 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 10, 2019 Author Share Posted November 10, 2019 I have found in spare parts the turrets (only the clear parts) from Italeri Cant Z 501 Gabbiano, which looks very similar to what can be observed from photos about the turrets. So I will not do mine own just use them. BTW - this is a profile of SCW machine There is one obvious discrepency of this profile regarding photos - in real thing no black top covers of engines, the wole engine tower is allover silver. So I think also, that black bottoms of hulls are also false, I will do dark green as on majority of profiles for Italian Sm 55 are shown. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 (edited) Riging done with EZ There will be more riging, or rather more cables since the control cables goues on outsides (inner sides of upper booms). But I will do it after painting with alu dope. I started painting I have made bottoms of floats green as usually SM 55 of RA have, not black like it is on profile in last post. Sanded boom/wing transition Beech buggy Cheers J-W Edited November 11, 2019 by JWM 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Some good work there J-W. Stuart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 I agree with Stuart - the rigging looks very good indeed. P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 The rigging looks very nice. You are cracking on with the kit. Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hewy Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 Fine job on the rigging 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 14, 2019 Author Share Posted November 14, 2019 Hi Since all canopy frames goes wrong one have to sand down all frames I used snadpaper 600 in wet conditions and then 2000, also with water. Finally I polished is with cotton textile (my jeans). Then I masked new frams and sprayed it When dry I will paint it with matt varnish. I painted allover airplane in alu dope (Humbrol 191 with some white 34). I am going to cover it with matt varnish. There are many corrections to be done due to apparently mistakes in my masking One cable from rigging is broken. I have to repair. If you will carefully on above photo you can notice that I added control cables to elevator Cheers J-W 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Great job J-W, all the detail you are adding will be really worth it at the end. Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 Great progress! The rigging looks especially good! Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnson Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 Amazing plane, great build J-W! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 16, 2019 Author Share Posted November 16, 2019 Very much perhaps too many details one can find in SM 55 manual available in NET https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/savoia-marchetti-s-55-manuals.40796/ If for exmple Dora Wings ( @dora ) will work one day on kit of SM 55X in series of SM 55 variants I hope that manual could be helpful... Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 23, 2019 Author Share Posted November 23, 2019 I worked further on th engine tower: and turrets (CANT). The rings are scratch work (resin copies of some ring element from a ball-pen) I decided to paint in alu (testors) which will be then covered with matt varnish I share time with doing two MBR2: scratch conversion for M 17 and regular "bis" (M 34 engine) Both from kit by Avis/Eastern Express of MBR2 Bis Regards J-W 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Looking really good! Great progress! Cheers Jaime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted November 23, 2019 Share Posted November 23, 2019 Some extremely interesting types there. The engine tower for the SM 55 looks very convincing - just enough rough to make it look real but not overdone. Good conversion of the engine on the MBR2. P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 It's looking super. The engine nacelle looks great and the canopy framing is a work of genius or madness - I can't decide... Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 This looks fantastic, great work, an unusual looking machine with much character and a great looking model. Great work All the best Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 24, 2019 Author Share Posted November 24, 2019 On 11/23/2019 at 4:26 PM, jrlx said: Looking really good! Great progress! On 11/23/2019 at 8:10 PM, pheonix said: Some extremely interesting types there. The engine tower for the SM 55 looks very convincing - just enough rough to make it look real but not overdone. Good conversion of the engine on the MBR2. 7 hours ago, AdrianMF said: It's looking super. The engine nacelle looks great and the canopy framing is a work of genius or madness - I can't decide... 1 hour ago, bigbadbadge said: This looks fantastic, great work, an unusual looking machine with much character and a great looking model. Great work Jaime, Phoenix, Andrian and Chris - thank you! Your words are great support Regards Jerzy-Wojtek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted November 29, 2019 Author Share Posted November 29, 2019 Hi, I applied matt varnish overall without engine, which shoul be left "brillante" (glossy) as it is said in instruction. Before it I applied decals on booms with "savoia marchetti" name of white cross over light blue background. I added the black strips on fuselage. A problem appeared with engine tower. The height of it is too small and the rear propeller hits wing. So I have to extend the supporting struts and adjest right lengs by gently sanding and shaping them . Two riging cables were broken during painting , I have to repare them...The same with two conrol elements of ailerons... Since main painting works are finished I put Humbrol Clearfix to do glass in small round windows: That is how SM 55X looks today evening... Cheers J-W 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted November 30, 2019 Share Posted November 30, 2019 Looks very impressive! Great work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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