bigbadbadge Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Looks great in primer. Re the wing struts on the Camel i am doing the wing and interplanetary struts are a bluey grey colour so have been painted, at the start of my build I did paint them I wood effect oils but when looking at picks of F2137 you can clearly see the lighter colour and a trip to the WNW website really helped too. Great work Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 At some point in the last week I decided to start throwing paint at the Camel,and feeling a bit adventurous I even went as far as to try a touch of preshading. lo and behold, it turned out okay as I was edging closer and closer towards paint and tying all these wings together, I needed to make sure I had all the necessary holes drilled. For the most part they were straightforward even though they ate a few drill bits, but there was a real pig of a job awaiting me. Checking my reference photos I noticed that a pair of front rigging wires disappeared into a square hole that was positioned just outboard of the wing root. It could have been at the wing root could it? oh no, it had to be into the wing itself - that meant I had to cut a square hole into the wing. Now that in itself wasn't so bad, but Eduard give you absolutely no indication where that hole should be. Sods! It took me ages measuring up and test fitting to see where the top of the struts would be to try and align that hole with the top end of the struts. Only time will tell if I got it right. If someone bumps into Eduard in the street, give them a slap from me. With that taken care of, I followed Ians' madvise and used metal pins in the cabane struts. I also stole an idea from someone on BM (and my sincere apologies to whoever came up with this as I cannot find the post again to give credit) where they transferred the strut locations from the upper wing onto a sheet of clear plastic, and used that to align the struts. What an absolutely simple and elegant solution! After that it was on to those elbow intakes on the breather tube. I tried bending tube but it was impossible in such a small diameter (1.2 mm) without the tube collapsing - even when I filled it with solder. After many abortive attempts, I opted to go with some aluminum rod left over from Pegasus. The rod, being solid, was much easier to bend, especially with that tight radius. Once I was happy with the bend I drilled out each end of the elbow. One hole to fit over the tube already sticking out of the fuselage, and the other hole to make it look like it is an actual intake They were pretty small but look convincing once in place a touch of black paint in that hole and no-one will be any the wiser. Next up - Rat-a-tat guns. The kit offerings weren't too bad - except for the barrel, which was a joke. Really. It was horrible. So, off came the plastic barrels to be replaced with some brass tube inside of which was placed a smaller diameter brass tube. Then, three holes were drilled around the end of the plastic cooling jacket. I know there should have been five, but three was all I could reliable manage Here's an end on shot. That'll all get painted back and no-one will ever be able to see any of the detail whatsoever. Hey ho. The barrels were then glued to the body of the rat-a-tat and I took this awfully blurry shot for posterity To finish off the day I threw some paint on the Camel even remembering to mask up some of the important bits Oops... almost forgot. I also had an attempt at whittling that wooden teardrop that sits between the front cabane struts. After failing miserably to drill brass rod with any degree of accuracy and sacrificing yet more tiny drill bits, then making a real hash of some plastic bits, I went down the toothpick route. I used the end of a toothpick dipped in superglue to harden it up, then drilled two holes sort of perpendicular to each other, fitted some wire through it so I stood a chance of being able to handle the little beggar, and sanded it to shape with some micromnesh. and I'm still swithering on those colors!!! 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Coming together nicely now, nice paintwork and micro engineering as well Stay safe Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Hi, great work as usual. Re the struts, could the ground crew have painted them around the Sopwith transfers, rather than over and reapply? Would they even have had spare transfers in the field? Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 Regarding the colours, I will quote from the Windsock Datafile: "Although Camels with overall PC10 doped fuselages were seen, many others had their cowlings, upper metal panels, side and undersurface metal shields either left in natural metal or finished in "Battleship" Grey. The ply-covered areas behind the metal side shields and around the cockpit and rear decking were frequently coated with a glossy Copal varnish. This gave a slightly reddish, warm tinge to the natural ply and is easily distinguished from the adjacent PC10 on photographs". Looking at your pics I'd be pretty much 100% certain that the nose metal panels are PC10 and the wooden side panels under the cockpit, plus rear decking just behind it, are varnished ply. I think the apparent difference in strut colour is due to the sun - the second pic has the sun low and from the side, illuminating them better than in the first pic. Look at the right rear strut where it has shadows, I think that is what we are seeing. The first pic is in much more subdued light as there appear to be no sharp shadows. This could also account for the overexposed tail markings on the second pic, making the blue look lighter. It's also from a slightly different angle which can have a huge difference on the apparent colours. See if you can find some pics of aircraft with the ailerons deflected and note the apparent difference in colour of the cockades. As for the white lines, I'm afraid I can only guess. There appears to be a pennant attached to the tail, so could the stripes be fittings for another pennant on the rear strut? Mu best guess I'm afraid! As for the drop shadow, shadows are usually not coloured, so I'd go with black! Having said that, if you want it coloured, I doubt anyone could prove you wrong! The rigging passes through the wing and attaches to the top of the rear landing gear strut like this. (Middle row, 4th from left) Ian 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 I'm absolutely speechless after reading this update, Alan And the toothpick idea is sheer genius! Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Just found your build Alan, been away in the Kalahari desert for a couple of weeks, so catching up on BM today. Not good, the quality of the moldings as you say for this day and age! Shock, horror! I've got my popcorn ready for the remainder of the build. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 On 11/22/2020 at 3:35 AM, Hamden said: Coming together nicely now, nice paintwork and micro engineering as well Stay safe Roger thanks Roger On 11/22/2020 at 3:38 AM, Teuchter said: Hi, great work as usual. Re the struts, could the ground crew have painted them around the Sopwith transfers, rather than over and reapply? Would they even have had spare transfers in the field? Don that is a great idea Don, I never considered that - though I have now gone for the wooden option so it's a moot point On 11/22/2020 at 3:40 AM, Brandy said: Regarding the colours, I will quote from the Windsock Datafile: "Although Camels with overall PC10 doped fuselages were seen, many others had their cowlings, upper metal panels, side and undersurface metal shields either left in natural metal or finished in "Battleship" Grey. The ply-covered areas behind the metal side shields and around the cockpit and rear decking were frequently coated with a glossy Copal varnish. This gave a slightly reddish, warm tinge to the natural ply and is easily distinguished from the adjacent PC10 on photographs". Looking at your pics I'd be pretty much 100% certain that the nose metal panels are PC10 and the wooden side panels under the cockpit, plus rear decking just behind it, are varnished ply. I think the apparent difference in strut colour is due to the sun - the second pic has the sun low and from the side, illuminating them better than in the first pic. Look at the right rear strut where it has shadows, I think that is what we are seeing. The first pic is in much more subdued light as there appear to be no sharp shadows. This could also account for the overexposed tail markings on the second pic, making the blue look lighter. It's also from a slightly different angle which can have a huge difference on the apparent colours. See if you can find some pics of aircraft with the ailerons deflected and note the apparent difference in colour of the cockades. As for the white lines, I'm afraid I can only guess. There appears to be a pennant attached to the tail, so could the stripes be fittings for another pennant on the rear strut? Mu best guess I'm afraid! As for the drop shadow, shadows are usually not coloured, so I'd go with black! Having said that, if you want it coloured, I doubt anyone could prove you wrong! The rigging passes through the wing and attaches to the top of the rear landing gear strut like this. (Middle row, 4th from left) Ian Brilliant information once again Ian, thanks On 11/22/2020 at 4:49 AM, giemme said: I'm absolutely speechless after reading this update, Alan And the toothpick idea is sheer genius! Ciao thanks Giorgio 6 hours ago, heloman1 said: Just found your build Alan, been away in the Kalahari desert for a couple of weeks, so catching up on BM today. Not good, the quality of the moldings as you say for this day and age! Shock, horror! I've got my popcorn ready for the remainder of the build. Colin oooh get him... Kalahari no less ! Glad you could join Colin Got just enough time for a quick update. Based on Ian's very informative post, I decided to take his advice on board and do the wooden thing. Masking was tedious and took a very long time - just the beginning shown here - the fuselage was adequately protected from stray spray Then using Testors "wood" color - don't worry, that intake is getting painted black later I don't know what's up with my masking recently. I was never bothered with paint pulling up until the last few months and now it seems to happen on every job. Buggrit. While the MRP paints spray beautifully, you can't really brush paint them - I tried and it just started dissolving what was already laid down. I wasn't going to mask everything up again just to spray that little patch and luckily I have a US Marine Corp green which was very close - so that was touched up. I then applied some Mr Dissolved Putty on the coaming padding to remove that uniform look and make it look a bit more worn and lived in. Then painted up with red oxide. Top Tip For The Day folks - don't try any detail painting in a cold basement so cold your hands are shaking! The errant stroke was at the rear of the coaming. I managed to clean most of it up, and I think the wood effect will hide the rest of the damage Here's another shot of the leather padding showing what I think is a more realistic effect I also added the aileron pulleys and control wires. Was it worth it I ask myself. Now, somehow I need to make a small curved inspection window to close those up. To quote Ced.... Drats! The rat-a-tat guns were finished off - just dry fitted here. I used a flat black for the main color, then highlighted the detail with a standard graphite pencil. It's not brilliant, but it does the job I think. Wheels got painted. I'll try and highlight that lacing - might be worth another try with the pencil to see if that works. As far as I am aware, rubber tires back in WWI era were not black, so I've gone with a dark grey. The access hole to the valve will get colored in later, and maybe even a small valve looking thing if I feel up to it. The airscrew also got the wood treatment - burnt sienna oil paint My original thoughts on doing the wooden paneling on the fuselage was to use the Uschi (?) wood decals I have left over from Pegasus, but on consideration, trying to cut them accurately to fit around the coaming may have been a bit difficult, so I bit the bullet and went for the oil paint again I don't think it looks too bad and it appears to match the color of the ply seen on any color photos of camels I have come across. Anyhow, it's done now and I don't fancy doing it again and I fancy even less trying to clean it all off if it's wrong. That shall now sit for a few days to let the oils dry. In other news I spent most of the day trying to source decals fro this Camel, the F2b, and the Audax. Why is it always so difficult to source these things? I don't have Illustrator or any of those fancy high end graphics programs and draw all my artwork out in AutoCAD. That's the easy part - only took a few days. However, trying to find someone who can accept a DWG file (or anything that AutoCAD can output, DXF etc.) for decal work is impossible. I had about a dozen emails back and forth with a Canadian company today before we decided it was going to be financially out of the question for him to redraw everything. I can see these three builds stalling while I disappear off on a decal safari hunt. and the wife just gt home so I need to rush of and pretend I've done some chores today... 16 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Nice looking woodwork. A coat of clear orange once the oils are dry will really make it pop! Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marklo Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Lovely work. Have you tried printing your own decals? I’ve had reasonable results both with laser and inkjet printed decals. All bar the national markings were inkjet printed. the red Pelegro makings were inkjet printed. you can get both types of paper off eBay. My one big learning is to make sure to put a few coats of clear varnish over the next inkjet decals after printing otherwise they curl up and can’t be applied properly. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 I don't know why you posh executive types don't roll up your sleeves and roll your own transfers either. Can't your program just pop out .jpgs or other ordinary images? These will be for my Norwegian Merlin and in bigger scale 1/48 for Steve (IV Plumb's) build of the same machine. Probably cost in the order of twenty pence, drawn in Paint Shop Pro 4 which was a free download This on clear because going to be added to a white airframe but white print paper is just as cheap. Think on lad. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 13 hours ago, hendie said: I don't think it looks too bad It looks very effective to me And what a progress, it's almost done now! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 That was a nice catchup on this Dreich day in Lincolnshire. Paint, guns, woodwork, prop, wheels, very small wooden thing. Yep, it's all there and looking rather nice. What could possibly go wrong? Aside from decals and rigging, that is. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massimo Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Fantastic interiors, those brass square tubes are great addition , superb barrels for the MG and the paint job looks really good!!! Well done Hendie! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Just tripped across this thread and spent an enjoyable few minutes reading up on the fabulous job you are doing Mr Hendie, I love the wicker seat and the brass parts you have made. (I've also been lurking in your Pullman coach thread for some time now, absolutely gobsmacked by your skills). The Eduard Camel is one of the few kits that I gave up on in recent years, everything that possibly could went wrong on my first one. Being a mug, I had another go and went on to successfully complete two more. It is no beginners model though. On 21/11/2020 at 21:27, hendie said: I also stole an idea from someone on BM (and my sincere apologies to whoever came up with this as I cannot find the post again to give credit) where they transferred the strut locations from the upper wing onto a sheet of clear plastic, and used that to align the struts. What an absolutely simple and elegant solution! Ah, I think that was probably me I posted this a while ago, and was somewhat shocked to see it was 9 years ago. How time flies! Glad you found it useful, Part of the fun of modelling is the problem solving, and the Eduard Camel will certainly give you plenty of opportunity. Your solution to the rigging 'acorn' using a toothpick is excellent, If I ever feel the need to build another Eduard Camel, I'll be nicking that idea! Cheers John 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 14 hours ago, Brandy said: Nice looking woodwork. A coat of clear orange once the oils are dry will really make it pop! Ian ah... that gives me a chance to use my new bottle of clear orange. and redo all that masking again 10 hours ago, Marklo said: Lovely work. Have you tried printing your own decals? I’ve had reasonable results both with laser and inkjet printed decals. All br the national markings were inkjet printed. the red Pelegro makings were inkjet printed. you can get both types of paper off eBay. My one big learning is to make sure to put a few coats of clear varnish over the next inkjet decals after printing otherwise they curl up and can’t be applied properly. I've printed my own decals before Marklo and would have no problem doing so again, if I had a printer. 7 hours ago, perdu said: I don't know why you posh executive types don't roll up your sleeves and roll your own transfers either. Can't your program just pop out .jpgs or other ordinary images? These will be for my Norwegian Merlin and in bigger scale 1/48 for Steve (IV Plumb's) build of the same machine. Probably cost in the order of twenty pence, drawn in Paint Shop Pro 4 which was a free download This on clear because going to be added to a white airframe but white print paper is just as cheap. Think on lad. As mention in the previous pigeon, had I a printer, (most of) it would be no problem. However, read on MacDuff 7 hours ago, giemme said: It looks very effective to me And what a progress, it's almost done now! Ciao and now boxed up pending arrival of the next red cross parcel 7 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: That was a nice catchup on this Dreich day in Lincolnshire. Paint, guns, woodwork, prop, wheels, very small wooden thing. Yep, it's all there and looking rather nice. What could possibly go wrong? Aside from decals and rigging, that is. Rigging? pah... if Ian can do it, I can too (maybe just not as good though!) 5 hours ago, Massimo said: Fantastic interiors, those brass square tubes are great addition , superb barrels for the MG and the paint job looks really good!!! Well done Hendie! Thanks M 5 hours ago, Viking said: Just tripped across this thread and spent an enjoyable few minutes reading up on the fabulous job you are doing Mr Hendie, I love the wicker seat and the brass parts you have made. (I've also been lurking in your Pullman coach thread for some time now, absolutely gobsmacked by your skills). The Eduard Camel is one of the few kits that I gave up on in recent years, everything that possibly could went wrong on my first one. Being a mug, I had another go and went on to successfully complete two more. It is no beginners model though. Ah, I think that was probably me I posted this a while ago, and was somewhat shocked to see it was 9 years ago. How time flies! Glad you found it useful, Part of the fun of modelling is the problem solving, and the Eduard Camel will certainly give you plenty of opportunity. Your solution to the rigging 'acorn' using a toothpick is excellent, If I ever feel the need to build another Eduard Camel, I'll be nicking that idea! Cheers John That is a fantastic looking F2b Joh - and thanks for that tip. It seems so obvious once you are aware of the trick. (and thanks for the compliments on Pegasus!) Panic over Mr. Mainwaring. I found someone who can do the decals. While searching through my emails, I discovered that the guy who did the wood inlay decals for Pegasus can handle DWG files without any problems - so I contacted him again, and payment was sent off this morning. Hoping to see the proof probably late next week. This is the full decal sheet, with stickers for the Camel, the Audax, and the next (just started this morning F2b). I'll need to go through this entire process again when I do the Hurricane. I really should plan ahead. I could have printed most of those without any issues. The black, and the black and white transfers would have been straightforward, however this little blighter would have been an issue Those characters are only 4 mm high. I could have printed a black outline on white decal paper but there was no way on earth I I could have trimmed those characters off the sheet without serious damage, so it just wasn't worth attempting. Also, this one is less than 2 mm in diameter. I could maybe have got away with printing it on clear paper, but it would really need white decal paper for the green to show up properly. Fortuitously, when searching for photos of Audii, I came across this shot of the tail insignia. It doesn't show up on most photos due to the poor quality and this was the best shot I could get. Based on that, I came up with this simplified version. Simplified because the star from top to bottom is only ~7 mm high As always, it's guess the colors game. The Demi-Pegasus is easy enough, but I could find no information on the background or Star outline. Since the background on the current emblems is blue, I went for a lightish bluish sort of color, and just plain black for the star outline. and that's the current state of play. I'm waiting on paints arriving so the Camel is back in the box for the moment. I'm still continuing (albeit very slowly) with the Audax, and I just started the Eduard F2b this morning though that was mainly removing parts from the runners and a lot of clean up. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 That's a lot going on, Alan All very nice, though Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Not sure why I missed this one hendie but caught up now… Your usual high level of modelling skills and scratch building on show - great stuff matey! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 24, 2020 Author Share Posted December 24, 2020 Time for a little update. This has taken a bit of a back seat recently as I needed to lay my hands on some clear orange for the wood work before I could really proceed any further. Since Model Master have all but shut up shop, I am switching my paint of choice over to Mr Aqueous color, and unfortunately suppliers in the US are not as abundant as I'd like. Anyhoos, the paint was ordered probably 3 weeks ago and it only just arrived this week. without further ado, the masking job began - taking no chances as usual a few minutes later Yes, I managed to knock two of the cabane struts which I'll need to fix later. I think I am going to leave them off for the moment until the ceremonial sticking on of the transfers is done. I'm still waiting on my custom decals but I don't think it will be too long now. There were some kit generic decals that I could be getting on with. In hindsight I should have left off the rudder and stuck the transfers on before I fixed it to the airframe. It was a lot more fiddly this way. Unlike other tail trasnfers which are usually too short, the tail flash from Revell was slightly larger than the tail. I thought this was a good thing... but getting that wraparound was impossible to accomplish without some degree of wrinkling on the reverse side as you can see above. A light sanding took care of the wrinkles and it was ready for part two As you can see, the wraparound caused more issues, particularly with the red and white sections... and more wrinkles. Again, a light sanding and some paint touch up will take care of that. More concerning is the width of the red stripe - it looks very narrow in the shot above. I'll need to mull this over and may end up painting the damn flashes if I can get a decent color match. Moving forward I realized that I still had to fit the observation windows in the wings and I wanted that job out of the way before the wings got fitted. Some clear packaging was retrieved from the bin Cut to shape and stuck in place with (wait for it Ced...) diluted PVA. It looks a bit messy at this point but soon dries nice and clear. I find that adding a few drops of water to the PVA helps with the clarity I'm a bit confused with those observation windows - the placement of the roundels obscures the majority of the windows, so I trimmed the decals back. (keeping the off-cuts in case some one tells me that they were obscured in the 1:1 After the roundels went on it was up with the gloss coat... and more frustration. I gloss coated (Alclad) the entire top surface, but on the bottom edge you can see that I ended up with a patch that the gloss just wouldn't coat. Annoying or what? I considered respraying the center section and gloss coating again, but took a chance and went ahead with the alclad semi matt and the gods must have been less annoyed with me that day as the patchy bit disappeared We're al ready for assembly - IF only I had the decals in place. So once again, this little Camel is going back into the stable until the transfers arrive 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 Very nice update and progress. Great work Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Seconded! Diluted PVA tip noted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 Excellent progress Alan. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Yet another great WIP. That scratch seat is amazing. Loving this build. 👏👏👏👏 Johnny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted January 31, 2021 Author Share Posted January 31, 2021 Well, what have I been up to over the last few weeks? Not much to be honest. The first load of decals I ordered got lost in the post - of course we had to wait to make sure they had actually got lost and not just delayed before my source could send out a new batch. They arrived earlier this week! Wahoo! The next question begging to be answered was: Were they going to fit? HHmmnnnn.... looks a bit tight But whaddya know - everything fell into place nicely. The 'bump' in the white square is actually the opening for the vertical stabilizer cables. The custom decals were a dream to work with. Nice and thin, they laid down nicely and without any issues. The only issues I have with them are all of my own making. The serial E1502 is a bit on the bold side. I could have done with making it just a bit smaller, or created narrower characters. As I don't have a printer at home anymore, there was no way for me to print them out for a look-see before committing to ordering them. (That may be a valid reason for considering a printer in the future) An all weekend decaling session saw these three aircraft get their markings Next session - gloss coating, so I'll need to find some other work to be getting on with while they are all curing up. A Vampire perhaps? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 8 hours ago, hendie said: (That may be a valid reason for considering a printer in the future) There's always one, hurry up and go get it Awesome stickering, BTW Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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