Andwil Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 16 hours ago, CedB said: Scottish breakfast? Do you get those little potato pancake things? Yum. Haggis as well? The breakfasts are just one of the things I love about Scotland. AW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted May 31, 2022 Author Share Posted May 31, 2022 18 hours ago, CedB said: Nice progress Stew. Love those internals, as usual! Scottish breakfast? Do you get those little potato pancake things? Yum. Tattie Scone? Oh yes 1 hour ago, Andwil said: Haggis as well? The breakfasts are just one of the things I love about Scotland. AW Yes indeed, the Real Tinman which is like the 12" Disco Remix of their regular Full Scottish Breakfast is 2 sausages, 2 bacon, 2 fried eggs, haggis, black pudding, tattie scone, hash brown, half a tomato, mushrooms, beans and toast. It's a plateful, and I confess that while I can finish the whole lot, it sometimes transpires that a nap is necessary when I get home ... I'm sure it's that half-tomato that does it So I got the tailplanes fitted, there was a surprising amount of play in them with the concomitant opportunities to end up with a wonky empennage, but I think I got away with it: They needed a smear of filler at the roots, but all good now. While they were setting I solved a problem I had caused myself by fitting the engines into the cowlings when it would in fact be much easier to paint the cowlings before installing the engines. I got a bit carried away test-fitting and before I knew it the engines were installed... well you know how it is. I did find that there is just sufficient space between the cylinder ends and the cowling interior to fit a sheet of paper, so I inserted a Post-It note: So I should be able to spray the cowlings without fouling up the engines I remembered to install the gunsight before attaching the canopy - like just about every kit-supplied gunsight I have ever seen it has the forward sunshade in the raised position even though it would normally be folded down and only raised when needed... in any case as it was there I painted the glass shade with Tamiya Clear Smoke colour: Sorry about the picture, it proved to be very hard to focus on that, FInally the centre-section and forward canopies were fitted. Hasegawa does provide alternate parts for opened pilot's and gunner's positions if required: For some reason there was a significant gap between the rear of the pilot's canopy and the centre section. I tried to find some way that this could have been my fault, but it's just two pieces of plastic attached to a third piece of plastic: the centre section can go no further forward and the pilot's canopy can go no further back. Perhaps Hasegawa wanted everyone to use the opened cockpits Anyway I plugged the gap with Micro Kristal Kleer and hopefully it will be enough to cover it up. Oh yeah, and of course I broke that R/T mast off directly after this photo was taken. Cheers, Stew 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 2 hours ago, Stew Dapple said: Yes indeed, the Real Tinman which is like the 12" Disco Remix of their regular Full Scottish Breakfast is 2 sausages, 2 bacon, 2 fried eggs, haggis, black pudding, tattie scone, hash brown, half a tomato, mushrooms, beans and toast. It's a plateful, and I confess that while I can finish the whole lot, it sometimes transpires that a nap is necessary when I get home ... I'm sure it's that half-tomato that does it I feel a strange, yet strong, urge to visit you now. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psdavidson Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 12 hours ago, Stew Dapple said: Tattie Scone? Oh yes Shhhh! They're supposed to be a secret, aren't they 12 hours ago, Stew Dapple said: 2 sausages I have to ask, actual sausages or Lorne sausage? /P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 1, 2022 Author Share Posted June 1, 2022 11 hours ago, psdavidson said: Shhhh! They're supposed to be a secret, aren't they I have to ask, actual sausages or Lorne sausage? /P Oops! I mentioned them twice, but I think I got away with it Link sausages, but I think you could probably swap them out for square swags if you wanted to, I just take it as it comes I got the wings attached: No filler at all needed on top by the look of things, a bit of a gap at the underside join but it's easily fillable and besides, it's on the underneath and given the choice I'd prefer that to the topside any time So nearly ready for the Hairyokushoku paint - need to remember to mask the gunner's cockpit - but I don't think that will be until next week now, I'm visiting my Dad up in the Aberdeenshire badlands for a long weekend so will be away from the bench until Monday... Cheers, Stew 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted June 1, 2022 Share Posted June 1, 2022 Tattie Scone, nom nom nom. Nice work Stew despite the pain with the canopies. I hope those PostIts work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 Thanks Ced I may have been inadvertently misleading in describing the engine-masks as 'Post-It notes' because although they are Post-It notes, that was simply the nearest paper I had to hand and any rolled-up piece of paper would probably have done equally well, the adhesive qualities (or lack thereof) of the Post-Its were not called upon Anyway: (Im)Patience is a virtue... some last minute small small things were fitted. I broke the tip off the pitot tube, and replaced it with a bit of .5mm Albion Alloys brass tube: ... and fitted the pitot to the wing: The gunner's position was masked, again with a piece of Post-It note (and again any bit of paper would have probably done just as well) and the rearmost canopy part fitted: The rudder actuators were fitted to the tailfin: I don't know why that turned out looking such a blue shade, it's the same plastic as the bulk of the kit Finally the ventral cannon barrel was fitted: Hasegawa actually provides two muzzle tips for this, an 'early' version and a 'late' version - both are noticeably smaller than a pin-head and will in all likelihood rarely if ever be seen on the underside of the model, but I applaud the attention to detail ... aaaaaaand... I sprayed the Hairyokushoku overall: My pictures don't show the colour very well, it has a green component as noticeable as that of RAF Sky although less saturated and a little darker; it might be the fluorescent lights leaching out the colour or it may be my camera (or, in fairness, the fact that I don't know how to use my camera properly but either way it does seem to struggle with subtleties of colour), Anyway, that will have a few days to set and then I'll be back for the transfers and the topside mottling... Cheers, Stew 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 4 minutes ago, Stew Dapple said: The rudder actuators were fitted to the tailfin: I don't know why that turned out looking such a blue shade, it's the same plastic as the bulk of the kit Sure it is… Be honest its the new super secret Azure blue primer. It didn't work right so you sprayed it in grey to cover it up. 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimJ Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Great job so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 Hi Stu, I find that it is not only the lighting but the background that causes changes to the appearance of the paint - particularly if you use software to clean it up as it confuses the balance. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 4, 2022 Author Share Posted June 4, 2022 Thanks gents 14 hours ago, PeterB said: I find that it is not only the lighting but the background that causes changes to the appearance of the paint - particularly if you use software to clean it up as it confuses the balance. Pete, yes I think you're right there, the green background could be a factor in influencing the appearance of the paint colour as well as the lighting but I believe that if I had a better working knowledge of my camera settings I could perhaps mitigate this, at least up to a point. I'm guessing you mean software to clean up the pictures? I don't use any, though that might be obvious from the state of my photographs Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Paint! Nice work Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 On 6/4/2022 at 12:22 PM, CedB said: Paint! Nice work Stew Thanks Ced ... more paint: I had a bit of a dramatic time with this; I applied the Hinomaru transfers prior to spraying the Midori-Iro colour. The Rising Decals transfers were very thin and prone to folding into themselves and sticking if the water used was too hot, and not budging from the backing sheet if the water was too cold. The also exhibited a lack of adhesion to the model, as I found when my plan to roughly mask the markings before spraying the upper colour with a flattened disc of Blu-tack resulted in the partial removal of the upper wing transfers*. Enraged, I then removed the remainder of the transfers with Tamiya tape and sprayed them in Colourcoats Hinomaru Red which is what I probably should have just done in the first place, given that I had both the paint and some pre-cut Maketar masks for Japanese markings. Anyway that drama over, I masked the markings and sprayed the mottled camo. To save you scrolling back to the top, this is what I was attempting to represent: I'd liked to have found a photo of the original aircraft in question but no luck there, in any case as a representation I'm happy enough that it looks feasible. Cheers, Stew * Yeah I know what you're thinking: What did he expect? But the Blu-tack wasn't pressed onto the transfers, it was just placed on top 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 Things are coming together, with some of the sub-assemblies being fitted now; the exhausts, fuel-coolers and supercharger(?) intakes: ... the engines: ... and the undercarriage: Some transfers applied; the transfer for the three yellow fuselage stripes stuck everywhere except where I wanted them, predominantly to my fingers and itself, so I need to make a new plan for that: ... and finally the props were fitted along with various lights and guns: I'm getting there Cheers, Stew 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 ... and I'm there, I think I masked and sprayed the fuselage stripes, not my best work it has to be said, but better than going without altogether. Windows were de-masked, defensive MG fitted and R/T wire added from Infini Lycra Thread: I'll get the 'glamour shots' done today or tomorrow Cheers, Stew 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Well done Stu, she looks awesome!!! I really like the paint finish and scheme, very nicely done, superb work. You're on a roll with these builds, how about another 2 engine bomber or a Diana would be nice??? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted June 10, 2022 Author Share Posted June 10, 2022 .... and I'm definitely done now More pics in the Gallery here. 8 hours ago, trickyrich said: how about another 2 engine bomber or a Diana would be nice??? I like the way you're thinking Cheers, Stew 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Really beautiful. Bravo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Looks spot on to me, nice one Cheers Denmnis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 great camo work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 Excellent work Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 10, 2022 Share Posted June 10, 2022 That looks like a lovely kit, and an excellent build. Way back in the mists of time I built the Nichimo Nick, which was very nice for its time but much less sophisticated than this. In fact it reminded me at the time of the of the Otaki/Arii single seat fighters and was a definite step from the other Nichimo kits I'd seen up to then. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Nice one Stew Despite all the trepidations she's turned out beautifully. Great job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 Turned out brilliantly Stew, one to be proud of.👍 🇺🇦 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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