JWM Posted October 8 Posted October 8 Hi, I joining today GB with two Belgian 1940 machines. Renard R 31 was an original Brlgian design and production. It was a tactical recce machine like a perhaps Muearux 115 or 117, earlier Potez XXV or Breguet 19, Fokker CV, Hind-Audax family etc. This is a nice modern looking kit of Azur-FRROM in 1/72 I am going to do it OOB, with box decals and no intending to introduce any scratch work. I started to paint the insides today: The second Belgian machine will be Fairey Firefly (biplane fighter, not the monoplane WW2 and post war one) To be continued Regards J-W 10
JWM Posted October 9 Author Posted October 9 Hi, Let me show the aftermath of the second day. I was putting together the insides pieces It is nice designed. One I will improve - the decals for instrument panels would be most welcomed be me. But it is very nice to work with anyway... So I closed the fuselage today To be continued Regards J-W 14
JWM Posted October 10 Author Posted October 10 Hi, Many thanks for support! Today I use some filler and sanding paper to remove traces of gluing the fuselage halves. Then I glued the wings tops and bottom, later sanded the join. I glued also the front part of cooler, undercarriage legs (very special in this type) and a rudder. Interesting rigging of u/c legs is visible on box cover. I noticed it now... To be continued Regards J-W 11
JWM Posted October 12 Author Posted October 12 I constructed a rotating propeller. I always do it if the kit does not provide it. Sometime I am also modifying the original construction just to have put the propeller after painting the fuselage. Here, similar to the case in a parallel build of Firefly II M, I used a 2 mm diameter brass tube as a shaft, which I glued using CA glue with the prop (it has an almost appropriate diameter short shaft designed to center while gluing prop as fixed to fuselage) . This brass tube I put inside a plastic tube (a piece of a lollipop handle) and secured at the end with a drilled through piece of a plastic sprue. In front of fuselage I drilled 4 mm diameter opening which enable to tight pressing inside the bearing (lollipop handle). Since it is a PE I cannot glue it any way, so it can be removed while painting To be cont. Regards J-W 10
JWM Posted October 12 Author Posted October 12 Many thanks for support! 1 hour ago, Milan Mynar said: Good work. Thank you! I think the best work did @Gilles_53 preparing the kit. It is really very nice designed. Today I glue wing and tail - so it takes the shapes! To be continued Regards J-W 12
JWM Posted October 16 Author Posted October 16 I painted those parts which were metal, not alu dope paint. BTW - the alu dope requires the second layer... To be cont. regards J-W 12
JWM Posted October 28 Author Posted October 28 I applied khaki green - Humbrol 159. Instruction suggested Gunze H80, I have found that it is an equivalent... Regards J-W 12
JWM Posted October 29 Author Posted October 29 I started today with applying the second coat of green and removed maskings. When I did it I realized looking on box art and then on photos from era, that I made the demarkation line some 1 mm too high. So I masked and moved it down. Then I applied second coat of bottom side alu dope and NM. I painted black rear of prop. And wheels to be cont. Regards J-W 11
JWM Posted October 30 Author Posted October 30 Hi, Many thanks for support! I have almost finished gluing the plastic parts. Only MG left and some PE details which I will either glue or made a scratch replacement... The PE stuff is not my favorite technique... Sometimes very useful (spoked wheels for instance) The main time consuming work was adding the u/c rigging using EZ line those are two parallel lines each side First take while standing on wheels: Cheers J-W 14
stevehnz Posted October 31 Posted October 31 That is looking really good J-W. I can't help thinking the Belgian Air Forces pilots probably didn't enjoy that pylon stuck right in front of them though. Steve. 1
JWM Posted October 31 Author Posted October 31 2 hours ago, stevehnz said: That is looking really good J-W. I can't help thinking the Belgian Air Forces pilots probably didn't enjoy that pylon stuck right in front of them though. Steve. Steve, thank you! I think they might be use to the presence of an obstacle in frontal view since they use to have it also in the predcessor of Renard R-31 in Belgium air forces, which was the Breguet 19... Regards J-W 3
stevehnz Posted October 31 Posted October 31 5 hours ago, JWM said: I think they might be use to the presence of an obstacle in frontal view I 'spose it encouraged them to look around a lot, handy in an observation plane. Steve. 1
PattheCat Posted November 1 Posted November 1 It looks real good. Neat work with the rigging. I use Gunze H80 but Humbrol 159 looks real close, maybe somewhat lighter. You rekindled my fire. I took mine off the shelf and shall do my best to finish it. 1
Milan Mynar Posted November 1 Posted November 1 On 30/10/2024 at 23:05, JWM said: Hi, Many thanks for support! I have almost finished gluing the plastic parts. Only MG left and some PE details which I will either glue or made a scratch replacement... The PE stuff is not my favorite technique... Sometimes very useful (spoked wheels for instance) The main time consuming work was adding the u/c rigging using EZ line those are two parallel lines each side First take while standing on wheels: Cheers J-W It looks very nice standing on it´s wheels. 1
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