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26 July 2016, 03:11
Chris Parsons kirjailijaHi Łukasz, it's quite a change from my usual 1/32 Luftwaffe subjects
3 August 2016, 01:22
Ray SeppalaHow are you finding the build Chris? I have a 1900C in the stash. Are you building it in the kit colour scheme?
7 August 2016, 03:10
Chris Parsons kirjailijaRay, the build is surprisingly good, it's a short run kit so, some care and attention on my part was/is required. There are some sink marks on the engines, otherwise no real issues. I bought 3 C's and 3 D's (avoiding the DDD brassiere jokes) I'm doing them in the company I work at livery. Mika at Arctic Decals is currently working on the graphics, registrations and masks for my chosen builds. I'll have plenty of spare decals as I won't be using any of the kit ones.
7 August 2016, 03:57
Ray SeppalaSounds great Chris, I have one of Mika's sheets (for a B737) and they looks nice. Looking forward to seeing this one progress 👍 I am loving the detail you are adding also, those wingtip nav lights looks excellent
8 August 2016, 01:12
Chris Parsons kirjailijaRay, thanks, thanks for the nod on the nav. lights, it was nice to have them turn out the way they did, many of my ideas don't work out.
Mika is very thorough and came highly recommended. I may start a 1900C next and use the lessons taught on this build to do (hopefully) a better job on the next one. One thing for certain, I have gained a new respect for 1/72 (and smaller) scale modellers!
11 August 2016, 03:50
Gordon SørensenLooks great Chris! I am still interested in a set of WE decals too. Don't recognize the registration on the detail drawing....New plane? Only flew C-GGCA and C-GDGC in the new scheme...and C-GPRT
11 August 2016, 15:52
Chris Parsons kirjailijaHey Gord how are you? What's new? Arctic decals has the list and will make regs. for all the planes.
The drawing is a bit of a goof up, Mika picked up on it right away as well, the reg. On the 1900 drawing is for one of the jetstreams and not situated in the correct location. He's now working from pictures I've provided of actual aircraft. Sharp eye Gord!
11 August 2016, 18:27
Ray SeppalaThat is looks great Chris 👍, did you just twist the props to feather them or something more involved?
12 August 2016, 09:51
Chris Parsons kirjailijaI just held the hub with one tweezers and twisted the blades with another. There was some worries on the first one but I got braver after I did a couple and they still stayed attached to the hub. I had to go back later and re-twist a few that tried to go back to fine pitch.
13 August 2016, 01:35
Gordon SørensenUse any heat when you bent the props? Bare Metal Foil for the Prop Spinners? Great details. What blue did you use? Paint the "swipe" on the nacelle, or is it a decal? The Splitters in front of the wing root should be parrellel with the wing - looks like they droop a bit. No gas caps? One of the aircraft has a panel painted black around the gas cap (Might be on SWZ or one of the 1900Cs). Only GCA has the dual plug in for the GPU on the nose. All the other aircraft have use the standard outside rear side of the left nacelle. Any Strakes on the rear fuselage? Hard to tell from the pictures.
14 August 2016, 04:26
Chris Parsons kirjailijaHoly cow Gord that's a lot of questions. Ok. No heat on the props, just brute force. BMF on the spinners yes, blue is Tamiya XF-4 flat dark blue. Painted the stripes on the nacelles. (Decals are still in manufacturing stage) one of the splitters sagged and was unfixable, I bent the other to match it, it's wrong but symmetrical. Gas caps and data placards will be on the decal sheet. I'll let Mika know about the dual plugs (thanks)
No strakes or horizontal stabs (yet) due to the masking and painting still to come for all those graphics on the rear fuselage. Mika is doing the pre-cut masks for the blue flash and the stripes will go above and below that (hopefully) in the meantime while waiting I'm starting on another one (a C this time)
14 August 2016, 17:22
Chris Parsons kirjailijaI just got an email from Arctic Decals, the decals and masks for the D are finished and in the mail (and available on his website) So work may resume on this project fairly soon.
5 September 2016, 14:41
Chris Parsons kirjailijaThanks Clifford the kit is (I believe a limited run) injected plastic model. There are no alignment pins and sleeves on most parts, the exeption being the large horizontal surfaces. These all have a very small pin that will help locate but not align the parts, these also do not do much for aiding with joint strength. The recieving holes for these pins are also too small in diameter so need a bit of drilling.
Still though, it's a great kit and I plan on building at least another one or two... Of each
Watch this space for a 1/72 twin Otter coming up soon.
7 September 2016, 23:22
Gordon SørensenOne of the stabilons come off? Looks good Chris. Going to add the door handles on the main and cargo doors?
21 September 2016, 02:28
Chris Parsons kirjailijaHey Gordon...yup a stabilon came off accidentally (on purpose.) Actually both came off cuz some dummy glued them on not thinking the blue had to be masked and the stabilons would be in the way. I'm putting decals on tonight, must be a hundred of those stencils...(no, I'm not complaining) I'll put the door handles on when the decals and all the handling is done, near the end. Mica @ Arctic decals is building a kind of walk around reference on the pictures I've sent him. On the production version of these decals there will be more interior cabin decals with stairs, treads, warnings etc.
21 September 2016, 03:04
Chris Parsons kirjailijaThank you very much, I appreciate the posetive encouragement from such great modellers that you guys are.
22 September 2016, 22:30
Chris Parsons kirjailijaHey Colin, thanks I should (hopefully if I dont drop it or knock it off the bench) bring it to the next meeting, maybe.
23 September 2016, 20:58
GlennThis looks great! Nice to see a lot more civil aircraft types hitting the shelves lately! I have a few of these already! 🙂
24 September 2016, 04:36
Chris Parsons kirjailijaThanks a lot you guys, this was a fun project and I've learned some things for the next one... Or two or three
24 September 2016, 22:31
Łukasz GlińskiGood looking, but can you add more pics of the finished build, plz?
25 September 2016, 17:08
Chris Parsons kirjailijaMore pictures of the finished model up now. Thanks for the posetive feedback
25 September 2016, 21:35
Chris Parsons kirjailijaCanards were reversed, corrected them now, silly mistake! picture will follow
27 September 2016, 00:08
