Chris,
One thing I forgot to say was about the great fit of the parts so far. The nose piece is an exception and I can see the incredible difficulty. It's not a forgiving spot to fit a piece to and every build will be slightly (but enough) different. Thanks! Is the manifold the flat piece, the pipes or both? On the flat piece, I laminated the thin pieces together and let them dry completely. Then I hardened the whole piece using CA glue (cyano-acrylate). After that dried completely, I carefully sanded to gently round the edges. Then pained with a brown and black craft paint. The pipes I sort of cheated, but I DID use the actual paper pieces. I wrapped/glued the pieces around toothpicks, the cut them and glued using CA glue. When dry, I nicked off any eye-sores and painted like the outlet. I will take better pictures of that and all of the plane. I figured that was the point of the marathon! That way you can show the completed models to potential buyers. I'll be tackling the tail, rudder and stabilizer next. Joe G -----Original Message----- From: Chris Gutzmer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 2:52 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 37668] Re: Build Progress - Pfalz D_IIIa-Hitschler You did a SUPERB job on that engine. How did you get that manifold to turn out so nice? My first three tries ended up a gluey mass of crud. My final one was passable but nowhere near as good as yours. A clear closeup of that would be appreciated when you get the other camera back :) Chris On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Have made more progress on the Pfalz D.III > I apologize for the picture quality - the good camera is away traveling this > week. > > Assembled the simple cockpit. It cries out for more detailing or layering to > simulate detail, but as per Chris' direction, I refrained and built as > designed. > I've never built a model with formers to be skinned like this. It works out > very well. For the formers that would be butt glued to each other, I cut > them out carefully, then held them together and gently sanded the edges so > they matched. I attached just a little point of of the top of the former to > the inside edge of the skin and let the glue set. Then I wrapped one end at > a time. > Inserting the engine support into the nose went easy. I stuffed the inner > end with some tissue to spread the sides out so they would glue to the outer > edges. > I test fitted the engine into the pan - looks nice but hides a lot of nice > detail. > The very end of the nose does not fit as well as the other parts or as good > as I'd like. I will alter the piece until it fits to my liking. Figure a > couple of tries, at least. > JoeG > ________________________________ > Paying hundreds for more mobile than you need? Take a Peek at the answer. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
