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He-162 Salamander
Veliki
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Saone-et-Loire, France
Joined: June 06, 2007
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Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 11:44 PM UTC
Hi,
I'm back again with a german plane. Dragon (Trimaster) kit. 1/48. Pretty nice model, with some fiting problems located on wing/tail areas. The cockpit photoeched parts are almost unusable.
Markings are airbrushed, except the tail insignias.
Cheers,






chukw1
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California, United States
Joined: November 28, 2007
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Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 03:52 AM UTC
Very nice work- cheers! The chalk marks on the gear doors are a nice touch....
dcandal
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joined: September 07, 2006
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Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 06:06 AM UTC
An excellent job Nuno. What did you use on the panels that give that brown tone. Itīs a very nice effect that give to the plane
Emeritus
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Uusimaa, Finland
Joined: March 30, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 07:23 AM UTC
Again, that's some great work you got there!

The photoetched parts were of the stainless steel kind, I presume?
Very hard material, tough to remove from the fret, clean up and bend due to the hardness and the tendency to spring back to the original shape.
Annealing the parts or even the whole fret with a lighter makes handling steel PE much easier. When heated and let cool down on their own they lose the springiness become much easier to cut and clean up as well.
SGTJKJ
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Kobenhavn, Denmark
Joined: July 20, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 09:44 PM UTC
Looks excellent, Nuno. I especially like the cockpit and the landing gear bays.

Thanks for the tip on the steel PE, Eetu. I think I have a fret of that coming up for my Dragon 1/72 Me 1101 build.
Erlawerke
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Moselle, France
Joined: October 26, 2007
KitMaker: 34 posts
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Posted: Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 11:02 PM UTC
Salu Veliki,
tres tres jolie ton "salamandre"!

Very nice your Model of the "Salamander"
propwash
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Charente, France
Joined: July 06, 2007
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Posted: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 10:01 AM UTC
Very nice build and the little weathering touches are awesome.
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