It's great, keep going


Cheers Nick

Looks good. Your style is very entertaining. Keep it coming

excellent stuff,a happy new year to you and all your "friends" chuck.

This is awsome, I like your precision.

Looks great Chuck you really do suffer for your art. Happy new year!

Good work persevering on this, Chuck! A thrilling segment for sure!

Fitting the wings for symmetry is often the biggest make-or-break moment for me. Many kits do not survive... Twin engines with really long prominent nacelles are especially difficult, since they seem to magnify any sort of misalignment... Some kits also have one wing a bit thicker than the other, raising the nacelle top and thus tilting the tailplane reference...

My Monogram B-26 did offer a bit of wing trouble, but nothing like this... However, symmetry upon the installation of the "Lone Star" cowls was extremely difficult, because the gel cyano has no hold until it "freezes" (never tried Epoxy yet). Accelerator would be of no use given the complexity of the reference checks... The cowls had to be broken off several times each, by sharply rapping their intake tops with a hammer, before acceptable symmetry was finally achieved by carving the plastic contact areas. Had it been a full-round cowl design, they would have crumbled...

With one engine open, symmetry must be even harder to judge...

Good luck with the 410, and happy new year!

Gaston

Hi Chuck,

Pfffiiii! That was close! This update sent a cold shiver down my spine!

But like in all good movies, everything is well in the end...

Jean-Luc

Chuck's Tales are always interesting, no matter what they are about.

Before reading the last update I was affraid that Chuck will never join the wings and fuselage together and ugrading&detailing them separately will become a "Never Ending story" (the only thing that was missing was a flying dog, but I guess it was just a matter of time). Good to see that his 410' starts to look like an airplane model...

Chuck - you're a brilliant modeler and I want you to know that (it's not a proposal).

This forum really rocks! I'm blown away- and humbled- by all the groovy vibes from you cool cats. Cheers! Thanks for sticking with me, guys- much appreciated. Life's been keeping me quite busy, and last week's upper respiratory infection didn't help! Here's what humble progress I've been able to rack up in the last two weeks- roll 'em, Fritzi!

Grroovy Vibes, Cool Cats, now here's a man who is enjoying his hobby JUUUUUUUUST right !!

Another stunning post Chuk, your attention to detail is amazing, and your talent to follow through is there to match it.

Keep'em coming , you evil DaddyO !

Cheers, D

Hey Chuk,

Yes, sheet plastic and stretched sprue are great canyon fillers. I usually wet the area with glue to melt and weld the two pieces togethers with a little push using some sort of flat tool. A quick hit with sandpaper and done.

Hey Chuck, can you send Pfenning over to revell to whip them into shape and give them a solid tongue lashing?
Love the build cant wait to see the next update,

i think you'd get better results if you sent fritzi and hannah over there..... :-)

Thanks, everybody!

It's been one of those weekends- drained, cleaned and refilled hot tub (yes, I know- life is tough!), fixed drain in lawn, fertilized gardens and lawn, maintained fresh- and saltwater fish tanks- realized hot water heater had up 'n'died.

Chuck,
I was happy here in Minnesota that we got to 40!
Love your project!
Dan

Uh, I don't think that you would get any result other than a large and deep puddle of drool on the floor if you send in Fritzi and Hannah.

I've gotten sick and tired of having all these little sub-assemblies taking up space on the bench, so I decided to start sticking everything together. Naturaaly I had to add some details along the way- right, Fritzi?

Welcome back Chuk!

Interesting way of building the mass balance for the trim tab. Also want to see the fix to the canopy, I would have ordered a replacement part if available.

I still would like to see a swimsuit calendar with Fritzi and Hannah!

Chuck. I'm jones'n for an update here.

Hi Chuck,

Outstanding!!!!

OK, sorry to admit that this is my first time at this epic. I love it!

While Fritzi und Hannah have their particular appeal by accentuating the positive (Hey, that's a P-40 I built!), Pfenning is a riot! "This guy is a total jerk..."--hilarious!

Congratulations

keep going


Cheers Nick

all us junkies waiting aroung for "the man".

"He never early he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait"

:)

Welcome back Chuck. As usual some geat stuff