I liked it.

GO MIKE GO! I am enjoying the build, love the technique for the rib.

Bob

Terri the student say's , very nicely done Mike . I have seen the pencil method before , but the varish is a neat idea . How long does it take to dry ? Yes another question for the teacher

Terri the master builder of 1/48 wrote:
>How long does it take to dry ? Yes another question for the teacher.

I write:

In my experience, the Future dries in less than an hour.

Keep in mind that you do not have to make the pencil markings as dense as I did on the SE-5a. I think next time I will do things a bit more sparse, but in general I do like the results. Some different colored pencils might be in order. Derwent was the brand I had at hand, but there are several different brands to choose from that have a much wider range of colors.

mIKE the discombobulated.

Nice...the beauty of Aeroscale - Sharing. I might try this method next build ro for the externals on the DIII (OAW)

Thamks for sharing Mike

Keith

Well ladies and gentlemen, It has been a very buisy 5 weeks since my last post in this log. Unfortunately not much of this time was spent actually building models.

Due to the fact that my fingers no longer work the way they once did, I cannot paint small details worth a tinkers dam. So, I decided to bring my ALPS Printer upstairs and start using it like I used to. This decision precipitated a chain of events that included re-formatting my C: drive and re-install all of my software from scratch. This turned out to be complicated by the fact that I had to figure out by trial and error the order to install the programs so they did not interfere with one another. Actually I had to re-format my C: drive 6 times.

It has been said that to err is human but if you really want to screw things up, you need a computer. The final crux of all of this is I now know my computer much better and I have a working ALPS Pinter to play with again.

Using Corel 8 I made the black, white and gold (brass) bezels for the instrument panel and printed them on the ALPS. Now I could apply the stock instrument faces. With an appology to Terri, I broke out some Reheat Photo Etched bezels, made them black with Blacken-It, and set these on the instument panel and using Micro Cristal Clear to simulate the glass faces of the instruments, all I had left to do was figure how to do the plumbing on the lower left part of the instrument panel. After trying and rejecting multiple efforts, I settled on just bending some thin copper wire and gluing the little bits directly to the instrument panel with white glue. Stamped out a little disc of aluminum and some brass paint and voila.

Here are some pictures of the instrument panel pretty far along in progress.







Using the Corel 8ALPS combo again, I printed some thin silver stripes and put them on the motor manifold to simulate the hose clamps. A couple of pictures in the next post.

So long once again. I hope to make some more progress soon and will, keep y'all up to date.

mIKE the model builder again.

Hello again,
Here are the pix of the intake manifold as I promised.




Thanks for looking.

mIKE the tired.

Hi Mike!
Computers are my main reason to curse during the day... but it seems to me that you did a good recovery and it is great to have you back up and running!
Your work on the control panel is very, very well done!

ciao
Edo

Very nice job on the instrument panel Mike .

That is one thing I stay away from ...computers aren't my thing at all .

beautiful....

Hello Good People,
It's time for a little update today, and little is the key word here. Because I was able to lose the compass on the first day I opened the box, I was left with making one from scratch. So, using photos from the web, I put this little thing together. Did I mention it is little? The outside diameter of the mounting ring at the back is .155 inches and the body of the compass proper is .080 inches. This is the fifth attempt at building this thing. It is made of various sizes of Evergreen brand plastic tube, rod and bar stock. Plus a brass bezel from Reheat and an instrument face courtesy of ALPS. This compass is very far from being really correct, but it is the best I can do with these fingers that don't seem to be able to feel anything anymore. Anyway, on the the pix, which are not so good but again the best I can do with what I have.







I have made some other progress and now am up against the one job I have been dreading so far up to this moment. Painting the aluminum strip around the shelf in the cockpit. Please wish me a silent good luck.

Thank You all for your patience with me, the village curmudgeon.

mIKE

Hi Mike , very nice job on making the compass . For the alum trim on the dash I used a very fine brush and it was more of a dry brushing using testors model master buffing alum . Looking forward to your next up-date

Here are some pictures of the cockpit shelf and instrument panel. The two parts are not yet glued and the compass is not installed. I have added the throttle levers and the radiator shutter lever. The starting magneto is also scratch built. All with bits of plastic.







I know the painting of the aluminum strip around the opening of the shelf leaves a lot to be desired, but it is as good as I can do and it looks OK when buried under the coaming.

mIKE the ???

I would like to take this moment to say thank you all who have looked at my build log on this beast. Also a special thanks to those kind people who have responded by posting their comments:
Keith
Carl
Mark
Terri the truly amazing one
Stephen
Jan
eduardo
and BigGrip74

more later,
Mike the grateful.

Please Model On!

Very nice job on the panel Mike ! Alum strip turned out really well , just can't get over on how well the instruments look !

Thanks for sharing your work with us folks Mike , great to have you here !