Hi all heres my latest challenge its a 1/100 Doyusha DC-10 that iv been asked to build for a friend its going to be in Canadian livery.. Heres the progress so far





Center bulkheads in



Engine number 1



And the tailplanes glued together so far its going fine no fit problems just a bit of sanding to do here and there .. Thats all for now

Before you get too far with those engines you'll need to do a spot of converting. That looks as though the kit gives you the very early CF-6 engines as used on the first DC-10 10 series aircraft. They're distinguished by the vertical splitter plates on the exhaust cones such as on this aircraft. Canadian's fleet were all the later -30 variant with the centreline gear and engine exhaust cones without the splitter plate.

Thanks for the heads up Jess ill sort them out ps should the center main gear have a forward slant on it ???

thats a big model! I compute almost 20 inches long and 18 inches wingtip to wingtip. It will need a room of its own...

Yes, it should lean slightly forward. The wheels ought to line up with the main gear legs. Think of the mechanics of what happens at rotation; the rotation axis ought to turn about the centre main gear, and the two wing gears pivot at the joint between the gear legs and the horizontal beams joining the fore and aft axles together.

Yeah i get you . thanks again Jess , it just looks a little odd thats all

Some more progress with the DC-10 iv got the 2 halfs of the fuselage together the fit is ok but will need some filling and sanding The number 2 engine is installed i painted the inside of the engine intake dark grey .I havent used the kit windows as they arnt very good so im going to use kristal klear to make each window later

Well iv got the wings on and done a bit of pre-shading on them . Also iv sanded and filled the seam on the top of the fuselage ..


I then put a thin coat of white on the fuselage and pre-shaded that ready for the main white coat

Iv been busy with the DC10 and have got quite a lot done , The tail was pre-shaded and then painted pacific blue and the fuselage got a nice coat of white ..







After it was all dry i masked of the top half of the fuselage and the wings ready for the blue .. the green line you can see is flexible fine line mask..



The blue was then sprayed on and left to dry i also took this time to spary the engines as well ...



The next day came the moment of truth and with a degree of nervousness the masks were removed ..







Im pleased with how its turned out. Iv just started masking the wings ready for painting .. more photos soon

The "White" was more of a beige very similar to British Airways Landor colours. I don't know whether it's too late to correct that.

hmmm ermm yeah i think it will have to stay the way it is .. Its not as bright in the flesh as it appears in the photos and is a slight off white .. but its not near beige ..

Well the DC-10 is finished and my friend took delivery of it . he was very pleased and so was i .. Heres some pics from the rest of the build ..

Dave,
An impressive build for sure. Clean, neat, and those Kristal Kleer windows came out perfect. I really like how your pre-shading turned out, as you kept it strictly within the recessed panel lines.

My only suggestion is to work on your photography post processing, as all your pictures are under exposed, and they could use a little more contrast. I tried to clean up one picture to give you an idea of what to look for. I'm not use to working with JPEG files as they're really limited in their ability to be edited.

Joel

Hi Jole thanks for the comments mate .. i know my photos are a bit pants haha i use my mobile phone to take them and its not very good ... i do have some blue paper a can use as background but iv put it away at the moment .. i think ill have to borrow my dads canon digital camera from now on