Duel: Polikarpov I-16 vs. Fw 190 A-3
Merlin
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Posted: Saturday, June 17, 2006 - 05:57 PM UTC
Hi Steffen
I'm trying to crack on a bit because time's likely to get a bit tighter with the run-up to Aeroscale.
I've a bad reputation for leaving kits unfinished once I get distracted...
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...but now you can give the sponge pieces to your girlfriend so she can finish to wash the dishes!
Hi Jean-Luc
Washing up!? Is THAT what the sponges are really meant for? No wonder I keep finding them under the sink...
- and well said Steffen - you're truly a Modern Man!
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Saturday, June 17, 2006 - 06:07 PM UTC
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I've a bad reputation for leaving kits unfinished once I get distracted...
Hi Rowan
sounds familiar, thats why I am also pushing a bit (I-16, George and Bf 109 E-4)
best wishes
Steffen
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Posted: Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 12:31 AM UTC
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I've a bad reputation for leaving kits unfinished once I get distracted...
Hi Rowan
your not going to let this kit unfinished, do you?
I am still waiting for the colours ..... and for you to finish your Ishak
cheers
Steffen
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Posted: Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 12:50 AM UTC
Good grief Rowan!
The factory is going great guns!
Really interesting watching the different techniques you employ coming together.
Looks like RSI was the nudge you needed to get you modelling again after all.Every cloud has a silver lining eh?
Nige
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Merlin
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Posted: Sunday, June 25, 2006 - 01:20 AM UTC
Cheers Steffen and Nige!
Yes - the bug's biting at the moment! :-) RSI or not, this one'll definitely be finished!
I was away over the weekend - hence the lack of updates - but the basic camo's on and I'm almost ready to start having fun weathering the beastie.
I've got a couple of days heavy video work ahead, so I hope to get back in business mid-week...
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Monday, June 26, 2006 - 12:52 AM UTC
Can't wait to see it with the camo on, I know it will look great
Mal
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 12:40 AM UTC
Hi there
As promised, a quick update on progress:
As you can see, the sponges are out from under the sink again! - the basic camo's on and the fuselage band is masked off. This has caused me much "umming and ahhing" - basically, the more I look at the one reference photo I've got of the aircraft, the more unsure I become about what on earth was going on with the paint job! :-)
Anyway, I've decided to go for a weathered white band, then partially overpainted with yellow. It's probably not the correct interpretation, but it's fun trying to guess these things and, anyway, it makes for an interesting scheme to apply.
I've been busy again with latex to simulate some wear and tear - and the first layer is still there under the white band (hence the lumpy texture). I'll apply more over the white and then paint the yellow.
It might be being overambitious, but I may even finish the I-16 this weekend or thereabouts...
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 09:55 AM UTC
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It might be being overambitious, but I may even finish the I-16 this weekend or thereabouts...
Hi Rowan!
Your I-16 looks good with some clothes :-)
But wow! Are you beginning to mutate?
From "I never finish a kit" to "I build one per month"!
Anyway, I'm looking forward to see the red stars this week-end.
Jean-Luc
Better think one hour and build five minutes...
Than think five minutes and build an hour!
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 12:29 PM UTC
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 12:30 PM UTC
Hi Rowan
here you have another Soviet beauty, looking great so far! Do I see another MoM winner .... or 2nd or 3rd ... depends on what the others will submit, e.g. Jean-Luc's Bugatti would be a sweet combattant (hint, hint
)
(BTW Jean-Luc here is another obscure a/c you could build:
Payen Pa.22/2 ... don't know when I build mine but it will be Luftwaffe)
Rowan, do not forget the exhausts !!!cheers
Steffen
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 12:34 PM UTC
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Rowan, do not forget the exhausts !!!
Cheers Steffen
If I do, I certainly won't be able to blame you! :-) :-)
Any sign of your paints yet?
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 12:39 PM UTC
No paints just pain ... if they ever will arrive????
John wrote me he has sent them ... maybe some civil servant has them to check if they are a harm to public security
cheers
Steffen
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 12:47 PM UTC
Hi Steffen
That is really frustrating! I know John and everyone at WEM pride themselves in providing an excellent mail-order service. Hopefully, you won't be sat waiting much longer...
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 02:04 PM UTC
:-) They should have choosed someone else first! :-)
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(BTW Jean-Luc here is another obscure a/c you could build: Payen Pa.22/2 ... don't know when I build mine but it will be Luftwaffe)
Hi Steffen!
It seems the designed some interesting planes for the "Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe"
Too bad they never flew! :-)
Jean-Luc
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Than think five minutes and build an hour!
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Posted: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - 02:18 PM UTC
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It seems the designed some interesting planes for the "Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe" Too bad they never flew! :-)
Hi Jean-Luc
I find this a/c rather strange. Odd design but look at the newer designs (EF, Gripen, Viggen, Rafale) ... many similarities.
Even if the crate never flew in the all blue colour it was tested by Luftwaffe (Junkers) in France and found to be very unstable ... then improved with metal sheet at the rudder (which did not work) and then reworked with a normal cockpit and tail rudder. Somehow the fench team convinced the testing team to leave the plane in France (which speaks for low priority and small success) where it was destroyed by US or British bombers and not much of it survived. (see
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payen_Pa_22 for more details ... maybe the French wiki has even more)
cheers
Steffen
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 12:23 AM UTC
Hi there
Well, I obviously didn't make my optimistic target for finishing last weekend. I made a little progress, but I'm at that "tying up loose ends" stage where you know you've done extra work but it doesn't seem to have moved things forward appreciably! :-)
Still - I made a start on something that will have Steffen breathing a sigh of relief - the exhausts!
I have to say, this was the only part of the build I've found tedious. As if cleaning up the individual pipes wasn't enough, I had to make life harder and decide to drill them all out!
What started with an enthusiastic "This won't take long" rapidly declined into a "How many of these ******* things are there!?" I think they are a definite improvement over the originals - but I'm just trying to convince my wonky hand of the fact! I wish we could include video files in posts - "How Many Times Can You Drop An Exhaust Pipe?" could be this year's hit movie! :-) :-)
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 01:18 AM UTC
Looking superb Rowan, but stop whining about a few exhaust pipes
I've got to get me one of these
Mal
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 01:19 AM UTC
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I wish we could include video files in posts
Hi Rowan!
I don't think Armorama would have enough storage space for such a video! :-)
The exhaust do look great though! it was worth the extra work...
Jean-Luc
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 01:37 AM UTC
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Still - I made a start on something that will have Steffen breathing a sigh of relief - the exhausts!
Hi Rowan
I think that won't happen until you have built them in ...
cheers
Steffen
BTW still no colours in sight ... I'm getting a bit nervous ... wasn't cheap enough to just write it off
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 01:37 AM UTC
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...stop whining about a few exhaust pipes...
Cheers Mal
I think this was one of those times when I remembered why used to find doing the wheels on tanks boring...
:-)
I suppose I should add for the benefit of anyone wondering about the significance of the clothes peg... they are my favourite "99p shop" painting mounts. A peg with a piece of double-sided tape or blue-tac on it makes an ideal way to secure a small part for spraying.
All the best
Rowan
PS - Jean-Luc... true, I'd have to show the edited-down version, not the director's cut! :-)
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 01:48 AM UTC
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BTW still no colours in sight ... I'm getting a bit nervous ... wasn't cheap enough to just write it off
Hi Steffen
This is getting beyond a joke - they can't just disappear! I know we live in a dangerous world, but WOW! do customs checks frustrate me sometimes!
PM your address: I'll send you the colours you need for your present build (so long as you don't mind used pots).
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 11:22 AM UTC
Paints are often considered dangerous goods therefore cannot be forwarded by air cargo only surface mail. Perhaps that is the problem. Don't you have a tracing number for your package? You could check where it is.
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Posted: Monday, July 03, 2006 - 01:21 PM UTC
Many thanks for the hint, Gabor!
Unfortunately i do not have such ID (I cose the cheapest shipping method which is definitely surface mail) .... maybe my colours lie peacfully on the ground of the channel ...
I do not blaim anyone because I do not know where the mistake lies .... but I am p***** and that does not involve lots of
best wishes
Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 03:44 AM UTC
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Still - I made a start on something that will have Steffen breathing a sigh of relief - the exhausts!
Hi Rowan
I think that won't happen until you have built them in ...
cheers
Steffen ...
Hi Steffen
Just to put your mind at rest:
The exhausts are all in now. I held them in place temporarilly with White-Tak while I checked they were all even and then fixed them with CA.
The decals are on and sealed, so there's half a chance I might get this finished tomorrow. I hope so, because the next couple weeks are looking pretty hectic at work, so modelling time will be a scarce commodity.
All the best
Rowan
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Posted: Sunday, July 09, 2006 - 02:16 AM UTC
Hi again
Doh! So close! As you can see, I didn't quite make my weekend deadline!
There's not a lot to do... really just a matt-coat and then some pastels to complete the weathering - and then to attach the missing bits like the windscreen, of course! :-)
It'll be a relief to kill that ridiculous shine... way out of place for a weathered bird like this one...
Anyway, the revised "Big Plan" is to get it finished in the next day or so - after that, work looks likely to intervene so I won't get another chance to do any building for a while.
All the best
Rowan
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