Hi,

I am currently building a series of US WWII fighter planes (Corsairs F4U's and P-47 Thunderbolts).
I see a lot of these craft (also more modern planes have this obviously) have a dented surface structure from all the handling. I would like to try and incorporate this into the models as well (check the corsair photo's from a previous F4U thread and you see the dark glossy NAVY planes exhibiting this feature to the fullest).

I tried adding glue and then sanding the surface smooth (on a drop tank for test) but that's not really cutting it.

Are there any good approaches to this?

Thanks for any help.

Albert Kiefer

Try using a number 10 blade and gently scrape the dents into the surfface.

Hi Albert

Do you mean something like this:

Stressed Skin Effect

best wishes

Steffen
P.S. somewhere I have see another article by a Czech modeller, but I can't find it...

Hi Stephen,

That looks very much like it! I see I have to add some more tools tool my palette (the worst part of restarting again modelling things after a thirty year break!! )

Thanks a lot for that link!

Albert

Most impressive. I'll have to try thins on wood & fabric covered birds. Eduard's newest Fokker E.V has a spare wing that is cupped/ stressed like the article mentions. The original was plywood covered.

Hi Albert
there was an article on this in Fine Scale Modeler a couple years back.I dint know what issue it was .If you mail Command post he has a copy of the mag and may be able to let you know which one it was in.
Den

Hi Dennis,

I'm still very new here at Armorama. How do I mail command post? I'd be glad to get my hands on a copy of FSM with that article in it.

So can you give me a heads up on this Command Post thing?

Thanks,
Albert

Hi Albert
to contact command post.
1 Go to my account
2 Click on access my private messages
3 Click send
4 you will see some boxes appear in this order

to(type commandpost)

Subject (whatever)

Message(enter message)

Click on send

Incredible!

As soon as I get finish my Stuka, I have a LA-7 that would be prime for this. Since this post was put on here in June has anyone tried it?

-Derek