Well as some of you know I've received a few Wingnut Wings kits as birthday presents and also a impulse purchase by my wife to get free parking at the shopping mall..... yeah, couldn't work that one out either.
Anyway I thought I would document the build here for you guys to follow, some of the images are low res taken with the phone and several with the macro lens on the Nikon D500.
So I hope you all enjoy and if there is further interest I will document more builds!
August 27th Day 1:
Wood! Lot's of it!
Having looked on the internet at all the various types of techniques for wood grain effect I settled for the one I could do right now without having to go out and buy more paints.
August 28th, Day 2
So time to take the plunge, it's been a very long time since I did a project like this so a little bit nervous. Thankfully I had the Vallom kits to get me in the right mind set.
With the basics down for the fuel tank.
Time to move on to the frame work of the cockpit and then add shadowing and other details to the parts. (So far only the fuel tank base grey colour was airbrushed everything else was hand painted.
I decided to slot the pieces together to see if the grain effect was universal throughout the build - sadly the second half went wrong and I had to take it all the way back down to the base bare plastic again.
August 29th, Day 3 It's my Birthday!
Feeling fresh and loaded with coffee I started straight away on the second half of the frame that had gone wrong the day before, it was tricky as I now need to replicate the style I used the previous day.
NOTE: When doing a build it's always best to do batches, for instance if you are working on parts that are polished aluminum or steel its best to do them all at the same time so the effect is universal throughout the model.
Happy with the results on this one too! Let's see how they match up with the other wooden cockpit frame.
While I was waiting I also went about threading the bracing and control wires in the frame, yoke and yaw of the aircraft. Note: this is not part of the official kit and all holes had to be drilled.
Next up was the cabling, I used carbon filament fishing line as it looks amazing without paint and with a little ink looks even better. This was super fiddly work and really required a steady hand for all 10 lines.
Very tiring work so I called it a day! I also had to celebrate my birthday and building a scale model under the influence is a recipe for disaster.
August 30th, Day 4
Woke up bright and early to get back at this as I wanted to see if I could finish of all the control wires to day threading the yoke was much easier than the yaw but threading those cables without a guide bracket was a pain.
While I was waiting for the glue to set on the cables I went about painting up the Instrument Panel and the fuel/oil tank before installing it all in one go.
So that's where I am right now. I airbrushed a few other parts today as well such as the cowling and the fire wall as I had some silver/aluminum loaded up in the airbrush already.
Tomorrow I will finish up the whole cockpit assembly and mount the twin Vickers MG, cartridge and linkage chutes as well as some more fittings in the cockpit. Then it's more woodwork on the main fuselage!
I hope you've enjoyed the ride so far!
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