Edward Mannock's S.E.5a 1/144 scratch

[RAGIII]

Working with a brush on something that small may be difficult for you…. I cannot write for others but I can tell you it would be nearly impossible for me!

Stephen.

I agree completely, at least for my own hand painting skills! Well done Ondra!
RAGIII

[ondra]

Many thanks for your encouragement, Stephen, Juan and Rick!

Yesterday I made a ritual I use on every build - I just sit down and keep looking at the parts I have made so far.

I am pretty satisfied with the fuselage as well as with most of the small parts and MG's. But in case of the wings I had to admit that they are not up to the standard I want to have on my model. So I will start over and make them new.



Many thanks to Sergey for the yellowish PC 10 he sent me, can't wait to try it out!



Cheers

Ondra

[ondra]

Well, time to seek new ways of doing things.

The method I want to try for the wing ribs is not completely new - I want to make the ribs using masks and surfacer. Several thin coats should do the job.

As I want to reach as much accuracy as possible, I had to refresh my memories on drawing in Corel, I am curious to see if my plotter can deal with it in this size.

Keep your fingers crossed for me.

Cheers

Ondra

[lone modeller]

Best of luck with the drawings - will be waiting to see the results.

Stephen.

[RAGIII]

I am also looking forward to seeing what you do with the drawings. I thought the original wings looked great!
RAGIII

[ondra]

Thanks for following, Stephen and Rick!

When you want to make the God laugh, tell him you have a plan.

It took me all Friday evening and most of Saturday to make my plotter cooperate with my computer, but eventually I succeeded.

I cut the masks for the wings, quite surprisingly to me already the second try was successful. So I made a fit test on a flat piece of styrene. It looks quite useable so far, will see how it will work with the surfacer.




Cheers

Ondra

[ondra]

Not much to report lately, I made new wings using a jig to achieve the correct dihedral.

I also added a few details to the Lewis MG and it looks acceptable.

Masks for the wing ribs were cut on my plotter and I tested their application on the tailplanes.

Cheers

Ondra

[RAGIII]

Excellent details. The ribs look great!
RAGIII

[Alexis]

Excellent details. The ribs look great!
RAGIII

Second that 



Terri

[ondra]

Many thanks for your support, Rick and Terri!

I spent most of the weekend on masking the lower surfaces. Actually it is more difficult than I imagined at the beginning, but it is getting better as I am gaining practice.

Masking was followed by several coats of Gunze Surfacer. Now I will leave it to cure until next weekend and then I will reveal the result.

Cheers

Ondra

[RAGIII]

Unbelievably awesome Ondra!
RAGIII

[Des]

Absolutely amazing work in such a miniature scale, extremely well done Ondra.

Des.

[TobyCoulson]

My ghast continues to be flabbered at your work. Outstanding

[Juan]

Beautiful work, I would need glasses made out of two magnifying glasses just to see the parts.  Lovely   

[coyotemagic]

Utterly mind blowing, Ondra!
Cheers,
Bud