1/48 Sopwith Schneider (Special Hobby)

[RAGIII]

It Looks as though you are making good progress on your floats and fuselage. Too bad about the :Scale: engine fit, or rather lack there of! Your decision to remove a portion of the cylinders is probably the best as widening the fuselage would most likely cause wing and strut alignment difficulties later.
RAGIII

[Jim]

Progress has been slow, but I managed to brush paint the interior tonight with Tamiya flat aluminium and deck tan. The paint was very thick and needed a lot of thinner just to drip off the brush, though is at least 5 years old and had been pretty much used up.


I also built the cockpit floor from card stock. I will try painting this with acrylic so I don't have to go through the palaver of using oils to make the plastic look like wood since this will be difficult to see and I fear the oils will only gunk up in the slits anyway:


I also built a control column using plans from Frank's Lebed VII build post.  I had a couple of attempts at this as I wasn't happy with my soldering. At first I had trouble getting the solder to stick to the brass rod, even though I used plenty of flux. When it finally did stick, I used too much and it turned into a big glob, which I had to wick off and sand:




While I finally got the control column to something I was OK with, I will not scratch build the foot pedals as:
1) I don't think this will be seen once I close up the cockpit; and
2) It will do my head in.

Once I paint the control column I will mount a wheel I found in the WNW Pup kit (i.e. part B9) on it rather than build one from scratch, which I think looks passable for a 1/48 control wheel,.

[RLWP]

I had a couple of attempts at this as I wasn't happy with my soldering. At first I had trouble getting the solder to stick to the brass rod, even though I used plenty of flux. When it finally did stick, I used too much and it turned into a big glob, which I had to wick off and sand:

Thank you for sharing this. Your results are excellent, I think it is important to share failures along the way to encourage others to have a go. Sometimes things don't go right - that's normal

I'm going to go and look for a cork backed cup mat - that's a brilliant idea

Richard

[Jim]

I'm going to go and look for a cork backed cup mat - that's a brilliant idea

Richard

Thanks Richard. It was more out of necessity than brilliance that I "borrowed" the cup mat/coaster (I forgot to pick up a cork tile after just having visited a hardware store, doh!). I just hope the missus doesn't notice it missing from the table set! 

[RLWP]

I just found two I can get away with. One is an advertising giveaway with a soft backing, the other is a lone coaster with a hard back with no other members of it's set left. I'm acquiring both of them

Richard

[RAGIII]

Your final results on the control column are outstanding to my eye!
RAGIII

[Des]

Excellent result with the control column Jim.

Des.