Bristol Scout C 1/32 First scratch build attempt FINISHED!

[DaveB]

This is coming along great guns now, Richie -

Certainly looking good now you are getting some paint on your Scout.   This is going to look great when finally done.

Regards

Dave

[kensar]

Great looking results, Ritchie.
You'll be 'bringing it home' soon.

[RichieW]

Many thanks Stephen, Dave and Ken. I'm really loving this first foray into scratch building. I have decisions to make re the strut attachment points. They're quite complicated on the real aircraft. I think I may just ignore them in the interests of both sanity and progress!

Richie

[RLWP]

Many thanks Stephen, Dave and Ken. I'm really loving this first foray into scratch building. I have decisions to make re the strut attachment points. They're quite complicated on the real aircraft. I think I may just ignore them in the interests of both sanity and progress!

Richie

Got a picture to show the complications?

Richard

[RichieW]

Got a picture to show the complications?

Richard
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Hi Richard, yes it's this:

20191116_104614 by Richard Williams, on Flickr

I think I would struggle to make 1 let alone 8 identical pieces. Been toying with the idea of making them out of masking tape on the Cricut cutter but I think they're just too small. Haven't ruled it out yet though.

Richie

[RLWP]

OK - I'd give that a miss, or fake it with paint. I have enough trouble getting the rigging anchorages close to the struts in the first place!

Richard

[RichieW]

Thanks Richard, I reckon your right. It's a,big problem best avoided or tackled by far more skilled hands than mine! 😂

[RLWP]

Thanks Richard, I reckon your right. It's a,big problem best avoided or tackled by far more skilled hands than mine! 😂

If I find myself getting obsessed by that kind of detail (and I do - a lot!), sometimes it pays to try and work out just how big it will be on the model

Those anchors look about two inches long. That's 1/16" or 1.8mm. and that part needs two holes drilling through it...

Bet I could fake it with copper wire and paint mush more easily! Put two anchors close together, rig the wires, then fill the gap between the anchors with black paint. Dab on some silver if you want to represent the shackles

And... none of that will have anywhere near as much impact as your lovely roundels and weathering.

Richard

[RichieW]

Thanks Rixhard, you have saved me from myself and not for the first time! It's a good thing I won't get any modelling time for a few days, the obsessive thing has crept up on me and must be allowed to dissipate before work continues!

Richie

[RLWP]

Do you think there is a book in this?

'Scratchbuilding psychology for beginners'

 

Richard

[kensar]

I would go down the paint road as well.  I would paint the black bracket area before putting in the struts and rigging eyelets (did this on my Avro).

[RichieW]

Do you think there is a book in this?

'Scratchbuilding psychology for beginners'

 

Richard

To be sold in the health and wellbeing section!

I would go down the paint road as well.  I would paint the black bracket area before putting in the struts and rigging eyelets (did this on my Avro).

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Thanks Ken, that's it decided then! Many thanks for the input as always.

Richie

[Rookie]

Yes, sounds familiar Richie, it can be obsessive.

It really works for me to sometimes leave it all for a couple of days and then look at it with fresh eyes and a cleared mind   

Willem

[lone modeller]

I agree with all of the above. An alternative is to put a small drop of glue or pint on the ends of the wires - I have seen this done often and it s very effective. After all modelling is frequently about deceiving the eye, not necessarily representing the world as it would be at scale.

Stephen.

[RAGIII]

The painting and weathering are Fantastic Richie! The fuselage now looks gorgeous with the stitching, oil stains, etc. ! I am as I think I have said Really Impressed with your work!
RAGIII