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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Under Construction => Topic started by: PrzemoL on September 16, 2016, 05:35:05 PM
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I have started working on this very well known kit a couple of days ago. A usual sequence with cockpit bits first - cutting the elements from the sprues, cleaning delicate flash, airbrushing, masking, wash, etc. brought me to this point when I am starting the internal rigging and subassemblies are worth taking my camera out of its bag.
BTW, I am planning this one in Polish markings (what a surprise!), one of two Rolls Royce powered Bristols among just over 100 Hisso ones in Polish post WW1 service.
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Holy Smoke!
You don't hang around, Prze!
Lovely work ;)
vB
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No resting on your Laurels for you is there! I almost started my F2b instead of the SE5a. I am now glad that I waited as I am sure your build will be inspirational and educational! Beautiful interior work!
RAGIII
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How come you managed to cut so thin wooden slats ? ;D
Fantastic working.
Jacek
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WOW, what a start, the interior work you have done is superb, I love all the wood colours.
Des.
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Wonderful start Prze, their best Kit in my opinion, and a great subject. Looking forward to seeing the results, enjoy!
Cheers,
Lance
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Magnificent interior work, as always, Przemo! Like Rick, I'm glad I put off doing mine so I won't be embarrassed by comparison. I do plan on doing a 1/48 scale Biff very soon, so I'll be using yours as a guide.
Cheers,
Bud
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Oh Boy, another masterpiece underway to follow !!!
Ed
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Beautiful work, so far PrzemoL. I just love the Brisfit.
Best wishes
Nigel
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Just perfect Prze...
As usual
Guy
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Great start! I love the seat & other details!
Steve
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Ed has written it: another mini-masterpiece in the making. I will be following this masterclass with interest as usual.
Stephen.
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As all the others have said: an impressive start, very nice! That wicker sear is straight from the box?
Borsos
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Man you're quick, Przemo! Great start on the interior. Beautifully
done, especially the seat. I will be following along as usual, my friend.
Cheers,
Ernie :)
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What a great start, Przemo! Looking clean, neat and beautifully detailed as usual... wonderful wood tones...
Regards,
Marc
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Thank you, everyone, for cheering! It is great to have so many faithful fans :)
Jacek, luckily the wooden pieces were "cut" by WNW themselves ;)
Borsos, the wicker seat is indeed from the box but modified as per WNW website - that thick piece of plastic at the outside of the seat where there should be perforation was removed. It worked quite fine at the back, were it was vital as this part will be visible from the gunner cockpit. The sides were not so easy and I managed to break some of the strings when scraping the exterior but the sides will not be visible from outside, and on the inside some wash masked the mess.
Well, I understand those who consider this kit as WNW best. I cannot be sure if it is truly the best in their entire production line but it does assemble easily and without problems. The interior is now completed, with the exception for the seat belts. I have added the rigging (remembering the nightmare I invented with Snipe I have done this prior to the assembly) and control lines and besides this - two throttle linkages from black wire. The rest is from the box.
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And testing how it will be with the fuselage interior painted CDL and aluminium.
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Your interior looks even better all put together, if that is possible !
RAGIII
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Spectacular work Prze, The clean finish and super detail of the cockpit are most impressive. I'm one of the great "fans" of this kit as being the best of WNW's releases, and you are certainly solidifying that impression! At this rate I may have to try to get another into my Stash! :o
Cheers,
Lance
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Great work, Prze!
;) ;) ;)
vB
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Looking absolutely brilliant Przemol, the interior is superb.
Des
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Looking absolutely brilliant Przemol, the interior is superb.
Des
I couldn't agree more! A real pleasure to watch the magic, my friend!
Cheers,
Ernie :)
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Ah, yes, this looks stunning, you did a geat job on the interieur.
Thanks for showing.
Manni
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Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous interior, Przemo!
Cheers,
Bud
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What can I add which has not already been written? Clearly a good kit buyt then the modeller is adding something which makes it better than good …..exceptional!
Stephen.
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All I can say is it looks absolutely wonderful! I see what you mean about adding the control lines at this stage... I will follow and enjoy! Marc
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Thank you, everybody, I am very glad you like my work on the Biff. So here is more: the seatbelts were added, the fuselage is closed, joints filled, sanded and polished. Still, I have to apply some primer to check the quality of this work to call it done. In short, I am now entering the phase of little mediatic, tedious but vital work on cleaning the joints, preparing the main assembly bits for the paint. It will take some time... And yes, there are many holes to be drilled for rigging.
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Stunning...!!Very fine finess.
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Przemol nice to see your new production.
Recently, I have a lot of work, I am a guest in the house, and only now I noticed your topic.
As usual with curiosity I'll be here looking in.
Adam.
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Very nice! How many hands did it take to run the wires through the fuselage, while closing it up and getting it all aligned?
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Love that interior!
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Thanks, UFAG, Adam, Steve and Mike for you comments.
Mike, it was not at all difficult to pass the control lines through the openings in the fuselage just before closing it. My two hands were more than enough ;)
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Outstanding interior as I said before! Looks terrific all closed up and in place!
RAGIII
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The interior is absolutely brilliant. I really like the way you reproduce leather - it`s very convincing.
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A brief report from quite long tedious work. Cleaning the parts, removing injector marks from the engine cowlings (I have decided to mount the bottom and side ones and leave the top ones off), drilling the holes for rigging, inserting 110 Bob's eyelets, checking them for pull-off, three sessiong of filling and sanding of fuselage seams. Reinforcing the ailerons, elevators and rudder joints with pieces of wire. Degreasing the surfaces with mild detergent. And finally the elements are ready for airbrushing!!!
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Great work Przemek - 110 is a hell lot of eyelets. I wouldn`t expect to use that many for the Bristol. Keep up the good work!
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Terrific prep work! 110 is a lot. I guess I will have a lot of holes to drill when I get around to mine :(
RAGIII
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Excellent work so far Przemol.
Des.
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Great work so far, Prze. And good timing too, since I started this kit a few weeks ago. I'm looking forward to following your build and picking up on some tips as I work along with mine, too (along with a DFW late at the same time).
Hopefully I can post a few pics of my builds soon 8)
Cheers,
Gary
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Your efforts will be rewarded in the end. Looking really good. Look forward to next update.
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Ah, very nice! Yes, a LOT of eyelets!
Steve
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Thanks, gentlemen for your kind comments.
Gary, I am looking forward to see your builds. I may be able to see what I have done wrong in mine :)
Honestly, I was also surprised to count 110 eyelets. But then, if you think of double flyings wires, two bay wing cellule, it suddenly becomes evident.
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Exactly that amount of eyelets and rigging has kept me away from saving up for a Bristol... (saving for a Snipe now) You make it look easy -when I try to make close ups of my work there are always glue fingers, damages and other mischiefs showing up. :)
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great thus far , cheers
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Thanks.
Jeroen, sorry to say this, Snipe with basically the same wings arrangement as Bristol will have the same number of eyelets necessary. And it will be more cramped due to smaller dimensions... If you wish to escape rigging, go for German designs.
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Thanks.
Jeroen, sorry to say this, Snipe with basically the same wings arrangement as Bristol will have the same number of eyelets necessary. And it will be more cramped due to smaller dimensions... If you wish to escape rigging, go for German designs.
One difference. The Snipe doesn't have any Double wires ;D
RAGIII
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Thanks.
Jeroen, sorry to say this, Snipe with basically the same wings arrangement as Bristol will have the same number of eyelets necessary. And it will be more cramped due to smaller dimensions... If you wish to escape rigging, go for German designs.
One difference. The Snipe doesn't have any Double wires ;D
RAGIII
You are absolutely right, Rick. My mistake, sorry.
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Thanks.
Jeroen, sorry to say this, Snipe with basically the same wings arrangement as Bristol will have the same number of eyelets necessary. And it will be more cramped due to smaller dimensions... If you wish to escape rigging, go for German designs.
One difference. The Snipe doesn't have any Double wires ;D
RAGIII
You are absolutely right, Rick. My mistake, sorry.
No reason to be sorry! I found the Snipe to be a Joy to build and for a British aircraft the rigging is pretty straight forward, JMHO.
RAGIII
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Thanks -I'm not completely shy of rigging (having built a 1/72 Roden Gotha), but not very experienced with it in 1/32... my first 1/32 WNW build will be the Fokker DVII.
As nice and "efficient" looking as the German designs are, I think the British and French aircraft of the period do have more character... :)
Jeroen
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Some paint finally on. The CDL underisdes are basically done, now masking and PC10.
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The lower centre section had to be assembled with u/c struts before the paint as there were visible joints around the legs on the underside. Some extra masking will be necessary but I prefer this than the ellipse marks around the legs.
Black fittings and metallic hatch covers will come in due course.
Also the interplane struts are completed.
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Beautiful work with the underside painting and the struts look excellent.
Des.
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Brilliant work on those struts, Przemo, and I love the shading and painting of the under sides!
Cheers,
Bud
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Beautiful work! The colors & subtle shading are just right.
Steve
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Just caught up again - as usual the standard of your painting is sublime. I like the polish markings too - very different from what we usually see on a Brisfit.
Stephen.
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Brilliant work on those struts, Przemo, and I love the shading and painting of the under sides!
Cheers,
Bud
As always I agree with my Amigo!
RAGIII
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Przemek, the CDL looks great as always! You are the master ;)
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Brilliant interior. Looks very neat.
Cheers, Medic :D
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Thank you for your kind comments, gentlemen.
And so it goes on with my Biff. Some steps forward, some steps back.
Forward - some PC10 painting done, no shading yet. Upper wing alerons and elevators
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But then, when the fuselage top got its PC10 I was shocked to notice that the seam line still shows. I scratched the paint in the affected zone, scraped a deeper trench along, filled it liberally with CA glue and now I am letting it set well, i.e. I will wait two or three days before sanding. Then I will have to do some polishing to hide the edges (steps) of the scratched hole in the paint. Damn, I detest such mishaps...
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But on the positive side again, the propeller got its colours
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and is waiting for some wash around the boss plate.
And the result of todays work are the control horns for the elevator. I have just realised, that the lines are both double and equipped with turnbuckles at the elevator horns. It was tricky to insert the Bob's buckles on BOTH sides of the horns. Due to their small thickness I had to trim the eyelets tails to half a milimeter or so to have the loops just popping off the surface. And then I tied 1/48 scale Gaspatch turnbuckles to those eyelets at the elevator horns using loops formed from 0.07mm copper wire. All tested for pull out, lucky me to do this now, as not all the points held firmly, I had to redo two or three out of eight. Now finally the horns are ready for black paint together with the remaining black fittings.
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Outstanding work, keep up the good fight. You will have a looker when done.
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Great work! Top build and superb paintjob.
Manni
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Terrific work as always! Everything is looking awesome!
RAGIII
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Brilliant work on those struts, Przemo, and I love the shading and painting of the under sides!
Cheers,
Bud
As always I agree with my Amigo!
RAGIII
As does Amigo #3 join in !!!
Ed
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A-ma-zing...to say the least sir..!
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Hi Przemo! This Brisfit is coming along beautifully! I just love your CDL shading - I will definitely try to do something similar! You have done some amazing work on the control wire turnbuckles and attachments too - Well Done! I am really interested in that visible seam line on the fuselage top that needed an (irritating) repair - I had just the same problem on the DVII - I wonder if it isn't the reaction of the liquid glue to the relatively soft plastic?? It seems the sinking happens a while after the glueing!!
Regards,
Marc
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Thank you, everybody, for your interest in my build and kind words.
Marc, I have always attributed these reappearing seam lines to shrinkage of the CA glue itself. But then, you maybe quite right, it may also be the plastic collapsing. Anyway, the only remedy I think of, is to leave the CA glue for a couple of days to set well and sand only afterwards. I hope it will work now and I will be glad to report the results.
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It has been a long time since the previous update, but the time has come for the next instalment. I have spent many busy evenings with masking, airbrushing, decalling (thanks, Melius Manu, for your lovely decals), shading and finally some assembly! The WNW invented an unusual sequence here, with an intermediate stage of a funny buggy without an engine, with just the centre piece of the lower wing. The assembly here, which I feared a lot, was not difficult at all, WNW did a fine technology job here (again!), all 8 mini-struts fit like a glove and together with 4 rigging cables provide a strong platform for further steps.
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The tail control surfaces are just dry fitted to give more taste, I still need to complete the tail rigging before these will get for good.
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The wings are also finally ready. Here it took me more time than expected because I managed to spoil two upper wing checkerboards. After some deliberating I masked and airbrushed them. This went quite fine, despite my worries with opacity of acrylic white and red colours - Vallejo are not bad at all.
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Also the radiator and the propeller got some wash and are basically ready for assembly (minus the control lever on the side of the radiator, where the cables controlling the shutters will come).
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Outstanding job, she is coming along beautifully. Do not see too many Polish birds, I like it a lot.
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Excellent progress, Prze! Superb!!
vB :)
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Stunning work, Przemo! Your usual superb craftsmanship!
Cheers,
Bud
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Fantastic work. I'm impressed !
The plane nr. 20.1 and 20.2 had a engine RR Falcon III and 4 bladed propeller.
Greetings.
Jacek
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Wow, very nice! Such clean edges on the upper & lower colors! It is also so good to see that the painted markings came out fine.
Steve
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Hello Prze,
Beautifully subtle shading. Absolutely spot on. And a very neat job of the colour demarcations too.
Keep up the good work!
Guy
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Wonderful paintjob. The plane looks realy outstanding.
Bye,
Manni
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Like Bud said your usual superb work! Beautiful painting and the markings look perfect!
RAGIII
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Thank you, everybody.
Well, now the build and the updates will be coming faster. I have just completed the rigging of the tail. And the lower wings are put in place. Literally - the fit in the centre piece is so tight that I used no glue.
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The radiator is dry-fitted, and there is still some rigging in the engine bearers missing
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I have just realised, that Photobucket server is down for maintenance. Sorry for the inconvenience, I hope the photos will be available soon.
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yes, Preze, the photos are back! and what a great photos they are! you did a great and neat build! it just seems the real thing!
ciao
edo
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Thank you, Edo.
Some more steps FORWARD! :)
The upper wing jumped on. I decided that fitting the wing to 12 struts at one run would be too much for me. So I only used cabane and outermost ones first and put the upper wing on without the mid-span ones. When glue dried I rigged the cabanes and 4 outermost stagger lines. Then I slipped in the remaining 4 struts (with pins slightly trimmed to ease the process) and rigged their 4 stagger lines, too.
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And now it is all about rigging! Two inner bays have now their landing wires and four inner flying wires. And I have enough for the day. ;)
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Great!
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Wow, she is looking beautiful.
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Great, beautiful work.
Cheers,
Manni
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lovely job Prze,
I had one and sold it on but wish I hadn't now.
Guy
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Lovely work, and very inspiring! I started one of these kits (in tandem with another WnW German 2-seater) and am following your build as a guide.
Cheers,
Gary
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Awesome work, my friend. The rigging is superb.
Cheers,
Bud
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This build is looking truly magnificent, Przemo! I do love your approach to rigging, very neat and precise, and always such beautiful modelling! Regards, Marc
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Thank you very much, gentlemen.
Now the main rigging is completed, with aileron controls included. But there are still two drag lines missing. Those, however, will be possible to attach only together with side cowling panels as the lines pass through inspection holes.
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And the time has come for the engine. As usual, what WNW propose in their kit is decent but there is always some room for amendments. I have noticed the lacking round inspection holes in the front of the crankcase. Some work on it has just started with two slices of a sprue attached. They will be still substantially trimmed down and rings with bolt heads added (probably two pieces from a PE bezel set by HGW will do).
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I also plan to add 24 electric wires, a missing water line (?) on the firewall, a few air tubes, oil tank drain, etc. And there must be a fuel supply to the carbs but this is still an enigma for me, as no photo of Rolls Royce Falcon mounted in a Brisfit which I consulted shows these fuel lines clearly. Any help here would be more than welcome!
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Looks great! So quickly, too!
Steve
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Thanks, Steve.
Quickly you say? Well, once everything was prepared, the assembly really goes quick. But those preparations were almost killing me.
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Terrific job as always! May I ask what you used for the rigging?
Thanks,
Eric
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Have not dropped in recently and this model seems to be nearly complete! As usual you are making a superb rendition of the original - your attention to detail is terrific - "just a few extra details to the engine compartment….." Good understatement if ever I read one!!
Stephen.
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Thank you, senhores.
Krow, now I remember admiring your amazing Biff some time ago. Thank you for the heads up, WNW truly misplaced the spark plugs location. I think I will redo them to the correct locations, more off the cylinder blocks axes. The more I look at the photos, the more missing bits emerge. It is not going to be a quick build.
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Przemek your build is absolutely beautiful - up to your standards! Everything looks so crisp and clean!
Can`t wait till the next update with the engine.
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I have been in Fl. Without computer access so just catching up. As always you have produced a truly Magnificent Model to date. The overall painting and weathering, rigging, and the engine work are outstanding.
RAGIII
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Thank you, Filip, Krow and Rick.
Krow, thanks for your offer, a PM sent.
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Thank you very much, Krow. Your generous help with the photos is very much appreciated!
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Great looking Bristol so far, those Polish markings somehow contrast really well with the PC10 :)
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Thank you, Jeroen.
Some progress with preparation of engine bits. Started with the carburettor parts, which have a plastic connection between carb pairs, that should not be there - I managed to remove most of it, also a funny post on which they were supposed to stand was removed. Bits of the posts were inserted into the holes in the engine block, sanded flush now. Also those round inspection holes in the engine front are done.
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Oil tank equipped with two outlets and the drain pipe.
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Oil filter has two funny pipes attached, which have little to do with reality. Those were cut off and correct pipes will be attached later, from a soldering wire.
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Magnetos armed with 12 electric wires each, held together in 6s by bands. There will be some more of such bands added later.
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Exhausts cleaned from flash and outlets drilled open.
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And cylinder blocks glued together. Here I still hope to replace those tiny blobs imitating spark plugs with something from the wide offer from Taurus.
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Wow, that is going to be one fine looking engine when done. :)
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We will see, Juan, we will see. But I will do my best ;)
Some more steps...
Taurus spark plugs have arrived, the WNW blobs were cut off, holes for Taurus bits drilled.
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One test fitted
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And after painting and installing, together with the cam shafts
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Oil tank painted
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Carburetters and intake manifolds ready for assembly
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And the engine with magnetos and cam shaft drive. Water and oil pump are also installed but barely seen in this photo.
(http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/przemyslaw.litewka/modele_pliki/biff2100.jpg)
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Simply OUTSTANDING!
RAGIII
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Incredible quality of work here Prze, what did you use for the ignition wires, and what are they painted with?
Cheers,
Lance
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hi Preze!
Taurus sparks are little jems in themselves.
I use those too, but I have one question: do you insert them till you reach the 'big nut' almost half way, or you leave a gap bethween the nut and the hole where you insert them? (hope tho have myself explained.... ???)
ciao
edo
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Ah, this looks very good. Nice to see, what and how you do here. Thanks for showing
Manni
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Thank you, gentlemen
Incredible quality of work here Prze, what did you use for the ignition wires, and what are they painted with?
Cheers,
Lance
Lance, the cables are from 0.25 soldering wire painted beige brown. Inevitably, during manipulations they will loose some of the paint and then I will have to retouch them.
hi Preze!
Taurus sparks are little jems in themselves.
I use those too, but I have one question: do you insert them till you reach the 'big nut' almost half way, or you leave a gap bethween the nut and the hole where you insert them? (hope tho have myself explained.... ???)
ciao
edo
Those I used here have a pin devised to enter the predrilled hole. They nicely sit in there with the nut supporting them on the hole rim, the nut is fully exposed.
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Lovely progress, Przemo! I really do love the engine detailing, those spark plugs and ignition wires make a big difference. Lovely lifelike work on the carbs and induction pipes too... Masterful! Regards, Marc
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Outstanding, looks like it could start and take off.
PS - Love your home made engine stand, great use of old sprues
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Just catching up with this - once again, the work of a craftsman on display here!
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As others have written the quality of your work never ceases to amaze and impress. This engine is going to be worth displaying as a model on its own.
Stephen.
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Thanks for your continuously kind comments, very much appreciated. Especially on miserable days as today. I have just finished repairing one of two blunders. Will you believe that I had to shave down those lovely spark plugs? Yes, I had to. I still cannot understand how I managed to drill those 24 holes, and install the plugs mistaking left with right cylinder bank! Irreversibly - the upper water lines cannot be attached if the banks are swapped. The entire modeling evening was the time cost of it. This was purely mine and I am extremely grateful to Łukasz for sending me two spare plug sets, just enough for recovery. How did he know that I would need them???
And the second blunder is on WNW side. Again, I cannot understand how they managed to misplace the positions of rear carbs vs the cam shaft drives. The carbs should be more to the rear than those V shaped drives . This in turn requires the rear intake manifolds to be longer than the front ones. They have done it correctly on Eagles in Felixstowe kits but here on Falcon they have erronously made the rear and the front ones of equal length. I have added pieces of plastic rods to lengthen them. But the glue has to set before sanding polishing and repainting them can be done.
Evidently, a day of steps back... I even do not feel like taking photos...
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Oh, I feel your pain! I have been there quite a few times, & you know you will recover (although there is a dark cloud overhead for now). :-\
Steve
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Miserable day? Steps back?
With respect Prze, I do not agree!
1. From the spark plug issue you learnt something. Although it is something you believed you already knew,
your knowledge has been reinforced. I have found that learning is invariably a positive outcome.
2. WNW set you a challenge that you identified and rectified. Consequently, your model will be all the better for your additional work. This is also a positive outcome.
You know your present sense of disapointment will mellow significantly with the dawn of a new day. Remember your Felixstowe nose paint issue? That turned out stuningly!
You have made no steps backward, only progress. :D
So how about a few photos please. You know you really want to ;)
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Thank you, everybody, for your soothing words. Boggie, sure the feeling on photos was temporary, I did not mean that forever ;) Only till the damage is repaired. So, now it is. The engine now stands as I meant it should have stood yesterday.
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As you see the rear intake manifolds are lengthened, the rear carbs hang just BEHIND the cam shaft controls as they should. The cylinder blocks are not swapped and have the spark plugs located correctly, in a zig-zag pattern when viewed from the top with the frontmost ones more off to the sides.
And here the engine as it stands for the moment, tentatively put on the bearers together with the radiator. Th rear carbs have enough space in front of the firewall.
(http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/przemyslaw.litewka/modele_pliki/biff2104.jpg)
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When the glue between the intake cylinders, intake manifolds and carbs sets the time will come for the electric wires to arrange them finally.
And in the meantime I completed the cockpit area by adding the observer's gun and the compass in the upper wing centrepiece.
(http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/przemyslaw.litewka/modele_pliki/biff2105.jpg)
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Simply STUNNING!
RAGIII
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Simply STUNNING!
RAGIII
+1 Prze, that last photo of the details in and around the "pits" is incredible, what truly masterful work!
Cheers,
Lance
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Wow outstanding. Looks like you are going to need a small mechanic to hook up all those sparkplug wires. Make sure they are connected in the right firing sequence (LOL) or the engine wont start. ;D
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Always enjoy your work 8)
Terri
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I knew there was some sunshine behind the clouds! Looks great!!
Steve
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Have not followed that thread before, which obviously was my personal loss, but not enymore!
What was depicted by Przemek is kind of sheer modelling experience. I would not treat this like "one step back" as it is always progress by checking/comparing/looking for answers and finding the solution.
The outcome will be splendid.
regards
K
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Outstanding work on the engine and cockpit not to mention the rest. It's a nice feeling just to look at this build. Well done.
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Thank you!
I have installed the water pipes, sorted out those 24 electric wires, trimmed them, attached to the spark plugs and cam shafts, added four rings holding them on the central pipes of all four intake manifolds and retouched the lost paint. I expected the worst but the soldering wire is very easy to handle, soft and not springing back. Highly recommended!
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(http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/przemyslaw.litewka/modele_pliki/biff2110.jpg)
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Beautiful engine. I can't wait to see you making it even more alive with some oily remains etc.
Excellent model. I hope one day my LVA version will be just as nice.
regards,
Ivo
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Wow, Prezemo! That is beautifully neat and finely detailed! My admiration for some fine work... Regards, Marc
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Outstanding, simply outstanding work.
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Plaster the engine in 'filters' and she's good to go!
vB ;)
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Thank you for watching and supporting.
Ivo, the engine will be dirtied soon, do not worry. It is too pristine to match the airframe.
Bob, the engine still cannot run, no fuel delivery, water lines are still not all, no oil installation and no control of carbs. Well, this is basically what I plan to add yet.
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When you have added those extra connections will you run it up? It looks as though you could!. Simply wonderful modelling.
Stephen.
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Thanks Stephen ;)
Krow, thanks for the alert. But I thought of it, checked, and it passes through, just...
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Wonderful, just wonderful...
Ed
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Wonderful, just wonderful...
Ed
So says another of the Amigos! Spectacular is also a word that could be used.
RAGIII
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I've just checked in here and have to say that engine is spectacular! Nothing less than what we've come to expect though....
Ian
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Thank you for watching and kind words.
And in the meantime... Almost there! A few shots from the last steps
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Some simplifications are there, you might notice some if you compare my efforts with fantastic photos of TVAL Bristol presented by James Fahey in another section or with shots of Krow's lovely build. But I honestly say, that I have done my best...
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Przemek the engine absolutely jaw-dropping... What a beauty WOOOOOW! The plumbing and wiring is spectacular!
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If this is simplified I sure can't tell! Stunning work IMHO,
RAGIII
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Superb work on the engine Przemol, the added details make it look like the real thing.
Des.
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Incredible job - it looks fantastic!
Cheers,
Gary
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Words cannot do your work justice. I am amazed every time you post an update.
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What a magnificent engine, Przemo! Installed, it looks like the real thing. Truly superb and up to your usual high standards, my friend!
Cheers,
Bud
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Absolutely spectacular Prze! The engine is beautifully and realistically done, and despite all the detail, it's all clean as can be! You've done an outstanding job so far.
Cheers,
Lance
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I was looking at this on my phone earlier, studying the photos for quite a long while. Now, seeing it on the computer is even nicer. The metal finishes are superb. Not only the natural metal finishes, but the black painted parts have the right amount of sheen & smoothness to represent painted metal parts in nice contrast to the canvas parts. The plumbing & wiring all looks spot on, & everything looks very much in scale. Very nice!
Steve
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Verry,verry nice. Absolutely outstanding engine. It looks so real. You did a fantastic job.
Chapeau,
Manni
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Oh, very beautiful! That is some wonderful detailing! As it all comes comes together it shows the attention to detail that is the hallmark of your style of modelling! I'm enjoying this great build very much! Regards, Marc.
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All the above... I'm speechless....for once!
Beautiful work, Prze :)
Von B
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Are you going to bench test this engine before you finally instal it in the airframe? If the photos were slightly enlarged that could pass for the real thing. Minor errors? I cannot see any - only absolutely first class modelling.
Stephen.
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Thank you, gentlemen.
I am sorry to say, I am not going to try to run the engine :-)
And I am glad to announce the end of this build. The engine is completed
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(http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/przemyslaw.litewka/modele_pliki/biff2-25.jpg)
And so is the entire model.
(http://www.ikb.poznan.pl/przemyslaw.litewka/modele_pliki/biff2-19.jpg)
More photos in the gallery. Thank you all for accompanying me in this road.
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Outstanding, simply outstanding. Congratulations on a beautiful build.
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Super Przemek!
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As always your build was informative and the results superb!
RAGIII
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Thanks, I am glad you like it :)
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Stunning!
Stephen.
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Very nice model, congratulations!
Borsos
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Simply stunning, Przemo! All elements come together so sublimely to create a real treat for the eye!
Cheers,
Bud
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Many thanks, Borsos, Stephen and Bud. Very much appreciated comments!
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It is a remarkable result! It is simply hallucinating realism!!
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Another your wonderful model airplane, the engine is as real.
Adam.
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I have seen other projects from you before, again, incredible...
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wow Preze!
jaw dropping and eyes popping!!
it is a jewl!
iao
edo
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Thank you, gentlemen. I am glad you like it. And... there are some more photos in the Completed section
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What an extraordinary model - can't believe how good that engine is but nothing else lets it down either. Tremendous!!!
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Great job, Przemol, very nice!
Ondra