1/32 WNW AMC DH.9

[Juan]

Nice choice Ryan, looking forward to your progress.

[Ryan]

Thanks Juan, 2 pages of thread and not an assembly in site....need to get busy.

Ryan

[Ryan]

I wanted to share this shot of the just lovely surface detail on the fuselage, I wasn't expecting this.

DH.9 by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr

OK back to parts prep.

Ryan

[Gisbod]

Yes, their moulding is ridiculously good... another reason to get one!

Guy

[Ryan]

At the front of the fuselage there are two apertures for the carburetor pipes. As molded they are round however my decal version requires that they be oval. WNW provides a oval recess on the inside of just how much you need to remove. In a further example of good engineering the oval brass rings are etched oversized so if you are a little out of oval they will hide your sins.

 I wanted to touch on how I attach PE cleanly. The trick with this is to hold them in place until you can get super glue on them to set. I use Elmers glue to tack them into place, now the Elmers will never hold the part forever, this is just to give me time to glue. You can see the white glue dots in the shot below. The glue also allows fine tuning before you add the super glue. The SG I use is the thin type applied with a micor brush, the head being cut to half its width. I this case the glue was applied from the back but its so thin you could have done from the front.

DH.9 by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr

DH.9 by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr

Ryan

[Gisbod]

Great tip Ryan,

This is the point I usually get superglued fingerprints all over the plastic 

Guy

[Monty]

Nice tip there Ryan... I will watch this one closely! Regards, Marc

[Ryan]

Thanks guys more pics soon as this is fighting with my Albatros for desk time.

Ryan

[RAGIII]

Excellent tip. I will try it out when the situation arises.
RAGIII

[Ryan]

As I’m looking at this rather large fuselage, I can’t help to think how massive the HP 0/400 is going to be!

Ryan

[Ryan]

Not much to show, but did manage to get some primer on the PE work and started setting up painting jigs. The extreme close up show a rough surface, but that is exaggerated.

DH.9 by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr

DH.9 by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr

DH.9 by The 3rd Placer, on Flickr

Ryan

[Ryan]

I did manage to sand off a couple of those "rivets" near the oval ports. Any ideas on how to replace the detail?

Ryan

[Borsos]

Nice kit that one, really looking good! When it comes to rivets I have my punch-and-die set that makes plastic discs from 2.0 down to 0.6 mm. I have no idea if that’s small enough. They can be glued with Tamiya’s extra thin cement.
Best regars
Andreas

[Ryan]

I have a mini punch, but like you say those are very small.

Ryan

[aliluke]

You are a great source of tips Ryan - thanks. Can't help you directly on the rivets but I'm sure someone makes them and they are in a log here somewhere...

Cheers
Alistair