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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2019, 09:51:51 PM »
The molded-in wire is a nice feature.

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2019, 02:13:17 AM »
Looks like a lovely plane. And it will turn into a wonderful model in your hands!
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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2019, 03:34:57 AM »
More preparations...

Trolleys assembled and finally ready for paint (wheels just put on dry for show, will be removed for airbrushing)





Floats armed with numerous PE fittings




Interior bits required long sessions of cleaning, bubble-filling, sanding...








The time comes for colours, at last
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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2019, 09:19:10 AM »
All the time you spend fixing and prepping these things will pay off in the future.

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #19 on: June 21, 2019, 07:08:01 AM »
I hope, you are right Porsche...

And here is a report on some more tedious work.

The internal truss is assembled with the joints CA-filled and sanded, holes for rigging eyelets drilled in the quadrilateral fields.





And the work on the wing started. Numerous bubble holes filled with bits of white plastic profile. The joint with the small centre piece - filled with CA and sanded - this three times already and still requiring some touch-ups.





And here is a shot to show the size of this aircraft - comparison with a spare WNW Pfalz D.IIIa lower wing.

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #20 on: June 21, 2019, 08:08:50 AM »
Details and main wings are looking great! I like your comparison photo. This is a large aircraft!
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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #21 on: June 21, 2019, 11:02:46 AM »
...  holes for rigging eyelets drilled in the quadrilateral fields.

Beautiful workmanship!

"A friend" asked me to ask you what "quadrilateral fields" are.  :-[

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #22 on: June 21, 2019, 11:56:13 AM »
Przemol,
    The period between the World Wars offers so many fascinating and beautiful aircraft, and this one is a perfect example. I dabble in the "Yellow Wings" of the USN for that reason, beautiful vintage aircraft with spectacular color schemes that I really enjoy for a change of pace. This looks like a great Kit and I will be following your Build. Another great piece of Polish Aviation History!
Cheers,
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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #23 on: June 21, 2019, 05:58:04 PM »
Thanks!

...  holes for rigging eyelets drilled in the quadrilateral fields.

Beautiful workmanship!

"A friend" asked me to ask you what "quadrilateral fields" are.  :-[

Gene K

I am not sure if it is a serious question.  ;) But since I am a teacher, I will try to answer as if it were one.  ;D
The sides of the truss have the elements (posts, longerons, braces) forming triangles and quadrilaterals. The former ones are stable structures and thus do not require rigging, the latter ones are not stable, they are subjected to sway deformation, and thus do require rigging - that is where, in the inner corners, I drilled the holes to introduce the eyelets for the rigging - all this will be added after airbrushing.
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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #24 on: June 21, 2019, 06:04:49 PM »
Nice work on this very large aircraft!!

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2019, 10:56:27 PM »
Some more work on resin preparations. Wing and stabilizer struts required multiple sessions of filling and sanding - the white spots indicate the affected zones





One of the front struts had a too short thinner section - it had to be corrected with razor and sanding paper - now they are identical and fitting to the scale drawings. Cleaning them I removed the raised details of tapes used to fix the Pitot tube pipe to one of those struts - they will be redone using selfadhesive tape.


Furthermore, the test fitting of wings struts and fuselage indicated that the wing sits too high over the fuselage and the cabane struts fell too short. But further measurments with the scale drawings showed that the problem was in too small spacing of the wing mount points for the main struts. The holes which were already prepared for the struts had to be filled and the new correct locations more off the fuselage are now traced - they will be drilled when the filled old places are sanded... Definitely, more to come soon...





And the cabane-outer wing panels joint is finally done.
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Ash nazg thrakatuluk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2019, 12:55:34 AM »
Wow, this kit is really making you work!  Plenty of air bubbles in the resin.

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2019, 02:14:46 PM »
A superlative work, PrzemoL
It will be another showstopper

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2019, 07:22:16 PM »
Great work from the Master!!!!

Very silly question.......Would a coat of paint just hide the bubbles?????

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Re: Lublin R.XIIIG - white 714 (1/32, Lukgraph)
« Reply #29 on: July 09, 2019, 11:15:53 PM »
An excellent example of proper research correcting a problem with a kit design. Looking terrific!
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