Rodens SSW D.III 1/32

[lcarroll]

   Coming along REALLY nicely Terri. It's a pleasure following your progress, brings up memories of building mine a few years back and thoughts of doing the second one I plan. (It's in the stash with all the A/M Parts ready to go) Meanwhile this little gem is going to be a beauty!
Cheers,
Lance

[Alexis]

Hey , thanks a lot Lance for checking her out and the positive feedback 

I can assure you I will be following along on your next one . Have you chosen a scheme for it yet ?


Seatbelts are now installed and the halves close up , lower chin in place and upper decking along with the fire wall .The lower wing doesn't fit very well and I ended up going to thin on the right side and took a bit of damage , but very easily fix to do . Under side will take some work with filling and sanding . Not as bad as on the Koster kit though . So she is starting to look like an airplane now .

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[petrov27]

Looking really good - interior is excellent.

Wow that gap joining the lower wing to the fuse brings back memories

[Alexis]

Thanks P !

I hope that those memories are happy ones .



Terri

[RAGIII]

WOW T, that is great progress! The interior looks fantastic with all in place. Really inspiring to see it all buttoned up!
RAGIII

[lcarroll]

Hey , thanks a lot Lance for checking her out and the positive feedback 

I can assure you I will be following along on your next one . Have you chosen a scheme for it yet ?


Seatbelts are now installed and the halves close up , lower chin in place and upper decking along with the fire wall .The lower wing doesn't fit very well and I ended up going to thin on the right side and took a bit of damage , but very easily fix to do . Under side will take some work with filling and sanding . Not as bad as on the Koster kit though . So she is starting to look like an airplane now .

Terri,
  Still not certain but one of the dark brown wood finishes is the tentative choice. Hard to resist!
Cheers,
Lance

[Alexis]

Thanks Rick , it does make want to keep at her 


When your ready Lance let me know and I'll see what I have for profiles on the dark wood finish .

I do have a question for you . Did you remove the side access panels or did you just place the PE parts right on top ? More so on the right side of the fuselage .


Terri

[lcarroll]

   
"I do have a question for you . Did you remove the side access panels or did you just place the PE parts right on top ? More so on the right side of the fuselage . "
Terri,
    I didn't remove the kit panels, just applied the PE versions over top. Looks like I also added a sheet of very thin styrene to the panels so I probably sanded down the originals.  I also used the "chin" underside panel on the cowling area sanded down to support the PE version IIRC. It's hard to tell on the Under Construction Board as Photo Bucket did their evil magic on the photos. This one from my hard drive might help.



Cheers,
Lance

[lone modeller]

This must be a speed build Terri! The cockpit interior looks great but it seems that you will have some work to do with that wing/fuselage joint. However I have no doubt that it will have disappeared by the time of your next post.

Stephen.

[Alexis]

Hi Lance , thanks for the reply back to my question . I did go back have a look at your build thread , but PB has held everything hostage . I ended up removing the panels and made a new scoop using a 1/48 scale Mustang drop tank . This was going well , even had it glued in place and decided to thin it out more and it took battle damage  I also removed the 2 vent scoops on the underside and once the PE panel is fixed in place . New scoops will be made out of 72 scale mustang drop drops . Lower part of the wing is filled and sanding waiting for primer to see how well I actually did !


Thanks Stephen for dropping by . Not a speed build . I had a week off and was able get a large amount done . Now that I'm back at work modeling time is on the weekends now and this weekend is thanksgiving so I get an extra day off for time in front of the bench .

[Alexis]