Morane-Saulnier Type "N", Special Hobby 1/32

[Jorgo]

Bertl, it's incredible what you conjure up out of plastic. Each update is an enrichment, because you explain the individual steps very well. You also take good photos to illustrate them. What do you use to paint the fishing line to give it the metal effect?

Kind regards
Jörg

[bobs_buckles]

Good to have you back, brother!

 

Bob

[KiwiZac]

Bertl, I'm showing a fellow modeller these recent posts and he too is in awe - utterly magnificent work!

[kensar]

Excellent work and attention to detail, Bertl.

[Umlaufmotor]

Magic! It's probably done with mirrors and smoke... 😀
Awesome work!
/Fredrik

Thank you Fredrik
Correct .... however this works only in a full moon night shortly after midnight 

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

Bertl, it's incredible what you conjure up out of plastic. Each update is an enrichment, because you explain the individual steps very well. You also take good photos to illustrate them. What do you use to paint the fishing line to give it the metal effect?

Kind regards
Jörg

Thank you very much for the flowers, Jörg.
The fishing lines are painted with Tamiya XF-16 "Flat-Aluminum".
The paint was heavily thinned and is applied with a thick brush.
I usually stretch several pieces of fishing line about 20cm long between "helping hands" and paint them very quickly.
The paint dries extremely quickly, you have to thin very often otherwise the painting becomes very irregularly thick, or small lumps develop on the fishing line.

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Bertl



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[Umlaufmotor]

Good to have you back, brother!

 

Bob

Thank you very much Bob. 

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

Bertl, I'm showing a fellow modeller these recent posts and he too is in awe - utterly magnificent work!

Thank you very much Zac.
The little Morane is certainly not perfect, nor is the model all that easy to build.
It is definitely far from Tamiya or Wingnut Wings.
I had a year to finish it, it was a contest from Jan. 2021 to the end of Dec. 2021.
I ran out of time because I added this and that in addition 
Some things I probably should have done a little differently, or put more effort into, but that is often only noticeable in the macro image.
In the end I am satisfied with the result.
I am also pleased that the model meets with approval.
BtW: I did not finish the model in the required time ... 
But, I must say clearly, I really enjoyed building this little plane. 

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Bertl



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[Umlaufmotor]

Excellent work and attention to detail, Bertl.

Thank you very much kensar.

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

Now to the chassis and wheels.
The struts of the chassis were also ground much thinner.
In addition, the complete axle mount was built scratch.
I used 1mm thick copper tube as the axle.
The two axle stiffeners were represented by injection needles.
The connectors are made of Evergreen material and the suspension is simple wire.
The wire bracing under the axle beam was represented with fishing line.
The complete chassis was primed in light gray, then a layer of Mr. Metalcolor "Aluminum" and "Stainless" and on top of that several very thin layers of Tamiya "Semi-gloss-black" mixed with a drop of light gray.
Then chipped again.
Then aging and weathering with thin dark brown oil paint broth and Tamiya "Smoke" for the oil marks.
A big problem was gluing the metal parts to the Evergreen brackets.
I used super glue for this. But this of course does not penetrate metal but only glues on the surface.
As soon as the axle beam was twisted only minimally, the glued joints broke.













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Bertl

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[Umlaufmotor]

Four components for the wheels are in the box.
These components show a very strong structure of the spokes lying under the surface.
It looks like this rims are covered with fabric.
Interestingly, original pictures of the Morane used by the French show dented cladding on the rims.
It looks like aluminum to my eyes.
On the other hand, the original pictures of the Morane used by the English, show clearly spokes under the cover.
Anyway, I decided against the wheels from the kit.
I used wheels from a Copper-State-Nieuport kit.
These are exactly the same size as the wheels from the Morane kit.

Here is a picture of a French Morane - dented covers on the rims without being able to see the spokes behind them.



And here the Kit-parts.



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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

The Nieuport Copper-State rims still needed work.
First the mounting of the aluminum trim....









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Bertl