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

[Umlaufmotor]

Before I post pictures of the elevator, I'll jump briefly to the wings.
Both wings are bent and cannot be installed oob.
I first dipped them in near boiling water and straightened them.
But the next day they were bent again.
Now I resorted to stronger weapons, a hot air blower.
With this I managed to permanently straighten the two wings.





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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

After that I adjusted the connections of the wings to the fuselage. 
There are round holes in the fuselage and semicircular sprues with edges at the wing roots.
This does not fit together.
A small needle file and sandpaper are enough for this work.











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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

But also on the fuselage, the passage of the rear wing spar had to be reworked.
Oob here is only a small leather border indicated.
But this is not enough to make the spar passage halfway realistic.
I used a sharp tool to scrape the spar passage deeper into the fuselage.

Small note:
The metal plate on the cockpit is not glued, the picture was taken during the adjustment of the plate.

The spar passage before



and after the rework





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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

Of course, the rear spar of the wings had to be represented as well, otherwise the previous work would have made no sense.
In retrospect, I must say that I could have made the spar a little wider.
In the pictures, the adaptation of the Evergreen material to a spar.







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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

The wing bracing connections were made with bifurcated fittings mounted on the spar.
On the model wings, small recesses are indicated at this point.
These were drilled out diagonally in the course of the direction of pull and suitably bent wire was glued in.
In the picture a first attempt. I used later somewhat thicker copper wire.
So that this gets the right metallic color I have annealed him over a candle flame.









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Bertl

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[Umlaufmotor]

The wings were painted with Gunze "Radome".



After that, the canvas reinforcement bands were displayed with lightened "radome".
Some masking work was necessary here.





The next step was to paint the fabric band leading from the leading edge of the wing to the trailing edge with slightly less lightened "radome".



Now the ribs had to be masked to show the nailed-on wooden rib rails.





I used oil paint here to represent the rib rails. If I had to do this work again, I would go for a lighter oil paint.
A light coat of Tamiya "Clear-Orange" sealed the oil paint.



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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

Here the result after the finished painting of the wings





The French cockades are decals from the kit.
The decals are very thin and nestle excellently to the surface structure.
The problem, only one of the four cockades could be attached without accident - the other three broke into several pieces.
But, I was able to manage it so that nothing of this accident can be seen.









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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

After the decals were well dried, the wings were sealed with Tamiya "matt-clear".
A slightly blotchy color gradient was painted over them with very heavily thinned Gunze "Sand".

[Umlaufmotor]

Afterwards again a sealing with Tamiya "matt-clear".
With various oil paints, the traces of aging and dirt were indicated on the wings.











 .... and ...... afterwards again a sealing with Tamiya "matt-clear". 

Small comment:
Good to see in the picture - the use of thicker, annealed copper wire for the wing bracing linkage mentioned in a previous post.

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Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

A Rotary-engine (in German: Umlaufmotor  ) is anything but a clean fellow.
Oil thrown around in combination with dust and dirt from the airfield makes the canvas covering of the aircraft look dirty and used very quickly.
To depict the castor oil and dirt, I used heavily diluted oil paint.
This was applied to the relevant areas with a small brush. Oil soaked canvas, spread over the wing, oil along the rib bands, oily dirt along the spars ... .

On the bottom of the wings more oil dirt than on topside and due to the rotation of the "Umlaufmotor" also on the left underside more oil dirt and dust.. .













At this point with these pictures the topic wing is finished for now.
We will come back to this point later in the report.
I just wanted to show you a glimpse of the direction in which the coloring of the model will continue.

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Bertl

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[gedmundson]

Excellent lesson on the wing attachment and especially the painting technique. I always learn a great deal from reading your posts. The subtle outlines of the oil stains are brilliant - suggesting the under-lying framework.
Cheers,
Gary

[KiwiZac]

I can only echo what Gary said - this is an excellent reference, Bertl, as well as being another stunning piece of work!

[Brad Cancian]

Beautiful work and magnificent weathering. Well done!
Cheers,

BC

[Umlaufmotor]

@gedmundson
@KiwiZac
@Brad Cancian

Gary, Zac and Brad, thank you very much for your kind comments.

[Umlaufmotor]

Now for the elevator.
The kit part looked very fragile and the appearance admitted the typical short-run pattern.
Indistinct casting and many flashes in the plastic.
I cut up the kit part and kept only the two elevators.
Both elevators were carefully drilled out with a drill bit so I could install a thin but sturdy brass tube as a bearing.
The two holes in the elevators are there so that I could glue the brass tube later without the super glue running into the hinge.

The hinge itself was created from simple plastic waste.
Two small strips left and right at the end of the fuselage.
That is all.

The big challenge was that the holes in the hinge had to be drilled exactly perpendicular to the course of the rudder.













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Bertl

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