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Offline Dal Gavan

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #30 on: April 04, 2014, 04:49:46 PM »
Lovely work, as always, Brad.  Any chance of you getting down to ScaleACT this year?  I know Phil and the boys would be chuffed if they could get some of your models on display for the Great War theme.

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #31 on: April 04, 2014, 10:01:01 PM »
Outstanding work on your interior! Up to your usual standards!!!
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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #32 on: April 04, 2014, 10:22:43 PM »
As others have already said -

Stunning interior!

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #33 on: April 04, 2014, 10:46:05 PM »
    Just sheer pleasure to follow your progress Brad, outstanding work as always. Your wood work is as good as it gets!
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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #34 on: April 05, 2014, 08:05:55 PM »
Thanks folks!  :)

Dal - probably won't get any models down to the ACT show, it's a bit of a hike from Brisbane! Might try and find an excuse to head down the weekend of the show though...  ;D

I now have the fuselage closed up. 



The interior is a tight squeeze - the easiest way I found in the end was to glue the two fuselage halves together first to minimise the gaps for clean up, then slot the centre part in afterwards.  This was also tricky as the struts need to slot into the correct position without snagging on any of the wires or other interior components. The camera extends past the back end of the floor piece, and the whole lot needs to slide backwards once it's roughly in place (if I build this model again I will add the camera in after the fuselage sides and floor is in).  It took me a few goes and a few broken bits of rigging later to get it into the correct place.  The mating edges of the centre floor piece to the fuselage sides is angled to a knife edge right at the bottom edge of the fuselage, which means you need to use glue sparingly. It's also tricky to get the floor flush with the fuselage sides and underside, so I found a little filler was needed here (though not too much).  The upper decking "shelf" in the cockpit also needs to slide around the struts and the forward cockpit components. It was also a tight squeeze so I needed to do some trimming here and there to get the shelf to sit flush.  Likewise the upper fuselage parts needed to slide around the struts, and took some persuasion to get in the right spot and a little filler here and there, but again nothing too dramatic.

Next is the wings.  This is a simple butt-joint with a small tab which I don't think will hold up too well.  I might try and pin the wings but the join is right on that knife-edge I spoke of earlier so I am worried I might split open the join or dislodge cockpit components if I try this....   :-\   One nice touch though is that there's a wing alignment jig supplied.

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #35 on: April 05, 2014, 08:55:38 PM »
Your Salmson build is moving along quite nicely Brad but it does sound as though you had a few tense moments fitting the internals, I'm glad it all worked out well for you, looking forward to seeing what she looks like with some wings on.

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #36 on: June 01, 2014, 06:37:17 PM »
Very, very, very slow going.... have some paint on her now.  I went with the OOB markings for the USAS 1st Aero Squadron.  Kit decals were very nice, but were difficult to move when I tried to position them.  If you're going to use the kit decals, float them onto the model with plenty of water.









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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #37 on: June 01, 2014, 07:24:51 PM »
Looking absolutely superb Brad and your painting is faultless, this is shaping up to be a real stunner.

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #38 on: June 01, 2014, 08:02:11 PM »
It is a great work and painting.
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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #39 on: June 01, 2014, 08:22:01 PM »
Stunning paintwork as always Brad!
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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #40 on: June 01, 2014, 10:51:41 PM »
Always a pleasure to see your progress, Brad!
Superb!!

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #41 on: June 01, 2014, 11:13:22 PM »
Gorgeous!

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #42 on: June 02, 2014, 12:01:24 AM »
What beautiful work so far, Brad. I've got this model in the stash and when I get round to it, I can only hope that it turns out half as good as yours.

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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #43 on: June 02, 2014, 12:50:59 PM »
Stunning paint work, Brad!  Almost done, mate!
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Re: WiP - Gaspatch Models 1/48 Salmson 2A2
« Reply #44 on: June 02, 2014, 08:01:51 PM »
Absolutely fantastic. Beutiful paint work and very realistic wethering and shading. Just WOW on everything.
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