160hp Beardmore engine

[KONG]

One word Des . . . . Cracker! Awesome job. You're a master 

Cheers

Dave

[Ernie]

Wonderful job of the engine parts, Des.  When colouring your rigging
wires with Mr. Metal colour, do you spray or brush it on?  I look
forward to more on the FE 2.

Cheers,
Ernie

[lcarroll]

Like Des I use their "Stainless" for rigging wires. I keep a few drops of Tamiya Lacquer Thinner close by to dip the brush in as I go along as, like Des mentions, it dries almost instantly. It's a great product line, hard to get in my location as apparently the labelling doesn't meet the warning/caution criteria of the Canadian Safety Association, or so I've been told.
Cheers,
Lance

[FIREFOX1]

really great, work, and give me inspiration, thanks for the tips

[mgunns]

Hello Des:

Just catching up with this one.  In a word:  Outstanding!

Best

Mark

[Des]

Thanks for all the nice comments. To answer your question Ernie I brush the stainless onto my rigging wires.

Des.

[GrahamB]

Hi Des,

beautiful work on the engine and getting that non-sparkly metal look (a problem with several acrylic brands). I also must try the Mr. Metal range and get my black rigging painted up.

Probably also got to get my eyes fixed as well for this kind of detail!

cheers,

GrahamB

[Ian from Doncaster]

Thanks for all the nice comments. To answer your question Ernie I brush the stainless onto my rigging wires.

Des.

I use the same product on my rigging applied in the same way, apart from my Fee which I left in the lines (WNW's elastic) natural almost white state to contrast with the black model.

Des, do you paint the lines before fitting to the model to avoid paint flecks on the model surface?  I find other paint types, such as acrylics will flake off when dry when the lines stretch.

Super work on the Beardmore, this model really demands the detail as the engine is so exposed. 

[IFF1418]

Hello Des,

A work of art once again by the master of modeling. Wonderful!

Kind regards
Patrick

[Des]

Thanks guys for all your kind comments.

Ian, I paint all my rigging lines after they have been fitted but care has to be taken not to get paint onto other painted surfaces. The Mr Metal Color paints are lacquer based so are very thin, if you are not careful when painting your rigging lines the paint can easily "flick" off and land on places where you don't want it to go. To avoid this i cut paper to fit under the lines, the paper is cut as wide as possible to cover as much of the model area as possible, moving the paper as you run the brush along the line also helps to reduce the risk of paint getting onto the model.

Work on the engine has come to a stand still at the moment, I am STILL waiting on a delivery from RB Motion of some more small brass nuts, hopefully they will arrive tomorrow.

Des.

[Ian from Doncaster]

Thanks guys for all your kind comments.

Ian, I paint all my rigging lines after they have been fitted but care has to be taken not to get paint onto other painted surfaces. The Mr Metal Color paints are lacquer based so are very thin, if you are not careful when painting your rigging lines the paint can easily "flick" off and land on places where you don't want it to go. To avoid this i cut paper to fit under the lines, the paper is cut as wide as possible to cover as much of the model area as possible, moving the paper as you run the brush along the line also helps to reduce the risk of paint getting onto the model.

Work on the engine has come to a stand still at the moment, I am STILL waiting on a delivery from RB Motion of some more small brass nuts, hopefully they will arrive tomorrow.

Des.

I found that too Des, a piece of paper between the rigging and the surface helps.  Occasionally there are still some paint spots but I find a moistened with lacquer thinner (but not wet!!! q-tip very carefully brushed over the surface removes the flecks without damaging the paint job...

[stefanbuss]

Those metal parts look really really convincing.

[Des]

I managed to do a bit more work on the engine. I have assembled most of the parts, I added extra plumbing to the intake side and a lot of small oil plumbing to the exhaust side, the oil lines are .25mm brass wire so bending them to shape was quite easy. I removed the moulded oil lines from the oil tank and ran the new lines into each side of the tank. All the spark plugs are fitted and the ignition leads are fitted as well. I also fitted the drive gear for the magneto.

Des.

[PrzemoL]

Spectacular work, Des! Makes me want to build one more Fee...

[Ernie]

The engine looks superb, Des. Just wonderful.

Cheers,
Ernie