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Offline Whiteknuckles

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #60 on: June 05, 2012, 12:12:01 PM »
Outstanding freehand work!!

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #61 on: June 05, 2012, 06:11:12 PM »
Great whitewalls Ian, you can come and paint mine, well done.

Cheers

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Offline Ian from Doncaster

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #62 on: June 05, 2012, 06:43:21 PM »
Thanks folks :)  The fabric spoke cover is a separate component and is only dry fitted here - that means you get a perfect demarkation between tyre and hub.  On the inner face however it is necessary to mask, here the circle cutter comes into its own :)

I had considered cutting out circle templates to mask the outer ring for the whitewall, but there is little extra thickness of plastic on which to mount the mask, as well as difficulties centering it.  Alternatively, mask the hub and spray the whole tyre grey first, then mask around the rim with thin strips of tape?

I did mask the inside of the wheel when painting the tyres so that the black paint inside the hub can still be seen through the inspection hole.  I am not sure if the centre of the outer hub and the edges including the inspection hole edge would have been metal - I may touch these up with some metalcote.
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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #63 on: June 06, 2012, 12:46:43 AM »
You did a brilliant job on the white walls, Ian.  Can't believe that was done free-hand.
Cheers,
Bud
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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #64 on: June 06, 2012, 05:30:46 AM »
Thanks again Bud...

The whitewall doesn't look that great under the magnifying lamp, but it will do.  My other half says it looks like a polo mint!  The lighting/camera flash hides the tyre wording on the right hand one in the pic below.

I painted the central axle stub antique brass and the locking pin in steel, although this is difficult to see.  I also ran a sanding stick down the spokes/ribs on the cover to highlight them.

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #65 on: June 06, 2012, 05:47:15 AM »
Ian, there's nothing wrong with those wheels, Polo mint or not, they look good to me.

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #66 on: June 06, 2012, 06:46:29 AM »
Beautiful wheels there Pete which reminds me after looking at yours that I need to paint the locking pins on mine .

Sean
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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #67 on: June 06, 2012, 06:55:52 AM »
They look very good and certainly fit in with the rest of this excellent build!!!

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #68 on: June 06, 2012, 08:50:39 AM »
Ian: you're getting verrry good at this modelling gig.  ;D

Cheers,

Chris
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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #69 on: June 06, 2012, 08:57:09 AM »
  Ian,
My old friend as Steve said they "certainly fit with the rest of this excellent build".Couldn't have said it better myself.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #70 on: June 08, 2012, 09:53:53 AM »
Cheers folks :) I love going off on tangents and having a go at random parts out of sequence.  Did something similar tonight and made some eyelets.  Fitted some on the underside of the top wing centre section, prior to final painting so the eyelets will get sprayed black with the surface, but the eyelets won't get the pastel shading.  Had to stop after 20 or so as my eyes are hurting! Doing this before final painting will ensure I can hide any CA mess ;)

I did an experiment with the rigging material by simply tieing the line to the eyelets.  Hopefully I can repeat this on the model rigging to avoid making more mess with the CA!  I am using the RAF wire material supplied by WNW.  It is not quite as stretchy as EZ Line but I won't need to paint these lines, and it has enough "give" not to pull out the eyelets when under tension.



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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #71 on: June 10, 2012, 09:09:14 AM »
Another tangent tonight - painted the fin and the upper surface of the tailplane in satin black and rigged the fin.  I did this to try out how I plan to tie the rigging lines as well as the surface finish, with pastel powder toning down the black.  I will have to take a pic in proper daylight to see if this has worked.  The more shallow angle the surface is viewed from, the more prominent is the effect of the powdering, leaving the ribs highlighted.



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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #72 on: June 10, 2012, 09:30:08 AM »
Ian, Lovely work.

Working on tangents, hah well maybe so but what you do is great. Now me I work like a superrubber modeller bouncing from bit to bit with no seeming pattern... sometimes it works out fine others... well lets not talk about them  :o

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #73 on: June 10, 2012, 09:30:48 AM »
  Ian,
Today's tangent is looking great my old friend Truly a grand experiment in breaking up the black monotone and one that has worked beautifully. Keep up the outstanding works.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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Offline Whiteknuckles

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Re: WNW FE2b Late
« Reply #74 on: June 10, 2012, 01:25:36 PM »
From your photo's it seems to be quite effective Ian. She'll look the part when put together.

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