WNW Re.8 "Harry Tate" WIP update 30/12/2014

[DannyVM]

Ok guy's, i'm back with some more progress regarding the RAF 4a engine.

Previous, i said that i would put some more details regarding the push rods and the ignition cables.

The push rods are in place, and where scratchted with some lead wire and some brass tube.





Time to tackle the ignition cables.

I didn't find the part, included in the WNW kit, regarding the ignition cables, not very convincing, so i decided to make my own.....afterwards, that was a very stupid decision, because i had to make five disc's that where about 2 m/m in diameter, and drill 12 holes in those disc's ......to be honest, that didn't work very well.

So i decided to turn a other way. I punched five holes into a plastic piece of evergreen card, and repeated that with a bigger diameter, so i got five ring's.





That are the holder's for the ignition cables. Not very scale-wise realistic, but not much will be seen afterwards.

After i done this, i glued these onto the engine in theire place.

Et voila, next step is the placement of the ignition cables themselves.







Once the cables are in theire place, everything will looking more realistic.

That's all folk's

Greetz

Danny

[RAGIII]

Great start on the engine. Looking terrific!
RAGIII

[radio]

Wonderful Danny.
Martin

[DannyVM]

Martin and RAGIII : thank's guy's

Greetz

Danny

[DannyVM]

Time to show some more progress, first i go further with the engine ignition cables.
The kit provides these cable's, but they are not really convincing or realistic, so i decided to scratch build them.

These are the kit-part's cables.





I used 0.2 m/m lead wire to replicate the cables, first cut them to length and pre-painted them. The conectors to connect the cables onto the spark-plugs where made from brass tube.









Also the two ring's at the front of the engine where scratch build.





Last thing to do, was to connect the cables to the ignition box.





Finaly, the whole engine received a wash of engine oil and grease.







The engine can rest for a wile now, let's go to the cockpit.

All part's that i needed for the cockpit where cut from theire sprue's, prior to receive theire primer.



WNW give's the modeller the opportunity to put some more realistic appearance to the pilot's seat. On theire website in the hint's and tip's section, you find the needed info regarding this little operation.

http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/hintsandtips

I did the same with this pilot seat.









That's all for this year folk's.

I wish you all a healty, happy and great modelling new year 2015

Greetz

Danny

[RAGIII]

Nice work! Looks like a simple but effective improvement!
RAGIII

[coyotemagic]

Beautiful work, Danny!  Your cables look much better.
Cheers,
Bud

[Des]

Excellent work with the ignition lead modification, it is a far better and more realistic alternative to the kit supplied part. The rectification to the pilots seat is quite an easy fix but gives the seat a much better appearance, well done.

Des.

[WarrenD]

Good work sir!

Warren

[DannyVM]

Thank's guy's for the lovely comment's.

Greetz

Danny

[BigBlue]

Looks good, Danny.  The cables are a big improvement, and the seat looks very nice.

Chris

[lcarroll]

Nice work, Danny, that engine is outstanding! Great presentation of the Build Thread as well, I'll be following your progress.
Cheers,
Lance

[radio]

Danny very great work.
Martin

[petrov27]

Looking great here - those cables are much more realistic than the plastic parts!

[DannyVM]

Thank's guy's 

Greetz

Danny