Roden's 1/32 S.E.5a (Wollseley Viper) - Grinnell-Milne's 'Schweinhund'

[Chris Johnson]

Beautiful Chris! Love your wood graining throughout. The grain looks very scale to me. The IP is top drawer also. She's going to be a grand machine.

Paddy

P.S. When brushing the Tam Clear Yellow what do you thin with and the ratio if you don't mind?

Thanks Paddy for your kind words. As for the Clear Yellow, I'm embarrassed to say that I just put several brush loads of windshield washer fluid in my pallet and then I add a couple of brush loads of colour to it. I stir it up with the brush and add more colour or thinner until it looks runny enough. That's the way I approach my painting and modelling. There's absolutely no science to it at all. Just flying by the seat of my pants.

Cheers,

Chris

[GAJouette]

  Chris,
Actually I use lead wire quite often with good result,and I always roll it .Just may require more work than the harder tempered wire. I use a lot of brass craft wire too. The only wire I don't roll is the heavier gauges I use for for interior piping and engine piping. Another tip silver solder work great for all sorts of piping
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[Chris Johnson]

Chris,
Lovely work on the interior and struts! Beautiful wood grain effect!
RAGIII

Thanks RAGIII. I appreciate your comments!

Cheers,

Chris

[Chris Johnson]

Actually I use lead wire quite often with good result,and I always roll it .

I'll give it a whirl next time around then. Thanks!

Cheers,

Chris

[Whiteknuckles]

The woodwork looks great Chris and the prop looks lovely - it would almost be a pity to do any laminations!!

Andrew

[phs Paddy]

Thanks Paddy for your kind words. As for the Clear Yellow, I'm embarrassed to say that I just put several brush loads of windshield washer fluid in my pallet and then I add a couple of brush loads of colour to it. I stir it up with the brush and add more colour or thinner until it looks runny enough. That's the way I approach my painting and modelling. There's absolutely no science to it at all. Just flying by the seat of my pants.

Cheers,

Chris

Good for you. One of my problems I think is I get wrapped around the axle trying to be to specific. I should try that approach.
Windshield washer fluid... that's new to me for sure. 

Paddy

[Des]

Brilliant work Chris, I really like your wood finish especially on the struts. You did a great job on the instrument panel and all the instruments, this is turning out to be a real gem.

Des.

[keith_christie]

Hi Chris,

The work you have done on the cockpit interior and the Instrument panel is first class, the colouring and grain of the wood is very realistic.
I also really like the effects you have achieved on the Struts and the Propeller, very convincing indeed.

I'm Looking forward to seeing the next stages.

Best Regards

Keith

[Pete Nottingham]

Stunning work Chris, I really like the woodwork.

Cheers

Pete.

[N.C.S.E]

Gorgeous so far.
Thanks for this, I maybe using some of the techniques when I can

[pepperman42]

This is coming along very nicely. Excellent wood simulation

Steve

[ALBATROS1234]

what the hells the diff btw a viper and a hisso anyway, at first glance they look pretty daan similar to me.

[GAJouette]

  Scott,
As far as I know main difference is the shaft height.  I problely have this backwards but the shaft is higher in the Viper and lower in the Hisso.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[Chris Johnson]

Thanks fellows for dropping by and leaving your comments. I appreciate your support!

Not too much to report this time around except that I'm getting close to buttoning up the fuselage. This is a first for me where the floor of the cockpit is part of the lower wing, and not part of the fuselage itself. The way I see it, I'll have to glue up the fuselage sides and then install that assembly on the lower wing.

With the rudder pedals attached to the lower wing, I can't see how I could draw it's control cables taut with the fuselage installed, so I used 0.10" plastic rod with 0.5 mm brass tubing for the cables. As they remain straight and level, I can just feed them into the fuselage under the seat.



All I did with the control stick was wrap the handle with a thin strip of masking tape, add a cable to the lever, and add two control cables. Once again, because the cable is rolled wire, it'll also stay straight, so I can feed it into the fuselage under the seat too.



It's my hope that these straight pieces of plastic rod and wire should give the illusion of taut cables when looking into the cockpit. Time will tell.

Cheers,

Chris

[GAJouette]

   Chris,
Excellent update my friend. I think the idea of using the 0.10 rod for your control cable is an excellent idea.As always quality work.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette