1/32 Morane Saulnier L - scratching an itch

[RLWP]

Madness? Welcome to the house of fun..
At least it's a joy to follow your scratch building progress. The bomb rack looks fantastic!
Borsos

Thank you, I'm pleased with how it has come out

Richard

[RAGIII]

Madness? Welcome to the house of fun..
At least it's a joy to follow your scratch building progress. The bomb rack looks fantastic!
Borsos

Thank you, I'm pleased with how it has come out

Richard

You are pleased and I am Blown Away 
RAGIII

[RLWP]

Mounting the bomb rack onto the undercarriage was becoming a bit of a nightmare. This is the best I can do:



The card and Blu-Tac supports the rack so I can solder support struts onto it. I'll be damned if I can work out how the RNAS actually did the job, this is my best guess. It looks a bit flimsy across the front for me

Never mind, it's good enough. Just don't go on bombing runs across the Dardanelles if you expect to hit anything with it

Richard

[Juan]

Hi Richard, you're too funny  .  Looks really good, truly enjoying your build.

[RLWP]

Parts count is going down now. Blobs and lumps in the cockpit:



Some of the bits are right, like the tachometer and the fuel level gauge, maybe the pulsometer. The board on the right seems to be correct too, and there is an instrument above it. I have added in a fuel tank pressure gauge, and assumed the instrument above the board is an air speed indicator - but I don't have a decal for one, so I've used an altimeter



I'm surprised there isn't a compass or a clock

Richard

[Des]

Beautiful work in detailing the cockpit Richard, this is looking super.

Des.

[RLWP]

Beautiful work in detailing the cockpit Richard, this is looking super.

Des.

Thank you Des

A quote from The Big Show by Pierre Clostermann

'Whoever first dared paint markings on a plane's wing was a swine!*'



 I'm trying for something a bit faded from Mediterranean sun

Richard

* Clostermann is quoting fellow pilot Bruce Cole about the death of the Luftwaffe ace Walter Nowotny

[lcarroll]

Beautiful work in detailing the cockpit Richard, this is looking super.

Des.

Thank you Des

A quote from The Big Show by Pierre Clostermann

'Whoever first dared paint markings on a plane's wing was a swine!*'



 I'm trying for something a bit faded from Mediterranean sun

Richard

* Clostermann is quoting fellow pilot Bruce Cole about the death of the Luftwaffe ace Walter Nowotny

Richard,
     A quote from a much enjoyed book of too many years back, Thanks for that and for motivating me to search my bookshelves; I found it, threadbare as it is! I'll be starting it again, not for the first time, tonight!
Cheers,
Lance

[RLWP]

The spine has fallen off mine, I have read it so often

Richard

[RAGIII]

Gorgeous work on adding all of those interior dials. I don't know how you do it after assembly of the fuselage but you have certainly made it work, and then some! The faded roundel looks nice. Looking forward to the next update. Beautiful plane!
RAGIII

[RLWP]

<snip> I don't know how you do it after assembly of the fuselage <snip>

That made me think. I'd say it's partly because the Parasol has such an open cockpit, and partly through using different glues for different things. Some bits are liquid poly, some are UHU and some are cyanoacrylate. If I can scrape paint off, I'll use styrene glue. The clipboard and air speed indicator are done that way. The tank level gauge I drilled a hole for and pushed the end of the rod into that.  The pulsometer and rev counter both have long wire tails, so they are carefully balanced in place superglued to the bottom of the fuel tank. Finally, the tank pressure gauge and the speed control sit on blobs of UHU. It's handy stuff because you don't need to make a good face to face contact, and it is more forgiving than superglue

Oh, the other thing is, planning out the assembly sequence so little bits don't stop big bits going in

I may take up making ships in bottles...

Richard

[dr 1 ace]

gret work all the way around.

Ed

[lone modeller]

Just caught up with this. You are producing an amazing model here - that would not disgrace a WNW kit - no it is even better!.

I totally agree about getting the assembly sequences right - it does help when parts already in place do not get in the way of the ones you now want to fit. That bomb rack is just something else by the way….

Stephen.

[RLWP]

Thank you, Stephen. You can't see the things I'm not happy with as I don't photograph them!

This is the pylon that sits on top of the wing:



The forward wires support the wing on the ground and pass through the hole at the top. Two of the rear set of wires are for the wing warping mechanism and pass over the pulley. For a bit of sprue and some scraps of wire I think that pulley has come out well

The parts count continues to go down:





The wing will probably come off again as I forgot a couple of rigging anchors on the underside

I spent hours last night fitting tiny little loops of wire through the wing, ready for rigging:



Richard

[Juan]

Wow Richard, she is turning out quite beautifully.