Hi John, Nice job on that engine. I think Airfix did an amazing job molding this kit. I'll be looking forward to the next update. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day. Jeff
Great video my friend one word WOW that engine is stunning from the painting to the weathering fantastic close ups of fitting the parts really enjoying following this build thanks for sharing 👍👍
Hi, I'm sure you have been told before, but I do think the camera you use is fantastic, providing the best close-ups of building a model I have seen so far. Keep it up. Kind regards, Dave Porter london
Thank you Dave, I appreciate the feedback. I guess I made a good choice when I bought that camcorder in 2014. I have new 4k and 2k streaming cams that don't look as good. It's a Panasonic HC-V550. Thanks for watching - cheers
Great job done on the engine bay John, was a difficult sub assembly to put together, but you nailed it! Nice choice deviating a bit from the colour call outs to add visual interest, i would do the same as well! Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work my friend!
Nice John, 👍👍. Man I would love to find a couple of 1/24 scale aero-engines, like the V12 Allison or Merlin engines. I found some from a guy on ebay a few years ago but they weren't all that great, not much detail and what have you. I may have to end up buying a whole 24th scale plane with engine included, and just rob the engine out of it, I can still build the plane w/o an engine, but man, 24th scale plane isn't cheap. Anyhow, very nice work on that engine buddy.
Thank you Doug! I appreciate you watching. The 1/32 bomber kits have massive engine stuff. I paid $130 for this kit just one engine. I hope you're well buddy and hugs for Mom. Cheers
@@johnalecsscalemodeling - you're mighty welcomed buddy and thank you too, I truly do appreciate you my friend! Yes sir I know those bigger scale plane kits aren't cheap, that's a shame, well I'll just have to keep looking, I'll find a couple one of these times. Take care buddy!
that is a very good job. thorough. i think you may have an earlier version of the kit than i got b/c some of the things that didn't have call-outs in the instructions did in mine (usually a shade of black--i couldn't get the humbrol, so used the vallejo equivalent, but it is tricky b/c it rubs off very easily). fwiw, i noticed you didn't add the red to the rolls royce letters. that beat me for the most part. i tried 8 or 10 times. used a #00000 (yes, 5) brush and a magnifying lamp. managed to make it look credibly weathered. i wish someone would add a decal of that to one of the after-market sets!
Thank you I appreciate the feedback. I did not, I just knew I wouldn't be able to paint the letters on fine enough, and it would stick out like a sore thumb. I didn't realize they made brushes that fine, I commend you! Yeah, shame they didn't just add that to the decal sheet. Thanks for watching, be well
Absolutely. There was no way I was going to be able to paint those letters on with my shaky hands. Seems an oversight, a decal would have really set that off. Thanks for watching
What an inspirational series. Thank you so much. Do you have any special techniques for glueing painted parts? However careful I am, my extra thing always seems to mess up the paint. Or do you just do a lot of touch-ups? 😃
Thank you so much for that Derek - that's makes this channel, you the viewer. Yes, it will seep through and make the paint go fluid again. I try to just do that in areas where it won't be noticeable or I can touch it up after. Otherwise scrape the part edge and super glue. Thanks for watching!
Hello Shawn - thanks for watching I appreciate it. Yes it's Tamia Extra Thin. I rarely use the quick one, just the regular extra thin. CA glue is Bob Smith. I've kind of switched over to VMS Flexy 5k. Cheers
Thank you Dan - I've found it's not always necessary, I used to always do that. The extra thin will go right through the paint to the plastic. I have a bottle of extra thin that's just for painted parts (cloudy!). Thanks for watching
At 27:30, just staring at your masterful œuvre here is a treat! Thank you! You have me curious: are you a mechanical engineer? A fine arts painter? Both? I have lost track as to whether I had mentioned this: regarding RAF pilot seat belts in 1:24th-scale, an affable British chap named Nigel (Nigels Model Bench) recently used a set that comprised thin strips of a fine, soft cloth, which folded perfectly as fabric; the set included photo-etched buckles, that you might prefer. He can tell you where to enquire.
Hiya David - I'm a microbiologist but I've been in the clinical diagnostic device development space for 25 years. But I do have an artsy side as well and I look at this hobby as an artform. How about you, what racket are you in? Cheers
@@johnalecsscalemodeling John Alec’s Scale Modeling David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024) John, microbiologist sounds interesting, and in today’s setting, potentially deeply so; great volumes of research is in progress throughout the sciences, and I enjoy reading generally upon them (I lack the depth of reading to grasp the overwhelmingly complex details! You enhance the intrigue of this several orders of magnitude with “clinical diagnostic device development”. This is a peripheral interest of mine-well outside my intellectual capacity or training to create, yet immensely fascinating nevertheless: I have health issues intermittently requiring medical intervention that in themselves exacerbate my chronic pain with the more severe physical agony in certain “medical procedures” I suspect derive from the Marquis de Sade. Indeed, in just the past few days, two phlebotomists on different days had endeavoured to take a blood draw for clinical examination; they could not locate a vein (at times, my blood pressure can be low, and I am terribly thin), and I shortly found their repeated re-insertions of the needle screamingly painful such that I had to insist they stop. The second visitor proposed to me that I would be a candidate for a PICC (peripheral intravenous cardiac catheter) line (I am testing my capacity for recall here!). As a Star Trek (TOS) fan, I recall Dr. McCoy’s (DeForest Kelley) hypospray. Though I intellectually understand (at least in general) that such fictional constructs simply may not translate to the nonfictional world, I nevertheless wonder (at times quite irascibly!) why the medical community has yet to devise some contemporary analogue thereof. (For that matter, I also want a Transporter; a phaser set for stun; a food replicator; a portable shield generator; a portable computer station, its data storage encompassing all the scientific, technological, and medical knowledge of the time; a universal translator, etc. Relax, I am just having a bit of fun with my nerdness!) John, my situation is a long story. I come to TH-cam to watch modellers build the kits I wish I could. This is my way to have fun, despite grim circumstances and austere resources. I then write (I am an aspiring novelist, and an occasional, if reluctant, sociopolitical essayist) 1) comments on what I have seen-many are truly remarkable; some seem to me to be quite overdone in the wear and the weathering; I greatly prefer a rather more restrained approach, wanting the reproduction itself to draw attention; still, I can see the value in some cases of wordlessly marking the ravages of arduous travail in an especially grueling combat setting, or just showing the passage of the decades-and 2) outlines of the modelling projects I would like to implement. For example, to present a row of aircraft replicas on the same theme, e.g., all of Tamiya’s 1:32nd-scale kits of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair USN/USMC Fighter series; this might include a Goodyear FG-1D, and the Corsair II and IV in service with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm; also with Australia’s and New Zealand’s respective service branches. Maybe even Trumpeter’s 1:32nd-scale F4U-4 Corsair late-war USN carrier-based Fighter kit). John, this is rather elaborate, so I will segment my reply into thirds (roughly). Just read as much as you wish. This is how I do my modelling-a mental exercise in my imagination-and is an outgrowth of my expository writing. (As I noted, my situation is a long story, your videos and posts part of the fun here.) I would like to combine models of the same æroplane, all assembled in-flight, each one’s 1) propeller spinning (this may require a metal replacement; I understand that the torque in time may warp or deform the polystyrene); 2) the undercarriage retracted, the landing gear doors closed over their respective wheel wells; 3) the cowl flaps closed; 4) separable flight control surfaces (ailerons, horizontal and vertical stabilisers, etc.) one can set in various ways that correspond to airborne manœuvres (sharp banks and tight turns, deep dives and soaring climbs, even combat engagement, etc.); 5) a good-quality figurine in polystyrene, resin, or similar material, kit-manufacturer, aftermarket, or 3D made, of a pilot/aviator that I would set upon the seat (molded with positionable limbs and head to fit properly, so that our doughty flyboy looks like he actually belongs there, actively flying his airplane!).
@@johnalecsscalemodeling John Alec’s Scale Modeling David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024) Part 2 In the case of a much larger warbird, of course, 5a) the likenesses of a full complement of crewmen, each shaped and configured to man the duty stations (for the modeller’s flexibility), dramatising them engaged in aerial combat high over Nazi Germany’s industrial base; 6) cockpit fixtures (knobs, levers, switches, dials, and other controls on the instrument panel and consoles; lights-tiny LEDs (round 0.3-0.5 mm) in various hues would serve; a larger one collectively to illuminate the indicator dials-etc.) one can modify appropriately to indicate flight performance. In most cases, I would place these finished models in ascending scales (thus of diminishing sizes in relation to its immediate processor), to create of several closely similar models a forced a perspective ærial diorama (FPÆD) of combat aircraft in various military movements at altitude (the Immelmann turn, the barrel roll, the cobra manœuvre, etc.). Alternately, some together might show to be in steady flight, e.g., a handful of fighters in echelon, at altitude on patrol against intruders; or a squadron of two dozen bombers in close formation high over an urban manufacturing complex. In such a manner of display, I have some ideas for physically supporting the reproductions in a way that ultimately obviates any so-called “display stand”-to my mind, the undignified intrusion of the world’s tallest telegraph pole thrust up into its navel from miles below! In lieu of this stand, to provide a necessary support mechanism, I would design and pattern (well, I am no engineer by any stretch of the imagination! I speak here expressly in terms of theory and concept, as far as I grasp even that much!) a device after what motion picture production calls the Chapman Crane, a robust, articulated steel arm with an amply counterbalanced gimbals apparatus. This supports well above the ground a high-resolution digital video or film camera, the camera operator, the director, etc., in a manner that enables them from an elevated vantage to approach the subject of the shot, to progress through the air in slow, graceful turns, or in more dramatic soaring and swooping, and similar dynamic action to achieve the action of the scene. One also can use it to suspend a performer in the air in an arrangement wherein the viewers cannot see the actor(s), or similarly, a constructed object of some kind. An excellent example of this is the mechanism that the special effects crew of Superman: The Movie (1978, Warner Bros.-Columbia, Richard Donner, John Williams) technicians had fashioned to hold pose the title character (Christopher Reeve) as though in flight, where 1) the actor lay prone upon a padded cradle they constructed and formed to fit closely his physical form, and attached to the end of another sturdy boom counterbalanced with a gimbals (I call this the “Chapman cradle”); 2) the wardrobe staff (so I infer) then covered in the costume this combination of actor and padded rack; 3) they next positioned all these mechanical components behind the performer (and anything else belonging in the shot), thus placing them out of view of the camera. Upon filming, they saw on the monitor the actor in character in mid-air. My hope is to adapt that to models and dioramas. For my adaptation under discussion for my innovative models display here, the supporting apparatus (the entire Chapman cradle arrangement) would be much smaller, needing only 1) to hold forth a mass of round a half-dozen kilogrammes (though to allow for any possible kinetic force during movement of any cause, one out of caution might think to exceed that by double or greater), 2) whilst remaining completely out of sight of the viewer. To simplify the display’s function and operation, the mechanism also serves as an insulated physical conduit for electrical wiring providing current to the motor(s), lighting (instrument panels, navigation lights on the aircraft’s exterior, duty stations, the control surfaces, and other purposes. For the necessity to keep to a reasonable size the opening at the pass-through point, I recommend a solitary line of ample amperage to meet the overall requirements, which would lead from a junction box or control board, the conduit passing along the support arm to a location inside the model, where an electrical fixture would distribute the current along finer wiring passing throughout the model.
@@johnalecsscalemodeling John Alec’s Scale Modeling David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024) Part 3 The next essential element of this entire arrangement would be 3) the background, which would have two purposes: a) borrowing from the backdrop of the stage play and the motion picture film set, it would be a means generally to represent the sky at a fairly high altitude, for the simplicity of a clear azure vista free of extraneous elements; huge cumulus clouds (some perhaps roiling in the wind), terrain features, towering structures, etc., all passing to the right or the left. all would add complexity that might undermine the effect, or at the least could distract the viewers. Otherwise, one carefully must plan and co-ordinate every detail of the background, synchronising any movement therein with what the æroplane(s) at that moment would be doing. Even just a change in the lighting’s brightness and its colours could show on the models. This adaptation of the stage and movie backdrop also b) would serve well as a partition to obscure view of the support apparatus, the lighting, the electrical equipment, etc. All these together would present to the viewer a remarkably innovative “ærial diorama”, though it cleverly simulates a rather conventional imagery: aircraft in flight. Perhaps the centrepiece in my FPÆD idea would centre upon models in different scales of the Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress USAAF Heavy Bomber; as I noted earlier, these might be in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), early in the campaign. Additionally would be similar displays of B-17Fs, the largest of them as a replica of the “Memphis Belle” round the middle of the flight crew’s service (which I would build as it actually was round 1943), the others holding close formation with the doughty bomber as members in the same squadron (that will require in-depth research to sort all these details, thus to assign specific markings to individual models). Next might be several early B-17Gs, some showing significant battle-damage and obvious war-weariness; and the late-war B-17Gs, all in natural metal. For these, I am thinking of quite a different tableau: a roll-out at a Boeing plant of several shiny, brand new airplanes glittering in the bright sunshine of morning (would one need to apply to the panel lines a pin wash?), in the foreground a sizeable gathering of WASPs: women pilots who ferried combat aircraft to their destinations (under the ægis of the Women’s Army Service Pilots, headquartered at New Castle Army Air Base, under the Air Transport Auxiliary). Then, of course, would be a series of Consolidated B-24 Liberator USAAF Heavy Bomber kits, again in various descending scales. These B-24D replicas I would present in the desert camouflage of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), just 250 feet above the deck as they storm over the refineries and oilfields of Ploiești (Romanian orthography, formerly misspelt as “Ploești”), Romania. Well, John, what do you think of 1) my FPÆD idea, 2) borrowing from the Chapman Crane, and 3) my adaptation of the stage and movie backdrop to create a partition that obscures view of the equipment? Would anything along these lines serve to facilitate your aspirations in modelling, perhaps in offering you a better way to display in-flight your plane models, the propeller(s) spinning, all the positions filled, the undercarriage retracted, the landing gear bay doors and the cowl flaps closed, etc.? An even more exciting turn for me is that a number of 1:24th-scale aircraft kits of at least reasonable quality (well, as far as I can evaluate here on TH-cam) have come forth. All so far come from Airfix (Trumpeter’s from reports I have read have fallen short, though over the next several years can we anticipate improvement), which is both quite a surprise and a true delight. One would be the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat U.S. Navy Carrier-Based Fighter. This one for all its intricate interior detailing nonetheless looks immensely appealing to me. I similarly wish the kit-makers would produce a new mold of the North American Aviation P-51D/H/K Mustang USAAF air superiority fighter; as well as those of the Lockheed P-38F/G/H/J/L Lighting USAAF Interceptor (Lockheed expressly presented it so to work round War Department strictures on aircraft design parameters), and the Chance Vought F4U series Corsair USN/USMC fighter.
@@johnalecsscalemodeling John Alec’s Scale Modeling David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024) Part 4 To build something intriguing and exciting, I would place a well-tended 1942 Ford sedan recently re-painted in fresh olive drab, beside an early Hellcat fighter, in the Navy’s Pacific Theatre of Operations (PTO) tri-colour camouflage scheme of gloss dark sea blue on the dorsal wing surface, flat dark sea blue on the upper fuselage, intermediate blue on the vertical surfaces, and gloss white on the ventral surfaces a bit worn and dusty. A stocky, grey-haired admiral passes to the aviator a hefty, thick, worn, leather case bound in bright, stainless steel chains, with orders promptly to return to USS Enterprise (CV(N)-6) USN Yorktown-class aircraft carrier-patrolling just offshore but a quarter-nautical mile away, its freshly painted Measure 33/4Ab Dazzle camouflage striking under the bright, tropical summer sun of mid-morning-to present to Captain Cato Glover the package for Admiral Halsey when the latter returns . . . . The best of what I have been able to infer as good or better are 1) the de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Fighter-Bomber kit. I must note that I have a keen personal interest in the RAF Light Bomber replica; as a boy, I had built a much smaller Airfix model of it, which for the swift grace of the actual æroplane for all these decades had remained with me! 2) Of course, of all the British combat aircraft of World War Two, Airfix’s new Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mark IX Fighter kit in this astounding scale essentially ties with its bigger younger brother. I also would like to find a number of fairly commonplace aircraft-civilian, commercial, and military-to juxtapose alongside private automobiles, municipal vehicles, workplace trucks (lorries), tractor-trailer rigs (articulateds), etc. For example, a Cessna 172/180 private airplane, a Bell JetRanger helicopter, a Lear private passenger jet, and others that would be reasonably similar. In comparison, a Boeing 747-8 commercial freight airliner’s wingspan is 68.45 metres [224’ 7”], its length is 76.25 metres [250’ 2”]; in the scale under discussion, the model’s wingspan is 9’ 4.29”, its length 10’5”! My living quarters lack the room for one, though. For that matter, I rather doubt that I would have the physical strength to build it! I also would like tableaux in plastic of different vehicles in the same scale: a good-quality, gloss-black four-door passenger automobile; perhaps a late 1930s Rolls Royce sedan (I know of no such kit, though) set alongside an Airfix (new mold) 1:24th-scale kit of an earlier Supermarine Spitfire RAF fighter (I think the company made a new-mold replica of a Mk.I and a Mk.Vc; we know they have a Mk.IX). I would like to create a 1:25th-scale streetscape diorama of the Roaring ’20s, a midwestern or mid-Atlantic USA small town setting, with Ford Model T automobiles-a sedan, a coupe, pickup trucks, one reworked into a tow-truck, a depot hack, etc.-as well as some vehicles of other car manufacturers; R. E. Olds, Dodge Brothers, Plymouth, Pontiac, Chevrolet, etc. (I have a hunch that these would be appreciably more difficult to find-or to afford!). On a pasture at the edge of town, an Airco DH-4 biplane bomber from round 1918, which after the Great War of 1914-1918 the U.S. federal government had acquired from the military several dozen surplus, numerous of which (along with the Boeing Model 40) the U.S. Postal Service had put into service as mail planes (in this scale, the model would be just 21 inches in wingspan!). I would like to include a couple of them, each aeroplane bound for a different town a few hours distant, in a morning rendezvous with a quartet of Ford Model T trucks. I wonder if any of my more ambitious projects might be something you would contemplate. You surely have the modelling skills to well exceed me! I also anticipate that your clinical diagnostic device development work would afford you the technical capacity to implement my FPÆD idea borrowing from the Chapman Crane. On a lighter note, I certainly wish a big city publisher would buy my novels. LOL I would order a good PC to dictate my novels and essays whilst my hands and eyes built my model kits. I then would hire a team of engineers, technicians, etc., all who build the better-quality, more sophisticated model kits, to implement FPÆD . . . . Thank you, John! :D
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What an extraordinarily good video! I’m going to watch that again.....
Yep. Just as good 👍🏻
Thank you buddy you're awesome I appreciate it!
Dear John,
These videos are superbly edited. All the key points are mentioned.
The result is a super piece of content.
Best regards,
Z
Many thanks Z! I do appreciate that, takes a while to edit through the vids. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching
Superb detailing 👍
Thank you so much Joe!
very very cool detail fine detail awsome John 👍
Thank you Keith!
Thanks for picking the Spitfire up again John, great work.
Thanks for watching Ian!
Nice update John, very helpful tips too. Take it easy mate. Cheers Bob 👍
Thanks for watching Bob I appreciate it. Fantastic kit
Outstanding video John, build looks fantastic
Thank you so much Jason - always appreciate you watching. Thanks for putting on the Commercial GB buddy
Really enjoyed this video,great work 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it Dean!
Thanks again for another inspiring video.
Hi John, you are the Bob Ross of scale modelling! Very relaxing and enjoyable to watch and you make it all look effortless. Thanks Bob!
Right on Jonathan! I am pleased, that's my goal. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful work on engine.
Thank you very much!
Outstanding work.
Hi John, Nice job on that engine. I think Airfix did an amazing job molding this kit. I'll be looking forward to the next update. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day. Jeff
Thank you Jeff. They did for sure. And thanks for watching! Be well
very good John nice work
Many thanks Paul!
Very nice video. Such great detail work.
Thank you Steve! Appreciated
Another outstanding video series!
Thank you buddy! Appreciate you watching, take care
Fantastic work well done
Thank you Sarah-Jane! Cheers!
Fantastic build so far mate 😉👌
Thank you so much Tim!
nice work John👍👍
Thank you James, I appreciate that - cheers
Well executed! Enjoyed the video.
Glad you enjoyed it buddy, thanks for watching!
this looks good John. I have the same one here in the stash.
Great video my friend one word WOW that engine is stunning from the painting to the weathering fantastic close ups of fitting the parts really enjoying following this build thanks for sharing 👍👍
I really appreciate that Rob, thanks for watching and the encouragement. Be well buddy
@@johnalecsscalemodeling you’re most welcome my friend same to you 👍👍
Hi, I'm sure you have been told before, but I do think the camera you use is fantastic, providing the best close-ups of building a model I have seen so far. Keep it up. Kind regards, Dave Porter london
Thank you Dave, I appreciate the feedback. I guess I made a good choice when I bought that camcorder in 2014. I have new 4k and 2k streaming cams that don't look as good. It's a Panasonic HC-V550. Thanks for watching - cheers
Great job done on the engine bay John, was a difficult sub assembly to put together, but you nailed it! Nice choice deviating a bit from the colour call outs to add visual interest, i would do the same as well! Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work my friend!
Thank you so much George! I appreciate you watching and the feedback. I hope you are doing well my friend. Cheers
Fantastic work and excellent video, thankyou for all the time and effort that went into this. Take care
Thank you Edward, I appreciate that!
Awesome detail in a large scale kit, enjoy the build 👍
Thank you David!
Nice John, 👍👍. Man I would love to find a couple of 1/24 scale aero-engines, like the V12 Allison or Merlin engines. I found some from a guy on ebay a few years ago but they weren't all that great, not much detail and what have you. I may have to end up buying a whole 24th scale plane with engine included, and just rob the engine out of it, I can still build the plane w/o an engine, but man, 24th scale plane isn't cheap. Anyhow, very nice work on that engine buddy.
Thank you Doug! I appreciate you watching. The 1/32 bomber kits have massive engine stuff. I paid $130 for this kit just one engine. I hope you're well buddy and hugs for Mom. Cheers
@@johnalecsscalemodeling - you're mighty welcomed buddy and thank you too, I truly do appreciate you my friend! Yes sir I know those bigger scale plane kits aren't cheap, that's a shame, well I'll just have to keep looking, I'll find a couple one of these times. Take care buddy!
that is a very good job. thorough. i think you may have an earlier version of the kit than i got b/c some of the things that didn't have call-outs in the instructions did in mine (usually a shade of black--i couldn't get the humbrol, so used the vallejo equivalent, but it is tricky b/c it rubs off very easily). fwiw, i noticed you didn't add the red to the rolls royce letters. that beat me for the most part. i tried 8 or 10 times. used a #00000 (yes, 5) brush and a magnifying lamp. managed to make it look credibly weathered. i wish someone would add a decal of that to one of the after-market sets!
Thank you I appreciate the feedback. I did not, I just knew I wouldn't be able to paint the letters on fine enough, and it would stick out like a sore thumb. I didn't realize they made brushes that fine, I commend you! Yeah, shame they didn't just add that to the decal sheet. Thanks for watching, be well
It's a shame Airfix didn't include the red Rolls Royce decal for the cylinder blocks...
Absolutely. There was no way I was going to be able to paint those letters on with my shaky hands. Seems an oversight, a decal would have really set that off. Thanks for watching
What an inspirational series. Thank you so much.
Do you have any special techniques for glueing painted parts? However careful I am, my extra thing always seems to mess up the paint. Or do you just do a lot of touch-ups? 😃
Thank you so much for that Derek - that's makes this channel, you the viewer. Yes, it will seep through and make the paint go fluid again. I try to just do that in areas where it won't be noticeable or I can touch it up after. Otherwise scrape the part edge and super glue. Thanks for watching!
Beautiful. Your demonstration makes the job much easier. Just wondering about the glue you were using. Is that the Tamiya thin?
Hello Shawn - thanks for watching I appreciate it. Yes it's Tamia Extra Thin. I rarely use the quick one, just the regular extra thin. CA glue is Bob Smith. I've kind of switched over to VMS Flexy 5k. Cheers
Excellent job and presentation. I notice that you don't remove paint at the glue points?
Thank you Dan - I've found it's not always necessary, I used to always do that. The extra thin will go right through the paint to the plastic. I have a bottle of extra thin that's just for painted parts (cloudy!). Thanks for watching
At 27:30, just staring at your masterful œuvre here is a treat! Thank you!
You have me curious: are you a mechanical engineer? A fine arts painter? Both?
I have lost track as to whether I had mentioned this: regarding RAF pilot seat belts in 1:24th-scale, an affable British chap named Nigel (Nigels Model Bench) recently used a set that comprised thin strips of a fine, soft cloth, which folded perfectly as fabric; the set included photo-etched buckles, that you might prefer. He can tell you where to enquire.
Hiya David - I'm a microbiologist but I've been in the clinical diagnostic device development space for 25 years. But I do have an artsy side as well and I look at this hobby as an artform. How about you, what racket are you in? Cheers
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David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024)
John, microbiologist sounds interesting, and in today’s setting, potentially deeply so; great volumes of research is in progress throughout the sciences, and I enjoy reading generally upon them (I lack the depth of reading to grasp the overwhelmingly complex details!
You enhance the intrigue of this several orders of magnitude with “clinical diagnostic device development”. This is a peripheral interest of mine-well outside my intellectual capacity or training to create, yet immensely fascinating nevertheless: I have health issues intermittently requiring medical intervention that in themselves exacerbate my chronic pain with the more severe physical agony in certain “medical procedures” I suspect derive from the Marquis de Sade. Indeed, in just the past few days, two phlebotomists on different days had endeavoured to take a blood draw for clinical examination; they could not locate a vein (at times, my blood pressure can be low, and I am terribly thin), and I shortly found their repeated re-insertions of the needle screamingly painful such that I had to insist they stop. The second visitor proposed to me that I would be a candidate for a PICC (peripheral intravenous cardiac catheter) line (I am testing my capacity for recall here!).
As a Star Trek (TOS) fan, I recall Dr. McCoy’s (DeForest Kelley) hypospray. Though I intellectually understand (at least in general) that such fictional constructs simply may not translate to the nonfictional world, I nevertheless wonder (at times quite irascibly!) why the medical community has yet to devise some contemporary analogue thereof. (For that matter, I also want a Transporter; a phaser set for stun; a food replicator; a portable shield generator; a portable computer station, its data storage encompassing all the scientific, technological, and medical knowledge of the time; a universal translator, etc. Relax, I am just having a bit of fun with my nerdness!)
John, my situation is a long story. I come to TH-cam to watch modellers build the kits I wish I could. This is my way to have fun, despite grim circumstances and austere resources.
I then write (I am an aspiring novelist, and an occasional, if reluctant, sociopolitical essayist) 1) comments on what I have seen-many are truly remarkable; some seem to me to be quite overdone in the wear and the weathering; I greatly prefer a rather more restrained approach, wanting the reproduction itself to draw attention; still, I can see the value in some cases of wordlessly marking the ravages of arduous travail in an especially grueling combat setting, or just showing the passage of the decades-and 2) outlines of the modelling projects I would like to implement.
For example, to present a row of aircraft replicas on the same theme, e.g., all of Tamiya’s 1:32nd-scale kits of the Chance Vought F4U Corsair USN/USMC Fighter series; this might include a Goodyear FG-1D, and the Corsair II and IV in service with the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm; also with Australia’s and New Zealand’s respective service branches. Maybe even Trumpeter’s 1:32nd-scale F4U-4 Corsair late-war USN carrier-based Fighter kit).
John, this is rather elaborate, so I will segment my reply into thirds (roughly). Just read as much as you wish. This is how I do my modelling-a mental exercise in my imagination-and is an outgrowth of my expository writing. (As I noted, my situation is a long story, your videos and posts part of the fun here.)
I would like to combine models of the same æroplane, all assembled in-flight, each one’s 1) propeller spinning (this may require a metal replacement; I understand that the torque in time may warp or deform the polystyrene); 2) the undercarriage retracted, the landing gear doors closed over their respective wheel wells; 3) the cowl flaps closed; 4) separable flight control surfaces (ailerons, horizontal and vertical stabilisers, etc.) one can set in various ways that correspond to airborne manœuvres (sharp banks and tight turns, deep dives and soaring climbs, even combat engagement, etc.); 5) a good-quality figurine in polystyrene, resin, or similar material, kit-manufacturer, aftermarket, or 3D made, of a pilot/aviator that I would set upon the seat (molded with positionable limbs and head to fit properly, so that our doughty flyboy looks like he actually belongs there, actively flying his airplane!).
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David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024)
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In the case of a much larger warbird, of course, 5a) the likenesses of a full complement of crewmen, each shaped and configured to man the duty stations (for the modeller’s flexibility), dramatising them engaged in aerial combat high over Nazi Germany’s industrial base; 6) cockpit fixtures (knobs, levers, switches, dials, and other controls on the instrument panel and consoles; lights-tiny LEDs (round 0.3-0.5 mm) in various hues would serve; a larger one collectively to illuminate the indicator dials-etc.) one can modify appropriately to indicate flight performance.
In most cases, I would place these finished models in ascending scales (thus of diminishing sizes in relation to its immediate processor), to create of several closely similar models a forced a perspective ærial diorama (FPÆD) of combat aircraft in various military movements at altitude (the Immelmann turn, the barrel roll, the cobra manœuvre, etc.). Alternately, some together might show to be in steady flight, e.g., a handful of fighters in echelon, at altitude on patrol against intruders; or a squadron of two dozen bombers in close formation high over an urban manufacturing complex.
In such a manner of display, I have some ideas for physically supporting the reproductions in a way that ultimately obviates any so-called “display stand”-to my mind, the undignified intrusion of the world’s tallest telegraph pole thrust up into its navel from miles below! In lieu of this stand, to provide a necessary support mechanism, I would design and pattern (well, I am no engineer by any stretch of the imagination! I speak here expressly in terms of theory and concept, as far as I grasp even that much!) a device after what motion picture production calls the Chapman Crane, a robust, articulated steel arm with an amply counterbalanced gimbals apparatus. This supports well above the ground a high-resolution digital video or film camera, the camera operator, the director, etc., in a manner that enables them from an elevated vantage to approach the subject of the shot, to progress through the air in slow, graceful turns, or in more dramatic soaring and swooping, and similar dynamic action to achieve the action of the scene.
One also can use it to suspend a performer in the air in an arrangement wherein the viewers cannot see the actor(s), or similarly, a constructed object of some kind. An excellent example of this is the mechanism that the special effects crew of Superman: The Movie (1978, Warner Bros.-Columbia, Richard Donner, John Williams) technicians had fashioned to hold pose the title character (Christopher Reeve) as though in flight, where 1) the actor lay prone upon a padded cradle they constructed and formed to fit closely his physical form, and attached to the end of another sturdy boom counterbalanced with a gimbals (I call this the “Chapman cradle”); 2) the wardrobe staff (so I infer) then covered in the costume this combination of actor and padded rack; 3) they next positioned all these mechanical components behind the performer (and anything else belonging in the shot), thus placing them out of view of the camera. Upon filming, they saw on the monitor the actor in character in mid-air. My hope is to adapt that to models and dioramas.
For my adaptation under discussion for my innovative models display here, the supporting apparatus (the entire Chapman cradle arrangement) would be much smaller, needing only 1) to hold forth a mass of round a half-dozen kilogrammes (though to allow for any possible kinetic force during movement of any cause, one out of caution might think to exceed that by double or greater), 2) whilst remaining completely out of sight of the viewer. To simplify the display’s function and operation, the mechanism also serves as an insulated physical conduit for electrical wiring providing current to the motor(s), lighting (instrument panels, navigation lights on the aircraft’s exterior, duty stations, the control surfaces, and other purposes. For the necessity to keep to a reasonable size the opening at the pass-through point, I recommend a solitary line of ample amperage to meet the overall requirements, which would lead from a junction box or control board, the conduit passing along the support arm to a location inside the model, where an electrical fixture would distribute the current along finer wiring passing throughout the model.
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David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024)
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The next essential element of this entire arrangement would be 3) the background, which would have two purposes: a) borrowing from the backdrop of the stage play and the motion picture film set, it would be a means generally to represent the sky at a fairly high altitude, for the simplicity of a clear azure vista free of extraneous elements; huge cumulus clouds (some perhaps roiling in the wind), terrain features, towering structures, etc., all passing to the right or the left. all would add complexity that might undermine the effect, or at the least could distract the viewers. Otherwise, one carefully must plan and co-ordinate every detail of the background, synchronising any movement therein with what the æroplane(s) at that moment would be doing. Even just a change in the lighting’s brightness and its colours could show on the models.
This adaptation of the stage and movie backdrop also b) would serve well as a partition to obscure view of the support apparatus, the lighting, the electrical equipment, etc.
All these together would present to the viewer a remarkably innovative “ærial diorama”, though it cleverly simulates a rather conventional imagery: aircraft in flight.
Perhaps the centrepiece in my FPÆD idea would centre upon models in different scales of the Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress USAAF Heavy Bomber; as I noted earlier, these might be in the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO), early in the campaign. Additionally would be similar displays of B-17Fs, the largest of them as a replica of the “Memphis Belle” round the middle of the flight crew’s service (which I would build as it actually was round 1943), the others holding close formation with the doughty bomber as members in the same squadron (that will require in-depth research to sort all these details, thus to assign specific markings to individual models).
Next might be several early B-17Gs, some showing significant battle-damage and obvious war-weariness; and the late-war B-17Gs, all in natural metal. For these, I am thinking of quite a different tableau: a roll-out at a Boeing plant of several shiny, brand new airplanes glittering in the bright sunshine of morning (would one need to apply to the panel lines a pin wash?), in the foreground a sizeable gathering of WASPs: women pilots who ferried combat aircraft to their destinations (under the ægis of the Women’s Army Service Pilots, headquartered at New Castle Army Air Base, under the Air Transport Auxiliary).
Then, of course, would be a series of Consolidated B-24 Liberator USAAF Heavy Bomber kits, again in various descending scales. These B-24D replicas I would present in the desert camouflage of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO), just 250 feet above the deck as they storm over the refineries and oilfields of Ploiești (Romanian orthography, formerly misspelt as “Ploești”), Romania.
Well, John, what do you think of 1) my FPÆD idea, 2) borrowing from the Chapman Crane, and 3) my adaptation of the stage and movie backdrop to create a partition that obscures view of the equipment?
Would anything along these lines serve to facilitate your aspirations in modelling, perhaps in offering you a better way to display in-flight your plane models, the propeller(s) spinning, all the positions filled, the undercarriage retracted, the landing gear bay doors and the cowl flaps closed, etc.?
An even more exciting turn for me is that a number of 1:24th-scale aircraft kits of at least reasonable quality (well, as far as I can evaluate here on TH-cam) have come forth. All so far come from Airfix (Trumpeter’s from reports I have read have fallen short, though over the next several years can we anticipate improvement), which is both quite a surprise and a true delight. One would be the Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat U.S. Navy Carrier-Based Fighter. This one for all its intricate interior detailing nonetheless looks immensely appealing to me.
I similarly wish the kit-makers would produce a new mold of the North American Aviation P-51D/H/K Mustang USAAF air superiority fighter; as well as those of the Lockheed P-38F/G/H/J/L Lighting USAAF Interceptor (Lockheed expressly presented it so to work round War Department strictures on aircraft design parameters), and the Chance Vought F4U series Corsair USN/USMC fighter.
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David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Friday, 26 July, 2024)
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To build something intriguing and exciting, I would place a well-tended 1942 Ford sedan recently re-painted in fresh olive drab, beside an early Hellcat fighter, in the Navy’s Pacific Theatre of Operations (PTO) tri-colour camouflage scheme of gloss dark sea blue on the dorsal wing surface, flat dark sea blue on the upper fuselage, intermediate blue on the vertical surfaces, and gloss white on the ventral surfaces a bit worn and dusty. A stocky, grey-haired admiral passes to the aviator a hefty, thick, worn, leather case bound in bright, stainless steel chains, with orders promptly to return to USS Enterprise (CV(N)-6) USN Yorktown-class aircraft carrier-patrolling just offshore but a quarter-nautical mile away, its freshly painted Measure 33/4Ab Dazzle camouflage striking under the bright, tropical summer sun of mid-morning-to present to Captain Cato Glover the package for Admiral Halsey when the latter returns . . . .
The best of what I have been able to infer as good or better are 1) the de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Fighter-Bomber kit. I must note that I have a keen personal interest in the RAF Light Bomber replica; as a boy, I had built a much smaller Airfix model of it, which for the swift grace of the actual æroplane for all these decades had remained with me! 2) Of course, of all the British combat aircraft of World War Two, Airfix’s new Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mark IX Fighter kit in this astounding scale essentially ties with its bigger younger brother.
I also would like to find a number of fairly commonplace aircraft-civilian, commercial, and military-to juxtapose alongside private automobiles, municipal vehicles, workplace trucks (lorries), tractor-trailer rigs (articulateds), etc. For example, a Cessna 172/180 private airplane, a Bell JetRanger helicopter, a Lear private passenger jet, and others that would be reasonably similar. In comparison, a Boeing 747-8 commercial freight airliner’s wingspan is 68.45 metres [224’ 7”], its length is 76.25 metres [250’ 2”]; in the scale under discussion, the model’s wingspan is 9’ 4.29”, its length 10’5”! My living quarters lack the room for one, though. For that matter, I rather doubt that I would have the physical strength to build it!
I also would like tableaux in plastic of different vehicles in the same scale: a good-quality, gloss-black four-door passenger automobile; perhaps a late 1930s Rolls Royce sedan (I know of no such kit, though) set alongside an Airfix (new mold) 1:24th-scale kit of an earlier Supermarine Spitfire RAF fighter (I think the company made a new-mold replica of a Mk.I and a Mk.Vc; we know they have a Mk.IX).
I would like to create a 1:25th-scale streetscape diorama of the Roaring ’20s, a midwestern or mid-Atlantic USA small town setting, with Ford Model T automobiles-a sedan, a coupe, pickup trucks, one reworked into a tow-truck, a depot hack, etc.-as well as some vehicles of other car manufacturers; R. E. Olds, Dodge Brothers, Plymouth, Pontiac, Chevrolet, etc. (I have a hunch that these would be appreciably more difficult to find-or to afford!).
On a pasture at the edge of town, an Airco DH-4 biplane bomber from round 1918, which after the Great War of 1914-1918 the U.S. federal government had acquired from the military several dozen surplus, numerous of which (along with the Boeing Model 40) the U.S. Postal Service had put into service as mail planes (in this scale, the model would be just 21 inches in wingspan!). I would like to include a couple of them, each aeroplane bound for a different town a few hours distant, in a morning rendezvous with a quartet of Ford Model T trucks.
I wonder if any of my more ambitious projects might be something you would contemplate. You surely have the modelling skills to well exceed me! I also anticipate that your clinical diagnostic device development work would afford you the technical capacity to implement my FPÆD idea borrowing from the Chapman Crane.
On a lighter note, I certainly wish a big city publisher would buy my novels. LOL I would order a good PC to dictate my novels and essays whilst my hands and eyes built my model kits. I then would hire a team of engineers, technicians, etc., all who build the better-quality, more sophisticated model kits, to implement FPÆD . . . .
Thank you, John! :D
What filler do you use?
Got ya! mr Surfacer👍
@@makumjeff2257 Was just going to answer, yes Mr Surfacer 1000 for smaller fills, 500 for larger ones. Thanks for watching Jeff appreciated.