Quote from: Old Wombat on January 10, 2023, 01:24:52 AMI have an entire modelling room that looks like that!

So does mine, and I decided that the imediate area was of more relevance so that's what I took a picture of. The computer which also has a cutting mat under the keyboard so I can do odd bit's and peices if I want to and almost every flat surface has boxes, instructions or something model related on it so it get a bit fraught when the cat decides he want to go sit on the windowsill 

Gondor

Quote from: kerick on January 09, 2023, 10:43:07 PMI'm thinking of a hood over the bench lined with double faced tape to catch flying parts. It will work perfectly until I stand up without pushing the chair all the way back......

  

The Sight is fitted!



And of course the photo shows that there is a darn great seam ligne down the middle of the glass. The one peice canpy has been test fitted and found not to interfere which is good. Not going to do anything about the seam as I don't trust the adhesive enough to hold the part in place if I touch it with anything other than a paint brush so it will have to do. So paint and then the canopy will be getting glued in place very soon after I finish this post!

Gondor

Quote from: Old Wombat on January 10, 2023, 01:24:52 AMI have an entire modelling room that looks like that!

My whole HOUSE looks like that!     

It's on it's legs!

Well undercarriage legs, but this is a big milestone. Canopy was glued in place, twice 

The second time I clamped it down as it had ridden up/sprung up moved upwards somehow which left a gap along the entire Port/Left side.

While looking over the model I noticed that the carburettor intake is showing that it was built from two parts    so that is on my list of things to do and then it's paint! Humbrol 240 allllll over! It's closeish to the correct colour but is wrong, I have some Hataka paint which is correct as far as I know, on its way to me and that is what will be used on the eduard kits I have.

Gondor

You'll need to fill around the gun bulges on the engine cowlings, as iirc these were stamped as part of the cowlings themselves.

IIRC, KP released a kit of the early S199s with the oil cooler, so that could give alternate markings for the Eduard.  There was a Propagteam sheet for the S199 which could also be useful.

Quote from: The Wooksta! on January 13, 2023, 05:13:50 AMYou'll need to fill around the gun bulges on the engine cowlings, as iirc these were stamped as part of the cowlings themselves.

IIRC, KP released a kit of the early S199s with the oil cooler, so that could give alternate markings for the Eduard.  There was a Propagteam sheet for the S199 which could also be useful.

The eduard boxing I have contains twelve different markings which include the earlier oil cooler version and as I have the twin pack I have to build one with and one without the oil cooler. The KP kit I have also has parts for that and lits it as an option but no markings for it.

This is the kit KP S-199 which if you look at the time-line for the kit has several different boxings so the oil cooler will probably turn up somewhere amongst them.

As far as the bulges on the cowling, they are stamped out as part of the cowling as haveing just looked at pictures on the net all the pictures I could find that clearly showed the bulges confirmed this.

Gondor

Thought I would have a go at fixing the Carburetor intake for this kit by applying a blob of Superglue to the notched area only to find that the cap of the glue is stuck very firmly to the rest of the container   
I need to go to my locl supermarket tomorrow anyway so I shall pick up a couple of tubes of glue while I am there, maybe not the cheapest but they have the type with the side peices that you push inwards to get glue out and I like the amount of control it gives me. I know what your thinking, not so much control that I didn't get the top stuck on. Well that was my fault for not wipeing the nozzle before fitting the lid 
As for the bulges over the engine coweling, I fitted mine too far towards the cockpit. Fortunatly I only used normal glue so a brush with Liquid Poly should get under the parts enabling me to remove and reposition them.

Gondor

And my methodology worked so both of the bulges are now seperate from the rest of the models. Tomorrow when the glue has dried off I can clean them up and ensure that the coweling is filled and smooth as each side of the engine coweling hinges at the top of the coweling and goes all the way down to the top of the exhausts so as the top of the coweling was a seperate part that detail needs to be hidden. But that is for tomorrow.

Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on January 13, 2023, 11:18:26 AMThought I would have a go at fixing the Carburetor intake for this kit by applying a blob of Superglue to the notched area only to find that the cap of the glue is stuck very firmly to the rest of the container   

Gondor

If it's the typical little tube you could poke a hole in it and squeeze out some on some scrap then dab it where you need it with a toothpick.

Quote from: kerick on January 13, 2023, 02:09:44 PM

Quote from: Gondor on January 13, 2023, 11:18:26 AMThought I would have a go at fixing the Carburetor intake for this kit by applying a blob of Superglue to the notched area only to find that the cap of the glue is stuck very firmly to the rest of the container   

Gondor

If it's the typical little tube you could poke a hole in it and squeeze out some on some scrap then dab it where you need it with a toothpick.

Unfortunatly it's a screw on top which I did try and unscrew to no avail

Gondor

Quote from: Gondor on January 14, 2023, 02:38:26 AMUnfortunatly it's a screw on top which I did try and unscrew to no avail

Gondor

Run some de-bonder into it ?

Quote from: NARSES2 on January 14, 2023, 06:06:10 AM

Quote from: Gondor on January 14, 2023, 02:38:26 AMUnfortunatly it's a screw on top which I did try and unscrew to no avail

Gondor

Run some de-bonder into it ?

You have to have debonder to be able to use it.

This is what I use



readily available at my local supermarket so this time I bought a spare as well as one to use. I like it for the control you can get with this version, not everyone or maybe even most may like it but it suits me.

Gondor

I've not seen that type of Loctite, I've got their gel type, I'll keep an eye open for it.

For general use I use cheapo £Store stuff. 3 bottles for a £1, used to be 4. Works well enough for most tasks.

Some remedial work has been carried out so far today as well as some research which also lead to so expenditure. I started by looking through Google for pictures of the S-199 to try and make sure that the position of the coweling panels was fixed in my mind as to where it should be. Then after looking at lots of pictures and spending a few pounds on a book I saw a picture of the eduard fuselage halfs and realised that with their breakdown of the parts it would be easy to know where the line should be drawn on the KP kit.
So that's what I did, and I found out that the rear of the panel with the gun troughs is where the panel line is, there is even a slight panel line further down the fuselage sides that lines up! So the line was drawn, with a propelling pencil on the top of the fuselage. That'll show it. 
The remains of the glue on the upper fuselage from where the bulges had been has been sanded away and the insides of the bulges have also been smoothed and filler has been applied to the Mules nose where the upper coweling part meets the fuselage so that it shows as one piece. So just need to wait for the filler to dru then I can sand that back and reapply the bulges in what I hope will be the correct place, more resurch to ensure the height up or down the fuselage sides is right, blow that, I will just measure the eduard kit 

Gondor