Chronic's Research and Aeronautics Project (C.R.A.P.)

[TheChronicOne]

Wait'll we get to the little resin parts!! Yeesh!   



I plan to do more to this one today and more on the Lysander. It's right on schedule to be finished just in time for the end of the GB. Paint and detail paint are the order of the day. DC-9 is similar... I'll re-prime the wing lowers then get to work painting them and the tailplanes. According to the box... they're very simple for a change....  just one overall color and the leading edges are metal color.      In fact, this thing seem deceptively simple and I'm just waiting on some ultra tedious surprise to crop up to sink weeks of work into like happens on all the OTHER airliners.            Then again, this is exactly why I chose this one.... something simple in build and paint both.

[TheChronicOne]

Since the Lysander was drying with it's first round of clear I decided to pick this back up. Plenty of time for the clear to gas out. I'm still doing little detail work here and there on the upper half before I paint and decal the lower half. I also masked for the bottom white stripe below the other cheatline colors and around all the tight areas near the engine exhaust, tailplanes, the "diamond," etc. Not much left now aside from masking it all over so I can prime the bottom and the wings then it's on to the next phase.


Going to endorse Molotow Chrome Pens now. 

[zenrat]

Lovely.  Can't wait for this to be done.

[TheChronicOne]

Thanks, bud!!  I'm pretty pleased with the way this has gone lately. I need to do something with the outboard engines (they ugly as hell right now) but otherwise I think everything is going to work out. And to think, not too long ago this thing looked like it had spray plaster all over it and the decals were melting off.

[TheChronicOne]

More work on the DC-9. Trying to paint the wings but my paint is full of chunks because of my poor storage habits. If I'm quick enough I can brush the chunks off and smooth out the paint but there's no way in hell I can keep this up and also have a nice finish so I've stopped and will find a way to strain my paint before I try again.

That's not to say I gave up.... I went ahead and finished painting the landing gear and I also spent a fair chunk of time sanding the seams on the engines and got those primed. These engines look familiar. Look a lot like the ones on my 737-200. I'm assuming they're the same (although no maybe not the same exact variant, etc.) JT-8D engines. ANYWAY... I'll be painting them soon. I've also painted the gear and gloss cleared them so the paint "don't rub off." This leaves ... I think 4 gear doors I need to paint. Two for the nose gear and two for the mains. Lots of airliners have them neat doors that open to let the gear out then close again which is glorious. 


BUT..... man... I'm scheming on the bigass 1/72 Boeing 707 again. Since I started planning for it I've gained a lot more knowledge and also it's not the busy time of year. I remarked on this in the "things you plan to build" thread. I know I have trouble focusing and big/tedious builds give me anxiety but I'd love to attempt this.

[zenrat]

I strain lumpy paint through bits of Mrs z's cast off tights (stockings, panty hose, nylons).
Cut a section out, strap it across the top of a suitable sized jar with an elastic band , pour the paint through it and Bob's your aunties live in lover.

[NARSES2]

I strain lumpy paint through bits of Mrs z's cast off tights (stockings, panty hose, nylons).
Cut a section out, strap it across the top of a suitable sized jar with an elastic band , pour the paint through it and Bob's your aunties live in lover.

As long as you are sure they are cast off's that works fine, however if they are not then duck 

[PR19_Kit]

These engines look familiar. Look a lot like the ones on my 737-200. I'm assuming they're the same (although no maybe not the same exact variant, etc.) JT-8D engines.

They are indeed, almost all the US airliners used the JT-8D around that time in various versions. Even the later MD-80 series used them as well!

[TheChronicOne]

That's good stuff to know in case I have to do some sort of swapping between kits. Sure would have been nice to find a sutiable replacement for 737's engines but it never occurred to me to look through the stuff I already have. Hell, I probably have 10 sets of the things.     Oh well, they're done now so it's academic but next time........



Plans for today... I dunno... first thing I'm going to do is go look to see if anyone has asked for an extension in the GB or not (I bet they have!  ) and if so I'm probably going to relax the pace on my Lysander a bit. Problems keep cropping up and as a result the finish line keeps rolling back further into the distance so I might slow down on it a little bit so I don't inadvertently create some new problem through haste. REGARDLESS, I'm going to start plotting out the invasion stripes. I have a plan and I have alignment marks so I think it should be easy... only thing I'm worried about is masking the fuselage and keeping the lines straight as they wrap around the aircraft.

As for the DC-9.... time to strain the paint. I'll find some drawz or knickers or whatever and get to straining... I'll just get enough out to paint the stuff I want to paint because I don't really have a place to put the entire bottle of paint.

Tristar....  this thing is moving ahead at a nice clip now. I need to finish masking off the top then I can prime the bottom, let it dry up, paint the anto-corrision sections (if need be, the primer grey may wind up being the right shade) then mask those off to put the NMF paint on. This is the next thing that gives me pause. I would like to use the really nice stuff I have that makes for a good finish but that's also the worlds most finicky paint as it can't be touched, takes extra time to dry/cure, and can't be cleared over. This means I'll have to do some tricky planning and masking in order to not get things in the wrong order. I also have to stick a ton of decals on all that mess so...  that'll be interesting..... 

[PR19_Kit]

While the engine inside the pod is the same, the pod itself is different for every aircraft type I'm afraid. You can't just slap a DC9 pod onto a 737, or vice versa.

[TheChronicOne]

Damn! I was hoping it was down to getting the pylon sections converted. Oh well.    Woulda been nice.  Trying to obtain proper ADV engines for the 37 was such a pain.....  I was forced into just correcting the kit ones which was an experience, for sure..... 

[zenrat]

...You can't just slap a DC9 pod onto a 737, or vice versa.

Now now Kit, you're not thinking like a Whiffer...

[PR19_Kit]

...You can't just slap a DC9 pod onto a 737, or vice versa.

Now now Kit, you're not thinking like a Whiffer...

Well, yes, you're dead right there. My Airliner SIG history is coming to the fore there, sorry. 

I'd go for the Trent 1000s I think, but as they're a greater diameter than the 737's fuselage there may be a need for MUCH longer landing gear legs, and because of that the wings WOULD HAVE TO BE LONGER! 

(You just knew that was coming, didn't you?)

[TheChronicOne]

BIIIIIG engine.... in the middle instead of fuselage.... then, hanging from each wing is a fuselage full of pax! 

[PR19_Kit]

BIIIIIG engine.... in the middle instead of fuselage.... then, hanging from each wing is a fuselage full of pax! 

Hehehehe, I rather like that idea. 

And I've probably got the bits to do it too, a couple of Doyusha Trents, goodness knows how many Daco 737s, plus any old wing I can scrape together to hook it all together. 

Mind you, Ericr could probably make a much better job of it!