This is just a quick update to show my solution to some of my PE problems.
I cut two plastic strips in the same length as the PE part and glued them in place.
I also figured a solution for the other part and folded it as good as possible.
I glued the hatches and will paint the periscopes and add them later.
Some more etch was added, but there’s more to do.
Next I’ll try and fold and glue the lamp guards.
After some work all parts for the lower hull was assembled.
Then it was time for the upper hull. I removed and cleaned the parts for the hatches. Fairly esay but I need to figure how to do with paint and clear parts.
Then there are some PE parts and they’re driving me crazy. There’s one small thin piece that is supposed to be folded in the middle and I can’t make that happen. Maybe I don’t have the proper tools.
There’s also one piece that needs to be folded like in the MA9 part in the picture.
On the front view the parts are called MA10 and MA5 instead of MA36 and MA9.
The only fairly easy part right now is the lamp guards.
I got this kit from my Swedish Secret Santa last year.
As I decided to finish the Coach first, it took a while to get this build started.
Anyway, now it’s started and first things to be assembled was the boogies.
Then parts to the lower hull.
That’s all so far.
With nice seams sprue glue is good enough even if you have to go over some parts more than one time. Sprue glue dries gloss and after sanding it’s easy to see if any of still is gloss.
The nacelles got a little more sprue glue.
Then after sanding the body I had to sort a few more spots.
The tires was assembled and wings and nacelles are ready for some paint.
Done sanding the body.
The canopies and turret was masked.
Next will be painting the area above the IP before glueing the clear parts.
I did a bit of dry brushing and the glued the weights in place.
The mid section guns.
The landing gears got painted.
Once that was done I started glueing interior parts in place.
The front landing gear was glued in place and then the cockpit floor and turret was glued before joining the fuselage halves.
While handling the plane I accidently broke part of the front gear. Hopefully I can get it in place later.
I also did a bit of dry fitting of the wings a tail assembly.
It’s quite a large beast! Luckily I don’t have to glue the wings until when it’s time for final assembly.
I struggled a bit with the metal parts to the landing gears, especially the smaller ones. So I took a break and built a few (quite a few rather) dwarfs for my Warhammer army.
I decided to have a go at it again and after checking both instructions I realised that the small parts I needed also was provided with the kit.
That made things a lot easier for me, and after some work they looked like this.
And sometime later they got black primer.
It was first after taking the pic that I noticed that one cable had moved a bit. I’ll correct that asap.
After sorting the instrument dekal, the IP was glued in place.
A little weathering and it’s done!
Some push rods was cut off!
The engine parts was painted.
Then I started assembling the engines.
I used Tamiyas panel wash on the back row cylinders.
I then decided to use the wash on the whole engine and the fuel lines was glued in place.
It wasn’t easy to get all the fuel lines right, and even worse was the exhaust pipes that had to go inbetween push rods and the other pipes.
Some more parts was painted interior green.
With the engines done, I did a little test fitting.
A little touching up to do, then I can glue them in place and start adding the exhaust pipes.
I assembled the wings.
Even if the fit is good, be sure to check that every part goes where it is supposed to. Some of them needs to be fit under the wing surface. I’ll wait with the lights until later, except for the three lights on the wing tip, which I nearly missed to put in place.
Then I started with the engine. Removing all the nubs and cleaning up took a while.
I read on a build that there was some issue with the push rod and after checking pics I realised that HK had made twice as many. There is as I understand it only two per cylinder.
I removed the parts for the other engine and will use 2 of the cleaned up push rod rings, and 2 rings where I’ll remove the push rods.
The reason is that the assembly will need all rings to fit later.
I’ll sort that next time a the desk!
I did some work on the backsides of some of the panels for the bombbay, painted the instrument panel black and sorted a few ammo lanes.
One strange thing is that the 1/48 scale version actually have a premade weight that goes with the kit! There’s none with this kit but I think there’s clear evidence that there was supposed to be one.
I measured 80g of bullets and put as many of them I could in the nose.
Then I used blue tack to hold the rest of the bullets that I put in the empty space behind the front landing gear well.
As can be seen I’ve also repainted the cockpit area with dull dark green.
I added the bombs to the side walls.
Then I assembled the bomb bay.
Lastly I added the ammo lanes to the rear gun.
I still need to paint a few more details and sort the mid guns. I’ll probably add a few wires to the guns as they seems to have that.
Hopefully I can soon start to assembly the interior and then the fuselage halves.
The bombs was painted dark green.
The interior was painted interior green, and I’ve also started painting a few details.
I’m not happy with the seat belts as they don’t sit as I would like them to do.
I’m thinking of moving them backwards into the seat, and just let the rear end where it ends when that is done. Otherwise perhaps a Quintas set would be the best solution, but that would take some time, and I don’t like delays.
It’s possible to work with the wings, engines and other stuff meanwhile. I’ll think about it.
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