One model per (non-working) day - Page 1308

**CMDRTED** · #**13071** 07-31-2018, 05:30 PM

Re color looks great. take your time and enjoy the hobby. I was only asking. Years ago I thought the british colour scheme for the undersides of their aircraft was a mistake on the model companies printer. I complained to gpm.pl or some site and they must have thought I was crazy.

**tigertony100** · #**13072** 07-31-2018, 07:30 PM

White plain construction almost complete; as I see it, the recolor of a OP-2H is straightforward. TRIM AP-2H will follow this.Regards.Tony.

**wireandpaper** · #**13073** 07-31-2018, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by scissorsandplanes

And to keep up the kind spirit, another challenge for the recolor people...

B

Thank you very much Master Bruno. Hopefully the recoloring department is going to be very busy!

Orion, Shackleton, and Neptune done,
May almost done,
Argus half way,
next Christmas Atlantic/Atlantique!

Thank you so much!!!!

**wireandpaper** · #**13074** 07-31-2018, 10:19 PM

Not to mention the Nimrod and the Poseidon that are jet engine and done by master Bruno.

I said the May is almost done because the only thing to change from the IL-18 is to move the wing forward, add a tail cone, and a radome, and of course the recolor and removal of a few windows.

For the Argus, we have the Britannia wings and tail surfaces, but needs fuselage and engines.

**scissorsandplanes** · #**13075** 08-01-2018, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by tigertony100

White plain construction almost complete; as I see it, the recolor of a OP-2H is straightforward. TRIM AP-2H will follow this.Regards.Tony.

Hi Tony,

thanks for doing the test build.
just a note I forgot to mention.
the Neptune fuselage has more of a rectangular cross section with rounded corners. And the final piece of the fuselage is a little larger than the previous one because it must sort of blend into the rudder.
I did not test build it, so I'm surely not complaining.

that gives me time to design an ugly duckling.

B

**Mike1158** · #**13076** 08-01-2018, 08:22 AM

I think you would have to work very hard to do that.

**lfuente** · #**13077** 08-01-2018, 09:07 AM

And here I thought I was the only one taking Bruno's Cherokee challenge seriously! Still, congratulations TigerTony.

My excuse for coming in second is I had to find wheel pants graphics I could borrow for the Philippine versions. I ended up using wheel pants from Tak Nagasawa's Cessna C172 (which I didn't use for my Cessna C172 recolors).

My suggestion is use the struts but lose the wheels, and laminate the layers in this sequence: long colored, short, medium, short, long, long, short, medium, short, long colored to get something resembling a streamlined shape. Plus this will make the landing gear stiff enough to hold up the plane.

I found 3 civilian examples of Philippine PA-28-140s with useful photos, so those are in the file (which I've also added to our downloads section). Others were bigger engined, or retract versions. I increased the scale to 1:72, but if you want 1:100 just print out 2 pages per sheet. Enjoy!

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Originally Posted by tigertony100

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! this long awaited Neptune fullfill many chapters in Aviation Hystory, by my side I´ll put immmediatly hands on it for make the US Navy AP-2H Gunship. And as a proof of my words this is what I done at the moment with the Piper Cherokee. I´m excited for the posibilities of Neptune recolors:Navy, Japan, Sweden.etc. In the buildings, I let the Canberras breathe for a while and make Master CAFE adaption of T-33 in FAM(Mexican Air Force) colors. Regards.Tony.