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Very nice cockpit!
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Friend Sparrowhawk, what I meant to say is that Dr. Emil Zarkov has been designing models since the 90's, using CAD (Computer Aided Design) software, and was one of the first to use high tech for designing paper models. The good doctor called it "Computer Synthesized Model" according to the text, and he still has the rights to the software.
You can see here that Dr. Zarkov already had some its in 1998. Regardless of time, I'll keep an eye on your progress for the Mustang. |
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Gerardo,
thanks for this great explanation, I did not know it. Good to be in a forum as this. Clearly, Dr. Zarkovīs experience shows in his kits. I have seen some CAD kits by other designers which had more flaws than a stray dog has fleas and which probably werenīt test built before publishing them in print. The P-51 kit clearly has been thoroughly proof built and inspected. Cheers, Martin
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Do you have any advances, Martin?
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Hi Gerardo,
yes, there were some advances. Forward fuselage and wings are finished, wings and fuselage are mated. I started to work this way some models ago, because I like to have the wings as a reference for the empennage. to avoid any twist of the fuselage. From the few Halinski kits I have finished so far, I learned the importance of a solid basic structure for the wings, so I reinforced it as seen on the pix. Next parts will be the 2 rear fuselage segments and the vertical and horizontal stabilizers. Sorry for not posting earlier, but those were just lots of small steps to be summed up by the end of this week. As I wanted to build this model with the landing gear retracted like the one before, I did not take the time to build the wheel wells. Instead, using a pencil I traced the outlines of the wheel well onto some unused cardboard stuff and glued it to the inside of the wing skin. Then I glued the landing gear doors onto it and later the lower parts of the trapezoidal inner wing parts. I mostly used high quality CA glue to spot-glue the wing skeleton, gives more structural firmness. You may notice some dark spots on the lower wing skin where I glued the wing spar to the skin. Those mostly disappear with drying. While Julian has done a good job on repainting this model, it is obvious he used fairly high compressed JPEG textures for it. Colour edges (e.g. between silver-grey and yellow) could be more accurate, there are some artifacts. Cheers, Martin
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And the next pictures:
This is clearly going to be a colourful aircraft.
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Not bad at all, Martin!!
Good idea on having the wheel wells "sculpted", instead of just leaving them uncut. That gives them a good 3D effect. |
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After a long time, some news. To me, midsummer is the season of lots of garden parties, playing songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Jim Croce etc. This is at the expense of the time devoted to paper modeling.
Still, I managed to get this model finished a few days ago. Only a few things to report in comparison to the 1st P-51: This time, I got the fairings above the exhaust stubs right. Looks fine. Emil provided this kit with a template for the contour of the canopy. Neat idea, but I wanted something more. Thus, I cut out the bulkheads in front of and behind the cockpit as "femals molds" and widened them up with a fine file until they fitted snugly over the fuselage. I then added a rectangular piece of cardboard on top of it. This assembly can be placed over the canopy area and it stays there while fiddling with the segments of the transparent canopy. Then, I glued the transparent canopy to the fuselage, starting with the front and the rear end and working my way towards the center, checking the top contour ever so often. As a result, the canopy looks a lot better to me, with hardly any gaps between the segments. Also, I placed the gunsight in the canopy, securing it in the instrument panel with small tabs that fit into slots cut in there. The last pictures show the 2 models "in close fomation". I like the results. Geometry of this model is just as precise as with the 1st one, but Julian Fratelanutela has skimped on some details: He mirrored the colouring of the wing halves, except the USAF insignia. This means the lettering is inverted on one wing. He also forgot to colur the antenna mast and he forgot the tip of the spinner. He still has done a good paint job. My next model will be the P-51B/C by Dave Winfield in the paint scheme of the famous Tuskegee Mustang "Ina the Macon Belle". I has bought it to support Hugo in last fall. In spite of being a fan of the Supermarine Spitfire, I definitely start to like the lines of the P-51. Cheers, Martin
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very beautiful MUSTANG.....like it very much.
well done Martin YOAV |
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Very nice work! Love the last pic with the two Mustangs next to each other!
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