WAK Curtiss P-6E Hawk 1/33

[Isaac]

Great work Yu-San. I love the details.


As an aside, on the real plane with all 12 exhausts pipes exiting on the left side, the pilot probably lost his hearing on that side .



Isaac

[Erik Zwaan]

Meticulous and very clean work! Your build is a joy to follow.

Erik

[Don Boose]

Magnificent work, Yu-sama!

Thank you for the details on your modifications.

Don

[birder]

Very nice Yu sama, I see you have the touch for model building without any change! Following with interest

[smithdr]

Late to the party. Another great installment. Looking really, really good!


Dan

[Yu Gyokubun]

Thanks all for your comments

Photo (1)

After uploaded the previous post I found two flaws on the tail fin and the rudder.
The first point is that I made them from the copy of original print.
Due to my printer, there were red lines shown.
The second point is that gap between the tail fin and the rudder is rather wide. See the last photo in the previous post.

So, redone them using original print provided in the kit. In redoing, changed the width of a part designed myself that is attached to the rudder from 4mm to 3mm to make the gap narrower than previous one.

Photo (2)
Build the horizontal stabilizer and the elevator. Since I expected there might be another issue, assembled them using copy first.
As I expected construction of the stabilizer is different from what it should be. So, cut the stabilizer along the dotted line and assembled.

Photo (3)
Next issue is that the stabilizer will not come to horizontal if assemble it as is basis. Cut off end of the bottom skin of the stabilizer by about 0.7 mm wide.

Photo (4)
Since support strut for the stabilizer is very narrow, beveled back side of the fold line of it to make it easier to fold

Photo (5) and (6)
Present status. Redone the tail fin and the rudder using original print. And built the horizontal tail and the elevator from original print.

Photo (8) and (9)
Talking to myself
This kit required many modifications so far.
Modification works are not bad in terms of sharpening up my deteriorating brain as aging. On the other hand, its time consuming that deprives limited time left in ahead from me.
To make small modification parts I had to make multiple copies to adjust the dimensions little by little by actual thing matching and hand drawing.

About 10 years ago I built Japanese steam locomotive and BD5 using 3DCG software BLENDER.
For some reasons I stopped using it after a year and half. At that time, I didn't learn UV editing. That is to unwrap 3D object into 2D.
By learning UV editing it would be easier to make more accurate modification drawing and finally might be able to design a paper model.
So, I'm thinking about it.