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The Claude looks great! As a Stuka fan, I share your love/hate relationship with wheelpants.
I've seen a couple of these MM kits finished and they looked surprisingly good. I've always like this airplane and your build so far looks like it may be one of the better, or best, yet! Chris |
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Just got back from playing parental transportation specialist and masculine provider of provender (Mm Ogg hunt wild In-n-Out Burger) so no further progress yet.
That other forum has a construction thread of the Skyline Claude. The wing was somewhat daunting, but turned out well. Not only is it elliptical (meaning joints fore and aft) but there is no wing structure outboard of the landing gear. None Zip Nada. Just looking at my shelf and the last 5 models I've built have had spatted or trousered gear. Fly Karas, Marek's He 51 (BETA!), D.510 and Fi167 and the A5M. Add to that my career length (re(re))design of and A-8 and I guess I'm a glutton for punishment. Less typing, more cutting, shaping and gluing. Progress must progress!
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Looking good so far. I didn't fall for the "slip in pictures of other stuff to jack my score" trick. I didn't fall off the Modelik 1:25 turnip truck yesterday, you know.
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Just playing to the punters,guv
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Skinning on the fuselage. All going pretty well so far.
Everything has been fitting together, and I'm really impressed with the way the side panels wrap around the tailpost to make a tiny transition to a rounded profile. The picture of this, of course, did not turn out No great surprises and as it's making the transition from printed page to three dimensional object the sketchy colour is becoming much less offensive. The cardstock this is printed on is much better than the chipboard of earlier kits, but it shows a really unfortunate tendency to delaminate when formed. This was a plus on rolling the control stick, (I usually use the delamination to split a rolled part into a thinner page - much easier to roll) and will be nice on the guns, but it started to split even with the gentle curve of the turtledecking. Burnishing the seams helped a lot to smooth the joint, but makes the edge colouring more obvious.
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The fuselage construction reminds me of the CardPlane models. I wonder if this an earlier work by the same designer? Looking mighty fine, BTW.
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Great looking progress!
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The designer is Paweł Mistewicz who seem to have stayed with Maly at least through 2006, although he apparently also did Halinksi's P-38 in 1997
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That Guy has the best fitting designs. Mike/Shoki gave him the thumbs up saying any of his designs are absolute pleasures to build, I second that sentiment.
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