AIR Modeller (44) 2012-5.pdf

(20409 KB) Pobierz
SHOWCASING THE VERY BEST IN SCALE AIRCRAFT MODELLING
44
ISSUE
October / Nov 2012
£6.50 UK $14.95
www.airmodeller.com
MIRAGE
MASTERPIECE
MEGAS TSONOS GOES SUPERSONIC
CONTENTS
2
A-10A
Jerome Lorusso builds Trumpeter’s large scale Thunderbolt
Albatros
Marc Guerrero describes his build of the Wingnut Wings 1:32 scale kit
of the iconic WW1 German fighter
F7F Tigercat
Francisco Soldan describes his build of heavily weathered F7F.
12
22
28
Mirage
Megas Tsonos returns to tackle a 1:48 Greek Mirage
Royal New Zealand Airforce P-40E
Jamie Haggo builds the 1:32 Hasegawa kit
Air Born
New releases.
F-14B Tomcat
Building the 1:72 scale Hasegawa Tomcat described by Luis Mira Gomez-
Calcerrada.
40
48
58
AFV Modeller is published Bimonthly by
AFV Modeller ltd
Old Stables
East Moor
Stannington
Northumberland
NE61 6ES
Tel: 01670 823648
Fax: 01670 820274
email: david@afvmodeller.com
Editor and Designer: David Parker
Deputy Editor: Donald Campbell
Sales Director: Keith Smith
ISSN 1747-177X
We are now on Facebook, ‘Like’ us to
follow what we are doing and follow our
build projects.
AIR Modeller welcomes contributions from interested parties, but cannot accept any responsibility
for unsolicited material.
The contents of this publication including all articles, drawings and photographs originated by AFV
Modeller ltd become the publishers copyright under copyright law. Reproduction in any form
requires the written consent of the publisher. Whilst every care is taken to avoid mistakes AFV
Modeller ltd. cannot be liable in any way for errors or ommissions.
1
TRUMPETER’S
MODELLED
BY
JEROME
Cockpit
LORUSSO
The Trumpeter has undertaken for a number of years now, a new
journey into the world of larger scale aircraft kits in 1:32 and 1:24.
It is fair to say that most of these models are great, but there are
greater difficulties associated with their construction and their
storage! I wanted to accept this challenge and to see if once the
modelling work was completed, if it was possible to get close to a
convincing level of realism in 1:32 scale. To do so I built the A-10
Warthog A, one of the earlier releases in the Trumpeter 1:32 range.
The model is enormous, but it has many flaws, reminding me in
some ways the old Tamiya kit in 1:48. As I said, the larger scale
places greater demands on the modeller with details that may not
be obvious in 1:72 being very obvious in 1:32. The biggest problem
areas of the kit are the cockpit, and the canopy.
The rest of the model can be considered reasonably accurate.
Before I started building the model, I spent time in various internet
searches, gaining wide variety of pictures, for the subject in question.
2
The aftermarket manufacturers offer many additional detail sets
so that we are spoiled for choice! Cutting Edge, Black Box,
Legends Production, CAM miniatures, and Eduard, help us, to sort
out Trumpeter’s cockpit. I chose the Cutting Edge resin cockpit,
which fits the model with no problems, adding some details with
the photoetched sets from Eduard. I simply followed the
installation instructions, and this detail set is really useful as well
as being very simple to fit. The only drawback is the ejection seat
rails, moulded integrally with the cockpit tub as they are very easy
to break. Particular attention should be plaid in the last phase,
when it comes time to fit the instrument panel and I had to do
several test fittings. To paint the cockpit I used every detail from
my various references, and the video game "lock-on", which has a
very realistic rendition of the cockpit! The overall colour is dark gull
grey FS36231 with semi-gloss black panels for the various
instruments. The main instrument
panel is supplied with flight
instruments in relief, but I preferred
to remove these and to open up
the holes for the dials. Printed
acetate film with the dials was then
placed behind the panel for the
most realistic finish. The beautiful
Cutting Edge ejectior seat does not
provide any belts so I added those
provided by Eduard.
mm. For the various cables and
wires, various copper wires and
solder ranging between 0.5 mm
and 0.08 mm thickness were used.
All the avionics boxes were built
with using scrap resin and assorted
plastic. All the fixing holes in the
frames were reproduced with a 0.3
mm drill.
Similarly, I reproduced the individual
doors for the various bays. Each of
them has a base sheet of 0.25 mm,
which has been shaped to follow
the fuselage contours. Each of the
doors, had all the screw fixings
added and 2 mm long and 0.3 mm
in diameter copper wire was used
to make the screws. The overall
colour of all the bays are FS 16473,
deviating from the standard,
Insignia white FS 17875.
Avionics Bays
The idea of seeing such a big
model with the avionics bays
opened up had already been my
plan. With the reference book by
Verlinden, plus all the various
photos I collected on the A-10, I
sketched out some designs on
paper as a guide to construction,
and then I transferred all the
accumulated data to plasticard.
Each individual compartment is in
proportion to the real ones, for the
compartment walls I used 1mm
plasticard and for the shelves 0.5
Engines
The kit provides two resin copies of
what should be the engines, the
General Electric TF-34 Turbo Fans,
but are far from realistic. In
3

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika:

Zgłoś jeśli naruszono regulamin