Eduard Tempest Mk. V

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June 20, 2016
My first totally resin cockpit. I spent a couple of hours cleaning up all of the parts, and assembling a few minor pieces for painting.
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June 20, 2016
rudder pedals assembled. I think they are on backwards from what the instructions call out, but neither orientation seems to truly resemble the few pictures I have seen. Either way, not a really big deal as these will be almost impossible to see.
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June 20, 2016
working on cutting out the shell ejector ports.
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June 21, 2016
working on the cockpit. The firewall, floor, and right wall are all but done. The rest still need to be weathered and some PE installed. The finishing touch will be a shot of dull and then assembly.
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June 24, 2016
Sanded as much as I could, and it still wouldn't fit. The solution was to push the wheel well inserts outboard just as much as you see here. It won't be noticeable with the gear doors installed. In fact, it will give the gear doors a ledge to be glued on.
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June 24, 2016
Sanding everywhere I can to try to make the wing fit on the fuselage. I even sanded through the bottom of the resin cockpit.
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June 24, 2016
Did some minor scratch building for the radiator. I drilled out the center piece and added the splitter.
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June 24, 2016
Cut out the radiator flap and detailed the back of the radiator (including filling some sink holes).
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June 24, 2016
final test fit before I glue the wings together. I still have a few things to do inside the fuselage before I can button it up but the wings will give me plenty to do in the meantime. I'm going to try to cut out the wing tip lights and create my own out.
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June 24, 2016
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June 24, 2016
I cut out the wing tip formation lights on both sides. Then used some acrylic rod I had lying around. I cut the rod into disks, then into 1/4s, then drilled a hole for the bulb.
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June 24, 2016
Installed the acrylic with thin liquid super-glue.
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June 24, 2016
After about an hour of sanding and polishing. All that is left is to rescribe the panel lines that I sanded down. then, I have to figure out how to mask these tiny things.
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June 26, 2016
I glued it together with super thin CA glue as I had several joints that I needed to put under some stress. Ithe worked wonderfully, but there are a few minor gaps that need to be fixed. I'll end up having to re-scribe a considerable amount.
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June 26, 2016
Allowing the putty to dry. Theven fuse/wing gap isn't as bad as it looks.
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June 27, 2016
After a weekend of sanding, filing and scribing.
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June 28, 2016
First coat of primer reveals a few spots that still need attention.
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June 29, 2016
I blew up the schematic in the instructions 235% to cut out the wing walkways masks.
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July 3, 2016
Just needs a little bit of touch up, then gloss.
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July 3, 2016
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July 4, 2016
Major topside markings are on, and I am impressed (if not surprised) with how well they snuggled into the details.
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July 5, 2016
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July 5, 2016
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July 5, 2016
Decals done. One exhaust stack installed. The other I dropped inside the fuselage. Ugh. Prop test fitted with blue tack.
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July 6, 2016
While I'm waiting on a replacement set of exhausts, I decided to bust out the V-1 from the 1/48 Tamiya Meteor kit to compliment this build.
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July 6, 2016
Buy a 9$ resin replacement prop and spinner only to find out that the spinner is too big and the prop blades are way to thick, too short and tilt too far forward. Ugh. I will repaint the kit prop/spinner for the third time, and hope to get better results.
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July 8, 2016
Getting so close! Masks are off. The formation lights look great. I should have the replacement exhaust tomorrow. After that, I will do some chipping, install the gear and prop, and be done.
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July 20, 2016
Finished! Just waiting for a block of a few hours where I can get the light box out and take some proper photos.
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Коментари

20 June 2016, 03:33

Bart Goesaert
it's a nice kit but the area between the cockpit and the tail is too short... seems they forgot to add a complete section there. you will only notice the when you are applying the decals, because you will have trouble lining out the left and right side... in this set you can see what I mean: scalemates.com/kits/154617-jaguar-64813-tempest-detail-set

20 June 2016, 07:22

Wim van der Luijt
Nice project, have one in the stash, so count me in!

20 June 2016, 11:54

Derek Jordan
Bart, that's interesting. By "lining out" do you mean the invasion stripes?

20 June 2016, 13:24

Derek Jordan
Wim, join in!

20 June 2016, 13:25

Bart Goesaert
no, the roundels, squadron and aircraft codes at the side of the hull. it didn't fit like it should on the eduard drawing compared to the model. In my album you can see what I mean if you compare these to the eduard instructions:

TEMPEST Mk.V | Album by Silenoz (1:48)

I've given the roundels a slight offset, afterwards I was talking to someone who built the same model, and talked about my problems with the decals. Then he mentioned that the area behind the cockpit was too small and that there was a correction for it... hence why his decals worked out better.

20 June 2016, 13:55

Derek Jordan
I think I might have met my match with this kit. I'm doing a lot of dry fitting and discovered that with the cockpit in place, the wheel wells will not allow the wing to fit on properly. I've spent hours sanding. I've sanded down the cockpit sides and floor until I am about to sand through the resin. I've sanded down the wheel wells until I am about to sand through the plastic pieces. I'm still about a 1/16'' from being able to make it all fit. I don't see where I can remove material anywhere to give me enough room for it all to fit. I'm about to throw it on the shelf of doom with the Class Airframes Goshawk and move on to something else.

23 June 2016, 05:07

Bart Goesaert
nooooooooo.......... I think I thinded the wall on the wings to which the wheelbays are glued (another 0.5mm gained), and I thinned down the sides of the cockpit (plastic part) so that the cockpit can be mounted a little higher. I also chamfered the parts of the wheelbays that face eachother and sanded a little through the cockpitfloor to get a fit. That last one was minimal, but it can't be seen in the end) I read my old report on it and the wings need a lot of thinning to fit, and also to make the flaps and ailerons thinner, for that I sanded the rear parts of the wing thinner. In the end the connection between the wings and the hull we're more problematic 😉

23 June 2016, 07:24

Derek Jordan
Bart, I think I've found a solution. I can probably get a little more room by thinning the wings as you suggested, but I can shift the wheel well inserts outboard slightly and avoid the problem.

23 June 2016, 14:31

Bryce Nicely
So, I didn't see some of these photos earlier, it's looking to me like your dry-fit solution is working? Or do you not have the cockpit in for that photo with the wings attached?

24 June 2016, 03:00

Derek Jordan
B Nice., actually I've sanded everything I can, including blowing through the bottom of the cockpit. I sanded down the tops and bottoms of both wheel well inserts, and the wing itself. I also pushed the wheel well inserts outboard about 1mm (as you can see in the picture). Tonight I finished drilling out the shell ejector ports, installed the landing lights and the little PE ring around them, and did a final test fit before I start gluing the wings together.

24 June 2016, 03:31

Spanjaard
i really like your idea for the formation lights. i have to remember that one. i would suggest to mask with some liquid mask. but of course, first try in one piece of the same transparent acrylic to avoid nasty surprises... and keep it maskes as little time as possible

1 July 2016, 23:03

Derek Jordan
Spanjaard, I have actually already used liquid mask on them. I didn't even think to try it on acrylic. Now I'm worried there will be some unforseen issue. Uhoh.

2 July 2016, 02:15

Spanjaard
hopefully it will be ok.

2 July 2016, 16:56

Wim van der Luijt
Looks like you have won the fight with this kit! It is turning out really nice!

4 July 2016, 06:21

Bart Goesaert
looks very good.

4 July 2016, 07:35

Derek Jordan
Thanks Bart and Wim! It's coming along pretty well. After wrestling the decals in the last two kits (Mossie and Aerocobra), these Cartograf decals are amazing.

4 July 2016, 15:28

Wim van der Luijt
What a shame about the replacement prop....which one did you get, if I may ask?

8 July 2016, 06:04

Spanjaard
looking really nice

8 July 2016, 17:37

Derek Jordan
Wim, that prop is KMC. Highly not recommended.

8 July 2016, 21:53

Derek Jordan
Spanjaard, thanks! I'm very very close to calling this one done.

8 July 2016, 21:53

Derek Jordan
Except, the resin exhausts I got today don't match the other. Ugh, I have to order the correct one.

9 July 2016, 00:57