"Daisy cutter" - Work in progress
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platform
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Struts
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My loong folding tool was not looong enough 🙁
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enough small parts to create 5 support profiles.
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... which are are created from 8 parts.
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Some brass profiles helped during folding process.
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PE number 4
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only number 5 is a little bit smaller.
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Sometimes complicated folding, 8 small parts needed additionally.
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Holding structure near to completion.
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cast should be opened here - 16 times!
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to act as lashing eye.
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3 huge sprue gates needs to be cutted, on the back a PE part hides it. GPS sensor is a additional part.
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Big thing!
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The PE looks very real!
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Very filligree castings for the tailplanes.
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White Alclad primer, and yellow top.
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Used Gunze H6 + H26
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Position of slot ok.
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Bug in kit - to far forward, opened further with PE saw.
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rest of HGW fabric is great here!
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16 holes and 0,4mm brass brackets added.
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Opened the upper spars on the lowerr side.
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Soldered a big PE after rolling (color comes from etching because it is thinner).
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Glued 4 bolts.
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Used Alclad white alu for paint job.
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8 resin parts with thick sprue
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Small parts
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A lot of brass, view from below.
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Resin parts are 1 pin too long.
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Prepared platfrom.
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Small brass parts mounted after the frame.
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After painting frame mounted.
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After problems with masks the yellow removed and freshly painted.
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igniter painted.
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Fins prepared.
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Mounting place too.
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Decals done. Very nice opaque white!
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Self made fasteners.
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Bolts are soldered.
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Added the belts to underside.
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Rigging finished!!! Horrible work! 😉
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Dio finished, "only" the figure is missing.
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Brass for scratch work
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soldered.
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Taken picture from walkaround, after graphical work printed to decal. Bare metal foil on the surface and black painted.
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Size seems to be acceptable.
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A fresh detail added 🙂
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A evergreen base and a flat filed clear sprue.
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Masking
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Ready for mounting
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Figure ws painted
Komentáře
2 1 May 2018, 17:20
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one of this days i have to try soldering PE... but not in a million years i will get close to what you do 🙂
1 May 2018, 17:53
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Thx mates! Here soldering is ideal to speed up the build. Parts fixed immediately and connections can be corrected. I'm not sure, which green matches the prime portal pictures: Gunze H16 ?
1 May 2018, 20:49
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Hi Bughunter, no "How to" by you for soldering Etched Parts -No colour advice 🙂
1 May 2018, 20:57
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Daniel, nice try 😉 You will need tin solder, a flux agent and heat with a soldering iron (copper tip prefered). Thx Urban, "as always" 🤔 I will try my best!
2 May 2018, 18:33
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Everytime I see one of bughunter's builds I have to go lie down and reevaluate my life...
3 May 2018, 01:01
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@Greg: I have my exhibition table right next to bughunter at the Modell Exhibition in Siegen.
Bitter sweet experience everty time... I can tell you 🙂
3 May 2018, 07:21
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Wow, after such amount of great feedback and interest (Thanks mates!) I added descriptions to the pictures. Lets see, if I can take additional detail shots.
3 May 2018, 18:44
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Thanks Daniel, I mixed H26 with H6 50:50. H26 alone was too bright in my eyes 🙂
10 May 2018, 21:03
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that base is starting to look really interesting. excellent job on those letters!
2 June 2018, 18:52
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Thx, the intention was to replicate the original display. Klick on the GBU kit and you will find a walkaround on primeportal.net.
3 June 2018, 10:47
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Great base Frank. I squandered an opportunity to visit the AF ordnance museum this Spring while visiting Florida. It was either it or the Naval museum in Pensacola, and I went with that (I was with my spouse, so did not want to push my luck 😄).
3 June 2018, 11:38
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intention fullfilled indeed.... you only miss the light on top of the "F" 😉
4 June 2018, 06:49
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Looks good, did you drill holes for the 0.4mm brackets? or did you glue these in place?
4 June 2018, 08:24
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Spanjaard, are you sure about the light? I thought it is a nesting aid for birds 🙂
Bart, I drilled 16 holes and put the brackets in, so it is much more robust. But such task is much easier prior mounting 😉
4 June 2018, 18:51
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ha ha ha, of course anything is possible.... the question is.... will you reproduce it? 😄 😄 😄 LOL
4 June 2018, 20:29
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Uploaded pictures of the finished platform, some details are also prepared.
8 June 2018, 21:08
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Added new pictures of the rigging, the dio is nearly finished. Only the figure is missing.
10 June 2018, 18:05
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those fasteners really look horrible 😛 i will take note of that, maybe i can duplicate them when i need something similar.... excellent!
what did you use for the belt?
10 June 2018, 18:10
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See picture 45 - this is the remaining fabric of HGW seat belts. I can't drop such material to the bin 🙂
10 June 2018, 20:09
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Great Result so far Frank! An great idea with the facility manager taking care about the grass 🙂
13 June 2018, 15:00
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and that puts it certainly into perspective... one bigass motherf***er of a bomb... nice sculpt to of the figure
13 June 2018, 20:40
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and i thought it was my idea 😛 probably i read about it and forgot about it 😄 😄
13 June 2018, 22:34
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Look at this photo and you'll see that the base plate for the information plaque is overscale. I hope that you haven't glued it in place yet.
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14 June 2018, 14:04
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Urban, thanks for the hint! The presentation in this museum changed multiple times. I have pictures of three different plaques.
This matches more mine, for more pictures see the walkaround in SM linked in the kit page.
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It is may be still overscale, but not much.
14 June 2018, 14:47
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Added some pictures of a special feature for Spanjaard and my friends from modellboard.net. Finished, will add a new album soon soon.
21 June 2018, 22:30
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I added a new album, so don't miss the chance to see the finished diorama: "Daisy cutter" - GBU-43/B in Air Force Armament Museum Eglin | Album by bughunter (1:48)
22 June 2018, 06:24
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you even added a few pieces of grass around. that is attention to detail 🙂
22 June 2018, 06:51
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Great attention to detail! 👍 I really like the lawnmower man, and the grass cut lying on the concrete base. 🙂
22 June 2018, 07:30
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Thx mates! Due to a posting of a friend there was an idea, I added some flowers and the title is now "Daisy cutter"! The double meaning tells the story 🙂 Thanks for visiting and commenting!
23 June 2018, 11:42
Album info
The PE of the kit was soldered. The Eduard brassin kit put into my first mini diorama with additional details and my first painted figure.