Payen Pa.350

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December 3, 2020
Resin parts from Unicraft have terrible quality.
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December 3, 2020
I'm using MRP's Mr.Filler and Milliput as a putty. Milliput can be "thinned" with isopropanol.
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December 3, 2020
The parts doesn't even match the reference. Needs lots of modifications. Still maybe easier than scratchbuilding...
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December 22, 2020
So much work with applying putty and sanding. I also prepared new front wing from styrene sheets to replace the wrong one. This won't progress for two weeks while I'm on holiday.
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January 5, 2021
Still much to fix, but propably it gets easier when the fuselage is put together. I used "gorilla glue" aka polyurethane adhesive.
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January 5, 2021
I added again a lot of Milliput to fill the gaps. Also sanded the model of the new front wing.
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January 6, 2021
Most of extra milliput sanded off.
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January 6, 2021
Airbrushed Mr.Surfacer and noticed, that it is still far from smooth. Also noticed from the picture that the engine is slightly tilted. Maybe it is just exaggerated from this point of view so I'm not going to fix it.
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March 2, 2021
The original Unicraft resin was too brittle and hard so I recasted the fuselage and the wings. I'm being lazy and assuming symmetric wings so I don't need to make left and right wings separately.
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March 2, 2021
I made a jig from foam board and blu tack. Then I secured wings' position with thin CA glue.
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March 2, 2021
More Milliput!
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March 2, 2021
Let it dry and then there will be more sanding... Atleast I get more motivation when it starts to look like a plane.
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March 22, 2021
I'm basically making new prop from scratch. Let's see how the carving foam holds.
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March 22, 2021
I'm turning it with just a normal screw driver
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March 22, 2021
The carving foam is pretty fragile and porous. Maybe not the best option here.
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March 22, 2021
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March 22, 2021
Rudders are in place.
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March 22, 2021
My resin might be too old or I mixed it too harsh as my fuselage has a lot of pinholes due the bubbles. They are almost impossible to fill...
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March 28, 2021
More details on the engine. The cooling air exit is made of a metal sheet from a spare photo etched part. Exhaust pipes will be put to the holes after some painting. The pinholes are nasty and I'm currently trying to fill them with water diluted plastic putty with a needle.
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March 28, 2021
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March 28, 2021
Finally making the cockpit. The instrument panel might be the only original part from the kit.
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April 3, 2021
I tried to put on the original canopy part that had very unclear frame lines. That resulted about 1mm width frames that I cut from aluminium foil tape. I thought that the frames could hide the ugly boundary and glue. But the aluminium is too thin and is ugly... I had to remake it.
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April 3, 2021
I had some very thin brass plate that isn't foil.
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April 3, 2021
New clear canopy from some random clear plastic I found.
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April 3, 2021
It is in place and is much smoother, but the brass canopy frame might be too wide...
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April 5, 2021
Here the front of the engine is matched with propeller spinner. The gap is filled with plastic putty and Surfacer 1000. The spinner is "glued" with liquid mask.
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April 5, 2021
Engine matches now well and I got propeller parts casted. It would be too difficult to make the propeller rotary so it will be just static.
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April 11, 2021
Black gloss primer 'cause I thought it would work...
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April 11, 2021
Some pre-shading
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April 11, 2021
Black primer was a mistake bacause the blue paint I used didn't covered it well. I had to paint so much layers that the pre-shading disappeared.
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April 14, 2021
Had to make some progress so I added the landing gear. Wheel might be from Sukhoi T-50 and other is from scratch.
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April 14, 2021
Dry fitting propeller for motivation.
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April 20, 2021
I made exhaust pipes from injection needles. I drilled the holes too deep and cut the pipes too short, so of course one of the pipes sinked too deep. I had to cut a very short piece to glue on the surface.
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April 20, 2021
First varnish layer and decals from Payen 22 kit. The big white number 3s is from my old leftover box. Number 2 is more common in other Pa.350 models for some reason, but I didn't have that number in hand. It also should be white, so I could not print it myself.
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Kommentit

23 3 December 2020, 21:32

Don Edgecomb
Awesome model. I've got this model via the cottage industry. It looks like you've rebuilt this from an embryonic resin blob. Excellent work. I think mine is from Unicraft or Antares Models.
Cheers,
Don

3 March 2021, 05:01

gorby
Fantastic effort so far!

22 March 2021, 15:57

Alex K
That's a LOT of work! Respects for persevering! 👍

28 March 2021, 21:32

Ben M
"embryonic resin blob"... how can they even call this a kit!

28 March 2021, 21:33

S M
Well you said it, Ben M. It's almost like scratch building with some already available parts... XD

29 March 2021, 18:59

S M
I found another blog that has completed this kit: maquette72.free.fr/a..acers/index_ao43.php

3 April 2021, 21:47

Spanjaard
lots of work! respect, indeed.

3 April 2021, 22:42

Alex K
And here's another (scratchbuilt) Pa.350 afleetingpeace.org/w..es/p/payen-pa-350-cd - in this case, scratch building instead of using the resin kit seems the... lazy option! Once again congrats for what you have accomplished so far!

4 April 2021, 13:56

S M
@AlexK Thanks for the link. That is one of the coolest scratch builts I have ever seen. Shame I cannot achieve same quality with this kit. I hope the finish line is close.

4 April 2021, 21:07

Pierre Pierre
impressive the way you had to go through to redo almost everything ! It is worth it look very nice and definitivelly original ! congrat and following.
Is all UNICRAFT kit are this quality ?

11 April 2021, 13:43

S M
Thanks, Pierre! I would say almost all older Unicraft-models are like this or a bit better... I have two other kit and two more coming. Bird of Prey (Boeing Bird of Prey (Unicraft Models , 1:72)) is a little better (or atleast I would not recast), but needs better landing gear. Martin 262 B (Martin 262 B (Unicraft Models , 1:72)) is newer production and has smoother quality, but would need some scratch building.

11 April 2021, 20:45

Robert Podkoński
Once upon a time I have completed Unicraft's Payen Racer and Boeing Bird of Prey, too - I have just uploaded two albums with WIP and finished models' photos - take a look, if you wish, how much automotive two-component putty I used... Presumably, I had less patience (and modelling skills...) than you...

12 April 2021, 13:40

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Really nice job! 👍
This kit looks like a real piece of work 👀

12 April 2021, 18:10

S M
@Robert Thanks for sharing your models. I think you scored very well with Bird of Prey and Payen. You sanded them well and made better panel lines.

12 April 2021, 18:25

Robert Podkoński
You are too kind to me S M... Thank you🙂

12 April 2021, 19:15

S M
Had to make some progress so I added the landing gear. Wheel might be from Sukhoi T-50 (from my million-box)) and other is from scratch.

14 April 2021, 20:19

Pierre Pierre
whe we see the pieces at the begining and how it came out now it is really impressive ! great job !

14 April 2021, 20:35

S M
Today it really progressed fast. After I wrestled with the exhaust pipes I painted the details. Then I thought it is ready for varnish and decals so I did that too.

20 April 2021, 20:26

S M
I decided to not use oil paints for weathering, that would have took few days to dry and there was not much details to weather. So I applied the the last satin varnish layer and glued the propeller in place. Also removed the mask from canopy so it is now ready! For comparison I glued old original parts together to see, what it could have been.

22 April 2021, 08:31

Robert Podkoński
Looks very good. Good work. Congrats!

22 April 2021, 09:40

S M
Thank you! This was quite an achievement

22 April 2021, 10:59

Robin (WhiteGlint)
A really interesting looking design. But I wonder how the pilot is supposed to see anything from that cockpit.
Your work really paid off, it looks great!

22 April 2021, 11:08

Robert Podkoński
Maybe some kind of periscope was envisaged - like in Lindberg "Spirit of St.Louis"...

22 April 2021, 11:52

S M
Or the designer was influenced by Caudron C.461...

22 April 2021, 11:58

Robert Podkoński
Most probably, yet in Caudrons (461 and 561) there were at least side windows.

22 April 2021, 15:37

Alex K
That was a real tour de force... Thank you for sharing your efforts - and congratulations! 👍 👍

23 April 2021, 00:48

S M
Thanks, Akex! 🙂

23 April 2021, 16:12

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Probably it would have been possible to just look over the airframe and engine cowling.
I know it was designed for racing so as less drag as possible but such (possibly) bad visibility seems really dangerous.

@Robert: Using a periscope for front visibility sounds nuts. 😄

23 April 2021, 17:53

Robert Podkoński
Or there was a positionable pilot's seat envisaged - like in Bisnovat SK-1 Soviet(!) racing plane...

23 April 2021, 18:12

Robin (WhiteGlint)
That sounds possible. There are two glass segments on the Payen's cockpit, similar to the SK-1.
Maybe one was supposed to move up with the seat.

Sadly, I can't find much information on the Pa.350 online.

23 April 2021, 18:37

S M
I couldn't find either much about Pa.350. Only some designs like Pa-22, Pa.101 and Pa.112 were built. There is no consensus about the motor either (4- or 6-cylinder or two engines in line). It doesn't have any radio either so guiding via radio wouldn't have been possible. I would lean to SK-1-style seat and cockpit.

23 April 2021, 20:51

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