Martin SP-5B Marlin - completed Bekijk: Diavoorstelling Mozaïek Lijst 1 2 June 2, 2017
The first step: separating the ailerons.
3 June 3, 2017
Color chips from official Monogram US Navy and MC Aircraft Color Guide, Part 3
4 June 4, 2017
Marked with sharp scalpel the postion of the cut outs (for glueing of hinges).
5 June 4, 2017
In 2 of 4 cases I had glue the hinge a second time in the correct position (try, error and correct). Now the fit is ok.
6 7 June 4, 2017
Kit part compared with the original stabilizer fro picture 6. Trimm tab position is wrong.
8 June 4, 2017
Horizontal tail completed.
9 June 4, 2017
The kit part contains right the trimtab actuator on the lower side. The original picture shows clearly NO actuator (picture 6). Because of that I replaced them on upper side.
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 June 10, 2017
Unfortunately the blades are too thin. One prop completed (total: 54 parts). For comparison original kit part.
23 June 10, 2017
On the right: modified prophub from C-119. 21 parts "later".
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 June 17, 2017
Dry fit of the left float: OK.
37 June 17, 2017
Left float ready for sea blue.
38 June 18, 2017
Ready for black (cufs and deicing boots). The entire blades are in fact dark grey.
39 June 20, 2017
Beaching gear completed.
40 41 42 June 20, 2017
Props minus (Hamstan?) - logos completed.
43 June 21, 2017
Completed engine with only three cylinders to test if the 3350 fits into the nacelle.
44 June 21, 2017
Inner section completed minus taxi light.
45 June 21, 2017
Oval housings for the door-hinges made from CE's position lights.
46 June 21, 2017
Panel lines and recessed rivets added. Any raised rivets restored.
47 June 21, 2017
Maintenance panels on the floats has black outline (masked with Tamiya-tape stripes) Ready for sea blue.
48 June 24, 2017
R-3350 has an unique ignition wire layout.
49 June 24, 2017
15 kit-parts + any additional parts = 3350 ready for paint.
50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 July 1, 2017
Cowling completed. Reinforcement panels for pushrods reworked: made of 0,13 mm plastic.
60 July 1, 2017
HVAR's pylons and his base reworked (left wing).
61 62 63 July 3, 2017
Kit offers not correct layout of the intakes (the divider vanes should sit deeper, side walls and rear wall are missing. Left side: corrected.
64 65 66 67 68 69 July 9, 2017
The tips of the hinges has bulges (housing for the pivot points).
70 July 9, 2017
Round rod 2 mm, slightly flattened for egg-shaped discs. Despite his strength it is possible to bend the tip of the scalpel.
71 72 July 11, 2017
Kit lacks the retractable round taxi lights on lower side of both wings.
73 July 11, 2017
Good visible are the navigation lights on the tips. Only the forward half of each light is transparent (red and green). You want to know why I painted this as well? It is very difficult to mask the front half of such a tiny drop. So scratching off paint i
74 75 76 July 11, 2017
Colors of the RP 16
77 July 15, 2017
Engine gray and FO in place. Ready for next step.
78 July 15, 2017
Masked for deicng boots (very dark grey).
79 July 15, 2017
Outer section ready for decals. The engine grey colored squere is the place for RP16 letters (as counterpart for "NAVY" on the other lower .side
80 July 15, 2017
After intensive reserch I decided to paint the interior of the inlets light grey.
81 July 16, 2017
Masking for walkway stripes.
82 July 16, 2017
To avoid too large contrast I used not white but light grey. Weathering coming soon.
83 84 85 86 87 88 July 30, 2017
Detailing and correcting if fuselage completed. 3 windows in area with curved cross section of fuselage glued, sanded smooth and polished yet. All other will be glued after painting. Ready for white and engine grey.
89 90 August 1, 2017
Right side: windows in place. Hold for gluing with CA in the correct position with a stripe of Tamiya tape. After drying of CA remaining gaps filled with Future (from inside and outside).
91 August 1, 2017
Despite of too small diameter / size (especially the large rectangular one) of the windows no gaps remains (Future).
92 August 1, 2017
Surface is already cleaned of dust particles in the paint. Filtering & strikes with grey coming soon.
93 August 4, 2017
Fuel control panel (rectangular with 7 bezels). Bases of control columns are made of ureol.
94 August 4, 2017
The only surviving Marlin in the aviation museum in Pensacola.
95 96 August 4, 2017
The most important task is to determine of size and location of the cockpit parts.
97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 August 26, 2017
Left and right side waist observer seats.
121 122 August 26, 2017
New reserch results: all cushions were orange. Pilots and copilots seats has shoulder harness (courtesy Mr. Bigley)
123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 September 10, 2017
Anchor point and fuel dump pipe. The hydro flaps are well visible too.
131 September 10, 2017
Stowage points for the anchor rope.
132 September 10, 2017
Reinforcement panels/sheets and "moveable" anchor attachment point.
133 134 September 13, 2017
Sheet cover made of adhesive aluminum foil.
135 September 13, 2017
A lot of plastic and CA for filling the step.
136 September 14, 2017
Clear parts in place. The lower one has 4 small windows on the lower side. The small plastic part is the housing for the formation lights.
137 138 139 140 September 16, 2017
Modern US letters as pattern for drawing the symbols
141 September 16, 2017
Close up as pattern for determining size.
142 September 16, 2017
Pattern for cutting masks.
143 September 17, 2017
Ready for engine grey. The masks for 7931 are made of clear matte foil and nearly invisible.
144 September 17, 2017
MAD detector rings (0,13 mm plastic) and reworked attachment points on the boom.
145 146 September 18, 2017
Deicing "boot" in place.
147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 September 23, 2017
Operation "Antifoging" successful completed. 🙂🙂🙂🙂
156 September 23, 2017
Ready for light grey & white.
157 September 24, 2017
Masks removed intermediate after auirbrushing. Cleening coming soon after drying white.
158 September 24, 2017
The auxiliary hole is no more visible.
159 160 September 26, 2017
Last lap orange finished. Unfortunately I noticed first AFTER (Murphys law) airbrushing white the "step" between the separate nose - piece and fuselage... One more round of sanding and airbrushing white.
161 162 163 164 165 166 October 6, 2017
Anchor rope and prop warning stripe and place.
167 October 6, 2017
Weathering via mid-grey strokes and filters completed.
168 October 6, 2017
Unfortunately the flaps are too short and too thin...Kit offer a wrong location of flap-hinges.
169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 October 16, 2017
Ring antennas are part of the MAD and were scratched from 0,13 mm plastic via self made circle cutter.
187 188 189 October 16, 2017
Mirror made from bare metal foil.
190 191 192 193 October 16, 2017
Wright R-3350 Duplex Cyclone turbo compound (3750 PS).
194 195 196 197 198 199 October 17, 2017
Floatable beaching gear.
200 201 October 17, 2017
At least added pitot probe on the right side.
202 October 17, 2017
At least added pitot probe on the left side.
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Album info Our world ist really very small. During my research I discovered the website of Mr. Tom Bigley. He flew the Martin Marlin especially one of the RP 's of the VP-31 too. He was so kind to share with me a lot of very interesting information about the Martin Marlin.
The specific Marlin I am modeling belonged to VP-31 which was a training squadron based at NAS North Island, near San Diego, CA. It was designated as a "Replacement Air Group", referred to as "the RAG", and there was a sister squadron (VP-30) based on the east coast. ALL pilots and aircrew went through "final polish" training in the RAG, enroute to their operational Patrol Squadron. The students were a mix of brand new pilots and aircrew coming directly from the training com, second and third tour pilots and aircrew coming from other assignments and even officers headed to a squadron as the new XO/CO. (Information courtesy of Mr. Tom Bigley)
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