Potez-540 Spanish Civil War

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
And here we go again! This one was in my stash for decades, so time to build it!

Dave Flitton
Are you going to detail this in the interior at all?

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Hi Dave!

This one will be and oob build according to the competition rules.

Łukasz Gliński
I have one as well (reboxed by Smer) - following
(I have also spare Republican decals - in case you need some) 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Well Lukasz, that`s good news! Those decals would be nice!

Rob van Dodewaard
This one brings back sweet memories it as one of the first kits I build as a wee lad of 15 years old (long time ago)

Łukasz Gliński
@Christian - OK, will send you the pic of the decals in the evening

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
That`s nice! 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
@ Rob: I will try my best to bring this old chunk to life. So let`s see what will happen...

Bart Goesaert
good luck with this one...

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
THX Bart!

Rob van Dodewaard
looking forward to it

Wim van der Luijt
Count me in....it's a fascinating plane to look at

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Thank You for watching.
@ Wim: One of the ugliest planes I ever saw, but worth a build anyway 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
First steps... The fuselage consists of four parts. Be prepared to fill some ejector marks on the inside. This Bird has many big windows, so they might be seen later.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Here is a link for all of You Potez Maniacs 🙂

forum.aviation-ancie..856-potez-54-derives

The is a nice video as well. Potez 540 in action.

Łukasz Gliński
Sykorsky HH-3E by Belfix | Album by Woody
(the last pic)

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Today's progress: Sanded down all the filler from the ejector marks and painted the interiour. Flat black Humbrol 33 as a primer followed by Humbrol 140 light green. Last layer was H-140 lightend up with flat white in an about 50:50 percent mixture which was thinned a lot.

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

John Bollig
I have that kit and it is really old fuselage comes in four pieces

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Well John, It`s more building a boat than a plane.

Martien Lourens
I loved thse old kits. It goes well again.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Thank You Martien! It`s not bad for a 50 years old kit. Simpel but nice.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Small progress here...Fuselage almost finished.

Thomas Bischoff
I would not dare touch these old kits but it is a delight to see someone building them!
Very good job!

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Well Thomas, thanks a lot. These old kits are a piece of history in model making and always worth a build even today. Without those kits modelling would never came up to modern standarts. My Potez is a contribution for an online contest, which covers these subjects as well.
Just grab one of those old kits and get addicted 🙂 It`s a lot of fun.

Thomas Bischoff
To be honest: I have also three kits from the dawn of the plastic age. But only one of them is scheduled to be built one day

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Show it, show it, show it ... 🙂 What brands, what kits?

Thomas Bischoff
look at my 1:72 stash - the one to be built is the Williams Brother Curtiss Commando. Ever heard of an airline called Aeropa? Never took off - but they had two Commandos registered in Switzerland.

Stefan Fraundorfer
Hallo Christian! Das ist ja eine spannende Geschichte. Ich bleibe dran und bin schon sehr auf das Endergebnis gespannt. Kannst du feststellen, aus welchem Jahr der Bausatz genau stammt? Viel Glück für den Wettbewerb!

John Bollig
Cool plane, just found mine in the stash.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Many thanks mates!
@Stefan: Weder auf den Teilen, noch in der Bauanleitung fand sich ein Hinweis auf das Alter des Bausatzes. Das Boxart auf dem Karton wird mit 1966 angegeben. Sorry, aber mehr habe ich leider nicht.

@John: Will we see it here on SCM ?

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Small progress: Filled and sanded the fuselage and completed one of the engines. I opened all air intakes and drilled out the exhaust pipes.

Łukasz Gliński
Nice glass for such an old kit - did you tweak it somehow?
P.S. I hope the decals will arrive undamaged 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Many thanks Lukasz! I don`t know what You mean when You ask about "tweaking" the clear parts. These parts from the orginal Heller Kit are very thin and clear. As with all my clear parts I gave them a shot of Future Floor Wax and fixed them with Humbrol Clear Cote. This always works fine! 🙂

MICHAEL WOODHOUSE
The engine looking good - these I found involved the most work trying to eliminate seams and opening up intakes and vents. I did not fix the engine support rail as you have as it was not always evident on every photo I saw and not sure what it does anyway!!

Soeren R.
Great work so far!
I really love this kind of unusual planes! 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Thank You both!
@Michael: I didn`t think too much about these rails. They were there so I fixed them... 🙂

Holger Kranich
Christian, kann dat sein das Du Dich manchmal einfach nur gerne quälst?😢😄

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Moin Holger! Nö, ist alles reelle Handarbeit! Ich bin der Meister Eilich und was nicht passt das feil ich 🙂 Ist wohl auch das einzig verfügbare Modell dieses Typs.

Holger Kranich
LOL
Also ich hab noch keinen andere Bausatz als den hier gesehen😢

Łukasz Gliński
Hi Christian! This is exactly what I meant😉

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Well Lukasz, it`s always good to talk to each other😢 Best regards Mate!

Łukasz Gliński
Sure thing! Waiting for more pics in here 🙂

Bernhard Schrock
Hut ab für den MUT eines der "anMUTigsten" Bomber der 30ger Jahre zu bauen🙂 So hässlich, dass es wieder irgendwie schön ist.

Mike Kryza
It's always a pleasure for my looking over your shoulder.

Martien Lourens
Nice progress

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Well Mates, I always try to do my best... Thank You !!!!!
@ Bernhard: Big, Bad and Ugly 🙂 But I like these airplanes from the 30th a lot.
@Mike: Dat ward op W-ooge heel best. 🙂

Mike Grant
Looking great so far Christian 👍 Can you recommend any good reference material for this aircraft? I'd like to build one myself.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Some progress... Masked the clear parts with Tamiya tape and attached the wings. Masking this one took me about six hours because of the strange layout of the canopy. But now it's done 🙂
@ Mike: Sorry for delay! All my sources came from google. This is the first french plane I've ever build so far. It's not the easiest one because of the multi piece fuselage but very nice detailed for a fifty year old kit. The fit is not perfect but not that bad.
Best regards!

Martien Lourens
Six hours....wow. But it is going well. Nice interior. Self made belts, Christian ?

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
THX Mart! Everything out of the box, seat belts are Tamiya tape.

Soeren R.
Great work so for, even more if you count in the fact how old this one is 🙂

Jan Voorbij
Ah, the flying refrigerator! Great.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Thank You both! I choose this one for an online competition in the category vintage kits.

Łukasz Gliński
I'm just wondering - how are you going to paint it? Are you going to attach the engines after painting the rest, or the other way around?

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Hi Lukasz! I plan to do it like this:

1. Put the engines to the fuselage but only temporary.
2. Glue the wing struts to the wings but not to the engines. Allign everything and let it dry.
3. Remove the engines, but not the wing struts
4. Paint the whole airframe with several layers of Humbrol paint, put on the decals, weather it and seal it with clear cote.
5. Prime the engines with gloss black and finish them with Alclad 2. Seal everything with Alclad Aqua Gloss and let dry. Minor weathering on the engines with thinned oil paints
6. Clipping the finished engines between the wing struts and the fuselage and secure them with a drop of glue.
7. Doing the rigging with EZ Line.

Than this one should be finished. So let`s see how it gonna work 🙂

MICHAEL WOODHOUSE
I like it so far and with all that masking should be very nice, as I said before I coundn't face doing all that work on mine - I applied several coats of primer to wings and tailplane to obscure the heavy fabric detail and sounds as if you will be doing the same kind of thing.

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Thank You Michael!

Mathias Carl
Very nice work so far.
And an interessting subject too. 👍
Maybe you can bring it with you to Uplengen?
As "work-in-progress"? 🙂

Christian Keller
Cool, ich habe diesen Kit an einer Tombola in Friedrichshafen ersteigert und jetzt sehe ich das ich nicht alleine bin damit 😉... Ich schaue auf jeden Fall gerne weiter beim Fortschritt zu 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Danke schön!
@ Mathias: Ich hoffe das ich das Teil bis zum Stammtisch fertig habe.
@ Christian: Da hast Du aber Schwein gehabt... In der original Form sind sie doch selten und auch teuer 🙂

Stephan Ryll
I'll take a seat - looks nice 👍

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Thx Stephan!

Christian Meyerhoff Autor
Small progress .... Started masking the turrets. A lot of tiny work. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
This is the part I hate the most (ex aequo with the wash)😉