WIP - Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin
White primer, alu, linen
Base wood color.
wood color and clear orange
first PE, for internal rigging!
rigging
tank nozzles, one painted blue grey.
upper tank
straps
tank prepared,
Fuel tanks mounted
Upper nozzle
Side main nozzle
PE from kit
HGW set
Seat belts are done.
Colored
Prepared for mounting.
Glued to one side.
CSM resin, compared to a Eduard engine.
Small parts painted with brush.
Mostly Alclad paints used.
Fitting test
Will be hidden.
On the front it is visible.
Best parts of the premium are real metal exhausts. No paint needed.
Engine of the non premium edition - cylinders glued into cowling.
Vickers comparison: Part PE, Gaspatch, kit part the lowest
The closed front is not nice.
The bigger size is correct but will be a task to make it fit.
Axle is bended outside, and the diameter in the wheels is bigger 🙁
Some problems: 1. prepared for metal half axle, 2. to wide - to shorthen teh middle part removes details, still to wide on the picture, 3. struts are now to long due to new angle
So I made a new brass construction, mainly squezzed pipe for struts. The lowest part is a tube!
Inside pins to hold the middle part.
New wooden part ...
Covered with thin brass and soldered on the back side. Opened the cut outs only on upper side!
Plugged together - I like the outcome!
Compared to the original - the suspention will be made from streteched sprue.
Tinned.
Primed with Mr.Metal Primer and MrPaint PC10 late.
Half axles, with added limit stops.
Mounted axles.
Straight position.
deflected.
Added suspension in deflected position.
Matches nearly the drawing.
Plugged to the fuselage
moved stitching up (with Eduard PE)
The struts needs to go out one rib more
The "wing windows" are provided as PE, but closed.
So I created some space for it in the thin wings.
Some small brass and copper work.
Some tap on the right side, and vertically the pump.
Fuel switch between both tanks on the left.
Recesses painted with linen, wood on spar and grey on sides.
Punched 1.4mm pulleys and painted alu.
Pulleys mounted, the holder are streteched sprue.
With window and PE frame it will look like this.
Seems to be in scale - looks better then closed PE in pic 50.
No dials in kit, so I added spare decals and PE
Nice PE on lower surface
Air guide plates for radiator nearly functioning
Great mix os PE and plastic
Masked, all hole closed.
Primed
lower surface of tail plane in shaded and linen
Tried different blue paints, decided for Gunze H5 (+ Tamiya X-21)
PC10 paint is MRP, tail plane needs more layers.
Blue parts are painted
Masking with only little accidents
Radiator made of plastic and PE, out of the box.
The gunsight is grey (on top) from kit, below my clear sprue one
Painted black, google for "Aldis sight".
You see my roof window 🙂
This was damn complicate to integrate the Gaspatch Vickers!
The halves bends together, so creates pressure with 0.6mm nickel silver.
Control stick and other details added.
Engine and cowling, later some small PEs are added
There's not much room in the cockpit.
Aileron with brass pins
To allow later a clean mount without glue mess
Tried a new method: metal hinges
Windows mounted
Metal frames on top
Masking tapes by plotter
MRP linen
MRP PC10
Daco Strong works wonder!
Wood + some U plus soldered parts
Ok in comparison
After mounting some black paint added
Constantinesco sync gear, see scratched parts on the left
Rotateable shaft, left is a sleeve and lit stop (soldered)
All parts mounted and painted, look nice....
... but BIG FAIL !!! The bonnet does not fit on it!
Made a new one, V2.0 is much more backward.
The look is ok.
The bonnet fits and was fixed.
The openings shows the pipes and the gear
Wheels were already painted with PC10, removed and painted blue
I love the blue and PC10 combination
The rudder assemebly is painted too
Radiator are mounted, added 0.4/0.2mm brass wiring (steam overflow?)
The lower wings (very sturdy!) and landing gear are in place.
The metal exhausts of the Premium edition are fantastic, love them! Very thin opening.
That is the actual state.
Cut boxwood stripes and sanded struts.
A macro of the unpainted struts, brass is 0.4mm.
The bright boxwood in comparison to the real struts for the Dolphin in Hendon
Struts primed and painted. Plugged in for dry fit.
PE parts from kit glued to the wing.
Now there is a nice solution for RAF wire rigging on British biplanes!
Those little beats have a hole! EZ line fits as recommended.
Or a 0.1mm wire.
Some terminals on a 0.1mm wire for metal paint.
Please note the small size!
Please note the small size!
Some prepared for rigging.
To have the kit PE already mounted was a very BAD idea, lost some paint because I had to remove the ears of the PE.
This is one of the better connection, not all are that nice.
Landing gear is also rigged, as seen on pictures.
Here the model alone again.
Ailerons mounted and control wires added.
Here I'm in the process to add control wires to tail plane.
All the wires together.
Still a lot to do, for example rigging of the tail.
Or a lot of small details, like this multiple part kit PE for the pitot.
That is the actual state, all parts are finally mounted.
Another 14 connections around the tail and for securing the control horns from the back.
Inside the cockpit 6 lines was to be added. That is tight and hard to see, but this is only possible after mounting the upper wing.
A nice example of the great kit PE, that is a cowling locking part ...
... mounted here in front of the exhaust. This pictures shows also the last two rigging lines from cowling to upper wing. Used Gaspatch One End turnbuckles since this are no RAF wires.
The lockers on the windscreen sides are the smallest PE parts of the kit. The shape looks exactly as on pictures of the original biplane, unbelievable! See both below the "C", only the manual is wrong, because each one has a different form and an individual number.
The windscreen was mounted together with the prepared Aldis sight, and this little PE glued in place.
Another topic on the ToDo list was the airscrew.
The kit contains two variants. The upper one looks exactly like as on the prototype, could only be a bit longer. The one below is more a later one, according to my reference book. So I made a wooden one of the first production batch, which this serial belongs to (the C3799 is not a kit offering). Here the raw sanding on front.
The kit contains two variants. The upper one looks exactly like as on the prototype, could only be a bit longer. The one below is more a later one, according to my reference book. So I made a wooden one of the first production batch, which this serial belongs to (the C3799 is not a kit offering). Here the raw sanding on front.
And the view from back.
The prop boss is a kit PE, but I added a middle locking, turned on lathe from brass. First wood varnish.
The final airscrew, the locking is glued and the boss is "bolted" with 0.2mm nickel silver.
Plugged to the Dolphin. Originally I wanted to paint the blades gray, but the airscrew is to nice to hide it!
The Datafile shows beautiful pictures of C3786 with a wooden airscrew. The C3803 as option of the WNW kit has a wooden airscrew. This C3799 is just between them, so I guess this painting practice was done later and not yet on the first Sopwith batch.
It is not glued yet, so any veto against my theory?
The Datafile shows beautiful pictures of C3786 with a wooden airscrew. The C3803 as option of the WNW kit has a wooden airscrew. This C3799 is just between them, so I guess this painting practice was done later and not yet on the first Sopwith batch.
It is not glued yet, so any veto against my theory?
I ordered also this Lewis from Gaspatch. I had some, but not this variant. Painted with Alclads and scratch build a mount. I guess this (white) plate is to avoid to shot into the airscrew.
Painted and glued in place.
Pitot was added and connected with 0.2mm lead lines.
And a final view!
The scratches on the vickers was fixed with painting Alcalds with brush, other scratches fixed too. The RAF wires are metalized and the sockets of the RAF wire terminals are painted black. Finally a very light weathering was applied.
The scratches on the vickers was fixed with painting Alcalds with brush, other scratches fixed too. The RAF wires are metalized and the sockets of the RAF wire terminals are painted black. Finally a very light weathering was applied.
Comentários
2 25 November 2018, 20:11
bughunterThank you mates! Thomas, see the HGW set on pic 14. It is laser cut fabric, with a paper carrier (to be removed) on the back. And PE of course.
26 November 2018, 20:44
Daniel KlinkNext round in as long as there is a Bughunter no need for me to lay hand on a WWI Kit 🙂
Of course i'm in! 👍
26 November 2018, 21:02
Mike DanielsThats an interesting kit. Not seen Copper State models before. Looking good!
27 November 2018, 12:14
bughunterWow, thank you all for visiting!
Copper State Models was known for resin kits, now located in Lettland under new ownership. This kit was the first plastic kit. Really pitty, the Premium Edition is no more available (may be ebay or some seller still have it in stock). I will show the differences during the build or visit my review on Modellboard.
27 November 2018, 17:21
Björn SvedbergAnother one of those builds I just have to follow! Looking Good! 👍
27 November 2018, 19:32
Greg Bakerdear lord... I'm not sure I can take another one so soon... The man has absolutely no consideration for others. Why can't he just let us wallow happily in our own mediocrity? WHY?
27 November 2018, 23:02
Daniel KlinkBecause he is shameless. Even in small exhibitions i have to sit with my constructions right next to him and his perfect squadrons.. But otherwise he is one really nice and funny guy and thats the more important thing for me, and that 90% of the visitors just walks by or looking through my works on the table 🙂
But more impressive for me than the quaity of each of Bughunters works is the output of them in numbers and in nearly no time.
28 November 2018, 18:07
bughunterThank you mates! After X-mas the project continues now and the next batch of pictures added.
30 December 2018, 20:58
bughunterThank you Augie! This was not planned, but I like to work with brass.
31 December 2018, 11:24
SpanjaardAmazing as usual, it will be a pleasure to follow and stand in awe......
Landing gear is fantastic
31 December 2018, 11:53
bughunterThank you Alec! I have to say also "Thank you!" to user senux for pointing out the issues with the kit (see his build) 👍
14 April 2020, 16:32
bughunterA warm welcome to the new visitors!
These parts have been stored in a half-finished state for far too long and are really worth to convert it to a biplane! One reason for the delay was a Memorial Group Build. I was awarded for my result (the yellow/blue Fokker D.VII) with a free selection of two sets of the actual Pheon decal program - thanks to the sponsor Pheon! One of my selections was the Dolphin/Snipe set, because the decals on my Snipe kit from HiTech are much to old. As side effect this offers the possibility to not do the C4131 (decal of the premium kit edition) as planned but paint the nose are other parts blue and built the colorful C3799 by Capt Irving 👍
Sometimes it really helps to wait a bit😉
15 April 2020, 15:14
bughunterThe blue paint is on, decided for Gunze H5. Some details are also prepared.
18 April 2020, 18:00
Bernhard SchrockFoto 52: der Messingfarbene Verteiler ist aus Messing? Gelötet? Bei solchen Teilen breche ich mir immer die Finger ab und suche nach neuen Ideen.
18 April 2020, 18:14
bughunterYep - real brass, but not soldered. I constructed the parts from micro tubing and glued with CA.
18 April 2020, 20:36
bughunterAfter a long mounting session I can only say, do not try to use Gaspatch Vickers, don't even think about it!😉
19 April 2020, 20:22
Slavo HazuchaI see you are working in an accelerated mode too! 🙂 Missed this before, but at least I now had something nice to set my eyes upon on a Sunday evening... I really like the seat - probably not even in the top 10 challenging affairs in this build, but it's just so nice... (maybe my time in the garden today helps me see things this way... 😄). And the blue is just gorgeous - it may have one DNA-string in common with Peter's Aussie truck, but it surely does look absolutely "royal" on a plane too!
Well done & at least I can follow the finale! 👍
19 April 2020, 21:00
Wim van der LuijtGreat work so far! As for the Vickers: if you call it complicated that means us mere mortals would probably give up in frustration 😄 they do look good now, as does the gunsight
19 April 2020, 21:00
bughunterWelcome! Slavo, most of the work was done 2018, but stopped due to a group build. After being annoyed by decals, I turned to this shelf queen. The blue one is the only colorful Dolphin I know, the others uses Battleship Grey noses or PC10. Gunze H5 matches nearly the blue ring of cockades, if painted dark in many layers.
Wim, see pics 28-30, then you will know why it is so hard to make them fit. That is often the problem with aftermarket parts, also engines. They are in scale, but do not fit to the thick plastic cowlings etc. The kit parts are undersized to make them fit.
19 April 2020, 21:35
bughunterThank you very much Juergen! Daco Strong works wonders with cockade on top of the lacing.
26 April 2020, 09:36
Slavo HazuchaThe decals came on really nicely - looking like freshly out of the paint workshop!
26 April 2020, 12:04
Greg BakerBugsy... can I just put in a standing order for "gobsmacked amazement"? Just assume that for every single one of your projects, and I'll let you know if something changes. That'll save me a lot of work trying to come up with new ways to express my jaw dropping fascination with your builds. There isn't an unlimited supply of adjectives in English you know...😉
26 April 2020, 15:56
Daniel Klinkthe same procedure as every bugproject 🙂
Looking once, twice....mouth opens wide eyes are getting bigger and bigger..
Then..pure amazement and joy! 👍
26 April 2020, 16:39
bughunterThank you my friends, but I have build better models. There was not enough gloss here and there, so I got a lot of silvering, also some bubbles. I tried to recover with Daco Strong - better, but not perfect.
From a distance it will be ok😉
26 April 2020, 17:16
Wim van der LuijtI'll take the same order as Greg...all your builds are really really supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
26 April 2020, 17:56
bughunterI vae to lear a lot of new words😉 Thx!
B I G F A I L !! Made a Constantinesco sync gear, but the bonnet do not fit on top of it 🙁
27 April 2020, 21:11
Greg BakerHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...."Fail" he says... "FAIL!" Hahahahahahaha..... that's a good one...
I don't think that word means what you think it means...😉
27 April 2020, 23:37
bughunterThank you my friends! It means the same for all - I had to build this part again. I have no problem to spend hours to build something, but I really hate to work for the bin! 🙁
28 April 2020, 16:58
Wim van der LuijtWhat's next? A pilot with working bowels? (all you did was find a way to not make the interruptor gear, that's not failure🙂 )
28 April 2020, 17:01
Bernhard SchrockPictures 100-103: Just I have counted the teeth with the gearwheels: your Wieheisster have a gear ratio of 44/18. 🙂 its a pump?
28 April 2020, 18:59
bughunterThx Wim! Bernhard, you made my day! I just created fake cogwheels of a looking-ok-diameter, and Bernhard counts the teeth😉 But you are right, it was somehow a pump. The book describes the Constantinesco interruptor as hydraulic. This allows faster rate of fire than mechanical systems, due to lack of inertia. Each pipe controls one of the Vickers MGs.
28 April 2020, 19:30
bughunterI masked the wheels first and removed the MRP PC10 with a cotton swab and alcohol (C2H5OH), not to wet. This works also for Gunze. The Alclad grey primer resists. Fortunately no alcohol got under the masking film! So the "rubber" paint with a Gunze grey is still ok.
28 April 2020, 21:11
Daniel KlinkLeave it that way Frank... It looks already flyable even in this state of built..
Great mate...once again 👍
29 April 2020, 19:45
bughunterThx Daniel! For steam punk it is a great idea, but I think I continue to build a Dolphin, as biplane😉
30 April 2020, 12:51
bughunterThe manual of the Pheon decals recommends to create the struts using boxwood. You don't have to tell me things like that twice!
1 May 2020, 20:52
bughunterOne step forward, two backwards. The frame between the upper wings breaks 😭 The struts needs to be shortened further and repainted - but now it is a biplane!
The project is now on hold until a parcel arrives from Greece.
2 May 2020, 16:58
bughunterNearly ... I have the stash full of turnbuckles, but this bird don't use them. Again a british biplane with "RAF wires". These are aerodynamically profiled rods with threads at the ends. The best representation I created for the Bristol Crocodile, but this is huge effort. So I want to try something new while using the kit PE holders.
2 May 2020, 17:23
Daniel KlinkAstonishing work on a very elegant and rather rare Type..
Love that Blue 👍 Frank you are topping the top with every built...
Ok that stripped down stuff of yours is in my opinion a class of its own👍
2 May 2020, 18:02
Bernhard SchrockHolzstreben aus echtem Holz in 1.48?!?!? Genial!! Was ist das für eine Art Holz dieses Boxwood dass es fest genug für 1:48 ist! Die Größe der streben schätze ich auf 4x1 mm. Bricht der Draht seitlich nicht aus?
2 May 2020, 18:25
bughunterThank you mates!
@Daniel Elegant? Due to the stagger wings I find it a bit on the ugly side 😉
@Bernhard Wooden struts is nothing new on my biplanes - very often used, if the original uses alse wood. See for example Sopwith Schneider Monaco Racer 1914 | Album by bughunter (1:48) But I used until now pear (in german Birne) and have used boxwood (in german Buchsbaum) only for my airscrews. I don't have much boxwood, it is not cheap, hard to get and now the "Buchsbaumzünzler" (varmint) kill all the trees in middle Europe. On the Dolphin the wood was very bright, as far as I now ash (german Esche), so the manual of the Pheon Decal set recomments to use the bright boxwood, or bamboo.
2 May 2020, 18:59
Daniel KlinkYep from my point of view it is an elegant design..especially the fuselage front design looks very sporty 🙂
2 May 2020, 20:14
bughunterAfter a lot of work to create RAF wire terminals from scratch (see my Bristol Fighter project) now a nice solution is available from Gaspatch Models.
If you order some, please tell Costas that you got the hint from me😉
8 May 2020, 21:44
Bernhard SchrockUnterschied zwischen 126 und 127: sehe keinen, sieht für mich beides genial aus. Was meinst du mit lost paint?
125: Gaspatch? Hohl, zum durchführen von Seil? Wie groß ist das Teil wirklich? Kannst du mal ein Lineal beilegen?
9 May 2020, 17:07
bughunterJa, das sind die brandneuen Gaspatch RAF terminals. Siehe Bilder 121-124, Lineal liegt in 124 darunter. Ich mußte den bereits montierten Kitätzteilen die Nasen abbrechen, dabei kam an mehreren Stellen (16 Strebenendpunkte!) die Grundierung zum Vorschein, siehe z.B. 126 links unten hinten. Habe auf den Bildern ja nur die schönen gezeigt😉 Muß ich noch nachpinseln.
9 May 2020, 17:30
René "Lord Bilbo" BartholemyHallo bughunter! Die Gaspatch terminals gibt es aus Metall und aus Harz. Welche findest du am besten?
9 May 2020, 19:47
bughunterI have only used the metal ones, beside this new resin type. I ordered a huge amount for the kits in my stash years ago after trying some, since you never know how long is a product of a small company is available.
9 May 2020, 21:36
bughunterThis bird could now be flown, since all ailerons and co are mounted and control wires added.
10 May 2020, 17:22
Christoph KunzServus Bughunter, ich hätte Dein neustes Prachtstück heute so gern in WD angeschaut.
10 May 2020, 17:36
bughunterThank you Jan and Christoph! Christoph, this is not yet done, the ToDo list is long enough.
10 May 2020, 18:40
Christoph KunzWilnsdorf, die dortige Ausstellung ist ein gut besuchtes Treffen der Modellbaufreunde Siegen
mbf-siegen.de/die-vi..bauausstellung-2020/
10 May 2020, 20:32
René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy@Alec K: Yep, this tops even what I could ever hope to do in my wildest dreams... Frustrating, isn't it?😉
11 May 2020, 12:34
bughunterSome new pictures of the finished rigging added, after additional 22 connections!
11 May 2020, 20:46
Greg BakerHo hum... another stunning beauty just falls off Bugsy's workbench like nothing at all...😉
11 May 2020, 23:12
Christoph Kunzpic 137, that's why I don't build biplanes. This looks amazing again and again and again and again.......
12 May 2020, 05:36
Roland SachsenhoferEye catching and adorable....! You did write to that incredible picture 138: "that is a cowling locking part ... " No Sir, that is pure magic to me! And this applies to the whole build!
12 May 2020, 14:28
bughunterThank you mates for your nice comments, highly appreciated!
Roland, welcome to the show! And so much praise from a builder of super-clean models means a lot for me! The kudos for the PE goes to Copper State Models, which created this great kit! And this was the first plastic kit of this group of new owners, the Caudron G.IV are fantastic too. I hope there will be more models in 1/48 after the latest 1/32 Nieuports.
That cowling parts are not the smallest, there are two side lockers for the windscreen frame😉 More from this stage soon.
12 May 2020, 18:08
Slavo HazuchaGreat show time and again - the way the wooden "Grissini sticks" are now fixed & rigged to wing calls for a special level of respect... 👍
I still like the blue very much, it looks even more splendid now between the browns & greens sported by the rest of the plane...
13 May 2020, 13:44
bughunterThank you Daniel and Slavo, your comments are always a pleasure to read 🙂
Moe details are mounted and tried some brush painting for details and repairs. To fix scratches and other small problems with the MRP colors and a brush is hard, but possible.
13 May 2020, 17:18
Spanjaardairscrew is the icing of this incredible cake... sorry but i run out of superlatives several of your models ago.....
15 May 2020, 21:21
bughunterThank you mates! Your feedback is also without new superlatives highly appreciated 👍 Please don't miss the new final album with light tent shots of this blue Dolphin: Sopwith 5F.1 Dolphin C3799 Capt. Irving | Album by bughunter (1:48)
16 May 2020, 16:33
