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Ekki
Watching.

Cristian A
Welcome Ekki, beautiful helicopters in your collection!

Ekki
Thanks.

Skyhiker
Taking a seat

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Nicolas
I'm following this as well.

CaptGPF
Ditto

Cristian A
Done! 🚁 Another project completed! 🚁

Glad to present the UH-1B Huey, a legendary icon from the Vietnam War. 🇺🇸📍Da Nang 🇻🇳

Will add some final review photos on a separate album in a bit.

Feeling proud of how this one turned out from a basic Italeri kit, even if it's not perfect! What do you think?

CaptGPF
Italeri kits rank far down there with American model kits in my book (last resort model kits if you have no other choice). To get this result with an Italeri says a lot! Lovely build!

Cristian A
Many thanks CaptGPF for the kind words. Yes the Italeri kit has many flaws, but for me being one of the kits I've built when I was a kid, brings back some good vibes. Will look out there what other Hueys I can find, maybe I'll build another one just to see how a good kit feels in comparison 🙂 cheers

Guy Rump
Lovely build, very impressive. 👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Cristian A
Thanks gents, really appreciate it. My next build is a helicopter as well, 1/72 scale, the Ka-52 Alligator 🐊

Treehugger
You might get better photos, if you use a tripod, stay 1m away and then zoom in a little. Also the blurring in the photo doesn't help I think.

V G
Thank you for the tips! Yeah, I wanted to use macro to focus on the details, hence the blurred fore-/background

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat! 😉

Moreno Baruffini
Wow! I wasn't aware of this plane. Following with a lot of interest!

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome mates.
Me neither, until I visited the Duebendorf museum 🙂

Patryk S.
Following! Very interresting project!

Michael Kohl
Is Duebendorf worth a visit?

Moreno Baruffini
I'm also curious about Dübendorf, now the Alptransit tunnel is closed, but It should be a nice trip from southern Alps

Łukasz Gliński
Well, I visited Dübendorf only once, more than a decade ago. Not that the Switzerland changes very quickly, but it was a while ago 😉
Not the biggest one I've been to (don't expect the size of Duxford), but very interesting. As it's in CH, there are many unique airplanes on display, so highly recommended.
The C36 was unfortunately parked the way you couldn't see the interior v.well, so there's a lot of guesswork involved in this build. Kora's kit has the same interior setup for all C36 versions which is not true for sure.

Cuajete
Interesting!

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome amigo 👍 I had to use some brute force today, but the fuselage has been closed

Edward MacKenzie
Well, it's time for me to take a seat here too, especially because i have this kit in my stash and live 10 minutes from Duebendorf 😉

Moreno Baruffini
...At the end of the day, I've also bought this kit! Great progress 👍

Bernd Grün
Promising start, Lukasz. Following! 👍

Cuajete
Looking good so far, Łukasz. Go on!

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks a lot, it's sort of on hold currently, as I prefer sanding the resin kits outdoors 🙂

Nicolas
Joining in

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Cuajete
I agree with you, Łukasz 👍
Despite this, it is advisable to use a mask or you can even sand inside a bag if you do not do it outdoors. Resin dust is toxic and can be carcinogenic.

Michael Kohl
Consider wet sanding. It ameliorates the dust problem considerably. Not using a dust mask when dry sanding resin isn't the most brilliant idea - being it in- or outside.

Łukasz Gliński
Just to be clear, inside or putside - mask is always there, I just skip cleaning the residue from the modelling room 👍

Bernd Grün
Nice start, Lukasz! 👍 Following!

Moreno Baruffini
Already summer in Poland Łukasz? 😉 What do you use as filler?

Łukasz Gliński
CA glue and some fancy sand from Revell Fix kit. Still, lots of sanding ahead

Cuajete
Great, Łukasz! Summer makes you even stronger 💪

Thomas Kolb
Cool project although I missed the first part! I am reserving my seat.

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome Thomas, great to see you here. I advanced a bit lately and managed to force the canopy into submission (just in case you wondered - there are 2 pieces in the kit)

Ben M
I've had the same issue with vacu canopies. Each one has gotten a little better for me.

Moreno Baruffini
Glad to see you again working on this Łukasz!

Zbynek Honzik
Taking a seat, Łukasz! This project looks very interesting.

Cuajete
Good progress!

Łukasz Gliński
Gruezi my friends 👍

Thomas Bischoff
time to join the show 👍

gorby
I think you win this weeks prize for most heavy duty modelling tool. 😄
Looks a very interesting conversion.

Lenny Li
I think that kind of set up can tool a real bogie!!

Neuling
Watching .....................

Jakko ‌
> I think you win this weeks prize for most heavy duty modelling tool. 😄

Probably, yeah 🙂 It's a metalworking lathe, so a bit overkill for just turning down the seam on those wheels, but I didn't feel like aching fingers from scraping them down with a knife — I get those even when I hold them in a modelling vice, never mind just between my fingers.

> that kind of set up can tool a real bogie!!

Having seen a disassembled Sherman bogie up close, I must say I think this one is a size too small for that 😉

Ben M
👀 fascinating vehicle.

Mr D
Looking good, weld's coming on nice 👍

Ben M
How did you hold the wheels in the lathe?

Jakko ‌
@Mr D: that's not the welds yet, it's just the filler needed to plug the gaps 🙁 I'm still debating how to add all the weld seams.

@Ben M: An M2 screw, about 2 cm long, through the hole in the wheel, with a nut to tighten it. It needs to be fairly tight else chances are the wheel will stop as soon as the chisel hits it. On Asuka two-piece wheels, you need to do this before assembling the parts, because the hole on the piece to be glued in is smaller than on the part that has the tyre moulded on it.

Ben M
Thank you, I can envision the setup. I have a small lathe and arthritis in my hands, this technique could help me a lot. Thanks!

Mr D
Regarding weld's l have seen super glue used through a fine tip, you need steady hand n move in pattern to create weld.
Sorry l was looking at the resin 🤔🤣.
Good stuff be keeping eye
On progress 👍👍

Jakko ‌
@Ben M: What also works is a modeller's vice. Clamp the wheel in that, scrape down the seam with a straight knife over a third or so of the wheel, then unclamp and turn it, and repeat. If I scrape more than about two or three wheels by hand, my fingers ache enough that I have to stop, so the vice helps a lot. But you also get a lot of plastic scrapings all over your modelling area, so this time, I figured I'd put those in someone else's hobby room instead for a change 😉

@Mr D: Hahaha! The ones on the resin were put there by Resicast 🙂 But I'll now have to make ones that look similar, or at least not out of place next to them. I'm thinking a thin string of two-part epoxy, textured with a sharp tool.

gorby
I've just seen an Uncle Nightshift vid on adding weld seams:
Youtube Video

Jakko ‌
Thanks for that.

Mr D
Good video 👍, the finish on the flat plate work looks authentic, l think it's had better rough cast look from the brush stippling before he added the putty coat.
Good idea on the weld , epoxy putty best as regular epoxy levels out again.

Jakko ‌
I've begun to add the weld seams now — see photo 23 🙂 Basically, Magic Sculp two-part epoxy putty that I mixed up a very small amount of, then took even smaller amounts from that and rolled it as thin as I could in my hand before pressing it into the join between the parts. Getting it to stick there is tricky, especially once I began texturing it with the tip of a knife — it wants to adhere to skin and steel much better than to plastic, unfortunately 🙁 But with a bit of perseverance it does eventually stick.

Pietro De Angelis
Fantastic work, congrats!

David Taylor
really coming along.

Jakko ‌
Thanks 🙂

Robert Podkoński
I see some heavy duty equipment here and a lot of elbow grease... Good job so far, Jakko! Keep it up!

Jakko ‌
Thanks, though this is fairly straightforward. The most difficult part was finding a good way to curve the splash plates, really.

Pepe
Looking

gorby
You're doing some excellent work on this.

Jakko ‌
Thanks 🙂

Guy Rump
Looking great, following. 👍

Jakko ‌
Cool, nice to have you along 🙂

Mr D
Taking shape now, the green welding joints are looking a better medium.
Interesting to see an adaptation taking place of the original.
Thanks for your posts, good to see steps
👍👍👍

Jakko ‌
Thanks. TBH, I don't really care to look at photos of finished models — I much prefer seeing how they got to be that way, after which the finished pics make sense 🙂 So I post in-progress photos instead of only what it looks like at the end.