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Post by wing_nut on Jan 12, 2015 18:01:37 GMT -5
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Post by Leon on Jan 12, 2015 18:14:50 GMT -5
Nice start on the pit Marc  !Seat and rigging look great.  |
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Post by TRM on Jan 12, 2015 18:16:41 GMT -5
That is some fine work on the Wee little Fokker Marc!! Looking really good!! |
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Post by JimD on Jan 12, 2015 18:19:08 GMT -5
What a cute little Fokker. Should be a nice fill in build, but I don't know how you'll manage. My eyes don't work in this scale...I can see it once you photograph it, but if I'm looking at it in person...nothing...
Looks good so far!
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Post by wbill76 on Jan 12, 2015 18:41:40 GMT -5
Little is right on this guy Marc! Looking sharp as usual.
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Post by doogsatx/ on Jan 13, 2015 1:06:58 GMT -5
The rigging is going to be the real Fokker...
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Post by deafpanzer on Jan 13, 2015 1:48:07 GMT -5
Fantastic work... I really like what I am seeing!
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 15, 2015 10:34:12 GMT -5
Thanks guys. No doubt rigging is going to be a challenge. Andy, I am just happy that it can be "seen". Added some framing around the cockpit and the little pulley at the rigging mast.  Holes drilled for some of the controls cables. After scribing a line down the center of the underside I used Rosie the Riveter to run a line of rivets down each side. I took and micro chisel to connect alternate rivets for the stitching of the fabric. I washed it wih a bit of paint to be able to see it.   Workign on the back of the engine I added some ignition wiring and then the push rods to the front.   On the subject of rigging I will be using very thin pieces of EZ Line striped off a length from the spool. There is a short piece of the normal and fine sized EZ Line in the upper left. Note the frayed end done by rolling it under a file. You can grab a smaller diameter and pull it off whatever length you started with and it retains the full stretch, and strength, of the original piece. While I can ill afford to pull any out, the upper right is a hair of my head for a size comparison. The hair measured 0.0022"  The lower left is 2 pieces through a 0.5 mm brass tube that will go across the top of the rigging mast. The lower right is threaded through a 0.3 mm brass tube for the turnbuckles on the rest of the rigging. If I had waited I wouldn't have had to pull a hair since I am sue one would have fallen out from getting that into the microscopic opening in the end of the tube.  |
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Post by Tojo72 on Jan 15, 2015 11:45:37 GMT -5
Very nice Marc,that's some small stuff !!
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Post by tobias5555 on Jan 15, 2015 12:38:01 GMT -5
Great looking extra Details.
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Post by wbill76 on Jan 15, 2015 13:59:00 GMT -5
Some nice progress with that engine. I hear you on the hair conundrum, the sacrifices that must be made for accurate scale representation!  Nice job on the micro-rigging too. |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 24, 2015 13:28:49 GMT -5
Anthony. Tobias, Bill.... my sincerest apologies for the late acknowledgement, but of course... thank for the kind words. Mixed up about 3 drops worth of paint and got the wings and tails feathers all down. Now what to do with the rest of the paint   |
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Post by JimD on Jan 24, 2015 14:24:48 GMT -5
Nice. Almost forgot about this little Fokker. The shading looks spot on. Keep it up!
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Post by Leon on Jan 24, 2015 14:31:09 GMT -5
Nice work on the engine detail and paint Marc ! I sure don't envy you on the rigging part of this. |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 24, 2015 15:25:25 GMT -5
Thanks fellas. Yeah, rigging should be fun  |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 26, 2015 6:49:47 GMT -5
I never would have believed you if you said how tedious it was going to b masking this Fokker. But it did get masked and painted. Decanted Tamiya gloos from a rattle can I think is my new favorite. Scheme and marking is a mash up. In fact the kit is an E. III and the marking or from that decal sheet. The color scheme however is an E.I that I found in the Wingnut Wings site and I liked it. So I hereby invoke the "What If Protocol"   Engine and prop ready to be mounted.  |
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Post by TRM on Jan 26, 2015 6:53:48 GMT -5
Wow, you moved right along with this one!! Love the engine detailing and what a fantastic paint job...and in that scale!! Great building Marc!! |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 26, 2015 7:16:22 GMT -5
Thanks T. If we get the amount of snow they're predicting This will get done and I should get into the Corsair waiting in the wings.
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Post by TRM on Jan 26, 2015 7:26:56 GMT -5
LOL!!! I think you are right!! I might even get the carrier done!! Of course there will be the intermittent blowing of snow every couple hours just for fun!! |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 26, 2015 7:30:32 GMT -5
I can't wait to try out the new snow blower LOL. Actually, f I never needed it that would have been just fine by me |
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Post by TRM on Jan 26, 2015 8:49:15 GMT -5
Right there with you! Got one a couple years ago and spent the winter looking at it in the garage...started it once a week for fun! Glad to have it since then!! Life is much easier! Well the snow removal part! Now if I could get the two teenagers to help out, all would be good!!
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Post by JimD on Jan 26, 2015 9:04:21 GMT -5
Really nice. The gloss bottle and toothpick shoved in the nose really give a sense of scale now....wow...tiny! Lovely nonetheless.
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Post by johnt on Jan 26, 2015 9:33:18 GMT -5
Man I hate masking. But you've a brilliant job of this matey!!
Cheers
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Post by deafpanzer on Jan 26, 2015 12:46:36 GMT -5
Holy cow!!! Slow is definitely not in your vocabulary list! Looking great already!
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Post by wbill76 on Jan 26, 2015 20:15:44 GMT -5
Sharp work on this one Marc, looks like you'll take full advantage of your 'snow day' then! |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 27, 2015 21:16:04 GMT -5
Thanks lads. Bill, made use of another today but it wasn't the 2 feet I had hoped for. We only got about 4" by me. If we're gonna get snow... I want SNOW. 2 feet would have been a few more days at the bench. Flat coat and a mock up before rigging. can't add the tail until I get the elevators rigged. Need some room to work   |
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Post by TRM on Jan 27, 2015 21:39:33 GMT -5
I'll be sure to send down the 2 feet we got and the 5 foot drifts as well buddy!! LOL!! Wow, what a great looking Fokker!! Looking superb!! |
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Post by wing_nut on Jan 28, 2015 9:10:32 GMT -5
Yup, you got SNOW. Thanks, glad you like the Fokker. |
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Post by TRM on Jan 28, 2015 10:07:41 GMT -5
With all that hype, and don't get me wrong here; it was a good size storm, the roads were passable late afternoon/early evening...at least around here anyway. Worcester is a short drive up the road and they topped out at 33.5". No Where to put the snow in the city...LOL!!
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Post by doogsatx/ on Jan 28, 2015 10:13:49 GMT -5
Four inches is more snow than Austin's received in the fifteen years since I moved back to Texas...
Oh well, it's going to be sunny and in the low 80s here today...
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The lower left is 2 pieces through a 0.5 mm brass tube that will go across the top of the rigging mast. The lower right is threaded through a 0.3 mm brass tube for the turnbuckles on the rest of the rigging. If I had waited I wouldn't have had to pull a hair since I am sue one would have fallen out from getting that into the microscopic opening in the end of the tube.
Nice job on the micro-rigging too. 
