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Offline Second Air Force

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Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« on: July 22, 2013, 04:56:24 AM »
It's time I finally start on this beautiful Weekend Edition B-534. A great kit this is, even without the etched parts!
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_8598.jpg
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First up was to open up the exhaust stacks. First they were drilled out and then the oval openings slowly filed on each fuselage half:
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 06:09:09 AM »
Just remind me on this beautiful kit, hope you will enjoy as I did few years ago ;)
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2013, 03:51:12 PM »
Yes, this is truly a breeze to build so far! Beautiful fit of all the parts. Even being a Weekend Edition kit this has much to offer! I have made more progress on this, fitting the radiator and housing, intake shutters and the assembled cockpit:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_2058_zps098f090a.jpg
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I made one modification on the radiator installation. I added a new styrene forward face and a spacer glued to the kit radiator part to make this thicker and further forward in the duct. Since this kit has no PE fret I used scale plastic screen that I have here to replicate the radiator faces. After installing all of the parts I realized that you can barely see the front of the radiator through the inlet! I also added the small oil cooler that sits just behind the inlet shutters by using styrene and a bit of the plastic screen. Once all the parts were positioned it was quite easy to glue the two halves of the fuselage together and dry-fit the lower wings:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_2060_zps23fb6ef9.jpg
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As is typical with open cockpit airplanes, not much is visible through the opening!
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2013, 09:21:27 AM »
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2013, 06:43:05 PM »
This morning I made a fixture to get the correct dihedral of the lower wing, very important for fit of the upper. Simply I cut some foam blocks at the correct dimension (nice of Eduard to include the measurement in the instruction sheet!) and glued it together.
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2013, 06:46:39 PM »
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2013, 05:25:52 PM »
A little color for the little biplane:
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2013, 05:37:48 PM »
Fit are great :)
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2013, 07:52:39 PM »
Very promising!
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2013, 07:54:25 PM »
Upper camouflage colors applied:
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2013, 08:55:08 PM »
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #11 on: August 09, 2013, 06:14:36 AM »
Even the spot is made, great work :-ok
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #12 on: August 09, 2013, 08:12:24 PM »
Now undersides are painted, next will be interplane struts and start of rigging, I think.
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #13 on: August 09, 2013, 09:12:14 PM »
So smooth work mate, it coming nicely ;)
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Re: Eduard Avia B-534 Serie III
« Reply #14 on: August 09, 2013, 10:24:55 PM »
Splendid!
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