PZL P.11c LTD 1/48

[draken35]

Nice!!!

[Sall]

 

[No.1]

Hope you have completed this perfectly

[Second Air Force]

Hope you have completed this perfectly

The alignment went pretty easily accomplished. The fuselage cutout and wing attachment point are fairly accurate with regard to the horizontal alignment. I thought about building a fixture to align the wing perpendicular to the fuselage in the other axis. Instead I simply used my trusty steel rule and made certain that the measurement from each tip to the tail was identical.

It'll need just a tiny bit of filler at the trailing edge where the windscreen mounts.

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[No.1]

  Nice mate

[draken35]

+1 with Srecko

[Sall]

Go aheat Scott!

[Second Air Force]

Thanks for the kind words, y'all. Now I'm on to the hardest part of this project, constructing a realistic looking "power egg". I should have kept the engine and cowling on-pace with the rest of the airplane--I'm fired up to paint the airframe but since it will require some handling to get the powerplant fitted I have to wait with the airbrush.

[Second Air Force]

In between finishing the two Airacobras on another thread I was able to work on the engine and fairings for this project. First was to open up half of the cooling slots in the center fairing by drilling and trimming them to the correct shape. This isn't a lot of fun as the fairing is very thick, so I thinned it from the inside with the trusty Dremel.

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I also found a nose case in the spares bin and attached it to the crankcase. This doesn't show after installing the fairing, but we'll know it's in there..... Here are the main components after a bit of fitting and before detailing and painting.

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Now it will be fairly quick work to detail, paint, and assemble the whole powerplant package.

[No.1]

I am wonder, did the people who are not modeler, realize when see completed models, how much of work is included inside?

[draken35]

I am wonder, did the people who are not modeler, realize when see completed models, how much of work is included inside?

Answer to your question is definitively: No, they don't...

[No.1]

Oooo tempora o mores...

[Second Air Force]

Yep, we do it for our own reasons, don't we?  I like building box-stock kits sometimes, especially of the modern quality. It relaxes me to just be able to glue a kit together and paint it. All the scratchbuilding/modifying/weathering/etc. also has rewards even if the "common man" doesn't understand or appreciate some of the lengths we go to for accuracy. It's all a matter of perspective, I suppose.

[No.1]

Every one of us have to find its way and place in this great world

[Second Air Force]

Every one of us have to find its way and place in this great world

Well stated!