SPA Modeler

Thanks BsYamato. Nothing to show for now.

Sanding... Sanding... Sanding... Sanding...

LOL this sanding time remember some of my recent build

Medicman71 wrote:This will be an interesting build. I've never seen that aircraft or model company.

~ditto~ I've never heard of the maker or the machine.

Hi,

Finally started some interesting work after a looooot of sanding on the wings and fuselage. But it's ok as I started the fun part of scratching the cockpit


Cockpit


The tubular structure of the cockpit needs to be shortened (red line) in order to fit the wings on the fuselage.




The seat provided in the box vaguely looks like the original :






I made a new seat from scratch using 0.25mm plastic sheet helped with the instruction manual of the UT-2.




The headrest is too large to be fitted in the fuselage. Here again a lot of sanding.






On the picture below, two interesting features that will be added. Firstly, the leather bulge (2) just in front of the pilot; but I will take care of it later on. Secondly, the horizontal structure surrounding the pilot (1):




To create this part, I printed a pattern on 0.25mm plastic sheet and cut it accordingly.




I then added a small vertical part that will help to set the PE instrument panel later



It looks a bit messy with all that ink on plastic. I use that trick to have a good idea if the surface is smooth enough. Ink will be removed before painting to avoid a mess.


Wings


There is a big gap on the wing/fuselage junction and adding 2x0.25 mm of plastic sheet didn't really help.




A distinctive feature of this plane are the walkway stripes on the root of the left wing. It looks awful on the kit and will be replaced with 7 (not 8 like on kit) very thin strips after gluing the wings.




Thanks for looking

Antoine

By the way, the seat I made is not correct
On the black/white diagram, point #1 reads "shoulder seat belts", that means that what I understood as the sides of my seat are actually seat belts

That s*cks, I was quite happy with it.

nice home made details

BsYamato wrote:nice home made details

Thank you

I'd agree with that! You guys take some unusual (too me, anyway) and build masterpieces.

LyleW wrote:I'd agree with that! You guys take some unusual (too me, anyway) and build masterpieces.

Thanks Lyle, but my work is very far from a masterpiece

Hi,

Cockpit detailing finally done

As I said above, I had to make a new seat. I added a cushion for the pilot's buttock and scratched the fifth seat belt that goes between the legs. BTW, the part numbering is total chaos.






I used fishing line to simulate the rigging on the cockpit sides and modified the engine controls with 3 throttles (instead of 4 as suggested by Mikro-Mir). The mid cable is intentionally out of the axis.






I scratch-made the rudder controls and the stick:




All comments welcome,

Antoine