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I'm building a smaller 72 italeri. Follow and take notes

BorgR3mc0 wrote:I think this is one of those kite that look great in the box but need a lot of work to realise their potential.

You aren't wrong!

Just to prove this isn't another HpH Fw 189 that has bit the dust (and there are many online!), here's a recent shot.

I'm currently manually masking both the outside AND inside of all glazed areas, and it is taking ages. The masks were awful, and all undersize. I ended up doing this with strips of tape and infilling the centres. Very disappointed with the masks....the only real turd in this kit.

No good news on the masks, but the interiour looks very promising! Good to see this one is making progress!

Ok, only a little update as I go into fitting the canopy parts. The mid upper fuselage section required a 0.6mm shim of plasticard on either side so that it would come up to the height of the fore and aft clear resin canopies, so no step resulted. This section is glued with odourless CA so that nothing nasty lingers when I fit the clear resin parts. At this stage, progress seems to be slow, but I'm hoping to have the canopies and cupola guns installed within the next 48hrs...if I don't go mad first.

Poor news about the masks James,

On the up side, the build is looking great and coming along well. You look to be on track to put the "HPH curse" to rest.

Regards,

I love your work James. In addition to the quality of the build itself, the presentation is superior. Do you use a DSLR for your in-progress shots?

Yes, I'm using a Nikon D5100 with diffused daylight lamps. Processing is with Lightroom, and Photoshop to remove any background anomalies.