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About Lucio Martino

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  • Birthday 05/24/1961

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    Roma, Italy / Columbia, South Carolina

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  1. Lucio Martino
    Gwen, You should sand cyano glue very soon, long before it becomes rock hard. If you're not very experienced with cyano glue maybe better to go with Milliput, even if would be more difficult to restore the panel lines. Milliput has the advantadge to be easier to blend, before it dries you can smoothed it down just with your fingers and some water. Keep me posted. Regarding my Hasegawa Tomcat build going very slow, I have to say that I really cannot go faster in this moment of my life. I would like to thank Thadeus, Mr. Happy, Elmo, and especially Gwe
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    Hi Helmo, Toothpicks because I would have never been able to give exactly the same conical shape to four plastic rods. Toothpicks ends have a conical shape and their dimensions, while not perfect, are acceptable. I just hope I didn't cut them too long. However, my Hasegawa Tomcat is far from being perfect. My goal was just to improve this kit. Up until now I have already taken many shortcuts. By the way, let me congratulate you for your incredible A-6 Monogram. Congratulations, and congratulations again.
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    Gwen, For what is worth my opinion, the damage on your AMK wings is fixable. Best would be filling up the scratches with cyano glue to be sanded down relatively soon, before dry very hard. Lost detail can be easily engraved again. But I really don't know. Lucio
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    First of all I need to thank Gwen Phoenix for her interest. ___________________________________ Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat - 11 Tails, Stabilizer, and Strakes (VI) I must confess that this new post was something that embarrassed me that much to put it off for a long time. Why? Because in an era of stellar aftermarket items and home 3D printing I keep toying with toothpicks. However, the Hasegawa horizontal tailplanes have too thick trailing edges and inadequate representation of the warning antenna fairings (305). No problem, it's an e
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    Gwen, I am sorry to read that you hit your forehead with the edge of the shelf. I am confident that you didn't get much hurt. About the AMK wings, posting a photo is a good idea, both to check together a possible repair or to get a replacement. This forums has plenty of very generous modellers. I can't believe that I started this build almost six years ago. In my partial defense I can only say that in these six years, in addition to some health issues, I have gotten married, changed jobs, and crossed the Atlantic several times. However, when I started this
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    Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat – 21: Wings (VI) AMK wing parts fit is average, glueing the assemblies of pic 286 to the lower wing required a small amount of brute force... Surprisingly, the lower wings have not the same amount of rivets. Better this way, less work to delete them. The flaps were too thick and too heavy in surface detail. I thinned them down a lot, especially in their trailer edge, and eliminated much of their surface detail.
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    Apologies for the long break. My eyes didn't work well enough to keep up on this project. Now, after surgery, I see even better than before. Before going back to the real stuff, I need to thank you all for your long standing interest. _________________ Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat – 20: Wings (V) Assembling the AMK wings was much more complex and laborious than I ever expected. First, the wing parts, all of them, fit together very imprecisely, requiring a lot of preparation work. Great care must be taken to prepare the gluing of the parts that
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    @Gwen Phoenix I am doing well, thank you, and I am happy to read that you are getting part V3. Your question about replacing pats J5 and J11 is a very good one... ______________________________ Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat – 19: Wings (IV) ... the best solution would have been to create a resin copy of parts J5 and J11 but I've never had an AMK Tomcat. The AMK wings that I'm using in this project are leftovers from a kit already assembled with the wings at maximum sweep by my friend Alberto Borzellino, and I haven't found the courage to ask someb
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    @GW8345 First of all I would like you thank you very much. Your help is very important for me. _________________________________ Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat - 18: Undercarriage Legs, Wheels, Seats, and Canopy (IV) Another update, a short one. This time it is about the undercarriage doors. In my opinion, out of the box they are too bare (pic 272). Just to make them looking a little more interesting, first I thinned them somewhat (pic 273). Then, I enhanced their appearance with some 10X20 Evergr
  10. Lucio Martino
    Thank you for your prompt answer. Nothing set in stone yet but of all early F-14A here is where I am going to: https://www.airfighters.com/photo/184737/M/USA-Navy/Grumman-F-14A-Tomcat/161135/ Not perfectly my planned configuration, canopy is closed instead of open and I can't tell about the airbrake, but it's almost there. Can't tell either if the spoilers are shut flat or up the 5 or 15 degrees, surely they aren't at 55, that's why I was asking. I trust you that the 55 would be the most accurate, but - honestly - I don't like it. Barring 55°, what woul
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    I have two questions regarding the F-14 wings. First: I don't know what to do with the wing spoilers. According to this reference: http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-wingcontrol.htm I have three options: 1) down, 2) up 5°, 3) up 15°. Which of these three possibilities is the most congruous with the following configuration: canopy open, only rear step open, ladder closed, tail airbrake open, and wings in the "dirty" configuration. Second: According the same source, in a landing configuration slats should be down at 17°. Now that I am working on the AMK wings, I can't tell
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    @Gwen, Thank you again for your attention. Yes, the G-Brass legs are copies of the original ones but much stronger, and that is really good ! _____________________________________________ Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat - 18: Undercarriage Legs, Wheels, Seats, and Canopy (III) With some plain plasticard I hided the two original holes making the side bulkhead of the main legs whells more interesting. Well, it's all "gizmology", no accuracy here. Soon after, I began the tedious job of reproducing that tangle of tubes and cables characteristic o
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    @GW8345 I have another question for you: What about the flap actuators? Red or natural metal? _____________________________________________ Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat - 18: Undercarriage Legs, Wheels, Seats, and Canopy (II) Sorry for the bad quality of the following photos. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think possible that the F-14 undercarriage legs are as angled back as in the Hasegawa offering. Something must be wrong (see pic 260). Maybe the main legs are too short or maybe parts F78 and F79 are too lo
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    Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat – 17 Wings (III) When it comes to the wings I have to say that the AMK instructions are somewhat confusing, drawings are relatively small and very "crowded". However, before I venture into actually building the wing, there are a couple of things I'd like to figure out with your help. The first is the angle of the wing spoilers when they are deployed while the flaps are extended. According to AMK they are almost vertical to the wing, but I think that is wrong for a plane sitting on the ground. And then I have no i
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    Improving Hasegawa 1:48 Tomcat – 16 Wings (II) Mating the AMK wings with the Hasegawa fuselages turned out to be much easier than I thought. Clearly, these two kits have a lot more in common than it seems at first glance. In my opinion, the best strategy to insert the AMK wings into the Hasegawa fuselage is to adapt AMK central spar, part V3 (pic 243 and 244), to the Hasegawa upper fuselage, part A7 (pic 245). To this exent, only three quite simple steps were required: The first was to cut off the two pins on part AMK
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