Hawkins Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Beautiful and inspiring work, Kostucha! Could you tell me more about that metal tape you're using, because it looks great( manufacturer, thickness, retailers....) Yeah, I'm going to be hand carrying the Stuka the entire trip... it's only a 3 minute drive, but it'll be the most stressful 3 minute trip I'll ever have! I feel you!!! I moved two times in the last 3 years, luckily firt time I've just discovered modeling and I had just a couple of models but the second time ..... Good thing it's not a long trip! Good luck!!! Cheers Emil Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Emil, HEY! You're the 400th post! Thanks! And thank you for your compliments, greatly appreciated. With regards to the move, yeah, this one is just to get out of a house with carpet and into a PMQ without any. Plus, it's got more room. Mind you, I wont be seeing much of it... in the new year I move up to Winnipeg to go on course there for 6-8 months. After that, another move... cross country to the East Coast... Nova Scotia, here I come! But, in the mean time when I come back on the weekends I'll have a whole lot more room with a bigger work bench... 1/24 takes up a lot of space when you're working on a few at once. With regards to the metal tape, I hope this answers your questions: It's widely available - unless you're Big Kev (but we got that addressed). It's simply "High Heat Metal Tape" and is initially intended to be used to seal ducts around furnaces. There are a number of different types available, and range anywhere from 3 bucks for a 50 meter roll, to 12 bucks for the high quality stuff. Really, unless you're looking to BMF, any tape will work. Any place will carry it. Up here around Brandon, and for the most part across Canada, anywhere from Canadian Tire, Princess Auto, Wally World (Walmart), etc., etc., etc... widely available, like I said. The thickness... well... I can't give you an exact answer to that as the rolls I have don't show the thickness. However, I'll tell you this much. I tried using the BMF from my LHS once they finally got some in. It's far, FAR to thin for what I do. Tears when trying to rub off paint. Very shallow marks when trying to "rivet" the stuff. And it's expensive as all hell when compared to the tape. Great thing about the tape, is that if you lay it down, mess it up, or aren't happy, you can pull it right off, and I've yet to have any adhesive stick to the plastic afterwards. The glue on the back of the tape allows for a lot of play too. All the dents, rivets, scratches, and other things you see on the tape, is just there, on the tape. I found that if I wasn't happy with panel lines, or dents, rivets and so forth, when I pull it off there are no marks left on the plastic - which really shows you how little pressure is required. Further to that, it's very user friendly. Once it's all said and done and in place, I took 1500 grit wet sandpaper, and lightyl scuffed up the surface so it was dull. None of the work was removed or damaged in doing so. I then shot it with Testors dull coat. I swear I should buy up stocks in that product as I go through so much of it. But anyway, once the dullcoat is dry, I spray it with primer and/or the colour I want. That's it, that's all! To remove paint by rubbing it off for paint chips and what not, I take a Q-tip, and rub the area lightly, and it rubs out, for fine areas a pointed toothpick works good to. But lightly, that's the trick. Patience is a key to this. The paint on the tape can be treated EXACTLY as if it were on plastic. The tape is also very flexible, has a lot of give, and gives a great effect of stamped steel parts and panels that curve around objects as well. Hope this helps! Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eastern Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Hi Mark! Once more I was really stunned watching your pics. So crisp and flawless, all those details and the way you paint and weather them amaze me more and more. And then, the progress is definitely fast. I suspect you spend a great deal of time at the bench, don't you (especially taking into account your parallel FW-190 build) ? ;) So, may I ask you, what are you doing for life, modelling? Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 Totally cool modeling. This build is very special! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Hi Mark! Once more I was really stunned watching your pics. So crisp and flawless, all those details and the way you paint and weather them amaze me more and more. And then, the progress is definitely fast. I suspect you spend a great deal of time at the bench, don't you (especially taking into account your parallel FW-190 build) ? ;) So, may I ask you, what are you doing for life, modelling? Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander. Alexander, Thank you very much! Really appreciate it. With regards to your other question, I'm in the military. Actually just going through a transfer from the Infantry to the AirForce and a new trade. The reason I get so much time at the bench is unfortunately an inability to keep a regular sleeping pattern. I find myself wide awake some nights until 1, 2, sometimes 4 in the morning. Rather than watching TV or other things, I let the family sleep while I quietly plug away in the basement on the models. Though I wouldn't mind building models for a living... anyone offering a job? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eastern Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Alexander, Thank you very much! Really appreciate it. With regards to your other question, I'm in the military. Actually just going through a transfer from the Infantry to the AirForce and a new trade. The reason I get so much time at the bench is unfortunately an inability to keep a regular sleeping pattern. I find myself wide awake some nights until 1, 2, sometimes 4 in the morning. Rather than watching TV or other things, I let the family sleep while I quietly plug away in the basement on the models. Though I wouldn't mind building models for a living... anyone offering a job? Ah, I see... In any ways building models is much better than wasting so valuble time watching stupid TV serials. ;) And yet I can say that you are a phenomenal person being awaken so much time with no signs of being tired. :blink: Building for a living...I think so highest and a museum-like quality of your builds can be a subject of keen interest of the Christie's. B) Cheers! Alexander. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 (edited) Thank you very much Alexander. The trick to the whole build though, as I've said before, is one part at a time. When I say that, well, at any one time I've got 8 or 9 different parts on the go at any time. But they aren't glued in or mounted into something until that single part is complete. It's a pain in the butt sometimes, measuring out, making sure it all fits, painting, then gluing in sometimes one wire or knob at a time... but it's basically taking one kit, and making many (many) smaller kits within it. I don't bother counting how many scratch built parts each "part" has... the open radio had something like 30, and the engine by the time it was finished had over 100... but it's the idea of "smaller models" within this one that really makes the build fun and enjoyable. It's simply looking at something, seeing if I want to build it, asking myself first "why not?" and then "how can I make that?" It's all boiling down to one thing... the Stuka was the first serious build since I left the hobby almost 10 years ago. I had fun with the 1/48's hanging off of my little boys ceiling in his room, but when I saw the Stuka, and some of the work on ARC (read: works of builders like Chuk and his Helldiver for example), I wanted to see what I could do. Take away all the limitations of what a build is supposed to be, and have a lot of fun pushing my own limits. Mix that in with the desire to really be able to build anything I want one day... the Airfix 1/24 Mossie is going to be an amazing kit from the looks of it and I can't wait to build one, but ultimately, I've got my goal set on building a 1/24 Ju 88. This Stuka build was a test build if you will. Trying a whole lot of new ideas and trying to better some old techniques. The 190 is a step further. Scratch build the complete cockpit and work with resin. The Hurricane soon after is going to be a bit of the first two in that the cockpit will be scratch built, as well as the landing gear bays, control surface hinges, landing light area (as you can see clearly into the wing through the landing light compartment, but mainly it's going to be a quick-er build focusing mainly on the exterior paint work and what not. It's a bit of a plan in the works. But there's still a lot to learn. Vacuum forming my own parts - both hard parts like fuselage and so forth, and clear parts. Landing gear aren't an issue - I've found steel/brass/aluminum rods and tubes work perfectly fine here. But other areas as well... Mind you, I'm not going to jump from the Mossie to the -88 and go from there. I'll start with something small and simple - the little I-16 for example I think would be the perfect place to start with a completely scratch built 1/24 kit. That and I've never seen one in this scale. Sure, at the end of the day I can go down to the LHS and order a 1/32 or 1/48 or 1/72 of any kit and aircraft out there... but where's the fun in that? I've found this scale far to enjoyable and cannot justify the excuse of "I can't build one because no one makes one." Edited November 23, 2009 by Kostucha Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eastern Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Thank you very much Alexander. The trick to the whole build though, as I've said before, is one part at a time. When I say that, well, at any one time I've got 8 or 9 different parts on the go at any time. But they aren't glued in or mounted into something until that single part is complete. It's a pain in the butt sometimes, measuring out, making sure it all fits, painting, then gluing in sometimes one wire or knob at a time... but it's basically taking one kit, and making many (many) smaller kits within it. I don't bother counting how many scratch built parts each "part" has... the open radio had something like 30, and the engine by the time it was finished had over 100... but it's the idea of "smaller models" within this one that really makes the build fun and enjoyable. It's simply looking at something, seeing if I want to build it, asking myself first "why not?" and then "how can I make that?" It's all boiling down to one thing... the Stuka was the first serious build since I left the hobby almost 10 years ago. I had fun with the 1/48's hanging off of my little boys ceiling in his room, but when I saw the Stuka, and some of the work on ARC (read: works of builders like Chuk and his Helldiver for example), I wanted to see what I could do. Take away all the limitations of what a build is supposed to be, and have a lot of fun pushing my own limits. Mix that in with the desire to really be able to build anything I want one day... the Airfix 1/24 Mossie is going to be an amazing kit from the looks of it and I can't wait to build one, but ultimately, I've got my goal set on building a 1/24 Ju 88. This Stuka build was a test build if you will. Trying a whole lot of new ideas and trying to better some old techniques. The 190 is a step further. Scratch build the complete cockpit and work with resin. The Hurricane soon after is going to be a bit of the first two in that the cockpit will be scratch built, as well as the landing gear bays, control surface hinges, landing light area (as you can see clearly into the wing through the landing light compartment, but mainly it's going to be a quick-er build focusing mainly on the exterior paint work and what not. It's a bit of a plan in the works. But there's still a lot to learn. Vacuum forming my own parts - both hard parts like fuselage and so forth, and clear parts. Landing gear aren't an issue - I've found steel/brass/aluminum rods and tubes work perfectly fine here. But other areas as well... Mind you, I'm not going to jump from the Mossie to the -88 and go from there. I'll start with something small and simple - the little I-16 for example I think would be the perfect place to start with a completely scratch built 1/24 kit. That and I've never seen one in this scale. Sure, at the end of the day I can go down to the LHS and order a 1/32 or 1/48 or 1/72 of any kit and aircraft out there... but where's the fun in that? I've found this scale far to enjoyable and cannot justify the excuse of "I can't build one because no one makes one." Wow, Mark! It was both amazing and enjoyable reading your reply. I love your approach to building and most of all I love your motto (I think it's really your motto) "Why not?" I think such motto is a real "motive power" to initialize any process. This must be a motto of any modeler. Just try, why not? At least no one was born as a modeler or as an artist, we all learn whole life to do things better. Some persons have talent to make some things easily, others should work hard to achieve the same result but most people can develop their talent still hidden inside if they use this motto - "Why not?" Just try! Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander. :lol: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hawkins Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 Thanks a lot for the info on the metal tape, Mark! I will definitely get some for my builds. I'm eagerly waiting for updates! Cheers Emil Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 Eastern, Thank you very much good Sir! Greatly appreciate your comments! Emil, I'm very happy that the information helped out. This tape is also sometimes called "plumbers tape" Updates will be coming soon enough. I'm just in the middle of having everything packed up, the move happens over the weekend, so hopefully soon I'll have access to the pictures I took. I'm just going to break them downas mini "how-to's" and group the photo's accordingly. The Revi gunsight is mainly it. Otherwise it's just going to be a crap load of pictures posted up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aigore Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 *rubbing hands together* I´m looking forward to it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 Janne, I'll do what I can not to disappoint! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Well, after fixing up some work, and dealing with a lot of repairs needed... I reworked the tail a little bit... here's what I managed to get last night. More work later on. Going to add the rudder control cables, as well as relink the break line for the tail wheel. Glue the elevator back on, and who knows what else... Thanks for looking everyone. Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skyking Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hi Mark. Great to see some progress on this again. I really like the way you replicated the interior bits. This is going to be a most impressive piece of modeling when it's completed. Will this be part of a diorama or greater display? My apologies if it's mentioned somewhere in one of the threads, I may have missed it. Cheers Mike Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Eastern Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 (edited) Hi Mark! Sure, by the time you complete your 87, you are a real Stuka Expert, 'cos you know all those stuff hidding under the shell thro and thru. Nice progress, very impressive! Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander. Edited December 14, 2009 by Eastern Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dpwatson Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Wow very nice as usual mate. Have been looking forward to an update. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hi Mark. Great to see some progress on this again. I really like the way you replicated the interior bits. This is going to be a most impressive piece of modeling when it's completed. Will this be part of a diorama or greater display? My apologies if it's mentioned somewhere in one of the threads, I may have missed it. Cheers Mike Mike! First off, I'm loving your Trimotor build. Excellent work good Sir, than I tip my hat to you (as with all others that do so), scratch building an a/c like that, wow Mike. Simply stunning work. Thank you too for your words. No apologies needed, I briefly mentioned in the past that I'm building these so that if by chance a display is made for them, they'll work with it, but as of right now, sitting on a piece of mirror once they're done is the only thing I have in my plans so far. Hi Mark!Sure, by the time you complete your 87, you are a real Stuka Expert, 'cos you know all those stuff hidding under the shell thro and thru. ;) Nice progress, very impressive! Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander. Alexander, it's a lot of fun. I really enjoy learning the inner workings and history with these aircraft that I build. It's really something to look back into the machines that flew so many years ago and be able to get a taste of what they were really made of. Wow very nice as usual mate. Have been looking forward to an update.David Thank you David. An update was definitely overdue. I had plans to just post pictures of what was done before the move, but as mentioned, it's a few steps backward now because of damage from the move. I'm still kicking myself over letting it happen. But, more updates will be coming up, and soon! Thanks. Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Isaac Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Looking good Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 Thank you very much Isaac. Work continued tonight with the control cables and electrical wire going to the white light on the rudder. I got a bit further ahead than expected, getting the rudder on. First things first... the guide bar was made and mounted: After that, using thin speaker wire strands I wanted to replicate a braided effect. I've got mixed feelings right now about how this turned out... but, once they were made they were looped and the jack-stand/read support cross member was slid in to hold the loops in place. Sound simple? Yeah.... That took a bit of time. Once they were secure, they were fed through to where they had to go. On the bottom end, the result looks like this: I then fed through the electrical wire for the white light in the rudder: Then it was quick(er) work up top getting those in. And here is the tail section with the interior as finished as it'll ever be: And finally the rudder added: It's got a slight can't to match up with the rudder pedals as well. I also got the other elevator prepped and ready to go. Panel lines were rescribed as well as rivets. I also added a dent to the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer: After that was done, I went on to start the BMW 801 for the 190. It was all bagged up in the Stuka box for some reason or another... and that's where I'm going to put up some more pictures now. Thanks for looking! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viper494 Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Blimey Mark hows it going,looking great will you have her all done before xmas. Clive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 CLIVE! Thanks good Sir. I'm not sure Christmas. I'm hoping before 2 January - I leave for Winnipeg then for 6-8 months of course. I'd like to see one bird get done before I leave. Still a lot left on this one though... But, she's coming along. How are your works coming along? Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chukw Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Meanwhile, over in Crazy Land... Wow, Mark- this is just off the hook! When I'm all grown up I'm gonna put cables in my models, too! Cheers- chuk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Meanwhile, over in Crazy Land...Wow, Mark- this is just off the hook! When I'm all grown up I'm gonna put cables in my models, too! Cheers- chuk Ummmm.... thanks? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dpwatson Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Wow they look amazing!!! Great stuff mate. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted December 16, 2009 Author Share Posted December 16, 2009 Thanks David. Well, the Stuka is done for now. By done, I mean, on hold. I nearly flew off the handle tonight when I looked through the rest of the box... the first good look after the move. There are some things that were obvious when I first saw the Stuka... wing joint that had all the word done in it was cracked, so the wing was taken off. A minor thing... but other things - the center canopy section with the frame and other parts... the canopy piece was missing a piece of it. The rear portion after the radio mast mounting point is... missing... broken off. Which is just dandy. The seat of course isn't in it, nor was the radio, but minor things, likely not enough glue... but with the canopy section broken... I'm waiting until I get replacement parts from Airfix as I can't locate the missing part. So, rather than blowing up... I just boxed up the whole thing and put it up on the shelf... this Stuka is the bain of my existence it seems. So, we'll take a little breather. What am I doing in the mean time? Well, there's the 190 of course... the Hurricane, a Typhoon and soon a "Gonzo" Dash-8 along with a Sabre waiting. So... yeah, more than enough to keep me busy over Christmas. So much for a finished 1/24 kit in 2009... So, off I go to make a rum & coke, and I'm going to crack the Hurricane probably. Why not... Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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