bisc63 Posted August 12, 2020 Posted August 12, 2020 THAT is BEAUTIFUL! Reminds me of the intricate 1/72 cut-away scratch-builds by a guy named Dan Jayne; just phenomenal craftsmanship in the details.
OldNYJim Posted August 13, 2020 Posted August 13, 2020 I know this is an old post, but what an incredible build! Very very cool indeed. I’d love to know how much time is in that...PLENTY, I would think...
peteski Posted August 13, 2020 Posted August 13, 2020 I usually roll my eyes when I see very old threads broth back to life, but in this case I appreciate it. If it didn't get revived, I would have never seen this masterpiece! Too bad the photos are scarred by Photobucket.
Pete J. Posted August 13, 2020 Author Posted August 13, 2020 On 8/11/2020 at 6:49 PM, Paul Payne said: First of all, ditto for the praise and awe! Second, what holds it together? Magic? Superglue? Tab A into slot B? Thanks for sharing! It is slotted but no Tab A/B It is all done with super glue in the joints, except the white metal parts like the engine.
Pete J. Posted August 13, 2020 Author Posted August 13, 2020 2 hours ago, CabDriver said: I know this is an old post, but what an incredible build! Very very cool indeed. I’d love to know how much time is in that...PLENTY, I would think... I really don't remember this was 6 years ago but it took a while. Doing the engine and cockpit were the biggest challenge.
Bugatti Fan Posted October 1, 2020 Posted October 1, 2020 Beautiful build Pete. Any chance of simply re loading the pictures directly from your PC and not through photo bucket? Photobucket do no one any favours by greying out a third of every picture, especially when of a super detailed model such as your Zero. Incidentally, Atesania Latina have just announced a ME109G in 1/16th scale similar sort of skeletal model.
Pete J. Posted October 1, 2020 Author Posted October 1, 2020 46 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said: Beautiful build Pete. Any chance of simply re loading the pictures directly from your PC and not through photo bucket? Photobucket do no one any favours by greying out a third of every picture, especially when of a super detailed model such as your Zero. Incidentally, Atesania Latina have just announced a ME109G in 1/16th scale similar sort of skeletal model. I'm going to have to go back and reload all of this. That means I have to find the original photos. It may be a while.
Bugatti Fan Posted October 2, 2020 Posted October 2, 2020 (edited) Pete, I look forward to seeing them when you get the chance to reload the pictures. I am a latecomers to seeing your model, so could you refer me also to your build thread? Was it on this forum of another? Thanks! Peteski, personally I have no problem with old threads being resurrected. We tend to forget that when people come on to the forum, they tend to look for what interests them and not the date when the thread was created and react to it, hence the resurrections. Alternatively someone relatively new may not trawl all the threads before creating a new thread asking about or featuring something that has gone before. Sometimes it is good to put life back into an old thread, particularly if someone happens to be working on a model that is featured and wants some more advice. Edited October 2, 2020 by Bugatti Fan
Pete J. Posted October 2, 2020 Author Posted October 2, 2020 On 10/1/2020 at 12:04 PM, Bugatti Fan said: Beautiful build Pete. Any chance of simply re loading the pictures directly from your PC and not through photo bucket? Photobucket do no one any favours by greying out a third of every picture, especially when of a super detailed model such as your Zero. Incidentally, Atesania Latina have just announced a ME109G in 1/16th scale similar sort of skeletal model. Did a quick search of my new computer and found these. I will have to fire up the external drives from my old computer to get the rest of them. I don't really do build threads. I would drive people nuts with my slow progress.
Bugatti Fan Posted October 3, 2020 Posted October 3, 2020 Thanks for looking these out Pete. The detail is fantastic! You must have had a lot of pleasure building this model. Looking back at your previous post with the PB pictures, I really like the way you chose to display the model on a polished wood base with the turned brass support finial to bring the fuselage up to horizontal.
Pete J. Posted October 3, 2020 Author Posted October 3, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Bugatti Fan said: Thanks for looking these out Pete. The detail is fantastic! You must have had a lot of pleasure building this model. Looking back at your previous post with the PB pictures, I really like the way you chose to display the model on a polished wood base with the turned brass support finial to bring the fuselage up to horizontal. Thanks for the comments. I did like the base, but ran into a problem with it later. Because of all the white metal in the engine and oil and gas tanks, the landing gear started to sag under the pressure of all that weight. I had to straighten the gear and redesign the base with two more struts just inside of the gear mounts. The customer was still pleased with it. Edited October 3, 2020 by Pete J.
Bugatti Fan Posted October 5, 2020 Posted October 5, 2020 (edited) Hi Pete, aircraft undercarriage legs are the bain of most of us where any weight is involved. Most plastic aircraft kits must suffer more breakage in this area than anywhere else. Where metal is concerned, like your model it is usually sagging after a period of time. In the past I have suffered this problem with larger scale white metal car models. I am currently in the process of building the Paul Fisher resin kit of the Bugatti 100 Racing Aeroplane. When I looked at all the parts in the box I decided that the landing gear would be a weak area on the model. There is no internal metal strengthening rod in either undercarriage leg. The model is quite weighty and I felt that an accidental sideways knock could result in one of both legs breaking. My solution to this was to remake each undercarriage leg from turned aluminium bar for the legs and fabricate the small wheel spats from aluminium sheet metal to take the kit wheels. The blind holes inside the undercarriage bays I thought also would not be stable enough to locate the legs precisely. To overcome this I turned two stepped bushes from aluminium. The lower flat wider part to sit snugly inside the bay, and the smaller diameter part to fit snugly around the turned undercarriage leg. The bushes were epoxied into place ensuring alignment with the blind hole under each. The through hole in each bush allows the leg to go right through the Bush and right into the blind location hole in the resin. This made for a much stronger and positive location. Edited October 5, 2020 by Bugatti Fan
Cpt Tuttle Posted October 27, 2020 Posted October 27, 2020 Didn't know something like this existed, very cool!
Pete J. Posted October 28, 2020 Author Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, Cpt Tuttle said: Didn't know something like this existed, very cool! IMCTH did three kits. This one, a mustang and Bf-109. Got the other two, perhaps I will get around to them one day!? Edited October 28, 2020 by Pete J.
Doug 1061 Posted October 30, 2020 Posted October 30, 2020 That is unreal. You did some great work there. Looking at these pics that I thought of that song from the 70's, They're coming to take me away hee hee ho ho ha ha !! I woulda maybe got thru that cockpit/firewall/bulkhead assembly and boxed it up and forgot about it.
duffy-duck21 Posted November 10, 2020 Posted November 10, 2020 Wow very impressive model. And built absolutely clean. A real masterpiece!! Congrats to this beauty!!
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