Greetings folks,
This thread is dedicated to my build of Dave Winfield's superb 1:33, Canadair CL-41 (RCAF CT-114) model in the Snowbirds livery.
This will be a slow build, as I don't typically get a lot of free time to work on papercrafting; but I will do my best to work on it on a regular basis. Hopefully, I'll manage to post updates of the build progress regularly also.
I started the build in early February. I started by printing and clearcoating all the sheets and laminating internal formers to double thickness heavy card.
The picture below shows the internal formers for the fuselage cut out and mostly ready for use, along with first couple of sections of the fuselage being assembled.
For this build, I decided to use a glue that I've never worked with before. I usually use common white PVA glue; but this time, I'm using Tombow Mono Aqua. So far, I really like this glue.
Continuing on with my build, I have proceeded to begin assembly of the fuselage, starting with the front end. The picture below shows the first two sections assembled, with former F1 in place, and the nose detail face attached. The nose detail face I've used is my own version, which I drew up before Dave posted his official version.
Of course, I haven't attached the 3D antenna and orange light parts to the nose face yet. It would imprudent to do so at this stage.
You can also see that I've got the tab strip mostly glued onto the the third section.
For this build, as with all of my aircraft builds so far, I'm planning to build wheels up. I just prefer to have my aircraft models appear to be in flight. Unfortunately, a bit of sloppy work on section 2 has forced me to rethink that decision.
When I first assembled fuselage section 2 into its initial tube form, the part shifted ever so slightly open at its front end. The gap in the seam wasn't very wide; but the bright white of the tab strip below was still quite obvious. I tried to remedy this problem by coloring the exposed underlying tab strip with the brush tip of the marker I bought for edge coloring; its tip is very narrow. The marker's tip wasn't narrow enough, it seems; the sides of the brush tip contacted the edges of the piece and absorbed a significant amount of ink. You can see the marker stain on section 2, near the seam at section 1 in the image below.
This has left me with a few options. Since I've only assembled two sections so far, I could reprint them and rebuild them from scratch.
Alternatively, I could take this opportunity to build this model with wheels down, thus cutting out the stained wheel well doors.
A third alternative is to cut out the stained wheel well doors and replace them with new clean wheel well doors in the closed position.
The marker stain isn't too obvious when viewed from a distance; so I could just leave it as is. But, my own conscience won't likely let me do that; if left as is, that stain would haunt me like as surely as Lady Macbeth was haunted by guilt.
I'll most likely start with the third option above - replace the wheel well doors in closed position. If that doesn't work, or looks bad, then I'll move to a wheels down build or restarting the build.
This thread is dedicated to my build of Dave Winfield's superb 1:33, Canadair CL-41 (RCAF CT-114) model in the Snowbirds livery.
This will be a slow build, as I don't typically get a lot of free time to work on papercrafting; but I will do my best to work on it on a regular basis. Hopefully, I'll manage to post updates of the build progress regularly also.
I started the build in early February. I started by printing and clearcoating all the sheets and laminating internal formers to double thickness heavy card.
The picture below shows the internal formers for the fuselage cut out and mostly ready for use, along with first couple of sections of the fuselage being assembled.
For this build, I decided to use a glue that I've never worked with before. I usually use common white PVA glue; but this time, I'm using Tombow Mono Aqua. So far, I really like this glue.
Continuing on with my build, I have proceeded to begin assembly of the fuselage, starting with the front end. The picture below shows the first two sections assembled, with former F1 in place, and the nose detail face attached. The nose detail face I've used is my own version, which I drew up before Dave posted his official version.
Of course, I haven't attached the 3D antenna and orange light parts to the nose face yet. It would imprudent to do so at this stage.
You can also see that I've got the tab strip mostly glued onto the the third section.
For this build, as with all of my aircraft builds so far, I'm planning to build wheels up. I just prefer to have my aircraft models appear to be in flight. Unfortunately, a bit of sloppy work on section 2 has forced me to rethink that decision.
When I first assembled fuselage section 2 into its initial tube form, the part shifted ever so slightly open at its front end. The gap in the seam wasn't very wide; but the bright white of the tab strip below was still quite obvious. I tried to remedy this problem by coloring the exposed underlying tab strip with the brush tip of the marker I bought for edge coloring; its tip is very narrow. The marker's tip wasn't narrow enough, it seems; the sides of the brush tip contacted the edges of the piece and absorbed a significant amount of ink. You can see the marker stain on section 2, near the seam at section 1 in the image below.
This has left me with a few options. Since I've only assembled two sections so far, I could reprint them and rebuild them from scratch.
Alternatively, I could take this opportunity to build this model with wheels down, thus cutting out the stained wheel well doors.
A third alternative is to cut out the stained wheel well doors and replace them with new clean wheel well doors in the closed position.
The marker stain isn't too obvious when viewed from a distance; so I could just leave it as is. But, my own conscience won't likely let me do that; if left as is, that stain would haunt me like as surely as Lady Macbeth was haunted by guilt.
I'll most likely start with the third option above - replace the wheel well doors in closed position. If that doesn't work, or looks bad, then I'll move to a wheels down build or restarting the build.
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