Minicraft 1/144 Pan Am Stratocruiser

[kfutter]

Thanks fellas. Just crawling along with it at the moment. I've got some Vallejo Plastic Putty curing on the rough bits, and will deal with it when it's ready.

Kev

[kfutter]

Work continues at a snail's pace on this one. I've got both sets of nacelles joined to the wings now, and have squared off their fronts with a b@stard file:



I've numbered the front of each nacelle and the rear of each engine, so that when I do the required remedial work to make them fit, I can match them up again. What remedial work? Well, the circular cowlings mate up OK, but not so much the intakes below them:





Not only do the basic shapes not match, but the intake hangs a bit too low as well. I'll have to carve away some of the kit's plastic to match the resin contours, and then back-fill the resultant step with some Milliput. So much for a quick'n'easy build!

Kev

[hrtpaul]

Looking good mate. Keep it up

[kfutter]

Thanks Paul. I wish I had more time for it!

Kev

[tor lives]

Traveling along nicely Kev. Got the feeling she is going to be one good-looking Boeing.
TOR

[kfutter]

Thanks Ray. It's all a bit more work than I was expecting, though!

Kev

[kfutter]

Apologies once again for the lack of progress on this one folks, but that's life at the moment I'm afraid. But here's a token nudge forward anyway, just to prove the project is still alive. I wasn't happy with the horribly misaligned trenches on the underside of the engine nacelles, so I disappeared them with a mix of CA and talc:



There's still a faint trace of them here and there, but I can live with that. It certainly looks much better than before!

I also managed to reshape the intake section of each nacelle to more closely match that section on the resin cowlings:



The final result will depend a great deal on the job I do when attaching the engine parts to their respective cowlings.

Here's a couple of photos of the finished bulkheads I added:





Still got a problematic seam, though:



Once I've attached the resin cowlings, I'm in for several more rounds of filling and sanding!

Kev

[hrtpaul]

Coming along very nicely mate

[DesTROYer]

Thats coming up rater nice. I look forward to seeing it when it's done.

[kfutter]

Thanks, chaps. I know the pace is glacial with this one, and that's a bit boring for everybody (me included), but that's Modelling at the Speed of Life for you.

Kev