Unarmed Fokker Dr.1 Trainer: Revell 1/28

Started by George R Blair Jr · 155 · 4 days ago · 1/28, Dr-1, Fokker, Revell, trainer
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    George R Blair Jr said 1 week, 5 days ago:

    Thanks, Carl (@clipper), Spiros (@fiveten), John (@johnb), and Ian (@firelockg). Research is fun, but it normally forces you to make a change in what you are building. This time, it allowed me not to make a change.

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    George R Blair Jr said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    I spent my time today prepping the parts for assembly. Building a really old kit certainly has its advantages. First, I want to thank Revell for creating this kit in a really bright red color. I have been wanting to practice my priming technique, and thanks to the color I get to prime every single piece. And second, this kit is full of flash and ejector pin marks in really creative places, so I get to hone my skill at filling and sanding. Besides all of the clean up and priming, I have been working on another resin piece. The cowling is not quite the right configuration, so I found a print file online and printed an new one. Unfortunately, the designer for this print created the circular cowling using "steps". So, the print came out with very thin walls and a number of steps that will need to be filled and sanded. The walls are much too thin to simply sand them out. I first used superglue on the back side of the print to hopefully strengthen the walls. This actually worked. I then used several rounds of fill and sand, and I think it may actually work. I was painting another model today with light blue paint, so I sprayed the bottom of the plane to see how it will look. So far, so good. That's it for today. Cheers everyone.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    Excellent progress and I loved your work with the cowling, my friend @gblair! The removed gun area configuration is tricky, maybe adding a flat plate "busied up" with some sort of railing and a few holes where the screws would secure the gun?

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    Superb progress, George @gblair
    By looking at all that beautiful 3D printing work you are doing lately, I added one to my Christmas list as well. Fingers crossed, but I have my doubts if Santa is able to deliver one 🙂

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    George R Blair Jr said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    Hi Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb): I have found one photo that shows a tiny portion of the area where the guns used to be. It looks like some of the area is filled with a panel, but some of the area also looks open. It never fails that just as soon as I decide what to do and fix it, that someone will turn up with a photo that shows something different.

    I hope Santa is good to you, John. Start out slow to prevent frustration, but you will soon be turning out professional-looking parts. Did you ask for a specific brand? Did you ask for a filament printer or a liquid resin printer?

    Here are two sites for you to check out:

    yeggi.com
    This is an aggregator for print files. You type in what you are looking for, and it searches a number of sites for files and then provides a link to each.

    cults3D.com
    This is a specific site for 3D files. I seem to get most of my files from this site.

    Also take a look at tinkercad.com
    This is free, simple site that lets you design your own parts.

    When you look at the files available, you are looking for files with an ".stl" extension. You will download the files, move them into the slicer software that comes with the printer, and it prepares the object for printing and exports the file in whatever type of format your printer needs.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    My preference would be a resin printer, George @gblair. Thanks for the information, I will make Santa aware of those sites.

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    Carl Smoot said 1 week, 2 days ago:

    Nice work on the cowling George (@gblair). Love the humor about old kits! 🙂

    I've looked at those sites before and they definitely have a lot of prints available. If I recall, I think Cult3D is where I first found out about the SOC-3 Seagulls I purchased for my USS San Francisco build. Those came out of China, but are 3D printed and quite detailed even for 1/350 scale.

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    George R Blair Jr said 6 days, 20 hours ago:

    Hi John (@johnb) and Carl (@clipper): I think you would probably prefer a liquid resin printer, John. It provides much finer detail than a filament printer. Were the SOC-3s already printed, Carl? If they were, you might have gotten them somewhere else, perhaps Ebay or Shapeways. I think Cults3D only has print files rather than printed pieces, but they may offer printing service. I have gotten some really nice printed pieces from both Shapeways and Ebay. Shapeways has always seemed really expensive to me, but they have really good stuff that you probably can't find anywhere else.

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    George R Blair Jr said 6 days, 19 hours ago:

    Back at the workbench after a few days off to deal with a bunch of family things. Now that those are done, my wife has a procedure that will take up most of the day tomorrow, so not much modeling tomorrow either. Today I managed to get all of the wing struts and gear struts prepped for painting, as well as all of the wings. I sprayed everything with Tamiya Fine Gray Primer and let it dry. I then sprayed Tamiya Light Blue over everything that needed it. Next chance I get I want to get the top of the wings done so that I can do the streaky camo. I am hoping to paint the fuselage and then add the wings so that I don't have to work with painting between the wings.

    I haven't found a picture that shows what they did with the area where the machine guns would be. Indeed, I have only been able to find two photos of an unarmed Dr.1 trainer at all. I measured the open area and designed a slightly curved panel to fit in the open space. I printed it today and hope to get it installed soon.

    That's it for the Dr.1 for a couple of days. Cheers everyone.

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    John Healy said 6 days, 18 hours ago:

    Great progress, George.

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    George R Blair Jr said 6 days, 15 hours ago:

    Thanks for stopping by, John (@j-healy).

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 6 days, 15 hours ago:

    Great progress, my friend @gblair. This panel looks very nice and believable,

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    George R Blair Jr said 6 days, 15 hours ago:

    Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten).

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    George R Blair Jr said 5 days, 4 hours ago:

    I painted all of the upper surfaces with Tamiya Deck Tan, which approximates the color of the linen used in the fabric covering. I added a little dark gray to the tan and then sprayed in between the ribs on the wings and elevator. Next up will be creating the streaky camo.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 5 days, 3 hours ago:

    Excellent painting so far, my friend @gblair!