July 14 2007 | The chimney #2

 So what are those things? took me quite some time to figure out when i was building my Izmail PT boat, indeed it's the place where the sailors put some signal lamps while sailing at night. You notice it's been done out of some rather ragged photoetch sprur I did previously

July 14 2007 | The chimney #3

You may notice the special texture -done by basically screwing the whole process of photoetching, but never mind! it will be looking quite cool with my rusty mix on the top!

July 15 2007 | The Canet gun is finished

Here is the gun with a considerable amount of extra stuff on it including some bits of my own photoetch fret!

July 15 2007 | The Canet gun is finished

finally, I added some bolts here and there -thanks for Mr Dave o'Meara for giving me those wonderful brown rivets :)
Notice also the very small (0.4mm) metal rivets from Scale Hardware on the bottom of the gun, they were easier to put than expected thanks to quite long bits of metal holding them :)

July 18 2007 | Sokol's ladders

here are the 4 bits of ladders that goes both behind and in front of the gun, they're done out of my homemade photoetched sprue + mastic..

July 18 2007 | Sokol's craddle is finished!

when everything is glued, it gives that...

July 18 2007 | Sokol's craddle viewed from below

Here's the same craddle viewed from below..
It's the last entry of this blog till end of august now :) happy hollidays for those who are taking a bit of well earned ones :)

August 19 2007 | Sokol's air intake

back again for good.
Well, 6 pictures for such a small work might appear a bit stupid, but i have them so...
those intakes where done from surprisingly thin metal, and their peculiar shape led me to no other choice than to vacu-form the shape in 2 parts.
The first part was to build a master. I then cut 2 plastic rounds to the right dimensions of the upper and lower parts and used some Magic Sculp to sculpt the shape, I then sanded the final master.