It took quite some time, and I am glad to be back! Of course
the site was never more then one click away, and I have always kept an eye on
what others reported. Now it’s time again to get active again start something
new by myself.
Maybe some of you still remember my building reports of the
Famo, the Morane Saulnier, the Messerschmitt E-4 and T1, the Dauntless, the
Hind and finally the Gloster Sea Gladiator.
By the time I had finished the Gladiator I had already
ordered the Halinski SB2C-4 Helldiver (plus, by the way, the Mig 29A, copy nr.
0245!) a must for the Halinski lovers
and a great successor of the Dauntless (although it seems the pilots flying
this plane were not that happy with it).
So that’s the one I started some time ago. The building report by Andreask is a great help
for me (thank you, Andreask for your hint on mounting parts 2d,e and f in an
earlier stage than proposed in the instructions; it probably saved me a lot of
trouble…).
What might make this thread more interesting for some of you
is the fact that I have chosen to build the version with folded wings. It is a
choice that must be made from the start, because it means that some parts must
undergo a ‘surgical operation’; some parts must be omitted or replaced by
others, and finally a number of extra parts are also required. At the
beginning, the instructions don’t even mention the version with folded wings,
and it took me some time to find the first instructions explaining how to
proceed in the case of folded wings. I add a picture showing this section.
n.b.: some minor errors in the model have already been
noticed by others. A serious mistake, however, has been made in wing ribs 4 L/R
and 4c L/R (only needed for the folded wings version): these parts should not have slots, so don’t cut them out
or ‘keep them “filled” and fix them when using the laser cut set.
The first pictures show the top and bottom view of the
center wing section with the outer wings in line with it. Take a good look and
you will see that they are separated parts.
In the next step details will be added inside the bomb bay in
the middle of the wing frame.