Week 4
by Martín Héctor Afflitto Echagüe

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Day 22: Friday

I continue doing some details in the turret. I started to prepare the Pup's wing. My system is standard,I only added some technology. I draw the wing in corel draw,and then I print it in high impact plastic of 0.30mm. Then with Spanish Card tools I shape the ribbons.

Day 23 : Saturday

Details continue to appear in the structure,not a lot to show but important to the whole... hatchways and beans hard working things only shown after painting them... I have to continue...time runs.

The pup has to be done now.

Day 24 : Sunday

Sunny day,calm,plain spring. I wonder with the pup,and how to show it;I believe that you will see the interior.

Tomorrow'll be another day.

Day 25- Monday

Wings,br/> That was today's job. The mehod as I said before is standard;only some details. Using tools of Spanish card's technique,with ball tips and another miniball tip,you draw on the plastic of 0.30. In first place the reinforcement of the wings allows me the formatin of dihedrous in this case 3 using an aluminium stick with cuts to visualize the aileron mechanisim. In the inferior wing it was only a straight stick.

Day 26: Tuesday

I almost finished the wings,I Continue with the fuselage meanwhile the glue gets dry.

At the begining I rolled the foil of wet wood of 0.3 over a pencil marker of 16mm of diameter. You cut the aperture.

I try many times to do the cowl,no result at all,I must have other moulds. My wife Rose seeing my desperation because of my failures brings me a part of a bottle of medicine made of plastic, I cut a plastic circle,complete the image which remains very well.

Day 27: Wednesday

I glued the half front and I started to finish the base. I finished the main beams. I finished the officers'cabins,with the Boaserie I only have to paint. Time runs after me.

Day 28: Thursday

I finished the rare side of the fuselage. As in the old days of aeromodelisim,I draw the structure,covered it with a plastic foil inmune to the glue. I fixed with pins the sticks of 1mmx 1mm and one by one I glued them,I reinforced the structure with little sticks of 0.25x0.50mm and then there it remained. I profited from the thursdays meeting to ask the judges for the approval of the details. I can use commercial tyres,the lewis machine gun and the engine, it's a relief I don't have time to handcraft all that material. I polished the boaserie with lacque,I think it remained well.

Well I'll continue tomorrow.


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