[WWI] radiators for the people

[Diego Fernetti]

Hey Joey! Such a long time without writing to you!
> If I am silent for some time, it's because I'm at the workbench working 
> with the hands or the brain.

With the brain? Ewww! Who are you, that mad scientist from "Nightmare before 
Xmas"?

> maybe I'm too early in the game to think about curved paper backdrops.
> My photography should currently be concentrated on shooting model parts on 
> the workbench.

Maybe not. A paper backdrop below the parts will help to produce a clean 
view of the part you're working and reduce the visual "clutter" of the 
workbench surface, with paint smears, tools, thinner jars, knife scars, 
blood stains...

> My concerns are about how in focus my closeup shot is, how close up should 
> I take the shot,
> and which would be the proper angle to capture the parts.

Check your camera insturction booklet, you probably have some sort of macro 
setting there. Do two or three shots of the same image with different 
parameters, once you've fpound what you were looking for you can write it 
down to use it everytime. You need what's called "focus depth" that's to get 
the whole part sharp in focus, and that's difficult to achieve with macro 
settings. Trial and error, mon ami, start shooting. BTW if you're shoting 
too near the parts, avoid the flash, since it tends to flood the image with 
harsh light.

> Paper labels (I first thought of masking tape as an option but there's too 
> much texture on it's top side)

This sounds OK, but why not use the world famous Robert Karr trick, typing 
paper "plasticized" with CA glue? You have to draw the radiator first, then 
flood the paper with thin CA glue (of course, avoiding sticking it to the 
table or to your fingers). When the glue is set, cut along the lines of the 
radiator you drew. Voilá! You should stick this to the wing surface with 
varnish or thin MEK.

> Those materials would do for the framing of the radiator. Anyone have 
> suggestions for the
> radiator surface itself?

You can carefully score thin paralell lines to another sheet of paper, do 
the CA trick, cut the core to size and apply to a very exact cutout hole on 
the radiator face.
BTW don't forget that on the underside, most wing radiators have an 
arrangement of shutters...
D.

Thank all for reading  J






From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On 
Behalf Of Paul Thompson
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:23 AM
To: wwi at wwi-models.org
Subject: Re: [WWI] (no subject)

>

suggestions on how to go about scratchbuilding a wing radiator? How would
you go about making one up?<

Joey.

FWIW I don't have the datafile, but if it was one of the standard radiator 
types you could avoid some fun and use one of those supplied on any of the 
current crop of Eduard frets. I have a couple left over from Albatrosses, if 
you'd like one.


Tripod. Yup. That's a good idea.


Paul.



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