Luft46's Blog

Well both these L46 resin kits have drained my mojo at the canopy stage. Both kits have all the parts cut out and trimmed up but fitting the canopies has dragged on and I have stopped for now.

I intend to do some airbrush practice over the long weekend and a brief clean of the desktop. I will probably start on something else for the moment.

Some Archer transfers decals arrived today also with some of the creature eyes already packed up to give to a friend.

Currently I’m working on both the Heinkel Wespe and the Fw Triebflugel. The Wespe is on its 6th or 7th PSR cycle for fitting the damned canopy ( bottom left) and the Triebflugel is moving along except for the wings, cutting these out and getting them straight along the edge is proving problematic but that’s tomorrows job. The cockpit is painted ( bottom right ) but needs some fettling to fit.

I’m still yet to cut out the nine engine pieces and the four tailplanes but again a job for tomorrow as its a day off.

Below is some of the Triebflugel (sadly this word comes up as an option after only 3 letters ) parts. Top left is the bottom of the body which I’ve already cut the moulding plug off. Some of the other parts are marked in black to indicate how much resin will be carved off. The moulding is very good quality with nice panel lines and rivet marks.

I’ve just test fitted the canopy and whilst it’s fine on the front and back the sides have gaps which explains the Milliput you see below.

I can do a couple of other things tonight but this will need to get sorted tomorrow for any other progress to occur. Cutting out the Triebflugel parts may be a backup exercise tomorrow.