Travel Air Mystery Ship R614K - completed

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May 4, 2019
Reworked trailing edges (1,3 mm thick in the kit, see upper wing for comparison.
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May 4, 2019
Ailerons separated. 0,3 mm plastic added. Recesed panel lines as margin between black and red filled with CA.
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May 4, 2019
Ailerons separated and finished to shape.
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May 5, 2019
Attachment points for the wiring. Ailerons (covered with fabric) incl. structure & attachment points/hinges completed.
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May 5, 2019
Streamlined wheels corrected in shape (too long in the kit). New struts from flattened 1mm brass tubing.
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May 5, 2019
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May 6, 2019
Elevators reworked, overdone fabric structure corrected.
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May 6, 2019
Recessed panel lines as margin between red and black filled with Mrcolor 1500 Surfacer.
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May 12, 2019
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May 14, 2019
The quality of the engine is astonishing for a kit that is more than 50 years old!!
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May 19, 2019
Only the outer wing sections have dihedral (4,5').
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May 19, 2019
Corrected wing.
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May 19, 2019
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May 19, 2019
Sheet covers for the gaps between the wing sections. Cooler from half round rod.
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May 19, 2019
Corrected (added) "fin” on the wing trailing edge.
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June 4, 2019
Semigloss varnish in place.
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June 4, 2019
Rigging minus spread bars on the lower side completed.
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June 4, 2019
"Self designed" etched flat rigging in place.
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June 4, 2019
Minor imperfections on the vacuum formed windshield fixed (with a fine brush).
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6 4 May 2019, 10:06

Hanno Kleinecke
Here comes the next racer, checkin' in ! 🙂

4 May 2019, 15:37

Wim van der Luijt
count me in too!

4 May 2019, 17:25

Stefan Schacht
Hallo Bernhard, i take a seat. Cheers Stefan

5 May 2019, 10:58

Gordon Sørensen
Another great start, Bernhard! Watching!

6 May 2019, 20:36

fj55mike
OMG, your projects just keep getting better and better! Can't wait to see what you do with this one.

9 May 2019, 21:22

Alec K
Looking great 👍. Taking a seat.

13 May 2019, 00:56

Bart Goesaert
Nice start on this one... will be a colorfull bird

13 May 2019, 11:27

Dave Flitton
Hmmm, another training video! I will sit in.

13 May 2019, 11:39

Nathan Dempsey
Bringing that old Testor's kit to life!

20 May 2019, 18:57

bughunter
Bernhard, in the time I think about a solution of a problem you nearly finishes a whole project😎 Great work again 👍

30 May 2019, 19:51

Nathan Dempsey
Absolutely gorgeous scalloping there Bernhard.

1 June 2019, 18:26

Gordon Sørensen
The paint looks fantastic, Bernhard!

1 June 2019, 19:24

Wim van der Luijt
I was wondering how you were going to tackle the masking.....very clever solution with the circles....paint job is already looking awesome!

2 June 2019, 08:46

Bernhard Schrock
Thank you Mates for your comments. It was worth to spent yesterday two hours for exactly masking. I used Tamiyas white tape and I'm very content with the results. The last task today was the applying of narrow black decal stripes and the kit decals (very good quality).

2 June 2019, 15:07

Hanno Kleinecke
Magnificent masking and paintjob, absolutely invisible connection between painted and decal stripe !

2 June 2019, 15:30

bughunter
I really like your interpretation of the aircrafts of that times 👍 Impressive rigging!

4 June 2019, 20:19

Nathan Dempsey
Just watched a documentary on Pancho Barnes. She really loved this plane.

5 June 2019, 23:30

Chris Greathouse
Stunning!

5 June 2019, 23:48

Slavo Hazucha
Looks fast even in scale & stationary! Great work & beautiful result!

6 June 2019, 11:21

Gordon Sørensen
Fantastic result, Bernhard! Rigging looks excellent!

6 June 2019, 15:36

gorby
Wow! Absolutely stunning.

6 June 2019, 15:46

Wim van der Luijt
looks like it's ready for take off, a really lifelike result!

6 June 2019, 18:07

Bill Gilman
Another masterpiece from Bernhard! Beautiful! 👍

6 June 2019, 18:21

Bernd Korte
Sieht stark aus!

6 June 2019, 19:08

Hanno Kleinecke
Beautiful little red red lightning, Bernhard !

6 June 2019, 20:37

Bernhard Schrock
Thank you for the nice comments. It was an unusual modeling project based on a 55 years old kit. It's stunning that Hawk released an entire series of planes which were built only once or very few. Some of them I have built already, for example Supermarine S6B, Howard Ike and Laird Solution and I remember that I had a lot of fun.

7 June 2019, 04:20

Bart Goesaert
splendid result... maybe an old kit, but a very beautiful one, and very nicely enhanced...

7 June 2019, 06:33