Howard DGA-6, Mr. Mulligan - completed

Hanno Kleinecke
Ja ! Los geht's ! First row seat for me please
Crankshaft housing = Kit part, cylinders rather not, I presume ?

Bernhard Schrock
Willkommen Hanno. Nicht ganz sicher ob ich deine Frage richtig verstanden habe. Dunkelgrau ist Tamiya. Hell ist ungefähr 1/5 von dem ursprünglichen Resin Teil von Hitech für einen R-2800. War der „Kern" (Kurbelwelllengehäuse und Getriebe) des Motors, an welchen die 18 Zylinder montiert werden sollten. Damals wohl vor 20 Jahren waren wir aus dem Häuschen, heute ists im vergleich mit Aires, Vector und Co nicht zu gebrauchen... Testors Motor front war unbrauchbar.

Hanno Kleinecke
Jo, das war die Frage, ich dachte, das eher grobe Gehäuse wäre das Bausatzteil. Sieht super aus, das Motörchen !

LucLuke B
I'm in, nice plane.

Slavo Hazucha
Bernhard, you still have some bits of plastic kit between all your wizardry!😉

Dave Flitton
Watching

Lochsa River
amazing.....lets see what the master can do with this oldie from 1949...already, the engine is a marvel...do you use magnifying glasses at all times?

Oliver Zwiener
Da sind wir dabei - das ist prima - viva Bernhard

Zsolt Czegle
Ich nehme auch Platz! Bin dabei!

Bernhard Schrock
Es wird wieder international🙂 freut mich sehr!
Herzlich willkommen!
Bienvenue!
You are welcome!
Szeretettel ödvösüljük!

Sergej I
Not my era, not my scale, but when Hr. Schrock is building, I sign up for these amazing innovative scratchbuilt details... count me in 🙂

Hanno Kleinecke
Very uncommon engine setup with all these intakes between the cylinders. Your reference scrounging talent really pays of everytime.
What are the green pushrod „cuffs" made of, it's not cable isolation I think ? Very impressive scratching, as always !

Bernhard Schrock
Hanno: in der Tat!
Paul R. Matt ist eine Legende unter den Zeichnern, welche in den 60ern unzählige Seitenrisse von Luftfahrzeugen gezeichnet haben. Sehr gut detailiert, mit vielen Hinweisen zur Konstruktion und vor allem korrekt. Glücklicherweise hat er auch den Mr. Mulligan gezeichnet. Vor vielen Jahren vieles aus seinen 2 Büchern kopiert, aber nicht den DGA-6🙁
Habs ein pdf beim Aerofred gefunden und über mehrere Screenshots im Visio zusammengeklebt.
Übrigens: Es gibt ein Foto, auf welchem einer der Piloten (wohl Ben Howard) vor der Cowling steht: man kann den rechten Trichter gut sehen.
Es grünt so grün: Isolation von einem Kabel, mit 0,4 mm Seele. Mit einem scharfen Skalpell längs in zwei Hälften aufgeschlitzt, um es nach der Montage der Stößel aufzukleben.

Hanno Kleinecke
Maximum attention to detail, as usual, looking real good ! Are these ribs made of streched sprue, or is there styrene rod that is thinner than 0,5mm ?
Did you separate the control surfaces from the stabilizers ?

Bernhard Schrock
Thx Hanno. You: the elevators are separated of the surface. The ribs are made via cut with a sharp fresh scalpel. After producing the cut (recessed „panel line" with a „mountain" on both sides) I sanded over very carefully with an elastic pad.

Hanno Kleinecke
„Live and learn"...... thx Bernhard 🙂

Lochsa River
You inspired me, Bernhard....check this out....

bobsmodelcollection.xara.hosting/laird.htm

I won't ever get to your level of expertise, but you are an inspiration...its fun to set the wayback machines to 1949.

bughunter
Oops, haven't seen that great lesson of Polystyrene scratching yet! Very nice work so far on a old kit 👍
I really like the project smileys below the wing on picture 9😉

Bernhard Schrock
Lochsa River: thank you for the link. It's a beautiful collection of Golden Age planes. I noticed with satisfaction that I have built some of the oldies too. In 1995 I was inspired by Bobs Steinbruns Willow in 1:48 and built the Supermarine S6B.

modellversium.de/gal..ine-s6b-testors.html

I didn't know at the time that this kit (Testors Rebox) is in truth the Hawk kit of 1948!!!
Supermarine S.6B (Hawk 700, 1:48)

In my opinion it is quite stunning which quality Hawk could offer 72 years ago! A lot of companies of today offer the same or worse quality.

Bernhard Schrock
bughunter: you are herzlich welcome🙂. This is my standard background for making WIP pictures. With a lot of different smiles depending on the grade of satisfaction...

Sergej I
I love that approach, it reads like a good action novel 👍

Gordon Sørensen
Great results, Bernhard. Your attention to detail is fantastic!

Ben M
Bernhard, thank you for the link. I picked up a copy of that Supermarine S.6B at an antique store a while back, and it's good to know it can build into a nice model. I built a similarly aged Testors rebox of the Hawk Ryan STM S-2, and was very happy with the result. I also recently built a Hawk T-6, which I actually purchased because it was the cheapest model I could find on ebay, and it came out well, the big challenge was covering the engraved national insignia.

I guess the short story is, these old kits can still produce great results with some patience! I am enjoying this Mr. Mulligan quite a bit.

Dave Flitton
Yowzah! That's a lot of corrections! Nice work.

Hanno Kleinecke
Wow, you managed to dig up blueprints ? You never cease to amaze me.... great solution on the seats !

Hanno Kleinecke
Menno, ich kaue seit Wochen auf dem „Wie" für meine Sturzbremsen, und Du haust hier so'n Bomben-Instrumentenbrett in drei Tagen raus.....🙂
This instrument-panel is fully functional for sure !

bughunter
The identification plate on the bottom right is cute! But you should have zoomed in a bit more, I can't read it.

Ben M
bughunter wants to check to ensure the serial number is correct.

Bernhard Schrock
bughunter & Ben M: I enlarged the picture...🙂 (see pic 33)

bughunter
🙂 👍 👍

Stefan Schacht
nice start, I look for my glasses and take seat 🙂

Gordon Sørensen
Instrument panel looks great! Looking forward to more progress.

Lochsa River
Where did the instruments come from?...did you print them or or they decals of some kind? astounding and fun to watch this unfold...

Bernhard Schrock
Thx Mates🙂
Lochsa_River: I know two sources for excelent instrumentbezel-decals:

Mike Grant decals
for example:
Jet Cockpit Details (Mike Grant Decals CJK 072, 1:72)

Airscale decals
for example:
Cockpit-Instrumente alliiert.. I (Airscale AS48 WKI, 1:48)

Both products are excellent.

Carlos Cisneros
This is some excellent scratch work that you are doing to improve this kit! Superb construction of all the small details on the motor and in the cockpit.

Bernhard Schrock
Cockpit is now completed except the auxiliary fuel tank. I calculated the volume with approx. 950 l. In 1:48 there should be aprox. 8,6 ml and this is a lot for the rear compartment!!! I have no idea how shape the tank could have🙁 Or several tanks because the door on the right side was very small. Because of that I decided to build the model in normal configuration: with cushions for the passengers.

Slavo Hazucha
I swear I can read the text on the data plate!😉 👍

Bernhard Schrock
Slavo: congratulations, you don't need glasses! 🙂
As I already wrote, in the originally the lower fuselage area was covered in fabric. However, in the kit thus structure is shown incorrectly: by recessed panel lines. After filling with CA I wonted to restore them but shied away from it because I did not know how to hold the steel ruller during the process. Today I had in enough time to do it and I'm happy with the result.

Bernhard Schrock
Another difficult obstacle overcome: the clear part is in place without damage.

bughunter
Absolute precision work! Fantastic! 👍

Alex K
What a jewel!

Lochsa River
a true masterpiece...considering where you started. That was fun to watch unfold!

Zsolt Czegle
Das ist wirklich wieder ein MEISTERSTÜCK! Gratuliere! 👍

Sergej I
Wow! 👍 The rigging details and the lights... all details and clean surfaces, transparencies... just wow!

Elias Korompilis
Excellent!!

Hanno Kleinecke
Fertig ! Sehr schön geworden der Herr Mulligan ! Beautiful details, rigging and engine and surfaces look super realistic 👍

LucLuke B
You worked magic on that one too!

Lochsa River
How did you manage to blend in the windows so well? Especially around the front with the styrene strips. The work is amazing.

Bernhard Schrock
I am just enjoying my second coffee and am also enjoying your nice comments. Thank you very much! Indeed, it was a very interesting experience to build a 71 year-old kit. As I have already written there are even today some manufacturers who do this job hardly better than Hawk did in 1949 without CAD and without PC...
Lochsa_River: thanks for your interest. I have glued the plastic strips before installing the clear part. I used Tamiyas CA. The clear part is also glued completely with Tamiya's CA. Always using very little CA at a time. Thus it is possible avoid the fogging.

Neuling
Wonderful build.

Dominik Weitzer
agree with the comments above. very nice!

Lochsa River
I think the panel line wash might be the most impressive part.

To have that kind of clean presentation of dark lines against a white background and have them be this clean...very impressive.

How did you do it?

Slavo Hazucha
It's beautiful - fresh & clean just out of the hangar... Flawless surface work, the engine is a gem and the curve of the front screen a real looker... Big show! 👍

Juergen Klinglhuber
Sehr schön! Great looking Mulligan.

bughunter
Your flawless builds are always impressive and creates beautiful results - Mr. Mulligan is a stunner!

Cuajete
Fantastic building, Bernhard. Congrats!

Bernd Korte
Wieder mal Museumsqualität!

Bernhard Schrock
Lochsa_River: as usual I use for wash a color only a bit darker than the surface. In the case of MM i used a mix of middle gray (HU125) and clear varnish (for better viscosity). Most of the engraved panel lines are deep enough for additional "shadow-effect".

Lochsa River
do you usually use varnish in the mix? Do you have a clear coat on first?

how do you remove the excess wash?

lots of questions...now...how on earth did you sand that styrene so smooth at the front of the plane?

Bernhard Schrock
Moin moin Lochsa-River🙂 No problem, I'm happy about questions. In the most cases I'm using no clear varnish in the wash-mix, just for white.
Usually I'm using no clear varnish for entire surfaces of the model. That would spoil the effect of an irregular shine of the model. My white (in fact very light grey) was glossy enough for a model in 1:48 in my opinion. I'm convinced that there is also a scale effect in the shininess of the surface. A very glossy surface would look wrong in a 1:48 model und even worse in a 1:72....

Sanding:
before sanding I protect the remaning surface from damage with Tamiya tape. In this case I used Micro mesh 3200 for the transition area between the fuselage front and clear part. So I did not have deep scratches and i could polish the area with a cotton swab & polishing paste quickly.

Oliver Zwiener
So viele klasse Projekte dieses Jahr - da werden wohl 3 Meter in Lingen 2021 benötigt 😉

Bernhard Schrock
Moin Oliver. Danke für die Blumen. Ich vermute bzw. befürchte, dass du mit deiner Einschätzung recht hat. Ich habe mir auch schon Gedanken gemacht, was die aktuelle Situation für den verschobenen Termin für die EME 2020 bedeutet...

Naram
looks so amazing. thanks for giving explanation of the pics. it is inspirational.

bughunter
I want to see those models in real! I certainly can't believe what I see.

Treehugger
Fun seeing these various old style kits that ends up looking this nice. 🙂

Zbynek Honzik
This is a model of museum quality! And it looks like in 1/32. Excellent work again, Bernhard.

Spanjaard
how did i miss this beauty before???? amazing job as usual

Erik Off
A real beauty. Well done!

Daniel Klink
Wunderschönes Ergebnis Bernhard.
Du baust diese Golden Era Flieger wirklich wie kein zweiter Bravo 👍
Bin immer total baff wenn ich Deine Baufortschritte vefolge und was Du aus den teils wirklich her mittelmässigen kits rausholst 👍

Alec K
And that, folks, is how it's done. Fantastic and inspirational work, again. 👍