Making the moulds was actually very successful and much easier than I expected. Once cured, it was sprayed with release agent and the second half poured on top. The bottom part of the mould is shown being made above. However, I made a mould in RTV rubber and had a go. I’ve never done white metal casting before and suspected that I wasn’t starting with the easiest subject. However, I thought I’d try a plan B and attempt to make moulds from some suitable turnbuckles that I have left over from the Camel model, (Hasegawa provide injection moulded ones for the external rigging) then cast the them in white metal. My initial idea was to make the turnbuckles out of brass tube and stainless steel wire, as detailed earlier in this blog. A pic of the Camel effort is shown below. However, that didn’t really capture the full effect, so I hoped to improve on it with the Fokker. I’ve wasn’t happy with the Hasegawa method of simulating rigging turnbuckles on the Camel and so developed a slightly better version of my own. So a fair amount of activity without a great deal to show for it.įirst up: the completion of the fuselage rigging.
There are still a couple of figures to complete for that, but I’ll put up a short post on it when they’re done. It’s been a while since my last post, but I’ve been busy in the interim completing a lot of detail tasks on the Fokker as well as building a second 1:72 Hawker Hurricane and diorama, as I liked the one I made for my friend so much I wanted something similar for myself.
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