1/144 Kiev by Dave Wooley

[Dave Wooley]

More components of the Head Light radar laid out ready for assembly .
As mentioned each of these were scratch built some time ago but progress is now continuing .
Making up the Missile tracking radars .

On each of these radars tube frames supports two small stabilizing sails. This is simulated
using .31 mm wire and folded to form a U shape .

Each of these U frames are added to the radar housing.

Each sail {.25mm thickness litho plate} is added to the U frame


Each of the components laid out thus far with the smaller missile tracking housing
and dish at the bottom of the picture.

Radar housing and reflector dish. The two Vs in the foreground are the feed horn
support structures with the feed horn conveniently cut from 1mm od styrene rod.

Almost completed.


Base mountings are added to the radar housing .

Dave Wooley
Making the parts are one thing but will they fit? More to come .

[mark_sch]

Dave,
Excellent job!!!!
Mark

[Dave Wooley]

With the two smaller missile tracking radars completed. The larger target
tracking dishes along with the feed horn supports and the feed horns can be
fitted to the side boxes.


Now will the smaller arrays fit? Thankfully they do !


The final job before painting , fitting the reflector back supports .

Back supports in place .

At last applying the paint

Ready for storage until required.

Next job completing the finer detailing of the SA-N-3 launchers.
Dave Wooley

[madrob]

Looking at the stunning amount of detail you manage to get on the small parts, and its hard to tell by pictures just how small some of these parts are untill we see a finger in the picture, i bet you dont suffer from hand shake

Stunning build so far

[Bill Waldorf]

I must tell you, those radars are just great. Beautiful job. Very precise work. I'm sure the whole thing will be just amazing!!

[Dave Wooley]

Thank you Rob and Bill for your kind comments. I really do hope the whole project goes as I hope it will . Although the hull has been given a finish coat , it needs the anti foul , boot topping and the deck finishes as well as the detail added to the sponsons and boat recesses . At the moment I'm glazing which seems to be going according to the master plan I'll show this in due course.
Dave Wooley

[Capit�o Norbert]

Perfect radar's work

[flyund95]

Absolutely brilliant work

[J. Soca]

Marvelous, simply marvelous

Jose

[Dave Wooley]

Thank you all for your kind comments and support . I'm sure if just some of the techniques shown so far can be used on other types of models and it benefits others in their build then that makes the effort worthwhile and me a happy modeller .
Dave Wooley

The more I do the more I want to do .

[JIM BAUMANN]

Top work Dave!--the Application of paint really shows how clean the basework is!



JB

[kalkurap]

Dave,

I was away from this site for a while, took me several weeks to catch with your build thus far. I like how you divided such a massive build into smaller sub projects, must have helped you quite a bit to keep the momentum going. I find myself get stuck sometimes just because I do not focus, instead try to do many things at the same time; nothing gets done eventually. I see myself thinking more in terms of sub projects in the future.

I also liked your use of jigs to aid construction of parts. Again, this is something that I tend to overlook, as I do not want to spend time building a job. After looking at your build techniques, I need to change the way I approach things.

There is nothing more for a novice modeler like me than to watch and learn from a thread like this. You are building types of ships that interest me, in a media that I like to use, and showing us how every aspect of the build is planned and executed, right down to masking and painting. I am sure it has been a lot of effort to document your build, but trust me this thread is going to serve as a reference for a lot of people like me fore a long time to come.

[Avery Boyer]

It's...so...beautiful...

Absolutely amazing work, the precision and detail are just stunning. Very well done, the paintwork really makes it all come together and it looks fantastic.

[Dave Wooley]

Dave,

I was away from this site for a while, took me several weeks to catch with your build thus far. I like how you divided such a massive build into smaller sub projects, must have helped you quite a bit to keep the momentum going. I find myself get stuck sometimes just because I do not focus, instead try to do many things at the same time; nothing gets done eventually. I see myself thinking more in terms of sub projects in the future.

I also liked your use of jigs to aid construction of parts. Again, this is something that I tend to overlook, as I do not want to spend time building a job. After looking at your build techniques, I need to change the way I approach things.

There is nothing more for a novice modeler like me than to watch and learn from a thread like this. You are building types of ships that interest me, in a media that I like to use, and showing us how every aspect of the build is planned and executed, right down to masking and painting. I am sure it has been a lot of effort to document your build, but trust me this thread is going to serve as a reference for a lot of people like me fore a long time to come.

Hi Kalkurap First off thank you for your comments but the real credit for the way the build is presented goes to ARH .It's through his encouragement that I was able to develop some of the methods for presenting a build on a dedicated site such as this. It is only when I arrived on this site some 7 years ago that I saw for the first time how this was done. It was a different technique to that in the model magazines which I was familiar with and required a different approach. I really appreciate your comments as they are indeed words of encouragement, and we all need that from time to time .I can understand that a build such as this may not be of interest to all , I would be amazed if it was but hopefully the methods used can be adapted and applied on other types of models.
Dave Wooley .

[Dave Wooley]

It's...so...beautiful...

Absolutely amazing work, the precision and detail are just stunning. Very well done, the paintwork really makes it all come together and it looks fantastic.

Thank you Avery
Dave Wooley

[ARH]

Dave,

I was away from this site for a while, took me several weeks to catch with your build thus far. I like how you divided such a massive build into smaller sub projects, must have helped you quite a bit to keep the momentum going. I find myself get stuck sometimes just because I do not focus, instead try to do many things at the same time; nothing gets done eventually. I see myself thinking more in terms of sub projects in the future.

I also liked your use of jigs to aid construction of parts. Again, this is something that I tend to overlook, as I do not want to spend time building a job. After looking at your build techniques, I need to change the way I approach things.

There is nothing more for a novice modeler like me than to watch and learn from a thread like this. You are building types of ships that interest me, in a media that I like to use, and showing us how every aspect of the build is planned and executed, right down to masking and painting. I am sure it has been a lot of effort to document your build, but trust me this thread is going to serve as a reference for a lot of people like me fore a long time to come.

Hi Kalkurap First off thank you for your comments but the real credit for the way the build is presented goes to ARH .It's through his encouragement that I was able to develop some of the methods for presenting a build on a dedicated site such as this. It is only when I arrived on this site some 7 years ago that I saw for the first time how this was done. It was a different technique to that in the model magazines which I was familiar with and required a different approach. I really appreciate your comments as they are indeed words of encouragement, and we all need that from time to time .I can understand that a build such as this may not be of interest to all , I would be amazed if it was but hopefully the methods used can be adapted and applied on other types of models.
Dave Wooley .

Thanks for your kind words Dave, yes you may have followed my way but the way you have built this one and showed it is a credit to you and your skills, nothing to do with me.
looking forward to seeing more very soon.

[roy allen]

Sorry i haven't been in contact for a while Dave but things have gone a bit screwy my end.
Anyways, love the build and now the paint is going on he's coming alive.
I've been thinking of getting one of those hole punches for a while, what's the dia sizes like

Roy

[Dave Wooley]

Sorry i haven't been in contact for a while Dave but things have gone a bit screwy my end.
Anyways, love the build and now the paint is going on he's coming alive.
I've been thinking of getting one of those hole punches for a while, what's the dia sizes like

Roy

Hi Roy good to hear from you . The size of the punch is from a minimum of 1.5mm to 5mm maximum and will cut up to 1.5mm in thickness with ease .
Dave Wooley

[Jimmy Conway]

Hi Dave, I'm following this build, and it is amazing me each day... very impressive the precision and detailing of the radar, your hands are a manual-machine-photoetchingggggggg...
Congratulations on wonderful job, I can learn and inspire a lot with this ship. Thanks for sharing.

Best regards from Brazil!
Jimmy Conway

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Dave, I'm following this build, and it is amazing me each day... very impressive the precision and detailing of the radar, your hands are a manual-machine-photoetchingggggggg...
Congratulations on wonderful job, I can learn and inspire a lot with this ship. Thanks for sharing.

Best regards from Brazil!
Jimmy Conway

Your very welcome Jimmy and thanks , more to come .

Dave Wooley