My Trumpeter VIIc build

**drschmidt** · 08-04-2017, 01:46 PM

More detail work on the diesel engine. Aging and weathering with different filters and washes. Time consuming.....Attached the six tiny PE hand wheels for the cylinder check and the bigger red wheels as well. Getting there.

**drschmidt** · 08-08-2017, 01:58 PM

First coarse assembly of the diesel engine compartment. Looks quite good. Again, the part below the floor has to be altered quite substantially to actually make sense. But that's doable.....

**salmon** · 08-08-2017, 07:37 PM

That room alone is a masterpiece. Makes me want to save my pennies to buy one of these.

**drschmidt** · 08-18-2017, 04:05 PM

Getting close to the finsih line with the diesel engine compartment:

**salmon** · 08-18-2017, 06:05 PM

I think having both engines in here would make it that more impressive. As it is, still looks great!

**drschmidt** · 08-19-2017, 01:28 AM

Thought about it, but then you would only see the backside of the right engine which looks quite boring (just the exhaust manifold

**knucklebutt** · 08-20-2017, 05:30 PM

Schmidt: appreciate this thread , starting mine tomorrow, probably be about 9 months to a year build. this is gonna be a hoot

Denis

**drschmidt** · 08-21-2017, 08:43 AM

Mine will have taken about a year, too, when it'S finished.

**scott t** · 08-23-2017, 12:41 PM

This looks super!
The edge of the walkway looks a little chunky. What if you added a little overhang and some
slots to make it look like beams and plate similar to the motor mounting rails.

**drschmidt** · 08-24-2017, 02:21 AM

It actually has beams beneath it.......not visible. Well, the floors could, in my opinion, do with a PE set. Make beams, add PE plating, and voila.....But I'm already altering the kit quite substantially, and I don't want to be on the kit for 3-4 years. So I went with the original parts.

**knucklebutt** · 08-24-2017, 02:17 PM

so today was the day to start pulling pieces for paint: figured i would start with the crew as there's a bunch of redundant stuff to do, like to get that out of the way
THEN: I discover they are all pieces that have to be assembled "Holy crap" now Im concerned if I assemble them now they might not fit well into their respective placers in the Sub: Your thoughts ????

Denis