Robert Podkoński
Taking a first-row seat here 😉

Bernhard Schrock Author
Hello Robert, welcome! You're so fast🙂 ! I just cut photos properly. Popcorn is coming soon. The BT-14 also had a smaller engine and therefore a smaller cowling than the T-6. This time I went a slightly different way: I shortened the spare cowling from the P-61 from Monogramm, sawed out an 8 mm wide segment and forced the cowling into the right position with 0.4 mm wire. After 1 minute in the cooking pot in hot water, the cowling now remain in the right shape and can be glued.

Alec K
Next to Robert 👍 🙂

Alex K
👀

Michael Kohl
Hi there. Joining too.

Bernhard Schrock Author
Today I tried something new. The kit of the T-6 from Monogram is very solid, but belongs to the old generation with raised engravings. As one of the few kits of Monogram the Texan has panel lines AND rivets. I wanted to try out if it is possible to exchange the raised engravings for recessed ones and to preserve the rivets. In my opinion, that would be the right way to represent the surface. For the first wing upper side I needed 1 hour, for the other 45 minutes and I find the result amazing. I won't do it on the bottom because I'm too lazy 🙂

Spanjaard
keeping the rivets while changing the raised lines for engraved ones? if somebody can pull it is Bernhard 🙂 (lazy is the last thing i would say about you 😄 😄 )

Alec K
Wow amazing! How you managed to engrave the raised panel lines without obliterating the rivet detail shall remain a mystery to me.

Bernhard Schrock Author
It wasn't that bad. I tried to put the new engraving exactly on the existing panel line. Then I carefully removed the excess material with a curved scalpel to minimize further sanding/processing. I also did not use sandpaper but „Schleifflies", a kind of steel wool made of synthetic. I don't know what the stuff is called in English, so I took a picture. Available in different „sizes" at my favorite model shop: the Sockelshop. Has everything, sends everything, very cheap and fast.🙂🙂
BTW: The rivets have become a little flatter. It cannot be avoided even with an abrasive that adapts to the contours.

Spanjaard
thanks Bernhard, that is called SCM Search: Steel wool* (i am surprised that there is only one in the database)

Alec K
I did try to engrave on top of raised panel lines once, I don't recall it going well 😭. Maybe I'll have to give it anothe go. The Schleifflies is probably what USer would call a "scouring pad" or popularly known as Scotch-Brite (the brand name). The rivets still look great 👍

Spanjaard
I believe that scotch-Brite is usually made of some artificial fiber, while steel wool is basically metal. after another search, I think Alec K is right and Schleifflies is more scouring pad or Scotch-Brite than metal

Michael Kohl
He is.

Hans-Jürgen Haag
👀

Timmie
Just in time to witness the start. Following

Kenneth
„Schleifvlies" is also available at your local DIY (Baumarkt; OBI, Hagebau etc.) in different grades, that's where I get mine…

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Super Handwerk mit der Haube! Da muss Mann erstmal darauf kommen!👍👍👍