How I assembled the Eiffel tower. Day one, two, three and four.

I sat one evening at work, collected the plane from ICM, blew out the main color with an airbrush and suddenly the paint is over. Think of what to do, give something else will gather, as they say out of the box, so no photo-etched parts, resin, etc., a Simple something, a little. ... Looked catalogs, online stores and suddenly saw a box from the St. Petersburg company "Modeler" Eiffel tower.  That's great. I need it. Special stages do not need any drawings not need to look for information and photos on the Internet a lot.  I took the box and opened it.  What did I see:

1. Box of thick cardboard, closing. Like.
2. Instruction. There is a small history of the Eiffel tower. Interesting. Printed well Assembly scheme - 4 sheets or 8 pages.  At first glance, everything is clear, everything is "transparent".
3. Nine brown sprues and one small decal. The sprues are cast very well, there is no break, there are no spills either, but there are a lot of traces from the pushers, but mostly on the inside. It will be necessary to process (close up) in any way.

It is not necessary to study the instruction for a long time, everything is clear. To begin with, I cut off the parts from the sprues, almost everything. Work for today is one and long: to process details, to cover up traces from gate valves. It took 5 hours. Some parts are processed completely and ready for gluing, some still need to "skin". In fact, the plastic is not handled badly.  I forgot to say that this is a repackaging of the French company "Heller". 

What did I use today:

1. Collet knife,
2. Putty Tamiya 87053 gray,
3. Akan sandpaper: finishing, finishing and coarse abrasive,
4. Spatula for applying putty.

I didn't need anything else today.  All tired, want to sleep all collected and put into a box, probably not for long.

The second day.

A new day began. There was time, and I took out a box from under the table.

So where to continue? First, sandpaper sandpaper zashpatlevannye details-where it was necessary zashpatleval repeatedly.  He bided his time and smoked again. Kinda turned out pretty good. You can start to glue the parts. According to the instructions, everything is clear, there are no questions yet. The Foundation turned out like this:

So as inward founding will be inserted still one part of towers, decided to primed, so as then this will be problematic. After can dig Foundation became look here is so:

Waited for time and minutes through 60 began to glue "columns". Here there were difficulties, putty was necessary and not a little. After I re-patched, I had to leave the model to dry overnight.

Cut off from the gate 4 parts of the "insides" of the base, prepared the parts(cleaned the seams, removed the traces of the pushers), glued them together and primed. Spent on this minutes 30, not more. Also postponed to another day.

Now the next" stage "of the tower is four sides and a "roof". Processed seams and glued parts very quickly. "Saw" almost did not have to. 

On this moment broke a three parts of. So far, no difficulties have arisen. Assembly is a pleasure....

I think that's enough for today.  See you soon!!!

Day three.

Yay, there is free time. I will continue.  Plan the work front for today to assemble the base completely, the second part of the tower and maybe even a third time.

The middle part of the tower was going to "cheers", the only problem is the installation of washers, here once again needed a filler.

And so inserted partitions between racks. Glued the inside of the base, there had to suffer a little, quite a bit) in Some places needed putty.  Picture below:

And here is have bypassed hands until the upper parts of, the most beautiful, as me seems. For durability glued cyanacrylate glue.  

It will remain to process the model with sandpaper, glue together the parts of the tower, Prime, paint, apply rust. Probably have to make a stand. Two or three days and done. See you soon!!!

Day four.

Hi, everybody. It's been more than a month since I started work on assembling the Eiffel tower... and now the holiday has come. I took the parts of my turret out of the box and laid them on the table. Watched-watched, thought over continuation of work.  Well, for starters, glued the parts together. Here is what happened (photo 15).

 The photo below shows the problem areas of this model (photo 16). 

 And now painting. The color chosen sand (washed), Kolor chose the wife saw the tower live. "Blew" from the airbrush in two layers of enamel "akan". The result pleased me.  Photo below.

Now need to will give a bit "naturalness", namely do tower rusty, as a genuine . After that, I will make the base of the tower from a photo frame and plaster, because it is a little crooked, Then I will add an imitation of earth and grass to the base. That's all. See you soon.