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On 23/05/2017 at 00:17, Learstang said:

Very impressive work on the Valiant, and great work with the resin parts!

 

Regards,

 

Jason

Cheers, it's starting to get there now.

 

Resin parts in place and joints filled, not too much to sand down, luckily!

 

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The filler behind the main gear bays is in the airbrakes as the prototype airbrakes were very different.

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Got the vacform mould made and it works ok, from left to right the vacform mould, first moulding from white plastic and three clear blisters. The far right one isn't yellowed but is in the shadow of my lamp!

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Not sure yet whether to use the clear mouldings as they are a bit thin and might get squashed. I might use the white one and set the round window into it, it will glue onto the fuselage better as well.

 

Steve.

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Thanks James.

 

I went with the white plastic moulding and set the clear window into it, definitely better than the thin clear moulding. The last thing I wanted was for the blister to get squashed after doing the Alclad :blahblahblah:

 

Managed to get the filler rubbed down this evening and the joints look good so the next step is a squirt of primer. No doubt that will show up where some more work is needed but I don't think there'll be too much.

 

I'll get some more photos tomorrow before it's primed.

 

Steve

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Had a bit of an accident with the one wing cracking open down the resin joint whilst I was clearing the filler out of a couple of panel lines. It was one of those moments where you see hours of work about to disappear before your eyes! Luckily it glued back in place ok and only needed a touch more filler so with that sanded down it's ready for the first painting session.

 

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The photos show some work still to do, but I'm happy with that.

 

Steve

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Thanks guys.

 

I tidied a few things up and got a coat of primer on. Looks a lot better now it's all one colour.

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On 25/06/2017 at 23:16, Martian Hale said:

This is seriously impressive modelling; love it!

 

Martian

 

On 28/06/2017 at 09:35, snapper_city said:

Great progress.  Watching with interest. 

 

Thanks, it feels like it's getting closer to the end now.

 

Primer rubbed down and a few blemishes sorted out, just given it a couple of coats of gloss black ready for the Alclad. I'm going to leave this for a few days to harden off first and then I need to tackle the intake vanes, which will be fun.....

 

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On ‎29‎/‎01‎/‎2017 at 3:51 PM, BritJet said:

Steve

 

This looks interesting. Its superb.

 

That picture of a Valiant taking off at the top..... There is an Avro Ashton Lurking !

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On ‎22‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 8:32 PM, BritJet said:

Had a bit of an accident with the one wing cracking

 

It really is a Valiant then.

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Oh great, as all of my photos have disappeared it looks like the Photobucket police have caught up with me. I'll re-host them and change the links as soon as I can.

 

On 02/07/2017 at 18:36, bzn20 said:

 

This looks interesting. Its superb.

 

That picture of a Valiant taking off at the top..... There is an Avro Ashton Lurking !

 

Thanks, the Ashton is on my to do list as well, Farnborough airshow 1951, I'd love to borrow a Tardis......

 

On 02/07/2017 at 19:17, bzn20 said:

 

It really is a Valiant then.

 

Well this hobby is supposed to be about creating miniature versions correct down to the last detail! I was lucky that it only caused a small amount of damage.

 

I'm hoping to get the black polished and some Alclad on over the weekend.

 

Steve  

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I thought it would be better to fit the intake vanes before spraying the Alclad and risk damaging it with lots of handling. To get the shapes somewhere near right took several attempts and this is the last one, the vertical vanes aren't glued in so that I can later scan them.

 

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Once I'd got the shapes right I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut them in 0.3mm plastic card, it hasn't cut all the way through but that's a good thing as the vanes are small and would be easily lost. A scalpel blade along each cut line soon releases them and then the slots cleared out. 

 

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I fitted the horizontal vane first and left it to harden off for a while.

 

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Then the tedious fitting of the vertical vanes, slight adjustments to fit on each one. At the moment they are only glued to the horizontal vane so I can adjust the angles if needed before a spot of glue top and bottom. Each one needs to be vertical from the front and angled back, from top to bottom, from the side to match the intake. 

 

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Just need to do the same on the other side now.....

 

Steve

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Not had very much time to work on this over the summer due to work but I sprayed some Alclad Polished Aluminium on and the reflections are impressive....

 

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But.....

 

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The Alclad has attacked the gloss black base coat in quite a few places so I've rubbed them down and need to respray the black. I hadn't sprayed any Alclad on the left outer wing.

 

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Whilst this is annoying it's not too bad to fix and it's likely to give some variation in the tone of the Alclad which is good.:penguin:

 

Steve

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Thanks. Some of the Alclad paints need a gloss black base coat to make them shiny, otherwise they just look like silver paint. You can get different tones in the Alclad by varying the base coat colours, I tried a dark blue and got a mirror-like finish. It was too shiny even for the Valiant!

 

I've not had it attack the base coat before but it's not too serious.

 

Steve

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