CedB Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Crikey Stew, the Japanese are known for their weird 'people in pain' TV shows but those stencils take the biscuit. Amazing job, looking marvellous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted January 6, 2018 Author Share Posted January 6, 2018 23 hours ago, corsaircorp said: Ok Stew, I pray for you and for Emily... There are special prayer for atheist and big 1/72 floatplanes !! You did great whatever ! Ban the dog from the pub for this week end at least ! I will have a beere for you (That's a kind of prayer is'nt it ??) Is that helping ?? Sincerely. Corsaircorp Oh CC, your logic is impeccable; the thing is... well once the varnish has been applied I will need at least a few hours before it is ready to re-coat if necessary... and the pub is an important part of the dog's socialisation - indeed, it is virtually all he has in the way of a social life, so I would be committing a severe dereliction of my duty as a dog-owner if I was to deny him this simple pleasure, no? 22 hours ago, jrlx said: Excellent job on the decals! Impressive! Good luck finishing it! Jaime Thanks Jaime, I think applying the decals - and the many subsequent coats of Mr Mark Decal Softertm to get them to conform - took about ten years off my life 9 hours ago, CedB said: Crikey Stew, the Japanese are known for their weird 'people in pain' TV shows but those stencils take the biscuit. Amazing job, looking marvellous! Ced I can't help but feel the Japanese are a funny bunch and no mistake. Lovely in many ways, I'm sure, but funny The transfers have all been applied, beaten into more-or-less conformity and sealed with a coat of Klear. Most of the sub-assemblies (apart from the propellers and the torpedoes) have been attached or re-attached to the main airframe. I have to head off to the post office now, to pick up a mysterious parcel from (I suspect) our forum-buddy Procopius, originating (as far as I can tell from the code on the "we-couldn't-deliver-this" card) from Poland and from thence to Halfords to (hopefully, if the idle tykes have assembled it) pick up my new bicycle. After that, there will be varnish. And then the pub. And that's how you break up a sentence so that it cannot really be understood Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Have a good time in the pub Stew (and Jack, of course. Weak excuse using his social life. Good, but weak) Pictures will be required of the completed transfers and the new bike, of course. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Hi Stew! With the extra week in the GB, there's now no excuse to miss the pub and not providing your dog with the much needed socialization Cheers Jaime 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 23 hours ago, CedB said: Have a good time in the pub Stew (and Jack, of course. Weak excuse using his social life. Good, but weak) Pictures will be required of the completed transfers and the new bike, of course. Unfortunately yesterday Jack's social life consisted of barking furiously at another dog in the bar the moment I went to the toilet - or rather the moment I was er, committed, as it were, so I could only listen from the distance of the urinal, which might as well have been the distance from Mars for all I could do about it. Luckily Jack is a regular, and a popular one at that, and Gary the bar manager went over to him and calmed him down. Still, we left soon after that as my mellow had been totally harshed by then. Also having trekked up to Halfords to pick up my new bike I was informed not only was it not ready, but it hadn't actually left the depot yet; they have promised to call me today but since they originally told me it would be ready at 4pm on Thursday, then when that deadlne passed they told me it would be ready on Saturday morning, well... you'll understand I'm sure that I am inclined toward taking their promise with more of a handful of salt than a pinch. 21 hours ago, jrlx said: Hi Stew! With the extra week in the GB, there's now no excuse to miss the pub and not providing your dog with the much needed socialization Cheers Jaime Thanks Jaime, it was reassuring to know I could go over the original limit if I needed to, but in fact I didn't have to Last things first; I added the propellers to the engines, the engines and torpedoes to the wings and varnished overall. Then I removed all the canopy/turret and window masking before attaching the bracing wires to the floats using 110 denier Infini white lycra thread (that's the thickest, I don't know why they use this unit of measurement which I had only ever heard of with regard to stockings before ): Then I added the bottom part of the float, and it worked perfectly and, more to the point, very easily. After that I rigged the wireless antenna with 70 denier Infini (white again, I wanted it less thick than the bracing wires) added the wings and upper turret to the fuselage and painted the navigation lights and... she's done: I have to admit it didn't come out quite as well as I had hoped, there are a lot of little things wrong with it that are fortunately mostly invisible from the distance necessary to photograph the model in order to get it all in frame. Still, overall I am pleased with it; it's a very beautifully moulded and produced kit of an aircraft that I had always liked but never had the chance to build when I was a boy. I can't really negatively criticise the kit at all, most of the issues I encountered were of my own making either down to my usual cack-handed construction methods or the difficulty caused purely by the size of the thing, which is quite pronounced if you only usually make single- or twin-engined models. Anyway it's done now and here we are, thanks very much to all who contributed in any way More pics in the gallery here and even more pics in an RFI post here Cheers, Stew 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 That is an enormous model, but very impressive indeed. I for one cannot see any of the issues you mention - and would not be too worried even if I could because that is something that I would be proud to have in my collection....if I had the space! P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 The finished article looks rather splendid and, I must get a dog so I can leave pubs due to its behaviour rather than be asked to leave because of mine. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Excellent job Stew, she looks lovely Dogs and pubs are a bit of a risk in my experience. We don;t take Mols any more after she pulled the table across the bar 'defending' Mrs B from a chap who'd just come in that she didn't like the look of. I hope you get the bike sorted soon and that they haven't put the wheels on upside down. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Splendid job. I can't see nuffin' wrong with it neither. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrlx Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 Hi Stew! Congratulations for a beautiful and impressive modelling job! I can't see any blemishes either. It seems immaculate from this end of the net! Very well done! This is one I have in my wish list but I need a bigger house before buying one Cheers Jaime 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandboof Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Great work Looks awesome Martin H 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amblypygid Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Splendid indeed, a real showpiece, Stew. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 Fantastic job Stew, but to return to more important matters i.e. dogs & pubs ! Many years ago whilst on our hols in Cornwall with Mrs Jockney and our Golden Retriever "Dizzy" we frequented a pub that actually had a food menu for dogs. Such was the number of dogs in the pub it was actually debatable who was actually bringing who ! Cheers Pat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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