moaning dolphin Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Good day all, It has been quite some time since I last posted a completion here so I thought I would dig out my most recent. The first up is a Gloster Gladiator built straight OOB in the Finnsh scheme. Painting was entertaining because I chose to spray so had very tight masking and also the two tone nature of the body work did provide a bit of head scratching but in the end it came through fine. The paints are my trusted Model Master Acrylics which seem to react nicely to my heathen painting attempts. I also had a good go at rigging this thing, after a few nights of mind boggling, eye straining effort it also came good. I used fine stainless steel wire from my secret stock (Gnome ECU OTG tell tale wire for those in the know) cut to length, rolled straight and then CA'd into place (several times in some instances!) All in all quite happy with this, went together well and apart from a couple of broken struts didn't provide any snags at all. Not sure what happened here, the flash seemed to pick up some speckling that cant be seen normally. And here she is amongst a line up of my collection of Airfixs fine array of newly tooled stringbags Cheers now Bob 26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 As a fellow Bluenoser, I must say congrats on a great Gladiator. Very nicely done. That Swordfish looks nice, too. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Great looking Gladiator 👍 ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glatisant Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 That's a tasty looking Gladiator. Very impressive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Excellent build Bob.Great paintwork! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 That's a lovely build. Super paintwork. What did you use for masking, please? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Gnome OTG wire - inspired! I don't hang under Gomes any more, but General Electric's finest might require something similar. I'll go in search later! Nice Gladiator. Jon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invidia Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Nice build, interesting markings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Well done on this very cool aircraft. I have the same in the stash... Lovely wooden prop! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaning dolphin Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 5 hours ago, Vinnie said: That's a lovely build. Super paintwork. What did you use for masking, please? From what I remember the kit paint plans were almost to scale so I cut out the patterns from the plans and then transferred that shape to tamiya masking tape. The wings weren't too bad because they are almost flat, but taking a flat pattern for the fuselage and transferring that to the 3 dimensional kit took a bit of planning and a lot trial and error. Glad you all like it! Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shalako Posted December 13, 2017 Share Posted December 13, 2017 Airfix has done it again, a superb kit and you have done a great work with it Bob. Cheers Shalako 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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