Spitfire 1b - KP 1/72 and PixScan tests

[Spookytooth]

All looking very nice Ced.

The Idents and roundels are great, a lot better than I could do.

 

Simon.

[Cookenbacher]

Out of 'likes' again Ced, but expect another when they're replenished!

 

The overall effect is stunning - with codes and roundels together with overall scheme giving a very realistic result in my opinion.

[CedB]

Thanks Jon - you really are too kind and yes, there was wine last night!

Thanks Simon - very kind of you too. I'm sure you could do this but, to be honest, the opportunities to mess up are legion and I'm not sure it'll be my preferred method in the future; special models only

Thanks Cookie, not only for your kind comments but also for giving me the ideas in the first place

 

Here's how (what I call) Cookie's walkways turned out:

 

 

I like that, a lot. I found it surprisingly easy to get the tape straight down the lines and quite easy to maintain the right gap. Apart from ensuring that the ends of the tape are square(ish) it's a simple job that produces a great result, much better than fighting with stencil decals and getting, grrrrr, silvering anyway.

 

Touch ups this morning. Bill's dotty method. Apart from accidentally dotting blue on a white part of the roundel she's now ready for serials and stencils:

 

 

 

Then it'll be matt coat, prop on and off with the canopy masks - can't wait to see how the Ultra Mask worked there; I'm hoping its thinness will lead to nice frames for a change.

 

I'll have a look at the stash, choose some candidates, check that the wheels up option works and let you know what my next, OOB, easy build is going to be.

[keefr22]

4 minutes ago, CedB said:

special models only

 

And this little gem is already one of those!

 

Lovely job Ced!

 

Keith

[giemme]

3 minutes ago, keefr22 said:

 

And this little gem is already one of those!

 

Lovely job Ced!

 

Keith

Agreed 100%, she look so beautiful with painted on markings and codes  

 

9 minutes ago, CedB said:

my next, OOB, easy build is going to be.

Yeah, sure. OOB  

 

Ciao

[johnd]

Those walkway lines turned out very nicely, but shouldn't they go under the roundel, as it were?

 

John.

[Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies]

Smashing job Ced. You should be very pleased with that

[Hamden]

48 minutes ago, CedB said:

I'm not sure it'll be my preferred method in the future; special models only

ALL YOUR MODELS ARE SPECIAL!

 

The Spit looks absolutely STUNNING!

 

    Roger

[bbudde]

Hello Ced, that really looks grand. Better than any decal could do.  You can be proud of that for sure. Maybe I should look for the colourcoat range here in Germany. Some of them are very interesting for me, especially that yellow, red and blue. Cheers

[bbudde]

2 hours ago, giemme said:

2 hours ago, CedB said:

my next, OOB, easy build is going to be.

Yeah, sure. OOB  

Yes and  the main question is: Out of what box?

[Biggles87]

Great job on the painted walkway lines, I'm also now a convert.

 

John

[perdu]

Looking awfully nice Ced

 

Bill's dotty...

 

Hmm not about to argue with you my friend, you have proven that you know of what you aver

 

[Spookytooth]

She is looking beautiful Ced.

The hard work has paid off well.

 

Simon.

 

[TheBaron]

Some of your Cedest work yet. I keeps saying it each time but your painting just gets better and better.

[CedB]

Thanks Keith, very kind

Thanks Giorgio No, really, I need a rest from all this fiddling. I've got two Red Arrows out of the boxes, Airfix Gnat and Hawk. They have pilots, wheel up option, everything! More later.

Thanks John (D) As the greatly missed Edgar said, NOTHING goes over the roundels. Trouble is, with deep panel lines, it's hard to show this:

 

Nothing over the roundel! by Ced Bufton, on Flickr

 

Thanks Jamie, especially for the wonderful paints!

Roger you're far too kind, thanks very much

Thanks Benedikt I'm loving the Colourcoats and I hope you can source some, soon.

Thanks John (Biggles), painted walkways are going to be my new standard I think

Thanks Bill - yes, your dotty touch up technique

Thanks Simon, very kind

Thanks Tony - it's the paint, honestly. My skills are still 'meh'

 

 

Serials and stencils started this afternoon. Tiny, fiddly things:

 

Seven stencils - count ‘em! by Ced Bufton, on Flickr

 

Turned the model over, cut out the other serial, held it with tweezers and dipped it into the water and it immediately wrapped itself around the tweezers! Gaaaaaaah! I tried dipping it in the water so it floated flat but no way was this mess going to sort itself out:

 

 

What a mojo killer!

Checked the stash for suitable serials - what! No black serials?

No worries, I can design and print out another serial.

Tried again to install the RAF fonts on my Mac - no joy.

Tried to snapshot a screen image of the font - useless.

Then my old grey matter stirred and I remembered that the Kitsworld idents, strangely, also had serials so I cut them out:

 

 

Out to the Theatre tonight - hopefully my mojo will be restored in the morning.

[Tomoshenko]

Great work Ced. Okay there are a couple of flaws, but all part of the learning process. Walkway lines look superb.

[Stew Dapple]

Yep, she's a little beauty Ced

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

[Cookenbacher]

That's looking great Ced! What a pain with the serial though - I hate when that happens.

One day I'll get up the gumption to try and mask 8" serials as well, but I think it's an iffy proposition.

[bbudde]

Hello Ced , sorry about the serials. I can feel your pain.  Gotten this for more than once in my past life, when I was a child/ young lad building planes etc.  And I really do fear to get (of getting?) this on my recovered diecasts again.

Maybe someone has some spare for you to exchange them.

Cheers and a nice evening.

Edited February 23, 2018 by bbudde

[giemme]

49 minutes ago, Cookenbacher said:

One day I'll get up the gumption to try and mask 8" serials as well, but I think it's an iffy proposition.

I'd like to see that, Cookie. This could open up a new way for my 1/72 models, so I'm very interested

 

Ciao

[perdu]

Water

deTransferscals

Do you seriously still dip them in a bath of water?

I am sorry but if so, as you realise now no doubt, it is a method destined for disaster

I (NOW) take a transfer sized bubble of water on my worktop and dip each piece in the puddle for long enough to let the fixing film loosen

Then take it with tweezers to the point of impact or pain, at least that way I am controlling most of the job, then slide the print off the slide backing paper when it is where you want to place it

 

As the task proceeds I will top up the bubble with my tweezers

How do I pick up bubbles of water with tweezers?

simplicity itself

 

Pop the tweezers into the water with the points closed

This will cause a blob of water to hold to the inside of the tweezer with surface tension

 

And when you get to where the bubble is/was just tip the pointed tweezers to the surface and the tension will release and drop a droplet exactly where it will do the most good

 

With this control all the pieces can be picked out as you need them and wetted and dropped in place

 

Might be worth you trying it instead of bathing them in BIG WATER

[The Spadgent]

Spectacular work on the roundels, codes and walk lines Ced. I’m well impressed.

 

jont

[keefr22]

5 hours ago, CedB said:

it's the paint, honestly. My skills are still 'meh'

 

Sorry Ced, but I have to say this - that is flippin' nonsense!! 

 

The paint is great, but it doesn't apply itself! Your skill in doing so is now way past 'meh'...!!

 

Keith

 

 

[Harley John]

Fantastic work Ded

[CedB]

Thanks Tomo, Stew, Benedikt, Giorgio, Johnny, Keith and John - you're all very kind

 

16 hours ago, Cookenbacher said:

That's looking great Ced! What a pain with the serial though - I hate when that happens.

One day I'll get up the gumption to try and mask 8" serials as well, but I think it's an iffy proposition.

Masking 8" serials? Seriously?

 

15 hours ago, perdu said:

Water

deTransferscals

Do you seriously still dip them in a bath of water?

I am sorry but if so, as you realise now no doubt, it is a method destined for disaster

I (NOW) take a transfer sized bubble of water on my worktop and dip each piece in the puddle for long enough to let the fixing film loosen

Then take it with tweezers to the point of impact or pain, at least that way I am controlling most of the job, then slide the print off the slide backing paper when it is where you want to place it

 

As the task proceeds I will top up the bubble with my tweezers

How do I pick up bubbles of water with tweezers?

simplicity itself

 

Pop the tweezers into the water with the points closed

This will cause a blob of water to hold to the inside of the tweezer with surface tension

 

And when you get to where the bubble is/was just tip the pointed tweezers to the surface and the tension will release and drop a droplet exactly where it will do the most good

 

With this control all the pieces can be picked out as you need them and wetted and dropped in place

 

Might be worth you trying it instead of bathing them in BIG WATER

Another lesson from my master modeller friend. Must try that. New setup:

 

New setup by Ced Bufton, on Flickr

 

Couldn't waste the water warmer. My sharp tweezers won't pick up much water so I used a brush. Hmmm. I can see how that will avoid twisting transfers so on with the replacement serials and the rest of the stencils:

 

 

Some time later:

 

 

Finished, thanks goodness.

The KP instructions are less than helpful IMHO and some of the stencils are missing? Weird.

No one's going to see them on the ceiling anyway.

 

I brushed some Micro Sol on the bottom ones, mainly to try to avoid silvering, and the KP trestle stencils (which are a bit vague to be honest) immediately wrinkled. I'll have to leave that to dry now but I do want to put some Sol on the serials too.

 

When that's dry I can matt coat, then it's off to the RFI for me!