OzH Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Sorry all, forgot to do the sprue picture, so here's the box top: Here's my first progress pics of my Sword 1/48 Auster Mk III. Interior nearly finished and main componants ready to go: So far no problems with the build, details are a bit chunky otherwise fine.
perry Posted February 22, 2008 Posted February 22, 2008 I'll be watching this one Oz, never seen one of these modelled before. keep up the good work! Theres one of these which flies pretty regular around here
OzH Posted February 25, 2008 Author Posted February 25, 2008 Ok, Interior is done, nice and simple. The seat comes as one bench seat, I cut this into two seats as I think this is more accurate. I have discovered that the MkIII had only the two seats, the Mk IV onwards had an additional seat in the back. Also the radio gear was behind the pilot (hmmm not to useful that!) later models had it either next to the pilot or the radio op sat in the back with it. I made some radio gear from the spares box and stashed it behind the pilots seats along with some batteries. Seat belts are tamiya prepainted, I just love these, I kow its cheating a bit, but what the hell....
OzH Posted March 8, 2008 Author Posted March 8, 2008 Quick update Had a bit of a disaster removing the masking!! Fixable, but still a pain!
Muller Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 Bummer! Doesn't look like a write-off. Nice paint job btw!
palacefan Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 nice faded paint job. cant wait to see it fixed and decaled
OzH Posted March 21, 2008 Author Posted March 21, 2008 Been away with work, so not had much time to work on my projects. Managed to get this fixed today, will prep for decals tonight:
JimInOz Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 Aced it Oz, what a save, this is going to look great . Cheers Jim
OzH Posted March 27, 2008 Author Posted March 27, 2008 OK, here's the final shots, decaled just a bit of weathering and were done. And the base Before After
Mike Posted March 27, 2008 Posted March 27, 2008 Just picked up the end of this thread from your finished build article... VERY impressed with that diorama base. Care to share the bits in between the before & after?
OzH Posted March 27, 2008 Author Posted March 27, 2008 (edited) Just picked up the end of this thread from your finished build article... VERY impressed with that diorama base. Care to share the bits in between the before & after? Thanks for the compliments Mike Sorry forgot to take any pics between the two! The base is a chopping board, bought years ago while serving in Germany, they seem to love these things, they are ten a penny (Euro now!!) The black PSP plating is cut from the Eduard base, with some individual bits cut out. The Brass PSP is Aeroclubs etch set that I originally planned to use for the whole thing but it was just toooo fidilly! I pained it overall Dark earth, high lighted and weathered the PSP with green, gun metal etc and some of Phils magic stuff. I've used quite a lot of PSP, 1/1 scale, in my time and know it goes white before it goes to the metal, I think it has a heavy duty undercoat in white under the green, I tried to replicate this here. Then used Citidel Sand (with lumps in it!) and then grass, from the same, all stuck down with PVA glue, quick and easy!! Hope that helps Edited March 27, 2008 by OzH
OzH Posted March 28, 2008 Author Posted March 28, 2008 Here's some more pictures of the compelted build
keefr22 Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Thanks for the compliments MikeSorry forgot to take any pics between the two! The base is a chopping board, bought years ago while serving in Germany, they seem to love these things, they are ten a penny (Euro now!!) The black PSP plating is cut from the Eduard base, with some individual bits cut out. The Brass PSP is Aeroclubs etch set that I originally planned to use for the whole thing but it was just toooo fidilly! I pained it overall Dark earth, high lighted and weathered the PSP with green, gun metal etc and some of Phils magic stuff. I've used quite a lot of PSP, 1/1 scale, in my time and know it goes white before it goes to the metal, I think it has a heavy duty undercoat in white under the green, I tried to replicate this here. Then used Citidel Sand (with lumps in it!) and then grass, from the same, all stuck down with PVA glue, quick and easy!! Hope that helps Hi Oz, luvvvvly build! Can you tell me how you did the chocks? They have a great looking concrete effect.... Keef
brooksy Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Hi Oz, That is a fantastic finished model and display. I have one in my loft and it's nice to see one all built up and looking so good. The base sets it off a treat. The paintwork is just superb! Great job my friend Regards Andy
OzH Posted March 28, 2008 Author Posted March 28, 2008 Can you tell me how you did the chocks? They have a great looking concrete effect.... Concrete!! they are supposed to be wood! They are made of balsa wood, cut and sanded to the correct size and shape (they look huge on the Auster but are about right against most aircraft, I do have pictures of the Auster with chocks of this size though!) I drilled a hole thourgh the chock and added a bit of chain, I think a broken neclace off of one of my daughters. A wash of tan and a little rust, job done...
keefr22 Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Concrete!! they are supposed to be wood! Oooops. Sorry !!! I thought it'd be a bit of a handful to move concrete chocks of that size (although we used to use concrete tie down blocks of that size, but tended to move them as little as possible!) - I spent a long time staring at the largest pic of the chocks you posted & managed to convince myself that the sides of them had a very nice rough cast concrete effect. I knew my eyesight isn't what it was, but..... Thanks for the reply anyway Oz, & I'm sure I'll be able to use that technique to replicate concrete..... Keef
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