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roughly blu tac'd together to see if i am heading in the right direction. Bearing in mind this is basically 15mm and under macro lens it becomes 15cm its not bad Macro is awful for this kind of thing, look at that seat pan, way to thick, it looks fine to the eye but realistically its 1mm or nearly 48mm thick scaled up, probably should be 5mm ?

Yea but they call it grey/green on the bottle so i just follow suit.

I suppose as this is a work in progress we need some progress. I am experimenting will ideas to make the cockpit look suitably busy and lived in. I have gone for Japanese navy grey green which is a bit more pastel than cockpit green ai think scales down a bit better. These are kit parts not resin, i did buy resin but there is this thinking that resin and PE is an improvement on std parts but quite frankly it usually isn't. Its great for parts that arnt in the box like engines but things like control columns and general parts are often of a poorer quality than the kits offerings. This for example is Aires idea of a detail up part ? while i am having a moan this is airscales key to their decals, can you read the numbers ? and as the decal sheet is a totally different layout to the key......its all just a guess. This is the first time i have used decals for the instrument panel in 1/48, usually i use the kit decals, dry brush or use PE but i never have a great deal of success..especially trying to stick PE to anything least of all the sandwich of a PE instrument panel I now need to work out some detail for the RHS of the cockpit. a chunk is missing as i have removed the escape hatch but i need to come up with a way to make a hydrolic pump and lever that doesnt clash with the seat height lever and also see if i need an oxygen bottle on the back of the seat ? not sure what can be seen at this stage. Bottom line despite my moans i am having great fun

Yea i like the Hase scheme , interesting seat padding in the Finnish machine

Thanks I will go with Japanese navy grey/green, the kit number is BD962 which is Batch 6 Glad they didnt have that big lump with the Red button. saves making it

I think i have a bit of leeway here as most cockpits are different in particular restored flying ones by necessity i would think. do you know what this large unit with the reb centre on the left upper side is ?

Flew to Guernsey on a Dart Herald in the mid 60's, if you think the drone was distinctive outside, its was bloody loud inside

Absolutely great, beautiful job.

Hi Chris Have a look at fantasy print shop generic decals https://www.fantasyprintshop.co.uk/decals/aircraft-decals/1-32-scale/ You may find what you want there ?

Something to make you smile today i managed to drill a 0.2mm hole through the oxygen control valve by eye with a pin drill to take some pipes..at this rate this could take sometime

Very sharp and great fine detail

I hope you put a sign on the inside saying "do not slide door when someone is firing gun...."

You know you have won when the model airplane looks real and the real background looks like a model Great art work on the wings .

There is something quite therapeutic about whittling away at plastic while watching Mayans MC on BBC catch up At the moment i think this is as far as i will go removing panels., i dont think the battery box and the survival kit panels are interesting enough to warrant a huge amount of extra work and i think i am already way outside my comfort zone. That said if i was inside my comfort zone i would very quickly get bored.

Excellent thanks the two items are sockets which explains the short leads , the other side looks like drop tank tap and hydrolic hand pump. Very useful note.

OK so now i have an engine, this is a Mk.22 for a Mosquito but will surface. [/url] i have some flaps [/url I have this side frame, What are the bits on the frame supposed to be ? and on this frame what are these bits supposed to be ? The bit that looks like a stick grenade and the large fish hook ? obviously i know the lever and trim wheel etc. I also have some separate control surfaces

Yes but i received the plans by email on two separate pages with the middle bit missing and no scale ref on the two pages i got, anyway i have sorted it now by printing it off loads of times until the plans fit the model....not really the right way round but its near enough.i

Yes the problem is i have a 1/3 of a wing on one page, a 1/3 on another and the bit in the middle missing so the wing could be any length but now i know it should be 5" to the fuselage centre line that helps. the bit with the scale ref is not on the top of my page, i have printed it off at 118% and that seems to match the kit fuselage from tail to front bulkhead so i am getting somewhere now. Thanks

A Little bit of genius going on here I spray tamiya in fact thats all i spray and i thin it about 60/40 with isopropanol , you can spray at ultra low pressure and it gives good coverage.

Its not far off about the thickness of the plastic frame or 1mm, 2" in real terms . What they should do is print a line of exactly, say 4" on these plans then when you print them out you could double check they are to size.

A400 heading north over Dorking keeping just under the cloud base Very rare sight as we are under the Gatwick and Heathrow flight paths in normal times..

Great job

Keeping us in suspense, go on, take the blu tac off

Gondor The model interior shown above is way out of my league , this is why i said Experts look away I did get the plans from Dogsbody but they bear little relation to the Hasegawa kit in size or dimensions especially the cockpit frame . Also have an Aires set and that is different again from the hasgawa and the plans I have studied many Hurricane cockpits and they are all quite different, most being restorations , i havent found one exactly the same as the black model. At the end of the day i only want this to sit alongside my Hasa Aires spit which is probably just as full of faults anyway and i might as well use the much brighter green i used on the Spit. which was tamiya Cockpit green sprayed thus.

Images on the screen, especially scanned are always difficult to pin down for colour but this looks not far off for a IIc cockpit green