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Cheshiretaurus

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  1. Wow thats an excellent and neat finish. Thought you might be a gluten for punishment when I saw the kit, just goes to show you can polish a tur..... CT
  2. I'm rather getting to like MRP paints Well It was quite easy on the whole, just a case of learning to handle it slightly differently, just trial and error but quickly got success with it. no real issues really on the positives :- Easy to apply and adjust position, adheres well to the surface. conforms well to the surface. negatives :- its very soft and remains so. so very easy to stick your finger in it while handling. but all you do is leave finger print but that dissipates very quickly as its has some fluid like properties. You need to try it to see what I mean. but overall, I recommend it. I tend to use a fine needle and get in close with a very small spray pattern so only needed to mask the edges and not need to cover larger areas. I can maintain a random range of shades and textures this way instead of having a uniform colour that can make things look too toy like. Didnt need much putty either about £1 size was used in total Starting the gloss in preparation for decaling. Enough for tonight Might take a trip to Cosford tomorrow Regards CT
  3. Grey is on. Coffee and lunch break update before masking for the green, Another new toy from Halifax was some AK masking putty. Not used this stuff before have always used white-tac in the past but want to see if the putty is any easier or gives better results, or both. See how I get on later. CT
  4. Saw this on Sunday at Halifax, great looking little diorama. Some very good work Tim.
  5. Right then, Halifax was a fantastic show as always with some outstanding work displayed. With regrets the credit card caught fire as its usage went into 3 figures, oops! Saw one of the great builds from this GB, Tims little 1:44 scale diorama, what a little gem! On to my own P-51 After a bit more research I've found the Academy paint guide for FB387 isn't quite right, It seems to have a white nose area aft of the spinner and white stripes on the wings and tail (Not invasion stripes) so last night and today I've been adding those stripes and masking them off, I've also put the yellow on the wing leading edge and the sky tail band. Lots of masking, but I got something at Halifax to help with the cutting, an AK easy cutting mat. Its not often that I find something really as useful as expected but this one is a game changer. been using it all day. in fact I got so engrossed with the masking and spraying I forgot to take pictures. sorry. Other stuff done are the propeller and primed the bombs they will get some olive drab later. Camo top surfaces tomorrow. Better stop building now before the Bourbon takes too much effect. Best regards CT
  6. And no poaching other modellers ideas, oh and try not to crack the canopy.
  7. Sunday Morning progress report First to go to the paint shop is going to be the RAF MkIII, This will be RAF Polish 315 Sqn FB387 from the Academy decal sheet. Upper cowl fasteners have been done in the same way as before except I didn't drill them out afterwards. Propeller has been assembled, that's going to be painted separately also Im going to have 500lb bombs as the stores, This seems to be whats present on pictures I've found of the sqn. Canopy has been fitted, fitted the windscreen with GS hypo glue but it got messy so put the Malcolm hood on with Gator grip instead. Wing light will go on soon, I've glued a 1.5mm little lenses light inside it. Eduard canopy mask was used and made a first use of the new Molotow masking pen, see how that goes. Bought it having heard it mentioned in the Plastic model mojo podcast recently. Have a long commute to work each way and the podcasts are a good way of making the journey better. Told you the GS hypo was messy, I found it cleans off with IPA but has eaten into the plastic, filled with thin sprue goo and will be sanded smooth again. Academy says the radiator duct was the same colour as the underside, so MRP 112 Medium sea grey inside then put the cover on leaving it partially open. Going to try hair spray chipping so, Alclad dull aluminium on those areas, followed by airbrushed hair spray. Black basing and pre shading and hear is where we are now, medium sea grey underside. mask up tonight I think, but now its a trip down the M62 to Halifax for the model show. Best regards CT
  8. Yep had a few 'it was there all the time moments after emerging from under the bench searches'
  9. Brilliant plan 👍 I need to try this. Got a few nose arts to do on planned future builds.
  10. Looking very neat Stuart, I like the bulkhead idea of masking each end of the cockpit, I must remember and try that on my builds
  11. Spent many an hour filling that seam line on many P51 build over the years too. Until I realised 2 builds ago.😪 As always starting too many builds at once. 🤦‍♂️ CT
  12. Crikey has it been a month since my last update? Id better get cracking on then. 4th P51 has been assembled for the Hun Hunter, Built exactly the same as the other Academy ones however with the previous two builds ended up with a step between the lower nose and the lower wing that I had to sand level. The step as on the 1st two builds Or have a gap I know I'll put some plasticard in as a spacer Think that did the trick Problem fixed just to blend and smooth out now. That was couple of weeks ago, today I got another chance to do some building, I've done the same again with a bit of plasticard to cover the inaccessible seam line on the Academy P51s too. Once set I smoothed out the exposed trailing bit of card. Ive also been filling any remaining visible blemishes with sprue goo and once set sanded those smooth. Now to rescribing lost panel lines. I'm finding it increasingly difficult to see clearly enough (even with optivisors) when scribing exactly how things are going due to having a light grey scribe line on a light grey plastic, I need more contrast so latest technique I'm employing on this is to spray the black primer first before starting the scribing. I find black easier on the eye to see surface detail. The idea is the scribed lines with become light grey exposed plastic against the black background. Ive recently tried this method on another build with good success. After the scribing session I'll go back over those ares with the black primer. This evening Ive given them all a coat of Mr Surfacer 1500 black thinned with the new Mr Rapid thinner. I quite like this new thinner, great for matt finishes, Of course Mr Levelling thinner will still be used for gloss finishes. Think I'm finished modelling for the night . Goodnight and thanks for looking. CT
  13. Very nice, have the same on the bench right now with the same fit issues but you've made good work of them.
  14. Ooh very nice, Just got a book on Excalibur III, That would be a nice build one day.
  15. Been working on Dooleybird last couple of days. The freight Dog Mk IVa conversion arrived a couple of days ago. Nose was cut off from under the Airfix P51D and the new nose CAed into place. This left a few gaps that needed filling, I suspect it was my poor accuracy in hacking off the Airfix nose that was to blame rather than the Freight dog part. CA and zip kicker followed by sanding then repeat to blend and get the profile back. I'm now happy with the shape but I've lost some scribe lines so will need to put them back before putting the fasteners back in. Still more work to do there on that bit. Moving further aft the seam line for the oil cooler is a bit in accessible so I addressed that with a slither of 5thou plasticard still to be sanded, small task but at least I feel I got somewhere with it. And wheels painted too. Then today this arrived all the way from Australia many thanks to Rabbit Leader, Its the decal sheet from the old Airfix P51B Hun Hunter Texas. So this means I can have a 3rd Academy P51B on the go now making 4 P-51s for this GB So I got to start that build as well. All happy today in the CT aircraft factory.
  16. Also the alternative carburettor intake is not painted white and the name seem to be in white not yellow as in the Academy decal. Im still thinking about how to correct that bit.
  17. Going well. I See you doing 'Down for double' I Have this in the stash. I Might put the Decals on an Airfix new tool one day. Anyway here's Down for double in flight CT
  18. Very nice. Have 2 of these on the go at the moment and might be 3rd one to join my build soon too
  19. Still blending joins and scribing panel lines back in. Last post of the year contained these 2 goodies A very good wealth of diagrams and information. While ive been rescribing the usual panel lines back across the centre line ive also been putting the cowling fasteners back in that been sanded away. The Merlin engined Mustangs upper cowl has a split along the centre so Ive tried to recreate this but need to get 30 or so screws all lined up neatly. So heres the plan..... First some measuring up to make a template guide. Both Acadamy and Airfix kits match up for size in this area so just need one template. Next is to decide where the screws will be and do a bit of drawing. The long horizontal line represents the centre line of the cowl. The other two lines represent the line of screws on either side. The vertical lines mark where each screw will be. With me? No? Read on then. From this i printed four of the templates onto some clear inkjet decal film and made a decal in the normal way. While thats drying I scribed the centre line onto the Airfix Guinea pig with 3M tape as a guide. Next is apply the decaled template guide You see the plan coming together now? Ive removed the centre black line from the decal as made things too cluttered and I can use the scribed line to line the two remaining black lines centrally either side. Next was to go along with a sewing machine needle in a pin vice pushing a mark in plastic for each screw. Once each screw is marked I removed the decal to reveal the fastening screws I could call things complete at this stage but i decided go a stage further and deepen each one with a 0.25mm drill bit. In this pic I'm partway through so you can see the difference between the indentations and the drilled ones. And this one complete One down two to go. CT
  20. All looking good. Great to meet you a Telford too. I think the Germans might be out numbered with that little lot. Happy new year.
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