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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.

Very nice. Did I see that Dolphin at Telford?

Seconded. Very light sanding 1200 grade or higher. Take your time. Mask with white tac. Then very lightly air brush and build up the layers. Might take a few hours. But will worth it and as always it will add to the skill bank . Its all a learning process.

Airfix 1:72 Gnat Xtracolor paints S&M Decals Hasegawa 1:72 F20 Tigershark Humbrol enamel Kit decals Airfix 1:72 BF109E MRP paints Eurodecals sheet Airfix 1:72 Spitfire Mk1a MRP paints Kit decals Might build some more next year Happy new year all CT

This is going to be good to see what cam be made of this old kit

A lovely range of airbrush ready lacquer paints https://mrpaint.sk

Looking very good. As said impressive work. Managed to bag one of those on Ebay last night. Apologies to whoever I out bid.

Work day today Not much mustang building today. 😪

Spit.....Spitfire 👍

Going to have a good read of that. Thanks Wings went on last night. Need to do some more blending and rescribing lost panel lines. Undercarriage was primed with Mr surfacer. Alclad dull aluminium went on the undercarriage this morning. CT

That Im not certain of, I'm intending to do those and possibly the undercarriage bays in vomit yellow zinc chromate primer unless i can find out different. The black you see on the Airfix fuselage is just Mr surfacer 1500 black. Im also not sure if i should put aluminium down or zinc chromate or even use both in different areas in preparation for hairspray chipping. Been practicing that on this old Novo spit painted with MRP. Still not done it on an actual build yet. Still need a bit more practice I think. Wings have gone on the Academy Mustangs tonight pics later.

Lunchtime update. Fuselage seams have been blended only a few minor imperfections remained and were marked with pencil. Also found I had lost part of the control column from one of the Academy kits too. A little sprue goo and let that set. Also put the tail on the Airfix D and found the control column 😀 Which shall remain bagged until just before the canopy goes on. Bit more sanding later and wheels to paint soon and props to make..... CT

This is things at close of play last night. Todays plan is to blend the seams then mate the wings and tails on the Academy Mustangs but not the Airfix. That has a resin lower nose to fit to make it a mk IVa. I think the tail can go on today though while I await the nose from Hannants. CT

Have a read of this For tyres my go to paint is Humbrol enamel 67 tank grey

Have had these on the bench since just before Christmas but haven't got around to making a post yet. So what are we building. :- The kits:- Academy B & C The parts on these are identical so one will become a B model and the other a MkIII and an Airfix D with the old Matchbox decals I have on order a Freightdog Mustang IV conversion to make this into a Mk IVa and will be in the colours of Dooleybird. Image from scalemates A few pics of the progress I believe the RAF preference was for a black floor. Airfix control column broke on removal from the sprue I repaired it but obviously not well enough as it broke again but this time to the carpet monster. A 0.3mm rod to fix, will be painted in due course. Tamiya tape harness, cockpits dry brushed, Humbrol gloss coted, Flory grime washed then, Humbrol Matt coted Instrument panels dry brushed Ive now closed up the fuselages they are still setting Wings are also closed up and once set I'm going to set to work with the seam lines. Ironically Christmas day gave me a fourth Mustang in my cracker. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was a 30 second build. More to follow Regards CT

The Zoukel instructions are likeley more correct for the camo as they tie up more with this pic and with the Freight dog instructions http://www.hyperscale.com/2011/reviews/decals/fsd48009decalreviewbf_1.htm But freight dog depict a red spinner. Discussion here If you have a coin. It might be worth tossing it.

As i understand it was disassembled for restoration. After the move to Wright Patterson in Dayton OH then was moved in 2012 to the current location of the boneyard at Davis Monthan near Tucson AZ

Ah bit of a flange up there. Id like to say its a momentary lapse due to early Christmas spirit, but as you say its a repeat offence 🤔🤔🤔 We expect a return to god status in 2020👍 Merry Christmas all

Very neatly done Steve. Just more evidence that you are indeed the worlds first human 3D printer😁 But seriously how did you cut the brass strip so thinly?

Very nicley done

As early as that?

Thats looking like a smart bit of styrene engineering. After all this this talk of CAD and 3D printing. I've come to the following conclusion:- Fritag doesn't need a 3D printer, Fritag IS a 3D printer But i have been looking at Anycubic Proton printers. Maybe one day.

Very nice. Have both the Hasegawa single seat and 2 seat kits in the stash. They are destined for a raspberry ripple livery though with the single seat going to be the ACT test aircraft now at Cosford.

Ive seen there seems to be theme of videos on social media recently of using ramen dried noodles and superglue to fix various things. Maybe grinding some noodles up to a powder and using that as an experiment. Something I might try one day on pot noodle day.

Yes I found it had rubbed off on this and another build in some small places. I think it might be down to finger grease even though it was degreased & cleaned before priming. So probebly got on after cleaning. I think for the next build Ill try gloved handling only once the pre primer cleaning has been done. See if that helps.