Rickpadwick1801

Hello Everyone, As my car builds are getting close to being finished, but are also not going to be a priority for me so I have decided upon another kit to work on alongside them and my other builds. I have had an EA-6A Prowler (Wild Weasel) kit in my stash for quite a while and as I have been reading Stephen Coonts Jake Grafton series of books, the first 3 of which feature the A-6 Intruder and it's Wild Weasel variant, so I decided to pick this one out of the stash. It comes with 2 separate decal options, 1 for US Navy VAQ-33 squadron from 1980 and US Marines AVN - VMAQ-2. I decided to build it as the US Navy squadron, which is VAQ-33 nicknamed The Firebirds. I haven't taken sprue photos yet, but here are photos from Scalemates of the box art (I never had the box), a picture of an actual aircraft and the squadron patch. Box art Actual plane Squadron Patch I will be getting to work on this in the very near future, so will take some sprue photos soon. All the best, Rick

Hi Keith, I could spray outside but I'm actually getting somewhere with these builds now. I've done 2 coats of yellow on the Enzo and 2 coats of Red on the F430. I'm going to do one more coat of colour on each car and then call the body colours finished. I'll post some photos as soon as that is done. Thanks for the tips. Rick

Thanks Keith, I used pink paint on the Yellow car. Should I do that on the Red one as well ?"

Thanks, I've not given up. I'm continuing with them, but will be putting them slightly lower down the priority list 😂😂😂 I've managed to get the wheel locked in place. I pulled it off and applied more glue before leaving the car on its side for 24 hours. Its secure now. I'm having issues with the Yellow paint for the Enzo. I've given it two brush coats and I'm hoping it's going to be fine now otherwise I have no idea how to make it look good. Oh the joy of brush painting 😂😂😂 I don't have an airbrush. I've got to do the red on the F430, I'm just wondering if I need to put a yellow base coat onto it to make the colour stand out.

Yeah I am talking about the wheel rim 😂😂😂😂

Hello Everyone, I've got a bit of progress with these kits to show. I've had some issues with the suspension / wheel assemblies for both cars. The fit of the various parts has in some cases been awful. Then one of the F430 wheel pegs broke off in the wheel so it doesn't sit straight. Normal plastic cement isn't locking it in place. I'm most likely going to gave to superglue it in place. Then one of the wheel rim centres broke and sliced my finger. I couldn't repair it properly but have glued it back in place as much as possible. I am very close to giving up on these 2 builds. Anyway here are the photos. Enzo wheel assemblies. Both cars in rolling chassis form F430 Enzo If I do anymore work I will update again.

Hi Mike, Thanks for that. I'm finding it difficult to pick a colour for it. I'm showing the colour chart from above to my wife tonight when I get home from work. I don't know what I'm going to use lol Cheers, Rick

Thanks, that makes sort of sense through my illness addled brain. Looking at that, the easiest paint I can get my hands is Revell Aqua 68 which according to Hobbycraft's website is Revell Dark Green Matt RAF Looks like I might be building a chinook in my very near future when I get to talk to my wife about this.

Thanks, but I'm feeling so rough at the moment that I don't actually understand what all that means 😂😂😂

Enzo Ferrari (Car 2) update. Car is almost in rolling chassis form after just a few hours today. I gave up on the yellow seat option as I managed to get black on the yellow part even though I attempted to mask it. I've just painted them fully black and think they look better. The whole passenger compartment of the car as well as the front suspension is installed and fitted to the lower plate. I will make a post with photos as soon as I get the wheels assembled and installed. Car 1 (F430) hasn't been touched yet but will be next to work on after this one is rolling form. All the best, Rick

Thanks, I'll have to look them up. I think my missus may have settled on either Revell Nato Olive Drab or a Tamiya Dark Green 2 (RAF) but I don't know. I think she is waiting till I have to buy the Revell one for another of my stash projects. Cheers, Rick

Cheers Andre, I've never heard of Hataka.

I normally keep a record of my usernames but it had been almost 10 years since I used my account last until recently.

Hello Everyone, Further to my posts above, I've managed to get back into my original account and have just requested the mods to merge the new account with this one. I've posted all of my finished builds in the various sections of the forum. All the best, Rick

Hello, I rejoined the forum under a new account earlier this year as IronBeagle1801 because I couldn't remember the login details before refinding the account. Could you please merge the IronBeagle1801 account with this one (Rickpadwick1801) ? Thanks. RIck

Thanks, I don't have much in the way of green in my paint stash..... most of them are very very old and probably dried up by now..... I'm not even sure when I will get the kit yet, so i've got time to sort paint out once I reduce my unbuilt / unfinished stash down a lot 😂😂

Thanks both, Would revell's NATO Olive Matt be close ?

Thanks Dave, who makes that paint colour ?

Hello Everyone, My wife is wanting me to take on the challenge of the NEW Airfix 1:72 Chinook HC.1 BUT she doesn't want me to do it in the Grey/Green scheme shown on the box art below. Instead she wants me to do it in a solid Green scheme like the second image (which is the box aircraft BN but more recent). Can anyone what paint you think we should use ? We were planning on going with Ammo by Mig 237 Olive Drab acrylic (3rd picture). Has anyone used this particular paint before and do you have pictures you can share ? All the best, Rick

Looking great. Looking forward to seeing more.

Absolutely no progress this weekend

Hello Everyone, 2 progress updates in 1 night....I must be ill...😂😂😂 Thanks to everyone who has made suggestions for stripping the paint from the seats....but I've managed tonight to get them to a point where I'm happy with them to actually put them into the car when I reach that point. All I have left to do is carefully with a small brush and some masking tape on them, paint the seat belts before applying the decals. I've also completed more work on the engine section by building the firewall structure with the first clear part. This shows it test fitted (but not glued in place). The next step is to apply some decals to the engines upper surface (the red and black areas in this photo) along with another component before I glue the firewall down. I most likely won't get to do that until Saturday afternoon at the earliest.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've actually managed to get the parts looking good enough without stripping that I'm happy to put them in the car.

I've only just bought the paint in question, so it's not gone off. The paint seems OK in the pot. This is what it's doing. I've painted it onto Tamiya white acrylic paint as a base and it just doesn't look good.

Thanks, I've got the problem that these seats have a lot of paint on them now and am unsure how I can easily get the paint off without damaging the plastic. I need a cheap solution for doing it as I've spent quite a bit on paint recently.