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  1. amblypygid
    Yep, looks excellent to me.
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    Thanks, Ced; looks like they're out of stock atm.
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    Commendably restrained, Mr Beard. <Golf clap> Nice stand, Ced, but what the hell is that yellow injecty-looking thing sticking out of the base?
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    Thanks! Decals looking good too.
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    I just started to look at an Eduard Mk IX kit, and the sink marks are present on mine, similar severity. I'm in no way a Spitfire expert, but from Christer's photos above I'd say the kits share a mould for that sprue.
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    That NMF plus pigment finish looks excellent. Forgive my ignorance, but what is a blending stump?
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    Dear Gods, that's not something one should have to experience on a lazy Sunday morning! I assume Ascoteer is from further north, but since my default aural image of that accent is the late Rev Paisley, that's even worse. (Aural image - surely there's a better term to use?) Lovely priming job, PC. All that sanding was well worthwhile.
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    I have been terribly slack at updating this WIP. Christmas was sufficiently busy to lead to a hiatus in modelling, but when I put everything away for the last time, I somehow dropped the Gannet and damaged one wing-tip. Thankfully, it was a simple fix, and it's now progressed to the point where paint is being laid down on the sub-assemblies and the main body. One thing that has puzzled me is that the Humbrol Sky, which I have previously been very happy with, is giving me a very grainy finish. I wonder whether the much colder weather is having an effect; everything is stored in an unheated part of the house, so the paint is probably not much above 10-12 C. It doesn't seem to have affected the Vallejo or Xtracrylix paints, though. I guess the best solution is for a gentle polishing and repaint if necessary after getting the paint a bit warmer. The other main colour on here is Xtracrylix Extra Dark Sea Grey, which has gone down in its normal fashion.
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    Very nice fine work. I sold this kit last year after reading several builds; too intimidating for me, so I compensated by picking up one of the 1/72 110s. I've still got a 1/48 C-6 in the stash, though, so I'm well and truly on the fence. Your work makes me want to give it a go!
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    I've only just come to this thread, but you're making a top-notch model look very simple, Steve. I'm really looking forward to seeing the finished article (and in due course it's big 1/48 brother!)
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    Just be careful, Stew! As another chap with a former nurse mother, I hope yours also has access to proper painkillers, which I find help overcome the complete lack of sympathy (they've always seen worse...) Merry Christmas to you too. Chris
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    All the best for a quick recovery, Stew. You've done a fantastic job on these two kits, though; I admire the Kate but for me the Wildcat is an absolute beaut.
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    Work and Christmas make progress slower than I'd planned, though I have at least finished off the Hawker Typhoon, which now dangles over my son's bed. So, what's done on the Gannet? I fudged up some simplistic harness belts from masking tape; rudimentary though they are, they have tarted up the otherwise fairly dark cockpits. Some of them concertina'd on me, but in fact I quite like the effect it has. I squeezed about 12g of weight into the front of the fuselage, and the two halves went together without any trouble, and very little filler required. Last night I found the first thing about this kit that I dislike, and that's the engine-covery-bit at the front, which really doesn't seem to fit on very well at all. Some piccies of the living quarters:
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    Yeah, they're rather unique in appearance, aren't they? My son rather likes the Duxford specimen with its folded wings, sadly not an option on this kit without after-market.
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    Somewhat glacial progress last night. 'pit paintwork tidied up a little and I've test fitted the interior parts. The fit is good, fuselage halves go together easily and it doesn't look like there'll be much filling to do. I appreciate Trumpeter's provision of some very definite locating ledges for the cockpit and wing root! However, the long arrestor hook looks a prime candidate for snapping off at some point in this build. Sufficiently appreciative, in fact, that I went and ordered a cut-price Wellington X kit from Creative Models (which arrived with their usual excellent turnaround time). I have well and truly broken my one in, one out rule this month (currently five in, one out...)
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    Hi Grahame, thanks. I will probably do something once it's tidied up, but by the looks of things most of the detail is going to be hidden once it's closed up and canopied. I also found indicators from those more expert than me that the interiors were all black, not a combination of black and grey, though I've been unable to corroborate that from photos on the internet (this is probably because my google-fu is weak at the moment). Rato Marczak's build (http://www.ratomodeling.com/finished/gannet_72/) has been informative, if alarming in parts!
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    Well, I've spent plenty of enjoyable hours reading and marveling at other members' WIP topics, so I thought it was about time that I put something back and did one of my own. I don't claim to be anything other than a mediocre modeller, and I don't have the literary skills of a Procopius, but I do have ... well, what do I have? A stash, some paint, some hairy sticks, and a love for building things out of plastic. Anyway, the title may just have included some spoilers, but I'm taking the plunge in partnership with Trumpeter's 1/72 Gannet. I've loved the Gannet for a long time, with its rather idiosyncratic shape, the contra-rotating prop, the Double Mamba and its diesel fuel (has there ever been an engine with a sexier name?), and I picked up this kit at Old Warden a few years back on a Father's Day trip. I've been on a bit of a FAA run recently, briefly interrupted by building an Airfix Tiffie to hang in my son's bedroom, but this is my first Trumpeter experience. It's going to be straight OOB, finished in one of the FAA schemes. Some quick checks suggest that this is a kit with few devils other than the challenge of getting enough weight into the nose, which suits me. First construction shot, this is as far as I have got while applying the finishing touches to the aforementioned Tiffie. Very conventional start to the build, and it's all fit very neatly thus far, just needs some touch-up work on the paint and maybe some masking tape harnesses. And my apologies for the quality of photos on this thread. I live in an old house with unconventional lighting conditions, and I model almost exclusively at night once the bairn is abed. To make things even worse, I don't own a proper camera, being the sort of odd chap that has no desire to take photos of anything much, so this is taken with the phone. Thanks for taking the time to read this far!
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    The dangly bits are looking good, Ced, that's some well executed work. Chris
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    Another latecomer here, Ced. She's looking mighty fine thus far, it's a very striking scheme and seems to suit her lines.
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    Another datum point to support my theory that babies learn to smile as a survival mechanism. I have no theory for how they figure out that their parents have been driven to the very edge, but that seems to be the trigger for deploying the smile. And W looks like a cool baby! Just prioritise sleep over modelling for the time being.
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    Seconded; on Sunday I suspended my son's first plane from his bedroom ceiling (made in part by us both, painted by him in exciting colours that might pass for camouflage were it to fly inverted over Mars, and of course with shark-mouth applied). The look of unadulterated joy on his face was wonderful to behold.
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    My recollection is that the first eight weeks were the hardest time, especially for my wife. I was just about ready to list my son on ebay when he smiled at me, and those eight weeks were forgotten in an instant. And there were a couple of times when I was instructed to take him away and not to return with him. Remember what the bigger baby-like Winston never actually said: "When you're going through hell, keep going".
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    I have little or nothing to contribute to this thread, but I'd like to say how interesting it all is (from the modelling to the oral histories to the Valiant plumbing). It has also made it abundantly obvious how dangerous even peacetime military aviation was/is (and reading a history of GCHQ has also opened my eyes this week to the number of aircraft shot down by the Soviets in the late 40s and early 50s).
  24. amblypygid
    I have to say, though, the PE work that you've done looks exceptionally neat and accurate.
  25. amblypygid
    I have found that a bit of gloss varnish can work very well as a PE adhesive, especially for flat pieces.
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