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  1. Perhaps Col but I am not sure I have the will power given the other errors I made with this one. Will have a think a regroup maybe with another model.
  2. OK a school boy error may mean this one is for the bin. I went out last night after work and gave the finished build an undercoat of gloss black from a rattle can. I guess I either didn't shake the can enough or it has gone funny but it came out a bit gloopy. I set it aside to dry until this morning. Sure enough my lovely fairly smooth finish now had a bad case of the bumps....grrrr. I have just tried sanding it back a bit which works ok but is really not going to give me a decent finish and will entail a ton of effort. Entirely my fault. Bugger. D
  3. Looking good from me as well. I have just posted about my fun and games with this kit and think we are on the same page. D
  4. Ok that has been a bit of a mare couple of weeks on the work side....probably some of the most painful I can remember. Got back to the workbench this afternoon and thought I would post where I have got to: The cockpit went together well and neatly. You can just about see the external tanks, seat and control panel coming together in the background. Fearing a tail sitter I tried to get as much weight into her as I could using liquid gravity and some washers I had in the shed.. Slight issue was that when the fuselage came together and the nose was attached there was a 1mm gap on the nose ring. I understand that this is not the first time this has happened with this kit and I am sure it was human error but it was a pain to try and fix. A fair amount of plastic putty and sanding resulted in this. In a classic case of "I should have thought around that fix" we had another issue when the wings came to be attached. As a result of the washers the wings wouldn't fit. Fairly easy solution I butchered the wing stubbs. Getting there slowly but surely. As always all comments welcome. Dave
  5. Quite right AW that was a silly typo on my part…😀 Cheers Cliff 😀
  6. I have been struggling slightly with modelling mojo - due mainly to workloads and family commitments. I am determined to get building again and complete my first GB for 2024. My chosen kit is the Airfix 1/72 Mig-17F from: I pulled this out of the stash last night. Who knows I may even do the Skyhawk as well (I will obviously do another thread if I do). I seem to recall some issues with this kit shape wise but it looks fairly Mig like to me... I thought I had some other decals for this but now can't find them and the Xtradecal set I wanted appears to be out of stock. Ideally I would do a middle east based plane (fits with one of my collection themes) but the North Korean scheme shown above will do just fine 😉 A bit of history from Wikipedia... The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (NATO reporting name: Fresco) is a high-subsonic fighter aircraft produced in the Soviet Union from 1952 and was operated by air forces internationally. The MiG-17 was license-built in China as the Shenyang J-5 and Poland as the PZL-Mielec Lim-6. The MiG-17 is still being used by the North Korean air force in the present day and has seen combat in the Middle East and Asia. The MiG-17 was an advanced modification of the MiG-15 aircraft produced by the Soviet Union during the Korean War. Production of the MiG-17 was too late for use in that conflict and was first used in the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1958. While the MiG-17 was designed to shoot down slower American bombers, it showed surprising success when used by North Vietnamese pilots to combat American fighters and fighter-bombers during the Vietnam War, nearly a decade after its initial design. This was due to the MiG-17 being more agile and manoeuvrable than the American F-4 Phantom and F-105 Thunderchief, which were focused on speed and long range combat, as well as the fact that MiG-17 was armed with a gun, which initial models of the F-4 Phantom lacked. The obligatory sprue shot: As always all comments welcome. Dave
  7. Thanks Paul. I suspect I will only use 50% of the PE. Some of it is just small!
  8. Thanks Ozzy certainly looks fun with all the stowage. Cheers MM
  9. I will join if there is space...I need to scratch the GB itch but have limited time so have gone with hopefully a straightforward project. I last built one of these some time in the 80s. I cannot remember how it came out but it is a classic of its time. I can see @danbuoy is building a Matchbox 1/76 of the same vehicle so hope he wont mind a bigger brother joining the GB. I may do a base if I have time. Obligatory sprue shot... Notwithstanding the desire for a quick build I did pick up some PE to spruce things up a bit. As is my usual approach I wont use everything...my eyes are just not up to it. As always all comments welcome. Cheers Dave
  10. Yes I totally agree. If you were going to use one bit of PE that would be it. 😀
  11. Finally made some progress on this after a bit of a stall. Quite a bit of PE, some of it almost invisible. Only used about 50% of the PE parts though. Also painted up this chap as a mojo starter. Thanks for looking. Dave
  12. Progress has been made. The hulls came together nicely with the two bulkheads acting as useful spacers adding structure. The problems started when I test fitted the deck. It didn't. Or rather there was a bit of a ledge all the way round. After looking at photos and the plans I concluded that the ledge should not be there and that the hull was slightly too wide at the top. Problem was the bulkheads stopped the hull coming together to the right width. There was only one option butcher the bulkheads. It was slightly nerve racking as I was concerned the hull would crack open. Anyway 5 mins later the deck now sat pretty. The only issue was a slight step at the back which would be sorted with more filler. Some time later I had made progress on the tower (its not glued on yet) and various extras on the hull. You can also see various areas where filler was required...actually quite often. Might be user error. Still very happy so far. Cheers Dave
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