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Good show, the mottling looks real good!
Even the one on your fingers will pass muster!
Congrats.
JR
PS: Are the tips of the horizontal stabilizers really yellow? I've never seen that before, but with the Luftwaffe nothing would surprise me!
Well, I'll be honest about the yellow tips to the tail planes-I don't know! Xtradecal's sheet shows it in tbe plan views, and my SAM models monograph on Bf109Es from the BoB shows this as an option, so on it went! I'd appreciate any comments from those in the know!
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Quick update! Blue and mottle on (had to faff around with my airbrush on this, but am pleased with the result) and then off with the masking. Am rather chuffed to note that no touch-ups required, so I've gloss coated this in readiness for the decals. Have thoroughly enjoyed this kit; there will be others, but maybe not for this GB!
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Fascinating results with the Stynlylrex primer Ced. Thanks for doing the experiment for us! Does it sand OK? Might have to get in line for a bottle.
Hard luck with the yellow - it has to be the most difficult color to work with by far. The mighty Procopius recommended Tamiya yellow to me and I haven't looked back, but I don't know if they do a suitable Luftwaffe shade.
Have to confirm the tamiya yellow as the best yellow i've come across yet. A white undercoat is still a must though!
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Need to get a motor on to do this for the 75th anniversary of this plane coming down on August 29th 1940. Today was masking day! Given the multiple different colours, it's a case of doing it bit by bit. First off was to get the white on as a base for the yellow, followed by a quick rectangle of RLM65 on the nose for the Tatzelwurm symbol. This was then masked with a rectangle of Tamiya tape prior to giving nose, wingtips, rudder and tail plane tips a coat of matt Tamiya yellow. It's not as lurid as it looks in the pics! Next on; a coat of Tamiya RLM grey before masking the wings and fuselage for the splinter application of Xtracrylix RLM70. I'm going to leave this overnight before I mask off the top of the fuselage and wings, and do the final spray of RLM65 blue for the fuselage sides and undersides. After that. . . mottling...! In the meantime, am going to see if I can find out something about the pilot.
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Don't worry Mike, you'd know it if it was there, the eyes get quite a lot of snotty-looking mucus in them and while it isn't present all the time (as it is blinked away or washed out by tears) it's there every day, especially in the mornings - I noticed it very quickly once it occurred in Jack and it was only my ignorance that stopped it being treated immediately. Fortunately even I figured out that something was amiss after about a week and took him to the vets. Most small dogs will never get it, so don't be surprised if you don't find it
All I have done on the Ju87s is tacked on the wheel spats with PVA, I still need to add the aerial and aileron mass balances before priming... might get that done this weekend but I doubt before then... this constant state of worn-out irritability is starting to make me question my suitability for my job; if it is like this all year round I am not going to make it to the end of the first year.
Ah well, onwards and upwards
Cheers,
Stew
Amen to the last comment, which very accurately described precisely my feelings toward my new position. Don't let it grind you down . . . this is why God invented modelling, gin and hobbies in general!
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Well, as this is by far the most complex model I will be doing out of five models in process for this GB, I had better get going. While the Eduard 110 is , I think, considered to be a very good model, it isn't the easiest kit by all accounts. So far, I have concentrated on the major assemblies where people have reported issues, namely the nose cone and the engine nacelle/wing connection.
With the nose, I decided to glue them both to one fuselage half, figuring a good fit here would at least reduce some of the sanding! Got a good result, although some filler/sanding will be required; then again, I do on every kit, even Tamiya!
Next up were the engines and wings. By holding the pieces both top and bottom, I got a pretty good result from both atop the wing and the bottom connection, both of which have got dodgy comments from other builders. Once again, not the best fit of parts, but nothing disastrous and nothing a smidgen of filler and a quick sand won't sort out in short order.
Lastly, I have made a start on the cockpit. I have elected not to use the supplied PE (well, maybe the seatbelts) because I have never had any success with PE, and somehow prepainted PE seems a little too close to 'modelling cheating' somehow! Besides which, while some people go for cockpits, I'm more of a camo and markings kinda guy; 'artistic verisimilitude' will do here, especially as the canopy will be firmly closed! That said, the plastic parts that Eduard supply are more than ample; they even have three instrument panels for different versions with the tiniest differences!
#Since then; props done, and time to start painting the cockpit. All my other projects will be 'published' on the significant date to do with those machines, but this was shot down on the 4th September; won't get this done by then!
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Making rapid progress now. I am planning to have this model ready for the 3rd September, which will 75 years to the day that Richard Hilary went down in this particular plane. In fact all of my projects bar one (my Eduard 110) are intended to be published on the day they either were shot down/crashlanded/did the shooting down. Anyway... having sprayed in Tamiya sky, masked it all up and sprayed the Humbrol acrylic earth brown. I didn't mix this properly, so it didn't spray very well; I got the dread rough grainy finish from the particles drying in mid air. Took a deep breath and sanded it back - all saved! I generally freehand the green camo, but decided to do the silly putty technique instead - well pleased with the result, aside from having to slightly alter the green on the port wing to more closely match the actual scheme. I have also glossed it with Xtracrylix Gloss varnish ready for a light dose of weathering and decals. Oh, and I also masked off and sprayed the red tape over the gun ports, but forgot to take a photo!
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Quick update. I've tidied up the cockpit after replacing the armour, and added a reflector gunsight cut from a blister pack... not that you can see it in the pic! Have since added the canopy mask prior to starting the painting.
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Looking good - and thanks for all those photos! I'll do a count-up this weekend and see how we're doing.
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Fantastic figure painting! I'd love to get mine looking that that. Any tips viz. paints, techniques etc?
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Hi guys, any room for a latecomer to the GB? I've been totally inspired by the models coming out of this GB plus yesterday's events over Kent.
Jump in, jump in, I have four on the go, but am planning to start another in the next couple of days!
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Fantastic model of one of my fave modern jets!
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Top choice of kit and markings. Your 603 sqn airframe will go nicely with the 603 machine I am doing as well!
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... and today is the 75th anniversary of the Hardest Day. The BBC is reporting on the mass flypasts planned for today; good to see they are reporting on this significant day. Alfred Price's book of the same name will be duly re-read, starting today...
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Quick update. I sprayed on my favoured brand of 'Sky', namely Tamiya Sky, and finished off the wheels last night. Tonight's task: mask off the undersides and spray the brown. I also finished the Last Enemy last week on hol; it makes for a very interesting perspective. Hilary initially took the line that fighting was a chance for him to 'fully realize' himself in combat, but gradually his experiences led to him to believe he was fighting for something much bigger than his own experience. After being terribly burned, in the final chapter of the book, he describes an incident in which he is called upon to help dig out a mother and child from the rubble of a bombed building. Although the incident may, apparently, be slightly apocryphal in nature, its emotional impact is nonetheless huge. Essentially, he is looking at the dying mother, who then looks at Hilary and sees his burnt face, and says 'It looks like they got you too.' Hilary goes on to describe in detail his emotional realisation of what he is actually fighting for; not for himself but to protect ordinary people from the evil that Nazism represented.
A damned good read if you get the chance.
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Progress . . . of a sort. Decided I couldn't live with the overly thick pilot's armour, so replaced it with v.thin plastcard, with a small square laminated on for the headrest. Am pleased with how it turned out. Am just going to add a tiny piece of clear plastic for the gunsight, and paint the headrest a leather colour before I close the cockpit up and get masking. Also managed to lose one of the exhausts, so Quickboost to the rescue here - a big improvement!
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Right, back from hols and it's time to crack on, appropriately on the 'Hardest Day'. I've been adding details to the Dornier cockpit by way of detail painting, a light oil wash and Tamiya tape belts. Am pretty pleased with it; it'll look the part under all that glazing in any case. I have also started to work on the props and engines, but more pics of them tonight.
Meanwhile, the Hurricane is taking shape. Cockpit done. Simple (especially when compared to the Airfix kit) but effective, and I doubt that much will be seen when the canopy is added. I've added a triangle of plasticard to the bulkhead behind the seat to cover the joint line, and added Tamiya tape seatbelts too dress it up a bit. I'll get the wings and fuselage joined up tonight, and mask the canopy - that'll be fun in the absence of an Eduard set for the hasegawa kit!
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Cheers for this heads up. These speed hunter decal sheets are superb- I've just had delivered one of their F-4d sheets for ANG Mig Kiillers for my new Academy Phantom, and it's great. Now we need hannants to stock them here in the UK!
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A third there! Keep em coming... could anybody who has liked on facebook register their interest if they haven't already?
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Right, about seven so far. Anybody else wanting to toss thei hat into the ring?
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A Sharksmouth GB? Cool
There's a GB proposal running right now on this theme, if you haven't seen it already!
Cheers, Paul
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How could I forget the A-10?!A10 Warthog and Huey.
Will run through my books when I get back from holiday!
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OK, let's see... off the top of my head I can think of Bf110s, P-40s, mustangs, sabres, vampires, hunters, ouragans, mysteres, F-8s, canberra B8s, phantoms, T33s, prototype F-15s, hornets/super hornets, tomcats, F-16s, corsair II, tucanos, mig 19s, mig 29s, prop typhoons, desert storm tornados, harrier gr7s... got to be something there for everyone but I can only think of one spitfire and one seafire! What else can people think of?
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Evening all, was pondering a possible theme for a GB. It often strikes me the most successful GBs are ones which allow a wide range of types and/or colour schemes. Equally, finding an engaging theme that ties them all together can sometimes be a challenge. So... what about a sharkmouth GB? Anything that has (in real life) sported a sharkmouth as part of its markings. Probably one for the aeroplane builders, but I do seem to recall a sherman with a sharkmouth! An absolutely wide range of possible types, eras, camo schemes; what do people think?
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Fairey Fulmar Mk. I, Royal Navy 808 Naval Air Squadron
in Battle of Britain Group Build III
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A very different modelling subject for this GB- nothing like variety!