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  1. As @AdrianMF says, build it, it will still look good. That was not a good day at sea...
  2. Right, we are now cracking on! A few coats of Gunze aluminium and olive drab later and it is looking a lot better. I need to apply grey and black to the tip of the tail fin and we can start thinking about decals.
  3. Hi guys, This has been progressing at a snail's pace, but I thought I had better show you where I am at. The fuselage has been assembled and the cockpits dressed a little, with me having to create the rear decking from plastic card due to the PE being somewhat skinnier (it is for the Airfix kit after all). None of it is accurate but it is a far better representation than the basic kit. I need to address the seam before attaching the wings etc.
  4. Oh yes, as has been previously said, this covers over half of my stash! Dave
  5. Well, filler applied and everything smoothed off. The wings have been attached to both kits with both requiring some fettling to get them in. The Xtrakit needed some rubbing down of the fuselage as the wing assembly was longer than the space provided. I think I was at fault with the Airfix kit as the intake trunking was protruding too low, requiring me to apply the sanding stick to that area too. Anyway, they are starting to look more like Swifts and I need to fill the rather large gaps on the Xtrakit's wing to fuselage join before we proceed.
  6. @Hook yes and no. I tried everything suggested from the gentlemen above but had no joy. There is a second canopy in the kit which has no framing, so I bought another masking set and freestyled it using the original one as a guide. It is still far from perfect, with the framing being thick in places but it is better. It has now been attached and the whole thing has been primed, now on to the aluminium.
  7. A bit more done, fueselages assembled. The Xtra and Airfix halves side by side for comparison: They are dimensionally very close with the panel lines almost identical. The back end of the Airfix kit is slimmer than the Xtra but I have no idea which one is more accurate. The Airfix kit looks more refined overall. Fuselages fully assembled with both kits needing their seams addressed (my cack-handedness again no doubt). The Airfix kit has a lot of detail in the cockpit/nosewheel bay, intake trunking and jet pipe areas, and as usual with the newer Airfix kits, the tolerances are tight. The Xtrakit has much less detail (i.e. the intakes are basically blanked off) but the limited run nature of the kit and lack of locating pins makes this process a little trickier. Now to break out the filler.
  8. Well, this is the first time I have had a Montex mask fail on me. The white paint has seeped through on basically every pane, and try as I might, I can't scrape it off. Does anyone have any idea as to how to remove all the paint without destroying the canopy?
  9. Ok, both cockpits assembled, the Airfix one being unsurprisingly more complex/detailed. The control columns are somewhat different but I guess they will be hard to see anyway. I have also built various sub-assemblies, more pics to follow.
  10. Wings and horizontal tails attached, it really does look odd without the tip tanks. I have seen pics of them in this configuration before, but I forgot how stubby the wings are without them.
  11. Thank you for the heads up @PeterB, I will do the same with doors and see if I can source a tank. @CliffB the phantom paw almost ended my Do17 so she may be banned from my office (modelling room) for the forseeable future! I am now on leave for 12 days and other than going to the MCN show in London tomorrow I have no plans, so modelling will commence from Monday. Dave
  12. Apologies for the lack of updates, work has been bonkers due to bringing my replacement up to speed in a stupidly short time. Anyway, I have made progress, the fuselage and components are assembled, I now need to address the seam. I am on leave from tomorrow and other than going to the MCN show in London tomorrow, I have no real plans. Let the proper modelling commence!
  13. Airfix 1/72 Dornier Do-17z (Post crash repairs) Dave
  14. A bit of a jump but it is now finished. As with most of my models, I still need to fix antenna wire but I am happy to wait (the plan is to do them all in one hit). The repairs post-crash are visible but such is life. Overall it is an excellent kit, my only real issues were the engine nacelles, otherwise I really enjoyed the build. Onto the next kit! Dave With a BoB escort: There is a huge difference in tone between the Humbrol and Mr Hobby RLM70/71!
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