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Andwil
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More Pteranadon than Toucan. AW
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Jet nozzles attached and the various antennae on the tail painted Lifecolour Tan. These will need a second coat and a tidy up. I have no idea what that lighter blue area behind the ventral fin in the photo is as it’s not there in real life! AW
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Decals on. Special Hobby’s decals went on a treat, released quickly from the backing paper and went down nice and smooth. Always a good milestone in a build, it’s when the model really comes to life IMO. The kit had markings for MF-11 and MF-15. The aircraft I want to depict is MF-17 flown by Lt Kurtz of VF 221. Luckily I had suitable 7s in the stash of spare decals so it was an easy job to make up the correct codes. What I don’t have though are suitable serial nos, but as these are really tiny I have chosen to ignore them. AW
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Glossed and ready for decals: AW
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Forgot to take any pictures today, but attended to a little overspray under the fuselage and did some detail painting including the non slip walkways on the wings and sprayed the tires on the main wheels. AW
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Nose unmasked and wings and tail planes attached: Looks like a Sea Harrier now. Of course having been so careful with it all along, after taking this photo I dropped the model and broke the pitot off. I can probably make a better one with some wire anyway. AW
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Masked the under surface demarcation line with blue tack worms and sprayed the blue grey uppers: During this process I noticed an ominous rattle from inside, something has come loose in the cockpit, hopefully not obvious to the eye, or relatively easy to get to and fix. AW
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Unmasked the fuselage today: Happy with that, very little bleed. I then re-masked the nose and sprayed the radome with NATO black: AW
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Or possibly “Castrati” even. AW
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Ow! Just reading that made my eyes water. Martian soprano? AW
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FAIREY SWORDFISH Mk II *** FINISHED 23/05/2020 ***
Andwil replied to DaveyGair's topic in In The Navy GB
Nice job on the rigging AW -
Oh how did I manage to do that?! What a goose. Looks like I’ll have to display the port side only. Last timeI do this mod, in future I will either use aftermarket intakes or just ignore the closed doors. AW
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After a bit of a delay brought about by my airbrush problems (see my Marine a Buffalo thread for the whole sorry tale) today I was able to give the upper surfaces a shot of EDSG: The coat of Future equivalent is still wet in these shots. Hopeful now of completion by the deadline. AW
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Well after a delay of a couple of weeks I got back to the Buffalo today. The Paasche airbrush arrived as expected, but I was not able to fit it to my compressor as the fittings are a different size. I looked in vain for a suitable adaptor and ended up buying a Paasche air hose for it, which took another week to be delivered. In the meantime I took advantage of a spell of beautiful autumn weather to get a lot of work done in the backyard building retaining walls and paths. Anywho, the new hose arrived today so I whacked it on to the compressor and completed the underside of the Buffalo. I have to say, the Paasche was a revelation, so much better than the Sparmax cheapie I’ve been using! Sealed in with Future equivalent which is still wet in this photo. A concerted push should see this get completed before the deadline. AW
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Junkers F.13 - Revell 1/72nd scale with tweaks
Andwil replied to Moa's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Nice little interior. No bathroom facilities in this one, but scope for some “backseat action” AW
