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ArnoldAmbrose

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  1. Gidday Ridley, welcome aboard. I'm a ship modeler myself but have heard of Jack Ridley, both in the film and Chuck Yeager's autobiography. If memory serves wasn't it Jack's idea to use a bit of the cleaner's/janitor's mop handle for Chuck to close the hatch of the X-1 before he broke the sound barrier? And his idea to install a fuel drain pipe in the aircraft incase the rockets didn't fire? Quite an inventive chap. I think you've chosen a very worthy role model. πŸ™‚ Regards, Jeff.
  2. Gidday Adrian, sorry to hear of Mrs MF's accident with the secateurs. Hope she's OK. Mrs AA had a similar accident with secateurs a long time ago. Seems gardening is a dangerous pastime. Think I'll stick with crocodile wrestling, cobra snake charming, bushfire fighting and modeling as pastimes. Good luck with the swallow. Regards, Jeff.
  3. Gidday @Dave_R, it looks good enough to declare "Done" and post in the gallery. I hope you feel better soon. Regards, Jeff.
  4. Gidday, I'd still be muddling over the instructions, not typing a final post. Very well done, it looks great. Regards, Jeff.
  5. Gidday, congratulations on your completion and well done. Even more so considering you were fighting Covid as well as recalcitrant plastic and glues. She looks great. Regards, Jeff.
  6. Gidday Dave, I agree with the others above, she/it looks great. I found that a problem with the Super Hero option is towards the end, finding things that could be done while paint is drying. It looks like you'll certainly make the Great Escape option. Regards, Jeff.
  7. Gidday JB, she looks great. I had my doubts as to whether a ship could be done in the time frame but you proved it could. So, next time, a 1/200 battleship with all the AM stuff? 😁 Regards, Jeff.
  8. Gidday, I posted them in the chat section, page 2 about 1/3 way down the page, but here they are again. Although I build them to 1/600 scale I usually work of diagrams at 1/300 or 1/150. It makes it easier to take measurements. The model has a wingspan of 25mm and a length of 18mm. Again, thank you for your interest. Regards, Jeff.
  9. Gidday JB, to do a ship in a blitz build is very impressive, as is your progress so far. I should do one of these someday, to show the comparison in size between warships and merchant ships. You've done very well. Regards, Jeff.
  10. Gidday All, My two Mitsubishi Ki-46 II Dinahs are done. Well, as best I can anyway. Here's another photo: No close up of Mini Dinah I'm afraid, the paint job on her is atrocious, appalling. The paint is old and going thick. These are rather rough builds, aircraft aren't my forte. Thank you all for your interest during the blitz build. The build thread is below: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235114294-a-pair-of-dinahs/ Regards, Jeff.
  11. Gidday All, just under 27 hours after starting, 20 hours of build time (including meal times), two Mitsubishi Ki-46 II Dinahs are done. I couldn't complete them in a single session because: 1. by 4.30 this morning I was like a zombie and wasn't thinking straight (I finally got to bed at 5.15 this morning) 2. towards the end I was running out of things to do, and had to wait while paint dried. Big Dinah is sitting on a small block because I don't trust the undercarriage at present. She's a bit rough but then aircraft aren't my forte, plus time restrictions prevented me from being too pedantic, considering my slow build speed. I took a couple of close-up photos of Mini Dinah but was appalled at the paint job. As I said above, the paint's old and getting a bit thick. A cement trowel would have applied the paint better than I did with the brush I think. Oh well, I'll hide her at the back of the display cabinet. Thank you all for your interest during the Blitz Build. Now I've got more time and less pressure I can check out all your builds here. πŸ™‚ Stay safe, and Regards, Jeff.
  12. Gidday All, I've definitely missed the Super Hero deadline but I think I'm still on target for the 24hr build time. I've had trouble with the paint. It's getting a bit old and thick, plus I usually like to have a day between coats, obviously not possible in a blitz build. I think what I've done is adequate but it won't win any awards. I managed to get some glue on the rear canopy - put it down to the observer being air sick. Too much Sake before the flight. Although not very visible in the photo Mini Dinah has her 'Rising Sun' spots painted on. Her prop disks are getting glued to the shafts, that's them in the small pegs. The legs of Big Dinah are still a bit tacky, but once the decals are on the legs are getting attached regardless. Big Dinah also has two radio antennae but the fixing holes are too big. I don't want to plug and re-drill at this stage but I might later. In the meantime the antennae can stay off. More ambient Space Music coming from the speakers. It's Sunday after all, a day I usually spare from Metal Music etc. Are well, got to go, both Dinahs are nearly done. Thank you for your interest. Stay safe, and regards, Jeff.
  13. Gidday All, well, I'm back at the bench. I forced my eyelids open with a crow-bar, got up and made breakfast (cereal and coffee) and looked at the models. Those small light circles in the fuselage apertures I thought yesterday were mounting pins for the cabin floor. Now, due to them lining up with said apertures I think represent cameras. The undercarriage doors gave me a bit of grief last night, not much contact area for the glue so I've reinforced the joins a little with PVA glue. The main wheels were horrible but a bit of sanding made them look better. The wheel hubs and legs, painted last night earlier this morning are still tacky. The engine pieces that sit on the above-wing sections on Mini Dinah are too deep due to the thickness of the wing and I can't grip them to sand them thinner so I'm omitting them and building up those sections of engine with PVA glue also. Oh well, back to the coal face, supported by a group named "Walk In Darkness". Thanks for your interest. Regards, Jeff.
  14. Gidday All, Well I'm certainly not going to achieve the Super Hero option. I've gone just about as far as I can go until paint dries. The paint on Big Dinah is taking longer to dry than I hoped and I've got hardly anything else I can do until it does. Plus I'm about ready to crash, I've been going on this for over 14 1/2 hours now (less tea time), nearly 23 hours since I climbed out of bed yesterday. I'm a slow builder at the best of times, now I'm almost paralytic, despite Slade's attempt to keep me awake. So I'll have to complete this in segments later today. So it's good night/morning to all, Jeff.
  15. Gidday, here's the next update. Both main wings are glued together, as is the fuselage. I've no idea of the colours of the interiors of Japanese aircraft so I simply used what I had in stock. The aircrew's overalls I'm assuming were leather, ie brown. It's not very evident in the photos but I think they hit the Sake a bit too much before climbing aboard - they're both legless. 😁 The props are done. My yellow had dried up so I used the nearest colour available, deck tan. The fuselage went together quite nicely, hopefully the canopies will too, later. On the cutting matt at the nose of Big Dinah are most of the parts for Mini Dinah, the wings, fuselage, tail, stabilizer and top and bottom engine bodies. I just have to cut some prop discs but they can be done later. As you can see, a little over 9 hours has been used, but that included time off for tea. (Do I get that time credited?) And right now it's ambient space music keeping me awake. Thanks for your interest. Got to go. Regards, Jeff.
  16. Gidday @Hockeyboy76 and Little H, congratulations on your completion. I can see that we can expect great things from Little H in the future, hopefully not too distant. πŸ‘ Regards, Jeff.
  17. Gidday, you're surging along. Great repair of the wingtip. Regards, Jeff.
  18. Gidday, very clever doing the plan. Hang in there buddy. Regards, Jeff.
  19. Gidday, I knew those Liberty ships were quick to build, but gee whizz!πŸ‘
  20. Gidday All, as you can see I didn't get started until 2PM this afternoon as I was busy this morning. I've used my phone (note a very simple flip-phone) for the time because you probably can't see it on the computer screen. The kit looks rather simple, should be easy, what could go wrong? Do I hear snickering from you other wingy-thingy modelers? What do you know that I don't? 😲 For entertainment I'm listening to advertisements on You-tube. Annoyingly they get interrupted occasionally by "music". Fortunately these interruptions are of very short duration. At the start of this it was Pink Floyd's 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason' that was interrupting the ads. The photos aren't very good I'm afraid, a different light than what's over the modelling bench. Although I'm a ship modeler I know a few tricks about making model planes. I just wish I could remember what they are. πŸ€” Oh well . . . I've slapped the first coat of paint on the main wings and nearly done the interior of the fuselage. Also the spinners are painted. And next to the phone is the wing of the mini Dinah. It's cut, shaped, tapered and given it's dihedral. Those two long white strips of styrene are what I used to do that. I cut a slot down the centre of the wing, ran a bead of glue down the slot and pushed it down between the two strips until the glue set. And now it's Nightwish entertaining me. Disappointingly, no ads. πŸ˜₯ I'll get over it. πŸ™‚ Must go, got things to do. Regards, Jeff.
  21. Nope. 24 hours total, that's 12 hours each. By jingo they're going to have to build fast! 😁 Regards, Jeff.
  22. Gidday @Dave_R, yeah that's come up good. Good luck with it. Regards, Jeff.
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