Paul Mason

Hi all, need a little help if poss please. Experienced plastic a/c modeller but fairly new to resin bits. Busy putting resin Merlins onto an Airfix 1/48 Mossie PR XVI. A combination of two part epoxy & super glue is doing the sticking more or less, but what about fillers. Green putting doesn’t stick so is there a resin specific filler? One thing I am finding useful is the use of internal ‘bracing’ with a kind of fish plate where panels of resin meet styrene. What a pain though! Cheers in advance, Paul

Great work Ben and a lovely looking job. Like many other ex air cadets who have happy memories of Chipmunk flying, I rushed out to buy and build this 48th scale delight. I was so hacked off with that ridiculous wing droop that in the end, my first attempt ended up in the bin ( first time I’ve ever done that). In the end, bought a second kit and adapted it like you...no wing droop. I’m in final stages of painting a similar scheme and it’s great to see your superb model as a reference. Cheers!

Brilliant, a work of art 👊🏻

Bravo, magnifique! 👏🏻

Fabulous build, really nice and the photo back drops are very skilfully done! The Chippie is my next build and I only hope it comes out as good as yours 👍🏻

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Most kind and thank you ALL for your comments. In the flesh there are several aspects of the paint finish that could be better and it’s a real help seeing what others achieve on these forums. Gives you something to strive towards and there are some true artists out their. I say artists because I can only dream of getting some of the finishes, hues and subtle shades they achieve. i got a bit of silvering on the serial codes (need to improve rubbing down between coats and gloss decal finish). Quite please with the ‘J’ though because that’s hand cut from stencils taken from old photo’s then airbrushed on in medium sea grey, which to me looks too light (I may have used a pre mixed tin of sea/ocean grey like a twit but hey ho). Bringing up my son (who is now 18 and has never built a model kit) got in the way of my aircraft modelling. But I’m slowly getting back into things now and on the learning curve of discovering today’s fabulous modern acrylics. My wife bought me a superb Harder & Steenbeck airbrush and love it. The paints are Vallejo model air and I can’t work out what to start next. 1/48 A10 Thunderbolt, 1/48 GR4 Farewell Tornado (in the colours of the RAF display pilot who flew the last special scheme camo aircraft and was kind enough to give me and my son a tour of RAF Marham), 1/48 Chipmunk to take me back to being that 14 year old sprog ATC cadet flying around summer camps, or the 1/72 Spit XVI limited run Eduard kit in the colours of TE184 which flys today (given to me by the then owner of the real aircraft because my Dad flew TE184 in 1948/9). Everything for a reason. Cheers all 👍🏻🙂 P

Superb and an accomplished model. Great paint job. Very impressed and a pleasure to see.

Bingo. I've been copying link. I should have been copying image link. Thank you....again!!

Yeh, the thumbnail works, the large image doesn't. I'll keep trying. Cheers and most kind.

Smiles. Don't worry T, I took your critique in the way it was meant and it's stuff I wanted to know. I'm actually a Spitfire freak but I love the Hurri and always wanted to build this kit as an early model. I've poured over all of the photo's, the different accounts, manufacturing records and many many books to glean as much info as I can but you've filled in some spaces which I very much appreciate. You know your stuff 🙂. Best regards, P. Out of interest, if you like Hurri's, this is what I did to the kit. Made a glass reflector sight out of clear film Added the rudder cable controls that run into the fusualge under the tail planes Changed to the pole style radio antenna Added the support strut into the front of the air scoop The prop (which we've discussed ! 🙂) Tried to thin the wngtips a little (almost impossible to do!) The mistakes... Couldn't get the exhaust manifolds to sit in close enough to the engine panel. They're a little proud. Left the rear view mirror on (plank) The prop (which we've discussed 🙂🙂) Painted the undercarriage bay interior green! (I won't tell anyone if you won't 😉) But thats why we do these things eh. For the love of detail. Cheers. Left the bead sight off the nose!!!!

Dude! It works, most kind and thank you. Ignore the pic, I used it as a test. Think your Skyhawks are really nice. Thank you!!! But it's thumbnail size! 😅

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How did you get the IMGphotos loaded onto here please hsr? I've tried adding in the URL every which way but nothing. Can only post the URL's thmeselves that only open to pic once clicked. Any help gratefully revieved

I've put the finished model in the finished models bit of the forum under the same title. The URL's are opening there but currently trying to get them to open themselves and display as pics. Someone said they need to be https, not http but still struggling. Builds models, cr@p at computers! : - )))