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  • Birthday 02/01/1961

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  1. Thought it might need to be. I have dug out an old kit to use as a paint mule so I can find out what I can get away with. Gondor
  2. I have now completed the repair work to the canards! Easy to tell which bits I broke. I was too eager to get working on the kit that I was careless when separating the parts from the supports. If anyone reading this is thinking of buying one, go ahead, just take care removing the supports, which is good advice for any 3D print items. The trailing edges were also repaired due to some small chipping along the edge. I simply used superglue and a file a few days later to make everything smooth. This thread will slow down a bit as I have started to paint the ejector seats. Lots of different colours next to each other so each has to dry thoroughly before the next is added, etc, etc, etc. Gondor
  3. Glad someone else is worried about the shape of the fuselage above the exhaust pipe. A lot of the problem stems from angles and light in pictures of the area which sows doubt about the shape. Grate work so far Gondor
  4. A small update. Been suffering from a lack of mojo, or I started too quickly, one or both of them. I recently received some paint, nothing unusual in that you may think. This was chrome metal paint though, Ideal for pistons in undercarriage legs and door jacks etc. Not exactly designed with aircraft in mind, but paint is paint, right? So I have just tried out the plain Chrome Metal on the undercarriage. Before After I had originally used Humbrol Polished Steel but was not happy with the result. I may dig out something from "The box of DOOM" and try the same paint on different backgrounds such as Matt and Gloss Black to see the results. I also have fixed the tips of the canards, just need to tidy up a couple of chips on the trailing edges. Gondor
  5. Still working on this despite the lack of posts on the progress. Way too much of real life getting in the way as well as waiting on some paint to arrive for the chrome of the pistons in the undercarriage. What I have been doing is repairing problems of my own making. Lost panel lines on the engine pods when sanding down the join in the parts there and the tips of the canards which I broke in my eagerness to free the parts from their supports. The repair methodology is the make the broken surface flat, then attach some plastic card that is bigger than required with superglue. I then, for the leading tip, filed along the leading edge to produce a nice flat line, followed by the inboard edge and then finally shaping the profile of the replacement tip. A similar method will be used on the trailing edge tip as well. Just realised that the canards look a bit like the fin of the F-111 Gondor
  6. Great work with the FN.20. May I recommend "British Aircraft Armament Volume 1: RAF Gun Turrets from 1914 to the Present Day by R.Wallace Clarke" and the companion Volume 2 which deals with the guns themselves. Gondor
  7. Yes it is, in through the nose and out through the mouth. Gondor
  8. Just looked at my Tank Museum book on the Churchill, pg156 Set Flags, Tank Distinguishing is what it is labelled as. Gondor
  9. I took a couple of pictures earlier today of the dry brushing that I had done on the cockpit. There is not much else to see today, as I have been filling chips and lost parts from the edge of doors etc, all my fault by the way so there is not much else to see other than a rather boring couple of Red Beard bombs in Hu 3 that have just been painted. I still can't decide if I should add any wiring or not. Certainly thinking about some kind of HUD for the pilot. Gondor
  10. That tube on the turret. I am thinking that it could be a signal flag holder. Gondor
  11. I didn't get much done today mostly due to shopping. I did start on the scissor link for the main undercarriage leg though I plan to finish it tomorrow. I also added some super glue to the edges of various doors that I damaged in my enthusiasm to start this build. Fortunately, the damage is slight and confined to the edges. I would not like to repair any damage to the interior of these lovely doors. I also did some dry brushing of the cockpit interior, might add some cables tomorrow. Gondor
  12. Your observations about the interior of the Stirling's nose turret being the same as the Lancasters are quite correct, they are both FN.4s and the designation does refer to the mechanical aspects of the turret. It's the perspex and the frames that are different and depend on the aircraft the turret is fitted to. Gondor
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